Elliott is curator of the U.S. House of Representatives. Where are you from? How did you get to D.C.?
I was born and reared in Alexandria. It was an inside-the-Beltway childhood. We talked about ridiculously wonky issues around the table — bowls of ice cream melting while we jabbed our spoons in the air, sparring over how to preserve spotted owl habitats on government land. I became an art historian because I also haunted the Smithsonian museums as a kid.
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