Fairfax Apartment Reviews

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The six-square miles of the city, which includes twenty-one parks, is like the bull's-eye of the region. Its dead center location means major attractions are nearby: the new Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport, with its cavernous space and Enola Gay star attraction, is ten miles away. The Manassas Battlefield, where tours give a you-are-there immediacy to the battle of Bull Run, twelve miles, and Mount Vernon, where George and Martha did indeed sleep, twenty-two miles.

Rats slept there too. They infested the homes of our forefathers in great numbers, no matter how prosperous the landowner, how elegant the estate. In the restorations of eighteenth century homes like Gunston Hall Plantation, (twenty miles away) home of George Mason, a framer of the US Constitution, the rats are featured players. They stole items that became artifacts of historical importance and served posterity by hiding them in their nests. Babies' hats, documents, bits of linen and other household paraphernalia have been found in the walls hundreds of years later and are now displayed in these restorations.

A mile from town, Blenheim is another of these old houses, and its treasure is in its attic, once used as quarters for Union soldiers. These men left poignant souvenirs on the attic walls: drawings, signatures, bits of poetry in pencil, charcoal and wax crayon, as in a quote of Longfellow's, '' Be still sad hart and cease repining. " One message was left by a fourteen year old drummer, and records show that many of these men (and boys) died later in the war between the states.

Around each bend in Fairfax are also home-town pleasures that include free music performances at the city parks, any number of festivals--crafts, chocolate, lights and carols--and restaurants. The local ones are high in quality, numerous and unpretentious. My favorites are Mama's Italian, Dolce Vita's and Connaught Place, as good as it gets in gourmet Indian, with the highest price entrée only $17.95. Everyone else's favorite seems to be the barbecue at Red, Hot and Blue's, known for its amazing ribs.

Ribs or no, relaxation or heavy-duty sightseeing, it's always time for another Fairfax visit, next time with the kids.