Come meet us!

You are cordially invited to join us at one of our chapter meetings on the first Saturday of every month (except July and August) in McLean, Virginia. 

Savor light morning refreshments at 10:00 a.m. Enjoy the program at 10:30 a.m., and adjourn by 12:00 p.m. 

Please contact us for directions to our meetings. 

Programs and Activities

The 2023-2024 meetings and activities are scheduled to include: 
 

September 2 — Chapter Meeting - American History Trivia

September 15-16 — Virginia DAR Fall Muster

October 7 — Chapter Meeting - Guest speaker: Pete Greene - Preserving Wren-Darne Cemetary

November 4 — Fall Pilgrimage - Walking Tour of DC “Women’s History Mile”

December 2 — 76th Chapter Anniversary Celebration

December 16 — Wreaths Across America

January 6 — Chapter Meeting - Annual Business Meeting & Achievement Report

February 4 — Chapter Meeting - Guest speakers: Kim Suringa & Nora Stufft - DAR Museum & CAR Project

March 2 — Chapter Meeting - DAR Insignia

March 22-24 — Virginia DAR State Conference

April 6 — Chapter Meeting - History Essay Contest Winners

May 4 — Spring Pilgrimage - TBD

May 13 — McLean Day

June 1 — Chapter Meeting - Installation of New Chapter Officers

June 26-30 — 133rd Continental Congress, NSDAR

June 27 — Virginia Luncheon

July 4 — Independence Day Parade

Past Programs

Past programs have included:

★  The Rescue of Mount Vernon

★  Women on United States Currency

★  The Old Capitol Prison

★  Service Project at the Old Soldier’s Home in D.C., and tour of Lincoln Cottage

★  Pilgrimage to Belle Grove Plantation

★  Presentation on Hamilton, the musical

★  Pilgrimage to Hillwood Estate & Gardens

★  History of the Chain Bridge

★  Ferry Farm: George Washington’s Childhood Home

★  Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed

★  Finding Amelia Earhart

★  The Quander Family: Longest Documented African-American Family

★  George Washington’s Female Spies

★  History of Women in the U.S. Military

★  Colonial Witches

★  History of Strathmore Hall

★  The Tuskegee Airmen

★  Preserving Family Cemeteries

★  444 Days in Captivity: My Experience as a POW in Iran

★  Why We Serve: Operation Tribute to Freedom - U.S. Military Personnel

★  History of Agriculture in Northern Virginia

★  The Occoquan Workhouse: Suffrage and the Night of Terror

★  A DAR Member’s Personal Struggle during World War II

★  The Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia

★  Pilgrimage to George Washington’s Mount Vernon

★  Veterinary Medicine in the Colonial Days

★  Doctors & Quacks: Medicine in Thomas Jefferson’s Time

★  From Sea Biscuits to Sally Lunn: Evolution of Virginia Food

★  Mt. Vernon and “Dining with the Washingtons”

★  Thomas Jefferson’s Women

★  What You May Not Know About Lewis & Clark

★  First Supreme Court Wives

★  The Life of Francis Scott Key

★  Flag: An American Biography 

★  Saving Monticello

★  24 August 1814: Washington in Flames

★  Desperate Engagement: the Civil War Battle of Monocacy

★  Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General 

★  The Pentagon Memorial

★  Signers of the Constitution: The Well Fed, Well Bred, Well Read, and Well Wed

★  Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler

★  Freedom Hill Chapter’s 70th Anniversary