Clifton-Fairfax Station Homes Tour Adds Book Signing Event

The Clifton-Fairfax Station Homes Tour and Silent Auction is a May tradition with over 400 visitors every year. This year’s event on Thursday, May 21, offers a new feature: a book signing event with local history authors. The Clifton Community Woman’s Club hosts the Tour and Silent Auction as a charity fundraiser to support local scholarships and charities through their 501(c)(3) Charitable Trust. Guests must purchase a ticket to tour the three homes and the 2-acre garden, but the Silent Auction and Book Signing event is free and held at the Clifton Presbyterian Church. The book signing event includes the following local authors and their books:

Clifton (Images of America: Virginia) by Lynne Garvey-Hodge

Ambitious Failure: Chain Bridge, the First Bridge Across the Potomac River By Carole L. Herrick

Alive in the Twentieth Century by Harriet C. Mattusch (Her daughter Carol will be there to speak)

This forgotten land: A tour of Civil War sites and other historical landmarks south of Alexandria, Virginia by Donald C Hakenson

Mosby’s Keydet Rangers by Eric W. Buckland

CIVIL WAR NORTHERN VIRGINIA 1861 by William Connery “The History Guy”

To Annoy or Destroy the Enemy: The Battle of the White House after the Burning of Washington by Patrick L. O’Neill

Local author and re-enactor Lynne Garvey-Hodge will portray Antoinette Kelsey Devereux (1830-1911), wife of John Henry Devereux. Clifton was originally known as Devereux Station. Details about the 43rd Annual Clifton-Fairfax Station Homes Tour, Silent Auction and Book Signing are available at www.cliftoncwc.org or by calling 703-609-3479.