Writing a brief story about the Birch family of Arlington was a challenging task because the Birch’s are so entangled in Arlington history and the family was s... Read More...
In October 2018, the Arlington Historical Society, in conjunction with the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington, co-hosted an event titled, “The Integration of Sp... Read More...
On Thursday, October 11, if you were fortunate enough to be one of the 100 or so attendees at the ‘Integration of Sports in Arlington’ program you were treated ... Read More...
There have been a lot of good athletes wear the blue and gray for Washington-Lee High School but few who remained in Arlington long enough to share their memora... Read More...
If you were old enough in the 1970 era of sports in Arlington you were familiar with the name Bernie Kirchner. Bernie was a three-sport letterman and star for ... Read More...
A local historian friend and current host of PreservationArlington.org, Eric Dobson, sent me this 1954 story about John Carl Parks, a troubled young man who thr... Read More...
Arlington may be a very small county but that doesn’t mean it hasn't produced its share of great athletes. In this collection we did the best we could with res... Read More...
Each July marks an anniversary our United States Navy would rather forget – the disaster on-board the USS Forrestal. Recently, I had the “pleasure” of discussi... Read More...
On the night of June 14, 1966, a gun battle between two rival motorcycle “gangs” took place in the Safeway parking lot at the corner of Lee Highway and Harrison... Read More...
Through an introduction by my friend Cindy Wood to her cousin Lori Marsengill, the family was kind enough to share with AHS their grandfather William H. “Brick”... Read More...
