Festival Highlights Local African-American History
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Festival Highlights Local African-American History

Artist Eleanor Johnson helps unpaint Jasmine Terry’s hair after Jasmine finished painting.

Artist Eleanor Johnson helps unpaint Jasmine Terry’s hair after Jasmine finished painting. Photo by Louise Krafft.

The Drew Community Center hosted the 23rd annual Arlington Black History Celebration on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 28. Volunteers had created a “Hall of History” featuring photos and artifacts from Arlington’s historically African-American churches and organizations. Inside the gymnasium live music and dance was featured onstage, local restaurants offered lunch and snacks for sale, a variety of free activity stations were set up for the children and vendors offered goods for sale and information on community and local services.

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One panel of the intergenerational triptych is completed and set back to dry.

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Megan decorates the wall of a circular hut she is preparing to make at the Black History festival.

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A young guest finds a front row seat as the Northern Virginia N2N Band goes on stage to perform.

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Alex Ashlawn works with a group of children to complete the intergenerational mural at the Drew Community Center.

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Worshipful Master of the Arlington Lodge #58, Free & Accepted Masons, Prince Hall Julius D. Spain Sr. talks about the 127-year history of Arlington Lodge #58 in the “Hall of History” at the annual Black History Festival.

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Lodge #58 members Robert L. Reed and Elmer L.H. Lowe Sr. greet friends in the “Hall of History” last Saturday afternoon.