History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County by Laura A Macaluso

History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County by Laura A Macaluso

History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover's Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River.

Travel through history from Old Town to Mason's Neck and witness the practice of preservation as it continues to evolve today. Alexandria cares for the places essential to understanding our shared past, from cobblestone streets to the always active waterfront. Visit the numerous museums and historic houses, many of which are iconic in American history, in Old Town. Learn the stories of Alexandria's African American community, from slavery to freedom. Discover neighborhoods like Del Ray and Seminary Hill. South of the city, travel the George Washington Memorial Parkway and walk in the footsteps of Washington himself.

Historian and preservationist Laura Macaluso draws connections between city and county, and between past and present.

Laura A. Macaluso was born in Norwalk, Connecticut and currently resides in Lynchburg, Virginia near the Blue Ridge Parkway. She has taught art history, worked and lived at historic sites and written about cultural heritage (specifically museum collections, monuments and murals) for twenty years. She was awarded a Fulbright in 2008-2009 to work at the National Museum in Swaziland in southern Africa, and returned in 2010 under a cultural heritage preservation grant from the State Department. Recent projects include the exhibit An Artist at War: Deane Keller, New Haven's Monuments Man and the accompanying article in the Winter 2014/2015 issue of Connecticut Explored magazine. She is completing her doctoral dissertation which explores the relationship between art and city identity in the Humanities/Cultural and Historic Preservation departments at Salve Regina University (Newport, RI).

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ISBN 13	9781540252043
ISBN 10	1540252043
Title	History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County
Author	Laura A Macaluso
Series	History And Guide
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	History PR
Year published	2022-05-09
Number of pages	210
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