Brad Gernand News Today

Editor’s Note — Prominent former senior archivist at the Library of Congress and long time Falls Church resident and civic activist Brad Gernand, who has co-authored three books on Falls Church history, the most recent in 2000 as part of the 300th anniversary of Anglo settlements at the Little City’s location, is the author of this seminal review of Charlie

Editor’s Note — Prominent former senior archivist at the Library of Congress and long time Falls Church resident and civic activist Brad Gernand, who has co ...

 It seems puzzling to moderns why a town like Falls Church—steeped in southern history with some 19th-century pro-slavery sympathies—would choose to honor Abraham Lincoln on a thoroughfare. Lincoln Ave., which hugs the W&OD trail in a leafy residential neighborhood known as Sherwood, is ...