People's District

Getting to Know You: How Danny Harris is looking to meet his neighbors.

Today, we flip the script to get the story behind the stories, and we figured, who better to interview Danny Harris than Danny Harris himself?

Stories and images of Washington, D.C.

This is a collection of super photographs and fascinating stories about random people that he finds in the American capital.

But perhaps most importantly, his blog reiterates the importance of storytelling in our lives, and maybe even inspires us to tell our own.

Danny Harris started the website peoplesdistrict.com as a way to meet his neighbors. In just a year and a half, he has loyal readers from around the world.

People's District profiled in New Culture View, a Chinese daily newspaper.

Danny Harris runs peoplesdistrict.com, a Web site that features what Mr. Harris calls “a collection of stories from everyday people.”

Danny Harris is the Pu Songling, one of China's great writers and storytellers, of the United States.

Story collector becomes a modern-day Studs Terkel with People’s District blog.

That's Another Story: DC's newest favorite nighttime pursuit is the world's second oldest profession. Article by Danny Harris

Danny Harris, founder of the popular website People's District, is back with some great new profiles of D.C. residents.

Danny Harris gives an Ignite talk, A Tour of D.C. in 20 Faces, on June 2, 2011.

Everyone has a story, and with so many people living in D.C., there are bound to be more than a few good ones. Danny Harris is the founder of peoplesdistrict.com, a blog that chronicles the stories of everyday people living in the nation's capital. He shared some of his most recent stories.

For Danny Harris, the moment of transition from terrorist finance analyst at the Treasury to full-time writer and photographer for his blog, People's District, is the result of a panic attack at the P Street Whole Foods, a grocery store often regarded as a symbol of the yuppie, blandly homogeneous culture of Northwest DC.

Last week Washington, D.C. was named the fifth rudest city in the nation, but one local man is hoping to change that reputation. Every day Danny Harris combs the streets of Washington to meet people with interesting stories.