Introducing the little man in the clock at All Souls Church

Today he is in the rainbow clock and wants to be known as "Rainbow Man".  He's feeling his connection to the Rainbow Nation.  The Rainbow Nation is where he was born, a long time ago when the church was built, sometime in the 1920s.  He's a Native Washingtonian, first generation clock man.  The rainbow nation is a mentality, a liberating way of thinking, where freedom and justice ring out with a crazy sense of happiness. 


The little man sits on the clock's intricate workings, 80 steps up into the church's steeple.  He looks out the four faces of the clock,  each looking onto a different neighborhood:  Mt. Pleasant on the north, Adams Morgan on the west, Columbia Heights on the east,  and 16th Street/U Streets on the south.

The Little Man in the All Souls Clock sees quite a bit of what happens on the streets below.  Through the years, he's built up quite a repertoire of stories.  In fact, just this Monday he saw Obama speeding up 16th Street to go to church for MLK Day.  They had to block off all the traffic from all the entryways onto and near 16th and Harvard Streets.  "It was eerily quiet," the Little Man said.  "Then the sirens blew that away."

Have you ever seen the little man in the clock?