Welcome to the FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate ® “Events and Seminars” page where you will find wonderful opportunities to get to know your community better, educate yourself about the real estate market, and see what open houses we have going on.
The FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate Team invites you to join author Charles Mauro as he discusses his book "We Once Met by Chance: Four Life Stories of the American Civil War" which follows four people’s lives during the American Civil War: John S. Mosby, Charles Russell Lowell, Laura Ratcliffe, and James Robinson. Just register...
The FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate Team invites you to join Bob Levey to discuss “The Golden Era at The Washington Post". Mr. Levey was the first reporter hired by the legendary editor Ben Bradlee and sat between Woodward and Bernstein during Watergate. Mr. Levey had a three-decade friendship with the famous publisher of The...
Brought to you by the FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate® team. Ms. Inskeep Gray's illustrated talk examines the lives of social activist Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, who founded the Florence Crittenden Mission Homes for unwed mothers, and her daughter, Kitty Barrett Pozer, a community activist and columnist for the Washington Post. Both women had significant...
The FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate Team invites you to join Charlie Clark, Journalist with Falls Church News-Press "Grim Presence: The American Nazi Party in Arlington, Va., 1958-1983". Just a decade-and-a-half after the defeat of the German Nazi regime in World War II, an American Navy veteran and graphic designer named George Lincoln Rockwell...
Brought to you by the FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate® team. Ms. Inskeep Gray’s presents an illustrated overview of Fairfax County Public Schools from 1870 to Present. With over 185,000 students enrolled, FCPS is the largest public school system in Virginia, as well as the largest in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The school division is...
Ms. Cindy Bennett follows the story and fate of 33 suffragists imprisoned at the Occoquan (Lorton) Workhouse in November 1917. The tenacity of these fearless women led to the 1920 passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. A native of Ohio, Cindy earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University...
Masters Monday: Carl Craig, Former FBI Agent "An Inside Look at the Chase of the 2002 Washington DC Sniper Attacks" FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate in conjunction with the Village Drive Village, bring you Mr. Carl Craig, Former FBI Agent who will give us "An Inside Look at the Chase of the 2001 Washington DC...
The FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate Team and Village Drive Village are proud to welcome Don Hakenson and Chuck Mauro to talk about their book A Tour Guide and History of Col. John S. Mosby’s Operations in Fairfax County, Virginia. One and a half years into the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby was given a...
The FOCUS on NoVA Real Estate Team and Village Drive Village are proud to welcome Michael Pope to discuss the history behind German POWs in Alexandria during WWII. Prisoners of war were detained at a top-secret camp in Fairfax County, an interrogation camp the Army set up for some of the most important scientists and...
Roger Schultz, president of the Army Historical Foundation and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, gives us a virtual tour of the new Fort Belvoir Museum, the area's newest museum that portrays Army history and traditions from soldiers’ perspectives. Roger Schultz completed 42 years and 9 months of uniformed duty in the US Army and...