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Video Shorts on Columbia Pike's 200 Year History
Are you a local history buff? Check out Pike 200 Minutes, a new series of video shorts about the last 200 years of the Columbia Pike corridor.Produced by Arlington Virginia Network, these are a series of one minute "looks" at Columbia Pike from 1810 - 2010.
Our favorites include:- Arlington Cinema
- Arlington Radio
- Harry Gray House
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Hike The Pike On August 14
Do you like to explore Arlington on foot? Come out this Sunday, Aug. 14 at 9:30 a.m. for Pike Hike II, WalkArlington?s Walkabout of Columbia Pike Town Center West, led by County Board Chairman Christopher Zimmerman.
Starting and ending at the Columbia...
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Paws-to-read Comes To Columbia Pike
We're expanding our well received Paws-to-Read program to the Columbia Pike Branch Library! Reading therapy dog teams from PALS will be at Columbia Pike twice each month, on the first and third Tuesday, to listen non-judgmentally to kids read, for...
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Columbia Pike Documentary Project At Artisphere
Work by the Columbia Pike Documentary Project Photographers will be projected this week in Arlington's new Arts Center, the Artisphere, from March 14 to March 20. Photographers Lloyd Wolf, Duy Tran, Paula Endo, Xang Mimi Ho, Aleksandra Lagkueva...
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Local History Author Talk: "columbia Pike: The History Of An Early Turnpike"
Join us on Thursday, September 9, to learn more about Columbia Pike: The history of an early turnpike (pdf) with author John Paul Liebertz, at 7 p.m. in the Central Library Auditorium. This event is co-sponsored by Arlington Historical Society and the...
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Columbia Pike Celebrates Arlington Reads
Check out the Columbia Pike Branch Library's collection of materials on locally produced food and sustainable living that compliment this year's Arlington Reads theme "Know What You Eat." For the 2010 Arlington Reads, we will be reading The ...
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