DMV Spotlight shines a light on the City of Alexandria, Virginia as it commemorates its 275th anniversary.

Guest, Gretchen Bulova, Director of the Office of Historic Alexandria, shared the various events around the city that will make the celebration from April through September. Bulova explains the founding of the city in 1749 as well as  of Alexandria’s reckoning with it slave-trade past. Bulova also looked at the future of the city that is now a tourist attraction and economic draw. Alexandria also remains etched in US history as the adopted hometown of President George Washington.

Link:https://www.alexandriava.gov/ALX275

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