A Cherished Past, a Golden Future

A Cherished Past, a Golden Future

Author: City of Upper Arlington

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12-20

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781939710680

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The story of a city designed with strong roots, a foundation that was built to last. One of the early planned communities, it was conceived and executed by a self-made man who chose not to isolate himself in a walled castle. Instead, he envisioned a place where he himself would like to live with a family.


Hidden History of Arlington County

Hidden History of Arlington County

Author: Charlie Clark

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1625859236

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For over two centuries, Arlington County has been a steadfast center for government institutions and a vibrant part of the Washington, D.C., community. Many notable figures made their home in the area, like Supreme Court chief justice Warren Burger, General George Blood 'n' Guts Patton and a beauty queen who almost married crooner Dean Martin. The drama of Virginia's first school integration unfolded in Arlington beginning in the late 1950s. In the 1960s, two motorcycle gangs clashed in public at a suburban shopping center. Local author, historian and Our Man in Arlington Charlie Clark uncovers the vivid, and hidden, history of a capital community.


Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery

Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery

Author: Ric Murphy

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1476677301

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From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.


Arlington

Arlington

Author: Richard A. Duffy

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1997-08-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738590431

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Arlington, the first photographic history of this Massachusetts town ever produced, presents a unique look at its rich heritage and remarkable transformations. From sleepy nineteenth-century village to renowned center of mills and market gardens, from elegant summer resort to flourishing commuter suburb of Boston, the many facets of Arlington's growth come alive through the fascinating images in this volume.


Ninth House

Ninth House

Author: Leigh Bardugo

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1250313082

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"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King The smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Goodreads Choice Award Winner Locus Finalist Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. Don't miss the highly-anticipated sequel, Hell Bent.


A Duet for Home

A Duet for Home

Author: Karina Yan Glaser

Publisher: Clarion Books

Published: 2023-05-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781536480863

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It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now.


Lost Arlington County

Lost Arlington County

Author: Charlie Clark

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467150649

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Arlington began three centuries ago as the farm section of Alexandria County and emerged in the 1900s as a vibrant suburb of the nation's capital. Global notice came after the creation and expansion of Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon and Fort Myer, site of history's first airplane casualty--September 17, 1908. Add in some modern marquee employers--PBS, WETA, Nestlé, the Foreign Service Institute and Amazon--and it's a recipe for accelerating change. Unsurprisingly, residents are increasingly at odds over rising housing costs and demolitions of long-valued homes and businesses. A key to preserving Arlington's character is a deeper knowledge of history. Local journalist and author Charlie Clark provides a compendium of gone-but-not-forgotten institutions, businesses, homes and amusements.