"Tourist's Guide to Shutdown DC" Updated
Thursday, October 10, 2013(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The Federal Worker's Tourist's Guide to Shutdown DC has been updated with two new open attractions, the National Geographic Museum (open daily 10am—6pm; free admission to government workers with valid IDs through the remainder of the government shutdown) and the traveling half-scale version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, open now at Georgetown University, outside Healy Hall, through Columbus Day weekend (read more here). Thanks to Alisa Tanaka-Dodge for the NatGeo tip; email us at streetheat@dclaborarchives.org with more updates! photo: Linda Davidson/The Washington Post: Army Vietnam veteran Dwight Holliday remembers a fallen friend at the original Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. on November 11, 2010.