Years from now, new generations will be grateful for today’s Center for Local History at Arlington Public Library
Arlington Television captures the long-term value of an official County archive as it helps preserve the story of Joan Mulholland, the fearless civil rights activist who fought segregation from Lee Highway to the Deep South before raising a family and teaching for decades back home in Arlington.
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An extensive oral history with Mulholland, available from the Center, represents just one “Arlington story” in a vast collection of memories and artifacts.
As a “footnote” to those stories and the piece above, Center manager Judith Knudsen will receive the 2014 lifetime achievement award from the Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region organization.
Judy and the Center’s work speaks for itself. And because of that, so do so many voices of Arlington’s past.