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SUMMARY:Ball-Sellers House Opening Day
DESCRIPTION:During our 2025 season (April through October) the Ball-Sellers House will celebrate the 50th anniversary of becoming a free public museum and we are planning a series of commemorative events at the house starting with our opening day on Saturday\, April 5 at 1:00 pm. The Ball-Sellers House is hosting the Early American music group\, Bedlam\, for two concert shows at: \n\n1:30 pm\n3:00 pm\n\nBedlam was founded in 1989 and specializes in Early American music\, including songs and tunes of the 17th\, 18th and 19th centuries. Its unusual name comes from a bittersweet ballad about the infamous mental asylum\, the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem\, London\, popularly known throughout history as Bedlam. The group is based in Maryland and performs throughout the DMV region. They perform a wide range of tavern songs\, romantic ballads\, lively dance tunes\, and instrumental selections on guitars\, recorders\, and percussion. \n Join us as we celebrate our history and our anniversary. The house will be open for free guided tours\, we’ll have colonial re-enactors keep it real! And we’ll offer free colonial era sweet treats. We are at 5620 3rd Street\, South in Arlington. \nOn February 24\, 1975\, the Arlington Historical Society (AHS) held a public Acceptance Ceremony at the house to accept the key from the donor\, Marian Sellers. Despite the chill in the winter air\, the AHS board of Directors\, the Arlington County board\, and the public watched as Mrs. Sellers handed the key to Donald Orth\, the AHS President\, in return for a handshake and $10.  Since then\, AHS has researched the house history\, refurbished the original 1750 farmhouse as it may have looked during the colonial period\, and opened it to the public for free tours. We hope you’ll join us for this and future events this season as we appreciate the selfless act of generosity to our community of this gift of a historic treasure of a house.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/ball-sellers-house-opening-day/
LOCATION:Ball-Sellers House\, 5620 3rd Street\, South\, Arlington VA 22204\, VA\, 22312\, United States
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SUMMARY:Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington: Dedication for Humphrey Albert and Priscilla Willis
DESCRIPTION:The Arlington Historical Society and the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington invite you to the unveiling of “Stumbling Stones.” These bronze markers commemorate the lives of the enslaved people who helped build our county (and our country).  The markers are placed in the sidewalk at the last known location where these enslaved people lived. Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington’s research has revealed over 2750 enslaved people and identified 1050 by name. \nPlease join us for the Dedication Ceremony honoring two once enslaved individuals: \n\nHumphrey Albert: Born ca. 1841\nPriscilla Willis: Born ca. 1852\n\nWe will be honoring them at on Sunday\, April 6\, 2025 at 3:00 pm at the Northwest Corner of Key Boulevard and North Highland Street \nHumphrey Albert and Priscilla Willis were enslaved by Robert and Catherine Cruit and later their heir\, Susan Cruit. Humphrey’s mother was Betsey Docket from Maryland\, whom Cruit had “purchased from a negro pen.” In 1859\, Priscilla was bought by the Cruits for at the age of six. In the 1850s\, the Cruits enslaved at least five other people\, who will be honored at another time. Robert Cruit\, a \n  \nGeorgetown resident\, bought property in what is now Arlington in 1847 as a second home. Robert used enslaved laborers to operate his dairy farming operation. The Cruit farmhouse still stands today at 1614 North Highland Street. \nOn April 16\, 1862\, Humphrey and Priscilla gained their freedom when the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act was signed by President Lincoln. The Cruits had fled to D.C. early in the Civil War when Union troops defending the capital overwhelmed most of Arlington. They took several of their enslaved people\, including Humphrey and Priscilla\, with them. Enslaved people remaining in Arlington remained in bondage until the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1\, 1863. \nThe markers will be embedded in the sidewalk. They were designed and fabricated by the students at Arlington Tech of Arlington Public Schools and installed by the Arlington County Department of Environmental Services\, who also provided helpful advice on the design. \nJoin us as we celebrate and honor Humphrey and Priscilla and gain a greater understanding of Arlington’s complicated past. Brief remarks will be offered. \nMemorializing the Enslaved in Arlington seeks to shed light upon these early Americans who contributed so much to the economic\, social\, and cultural development of our county. For more information\, please contact Jessica Kaplan from the Arlington Historical Society at ahsedlink@gmail.com.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/memorializing-the-enslaved-albert-willis/
LOCATION:Intersection of Key and N. Highland\, 3103 Key Boulevard\, Arlington\, 22201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Who Owns the Potomac and Why?
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever looked at maps and wondered why the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland on the Potomac River is so odd? It is not in the middle of the river\, like it is in most places\, and it doesn’t really follow the curves of one shoreline or the other. Michael Nardolilli\, the Executive Director of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin will explain the weird history behind Arlington’s boundary along the Potomac River. \nPREREGISTER FOR ZOOM ACCESS. You can attend this event on Zoom or in-person on the Marymount University Main Campus.  If you want to attend this event virtually\, please click here: https://forms.gle/AsYooukSag7BeR8k9 to register. You can also cut and paste this link\, https://forms.gle/AsYooukSag7BeR8k9  into your own browser and complete it there. Please register by Wednesday\, April 9.  Zoom access information will be sent to you on the morning of the event on Thursday\, April 10. \nDRIVING DIRECTIONS and FREE PARKING: Attendees planning to attend the event in-person should enter the Marymount University campus at the library gate on N. 26th Street. From Glebe Road going north\, take a right onto 26th Street. Pass the intersection with Yorktown Road and then enter the campus through the next gate on your left. The library is to your left as you enter the campus. Free garage parking is just past the library at the bottom of the small incline. (Handicapped parking is immediately to your right as you enter through the gate onto campus.) \n\nIf the university has lowered the garage gates\, push the button and let them know you’re here for an Arlington Historical Society event in the library. To leave\, push the button and they’ll raise the gate.\n\nThis event is one of the monthly series of free public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society. This event is hosted courtesy of the Marymount University politics program’s American Heritage Initiative. For more information\, please email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/who-owns-the-potomac/
LOCATION:Reinsch Library Auditorium\, Marymount University\, 2807 North Glebe Road\, Arlington
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SUMMARY:Spring Celebration with the Glencarlyn Community Garden
DESCRIPTION:The Arlington Historical Society/Ball-Sellers House is partnering with the Glencarlyn Library Garden to celebrate gardening. We are in TWO locations for this fun event: \n\nThe Ball-Sellers House at 5620 3rd St.\, South\, 10 – 4\nGlencarlyn Library at 300 S. Kensington St. South\, 10 – 3 \n\nAt the Ball-Sellers House you’ll see how colonial gardeners planted vegetables and herbs and learn about how herbs were used\, see our model beehives\, and a modern rain garden at work. You’ll also be able to tour the house FREE! and learn how colonial families lived. The Ball-Sellers House works with the Friends of Urban Gardeners. They have helped us re-create a colonial style vegetable garden like the one early owners of this c.1750 farmhouse would have had outside their front door. \nAt the Glencarlyn Library\, we’ll help you practice using a quern or a mortar and pestle to grind corn like our ancestors did. You’ll learn more about gardening today and about native plants\, tour the magnificent Glencarlyn Community Garden\, and even buy some plants for your own garden! \n 
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/spring-celebration/
LOCATION:Ball-Sellers House\, 5620 3rd Street\, South\, Arlington VA 22204\, VA\, 22312\, United States
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