Five years after its keel was laid down the USS Arlington finally sailed into its home port of Norfolk Virginia where it was commissioned into active service in the United States Navy. It was a memorable and moving beginning to what Arlington officials hope is a long relationship.
The USS Arlington (LPD 24) was commissioned on April 6, 2013, at Naval Station Norfolk. She is named in commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Steel taken from the Pentagon after the September 11 attacks will be displayed aboard.
American Girls author Valerie Tripp recently visited the Cherrydale Library and discussed where the ideas for the stories came from, the creative process, research and the joys of writing.
101-year-old Martha Ann Miller, author of “The First Century, and Not Ready for the Rocking Chair Yet” talks at the Arlington (VA) Public Library.
Mark Dimunation of the Library of Congress reflects on 88 American books that changed the way we think.
Join us on this inspiring trip to one of the county’s most recent designated historical sites, the 19th century African American churchyard cemetery at Calloway United Methodist Church.
The Old Post Oak, Arlington’s oldest tree at 250 years, had to be removed after suffering severe damage during the June 29 Derecho storm.
Arlington County’s Emergency Operations Center kicks into action after June 29 Derecho
The Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute presents a joint lecture by two Civil War historians on the topic of Arlington in the Civil War.
Rufus Phillips, author of Why Vietnam Matters: An Eyewitness Account of Lessons Not Learned, speaks about his years as a CIA case officer and a USAID official serving in Vietnam.
Civil War historian and author Edwin Bearss speaks on Arlington Virginia’s role in the Civil War. The talk was given to the Arlington Historical Society on September 12 2011 at the Arlington Public Library.
Tell Arlington’s Story is an Arlington County Government initiative to celebrate Arlington’s rich cultural diversity through a variety of events, celebrations, and story-telling.
Ten years after the attack on the Pentagon, five leaders who were in charge at the scene recall their initial reactions and responses to the tragedy.
A panel discussion organized by local documentarian and cultural historian Jeff Krulik, discussing the local history of rock and roll concert promotion in the 1960s and 70s.
You may know that the Internet was, in fact, created in Arlington in the 1970s. The technology was developed by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
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