Monday, September 29, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM The lives of Margaret Hyson and her children George and Charlotte – three people enslaved in the Yorktown neighborhood in the 1800s – had previously been unknown.  But now, this family’s story will be told to a broader community. Through a partnership between the Arlington Historical Society…

Tuesday, September 30, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12 Noon This tour showcases the emerging technology of vertical indoor farming.  Area2Farms is a new approach to growing fresh produce indoors and vertically.  Located at 2600 S. Oxford Street in Arlington, this business offers year-round organic produce. Come to learn about this new technology and about offerings such as…

Monday, October 6, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Journalist and author David Poole will discuss his timely book about recent Virginia political history. “Trusted Source” tells the unlikely success story of the Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP), which in 1997 provided a sputnik-like leap in making state politics more accessible to non-insiders. Most significantly, as faith…

Tuesday, October 7, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM The development of Washington, DC over the last 250 years is the focus of this tour of the George Washington University Museum (https://museum.gwu.edu/treasures-albert-h-small-collection).  This is not about the history of the university, but its city, illuminated in landscapes, maps, posters, advertisements and other illustrations.  Of note are the fanciful…