We appreciate having you as a member of AHS! Your support and loyalty empower us to build knowledge of Arlington’s diverse history in our community. This year, your dues helped us renovate and create a new permanent exhibit at the AHS Museum, keep our two museums and monthly lecture series free, and upgrade our website.
It’s time to renew your AHS membership. Despite increasing operating costs and inflation, we have decided to maintain our membership dues at their current level. Instead, to help keep prices down, we are taking steps such as sending as much communication as we can electronically to save on postage and printing costs. For example, this year, we are sending our first membership renewal notice letters to all members over email. We are also unveiling a new, more affordable membership for high school and college students.
Your membership comes with benefits. In addition to the annual Arlington Historical Magazine, newsletter, and email blasts, members are provided discounts on AHS ticketed events and in our museum bookstore. You are the first to be notified of upcoming AHS activities and events.
Your membership dues will help us achieve our vision of preserving and transforming the AHS Museum to tell Arlington’s diverse history in new and exciting ways. Your support enables us to continue making our artifact collection accessible online and commemorate the enslaved people of our county through AHS’s Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington project, in partnership with the Black Heritage Museum of Arlington.
We hope you will continue to be part of the AHS family by renewing your membership today.
Membership dues are AHS’s largest source of income. Please consider upgrading your membership to a Sponsor or Life level to receive a NARM card that offers free admission and discounts to over 1,000 other North American cultural institutions. Every extra dollar extends AHS’s ability to let our past inform our present. You can apply online at: https://arlhist.org/membership-application/ or by downloading and mailing in this form. If you can help us with our cost-saving efforts, please opt to “go green”. Please note that we will send a hard copy of this letter via mail to any member who has not yet renewed their membership by mid-June, as we have done in the past.
With gratitude,
Peter Vaselopulos
President, Arlington Historical Society
