June 2009
HistoricAlexandriaALIVE
Join us on the streets of Alexandria as history comes to life! Each Sunday, learn, participate, engage, and enjoy with performers and costumed interpreters from noon to 5 p.m. Find performers at Market Square, along King Street between Market Square and the waterfront, and on the waterfront behind the Torpedo Factory. Free! Check it out!-
Free Father’s Day Tours at Gadsby's Tavern
June 21
Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
134 North Royal Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.gadsbystavern.org 703/838-4242
Celebrate with your favorite father at the place where the Father of our Country ate, drank, and influenced history. Gadsby’s Tavern Museum is pleased to offer free tours on Father’s Day for all visiting fathers! Tour times are 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Cost $4 for all other adults and $2 for children (ages 11-17).
$ Entrance Fee
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Free Father’s Day Tours
June 21
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum
105-107 South Fairfax Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
www.apothecarymuseum.org 703/838-3852
Treat your father to a special tour of the Apothecary, which first opened in 1792! See the outstanding collection of herbs and botanicals, shop furnishings, apothecary bottles and equipment, many still in their original location. The Apothecary is pleased to offer free tours on Father’s Day for all visiting fathers! Tour times are 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Cost $4 for all other adults and $2 for children (ages 11-17).
$ Entrance Fee
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Father’s Day Open House
June 21
Friendship Firehouse Museum
107 South Alfred Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703/838-3891
Friendship Firehouse is offering special tours - on this important day, Friendship Firehouse will make every father an honorary chief of the Friendship Fire Company Bucket Brigade. Every dad, with his children, will receive a certificate, get to ring the fire bell, and have his picture taken with the Friendship fire engine. 1-4 p.m.
Free!
