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Lyon Park is having a Spring Fair 5/21/11 from 11-3 to help raise funds for a new community center. The Fair will include a plant sale, bake sale, moon bounce, pony rides, games, food and drinks and will be followed by a Big Wheels Derby.
Every May the Tuckahoe Elementary School PTA will hosts its Annual Home & Garden Tour. This annual event supports Tuckahoe’s award-winning Discovery Schoolyard.
Tours may feature newly built homes, renovated homes and beautifully landscaped gardens. For more information, visit the website here.
The Children’s School at Reed School, 1644 N. McKinley Road, across the street from the Westover Shopping Center is holding its Annual Spring Fling this Saturday, May 14th, 2011 from 9am-1pm. Come for food and fun, Moon-bounce, carnival games, Silent auction. Rain or Shine. This is a great event for children of all ages.
This year’s theme for the Rosslyn Outdoor Film Festival will be “SNL in the Movies” and will feature actors from Saturday Night Live. Movies will be shown every Friday night at dusk beginning April 29, 2011 and ending August 26. Bring your blankets and low chairs and picnic in the park before the show. There will be pre-show games and prizes. The event is free and open to the public. The screening is just two blocks from the Rosslyn Metro and parking is available across the street from Gateway Park at the Atlantic Parking Garage for $3 at 1901 and 1911 N. Ft. Myer Drive after 6 pm. Enter the garage on N. Moore Street.
Here is the schedule of movies:
Groundhog Day – April 29
Coneheads – May 6
When Harry Met Sally – May 13
Vacation – May 20
Tommy Boy – May 27
Anchorman – June 3
City Slickers – June 10
Trading Places – June 17
Happy Gilmore – June 24
Caddyshack – July 1
The Blues Brothers – July 8
Space Balls – July 15
Austin Powers – July 22
Animal House – July 29
Hot Rod – August 5
Mean Girls – August 12
Night at the Roxbury – August 19
Shrek – August 26
The Garden Club of Virginia and The Garden Club of Fairfax are presenting the 78th Annual House and Garden Tour in Arlington & McLean, Virginia for Historic Garden Week on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 from 10-4. Tours benefit the restorations of historic gardens and landmarks in Virginia. According to the Historic Garden Week website, this year’s tour “will open a fascinating variety of homes and gardens. . . Architectural styles include Tudor Revival, modified Craftsman, cottage-rambler, Arts and Crafts, French Country, and one described by its owners as a “cross between a ranch and a Cape Cod on steroids.” Some are creatively renovated houses from the mid-20th century, while others were only recently constructed. Interior and garden designs are as eclectic as the exteriors, offering visitors a thoroughly enjoyable day of touring.”
The tour includes the following homes, all of which are open for the first time during Historic Garden Week:
The Ceckowski & Christie Home – 2560 Vermont Street, Arlington VA 22207
The Kimmitt Home – 2419 N. Fillmore Street, Arlington VA 22207
The Hickernell & Rose Home – 6710 N. 25th Street, Arlington VA 22213
The Coakley Home – 2114 Virginia Avenue, McLean, VA 22101
The Nichols Home – 6028 Chesterbrook Road, McLean, VA 22101
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 on the day of the tour. Advance tickets can be purchased at Calico Corners, Company Flowers Express Jewelers in Ballston Mall, Lemon Twist and Millie’s Dry Cleaning in Arlington. Tickets can be purchase don the day of the tour at Memorial Baptist Church, 3455 N. Glebe Road, Arlington or any of the properties open for the tour.
For more information, or to see a list of other tours around the state during Historic Garden Week, visit the website here.
UPDATE: 07/17/21 The Tourmobile is no longer operating. Consider a Trolley Tour instead.
I thought it would be appropriate for the 365th post to be a tour of highlights of the area. Fortunately the government averted a shut down so this is still possible. Catch the Tourmobile at Arlington National Cemetery for the only riding tour of the cemetery, or take the American Heritage Tour which includes the cemetery as well as monuments, memorials and museums in DC, the Mount Vernon tour, or the Frederick Douglass tour to his newly restored home, Cedar Hill. That’s 365 – watch for an announcement on what’s next.
Author’s Note: while the Tourmobile seemed an appropriate finale for365 things to do, it unfortunately stopped running October 31, 2011 after 42 years in operation.
