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...Men's Health and Mother Jones, Oprah and Okay!, Reader's Digest and Rolling Stone, Vegetarian Today and Vogue, Wired and Women's Day.

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Celebrate Black History: Share the Story of Nauck/Green Valley

Explore Arlington’s Nauck in person. And if you can, help share the rich heritage digitally.

The community—bordered by Army-Navy County Club, Four Mile Run, South Walter Reed Drive and South 16th Road—features African American roots that predate the Civil War. Records from the 184os show that free blacks like Levi and Sarah Ann Jones bought land, built homes and sometimes found neighbors by selling excess portions of their lots.

A surge of growth came with the start of the 20th century, when an influx of former slaves arrived as the federal government shuttered its nearby Freedman’s Village.

Faced with encroaching segregation, Nauck/Green Valley residents became self-sustaining as entrepreneurs, educators, religious leaders, health workers and other professionals established an array of resilient neighborhood institutions.

Several survive to this day.

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Through generous loans and donations by residents, descendants and their institutions, the official Nauck/Green Valley Heritage Project continues to grow as an online archive dedicated to capturing the community’s rich history and cultural legacy.

The archive is a partnership of Arlington Public Library’s Center for Local History, the Nauck Civic Association, Arlington County’s Neighborhood Services and Drew Model Elementary School.

The goal is to find and make available digitally those seemingly lost chapters—and images—that can add to one of Arlington’s most inspiring stories.

Spread the word about Nauck/Green Valley.

Preservationists are standing by: online donation form / email / 703-228-5966.

Looking for a Good eAudio Series?

Serial Listening

Love listening to books in a series?  Try these authors, all of whom can be found in our OverDrive collection:

 

Game of Thrones series by H.R.R. Martin

We have them all! And you can listen to everyone bloody, magical moment.

 

 

 

 

Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series

The author of The Dresden Files also wrote a series about the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies-elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal-fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. Start with “Furies of Calderon.”

 

 

 

L.A. Meyer’s Bloody Jack series

The tales of a ship boy aboard the H.M.S. Dolphin – who is actually a girl. Start with “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy.”

 

 

 

Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series 

If you enjoyed listening to the Harry Potter series and the series by Ric Riordan, try this fun YA fantasy adventure series, read by Nathaniel Parker.

 

 

 

 

Morganville Vampires series by Rachel Caine

Start with “The Dead Girls Dance,” and join Claire as she discovers the her new start in college is going to be a lot more complicated – and dangerous – than she predicted.

 

 

 

 

Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander: Aubrey and Maturin series

21 novels tell the story of Captain Aubrey of the Royal Navy, and his ship’s surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen maturin, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.

 

 

 

 

Pretty Little Liars series by Sara Shepard

When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets….

 

 

 

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Try her “Chronicles of Nick” series (YA with zombies, vampires and good and evil) or her many fantasy/romance novels for adults.

 

 

 

Want more eAudio?  Try:

Agatha Christie mysteries

Enduring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple – as well as others – solve mysteries in these classic novels.  David Suchet, who plays Hercule Poirot in the PBS series,  narrates Murder on the Orient Express.

 

 

 

Nonfiction from Bill Bryson

From”A Short History of Nearly Everything” to “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid,” Bryson explores modern life with wit and clarity.

 

 

 

Mansfield ParkJane Austen

Another classic author worth exploring in audio (along with all the books about her, and the ones based on her novels – check out “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” and “Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict” for extra fun).

 

 

Stephen King

Like getting scared? Hide under your covers while you listening to these seriously creepy novels. Best of all, check out Sissy Spacek reading the role she made famous in “Carrie.”

 

 

 

Charles Dickens

Explore the author whose work originally appeared as newspaper serials in the 1800s, and who brought us the classic line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and characters like Ebenezer Scrooge.

 

 

 

Want more listening ideas?

The 2014 Audie Awards were announced May 29, for distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment, sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA).

 

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