Week in Great Falls
Week in Great Falls
Great Falls Art Fest on the Green
About 20 artists in booths under tents join three indoor artist's studios to show their wares.
Great Falls: Barn Dance Goes Out with a Bang and Optimism
Annual event benefited the Optimist Club youth fund.
The seven horses that live on Linda Thompson’s White Pines Farm property on Walker Road have shared their barn with the Great Falls Optimist Club for about once a year for the past 10 years.
Great Falls Library Celebrates 100th Anniversary of National Park System
Gail Péan, oil painter, invites the public to a reception on Friday, June 10, 4-6 p.m. to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the National Park System
Promoting Tea Culture in Great Falls
Meet Laurie Bell, the owner of the Great Falls Tea Garden.
Tea-lovers may enjoy their morning brew, but maybe few know the history of the steaming cup that awakens the palate and starts their day. Historians quibble: was it the Indian prophet Prince Bodhi-Dharma in the early 500s AD?
McLean and Great Falls: Revisiting 1771 at Claude Moore Colonial Farm
Market Fair portrays 1771 Virginia farm life.
After driving past Tysons Corner, downtown McLean, and the CIA, visitors were transported back to 1771 Virginia by Claude Moore Colonial Farm’s Market Fair on May 22.
First Friday Art Walk in Great Falls
27 artists in three group studios participate with galleries and restaurants at Village Centre.
The kick-off event for the First Friday Art Walk in the Village was held on Friday, May 6 in the Village Centre in Great Falls.
Great Falls Studios at SpringFest
Great Falls SpringFest will be from Friday, June 3 to Sunday, June 5.
Great Falls: Making Connections with Words
Winners named in Writing Contest
Participation in a local writing contest is the confidence catalyst some sixth-graders needed to push their creativity and consider writing for their futures.
Summer Market Opens in Great Falls
The Great Falls Farmers Market’s Summer Market opened on Saturday, April 30, though it did not feel much like summer.
Great Falls Girl Wins Miss Teen Virginia
Elisabetta Cantatore, 19, beats out 700 applicants; will compete in nationals.
Elisabetta Cantatore, 19, of Great Falls was named Miss Teen Virginia on Sunday, April 3 in Richmond, beating out 700 teen applicants from across the Commonwealth of Virginia, and 122 girls at the pageant itself.
Photo Exhibit Celebrates National Parks, Great Falls
“So Many Parks – So Little Time - Celebrating our National Parks’ Centennial” an exhibit of photography capturing iconic as well as unusual scenes from our National Parks throughout the U.S.
Great Falls: Farmers Market Returns Saturday
Great Falls Farmers Market to celebrate 10th anniversary with “farmers market basket.”
The years have passed in quiet footsteps of vendors and local neighbors coming and going, loving and appreciating, doing finest work and choosing only the finest for our loving families’ nourishment and refinement.
Great Falls: Betty Nalls Swartz Honored at Tibbetts Award Banquet
Former award winners, Great Falls Historical Society (GFHS) board and members and many friends of Betty Swartz gathered last Thursday to participate in celebrating Betty's many contributions.
Pen & Palette Illustrates Artistic Community Collaboration
On Thursday, May 5, the Great Falls Writers Group (GFWG), along with artists from the Great Falls Studios, combine creative energy to host a public event at the Great Falls Library to recognize the community’s volume of artistic talent.