Monday, November 15, 2010

River water on the menu for do-gooder guests at Potomac Conservancy dinner

The Potomac Conservancy's dinner at the historic Potomac Boat Club in Georgetown on Tuesday, November 9, 2010. (Amy Argetsinger/TWP) Time for Chapter 1,398 of our occasional series, "Only in Washington." Only in Washington ... would the hosts assign their guests homework to complete before a dinner party. Hedrick Belin didn't just want the supporters who turned out for the Potomac Conservancy's dinner on the Georgetown waterfront Tuesday night to open their wallets. He wanted to open their minds. So the nonprofit's president sent them each a poem about the Potomac River to read before they came. And also an elegant little glass bottle that he asked them to fill with water straight from the river -- with directions to bring the filled bottle to dinner, and explain how they got it. A jug of cool, refreshing, Potomac River water. (Amy Argetsinger/TWP) Actually, does that sound more like an only-in-California


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