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  <subtitle><![CDATA[History and memory are intertwined. A Look Back at Braddock District is a local history, the story of a rural region in the heart of Fairfax County, Virginia, transformed over time into a sprawling suburb of Washington, DC. The memories of more than 50 Northern Virginia residents are captured in oral histories. Photographs, documents, maps and artifacts amplify these personal experiences and document growth and change in the area.

Braddock is one of nine magisterial districts in Fairfax County, Virginia. During the twentieth century, housing developments and highways overtook fields and one-lane roads. Educational complexes overgrew three-room schoolhouses, and shopping centers and malls replaced general stores. Residents of Braddock District shaped the changes in their lives; their memories shape the history of their communities.]]></subtitle>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Clara Greinke]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Clara Greinke, her husband and three sons moved to the Braddock District in 1960. Roads were narrow and often still dirt-covered. She notes how the area has changed from a woodland rural countryside dotted with ponds for fishing and skating. Active in civic organizations, Clara Greinke remembers working to preserve a strong community as the area developed.]]></summary>
    <updated>2011-09-13T23:24:59-04:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Tom Giska]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Tom Giska joined the faculty as a science teacher at Lake Braddock High School in 1974, the school&#039;s second year in operation.  He discusses the growth of the school and historic events in the early history of Fairfax County. Tom Giska has compiled a comprehensive history of the Burke area including people and events.]]></summary>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Eileen Garnett]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Eileen Garnett moved to Annandale in 1972.  She reminisces about development that came to support increasing numbers of homes and subdivisions.  She describes the revitalization project which she helped found in the 1980s and continues to guide. The revitalization project worked to upgrade the business district in Annandale.]]></summary>
    <updated>2011-09-13T23:26:43-04:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Robert Frye]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Robert Frye moved to Fairfax in 1967. Three times a member of the Fairfax County School Board--both appointed and elected--Bob Frye worked for equal opportunity in the county as the area emerged from the era of segregation to diversity. He was the first minority member-at-large on the School Board.]]></summary>
    <updated>2011-09-13T23:27:33-04:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: John Fox]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[John Fox was seventeen when his family moved to Annandale in 1939.  His father started the Annandale Volunteer Fire Department, and John Fox served with that department.  He describes the technology of fire fighting and major blazes facing the volunteers.]]></summary>
    <updated>2011-09-13T23:28:04-04:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Richard Ernst]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Richard Ernst was the first president of Northern Virginia Community College and served in that capacity for 30 years. He discusses the growth of the institution since 1968. ]]></summary>
    <updated>2011-09-13T23:29:02-04:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Elly Doyle]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[Elly Doyle moved to Fairfax County during the early 1950s. A civic activist and former member and chairman of the Fairfax County Park Authority Board, she traces the development of the activities of county parks and her role in that growth.]]></summary>
    <updated>2011-09-13T23:29:44-04:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Jim Dillard]]></title>
    <summary><![CDATA[By 2005, Jim Dillard had served in the Virginia House of Delegates for 32 years. He analyzes the political scene in the Braddock District, finances, diversity, and growth and change in state and local government.]]></summary>
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    <title><![CDATA[Oral History: Irv Denton]]></title>
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