301 East Capitol: Tales from the Heart of the Hill - Paperbackby Mary Z. Gray (Author) To most of the world, "Capitol Hill" means the U. S. Congress. This book is about the personal side of the Hill, where for five generations a family of music makers and undertakers, homemakers and home breakers, shared a small neighborhood with the white domed Capitol of the United States. Washington writer Mary Z. Gray, born in 1919, brings vividly back to life the community she saw and heard from her childhood home at 301