Fall Yard Sale – Welcome ‘White Elephants’

On Saturday, October 13, 2007, your household ‘white elephants’ can make their way to a new owner and home.  The FHS will have a table at the Community Yard Sale in the North Fairlington Community Center parking lot, and your donations are welcomed.  The Yard Sale begins at 8:00 am, but you can drop items off anytime before 11:00.   
   
Second Annual Fairlington Homecoming
Featuring the ‘Fairlington Hoopsters’ Reunion
October 19, 2007
7:00 pm at the North Fairlington Community Center
RSVP
or call Patty Clark (703.820.7328)

We’re continuing to reach out to the many Fairlington Hoopsters out there, with a special invitation to attend the Homecoming and to bring fans and family.  Hoopster and Arlington County Board Chair, Paul Ferguson, Hoopster ‘Commissioner’ Jack Floyd, and Hoopster ‘Impresario’ Howard Plattner are all helping to host the event.  If you know anyone who played basketball with this unique group of Fairlingtonians, but who no longer lives here, please feel free to pass on the invitation to them.    

Current and former residents… anyone who has ever called Fairlington ‘home’… is invited to attend.  We’re looking forward to a casual evening with neighbors old and new, wine and cheese, and some Hoopster story-telling.  If you are interested in helping record and transcribe the oral histories, please let us know.

FHS Fall Community Event:  Carlyle House Tour
Sunday, December 2, 2007
2:30 pm ($10.00)

Join us for a holiday tour of the Old Town, Alexandria home of Colonel John Carlyle, Fairlington’s first ‘landlord.’  Carlyle was a “… man of character, merchant, friend of George Washington, builder of Alexandria’s famed Carlyle House, landowner extraordinaire, original trustee of Alexandria, grist mill owner.”  Carlyle’s country home, complete with plantation house and stud farm, once stood at what is now 30th and South Columbus Streets. (Catherine D. Fellows, Fairlington at 50 May 1943 – May 1993:  The 60th Anniversary Edition). 

Space is limited, so please RSVP early.  We’ll collect the tour donation and coordinate rides to minimize Old Town parking problems directly once you RSVP.  

Greeting Cards and Exhibits… Help Wanted!

The FHS is considering creating both general and holiday greeting cards featuring photographs of Fairlington.  We are looking for volunteers with a marketing background to help us analyze the sales potential and develop a plan. 

The FHS is sponsoring an exhibit on the community to be featured as the first in a new series of neighborhood exhibits at the Arlington Historical Museum.  We are looking for volunteers to help prepare and install the contents of the exhibit case. 
Interested?  We’d love to hear from you! Contact Us.