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Little Apple Pastry Shop Inc
Distance: 10.5 MiPO Box 432
20105-0432 Aldie -
Courtyard Dulles Town Center
Distance: 9.3 Mi45500 Majestic Drive
20166 Dulles -
Residence Inn Dulles Airport at Dulles 28 Centre
Distance: 10.3 Mi45250 Monterey Place
20166 Dulles -
Metro Office
Distance: 14.1 Mi620 Parkway
20170 Herndon -
Courtyard Herndon Reston
Distance: 15.1 Mi533 Herndon Parkway
20170 Herndon
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As a member of the board of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library and its Education Sub-committee, I became interested in a project organized by the Loudoun County Heritage Sites Consortium, which envisioned a series of fieldtrips for students in Loudoun County Schools. One fieldtrip stop would be the Thomas Balch Library, where students would view documents supporting aspects of their study of African American history. I agreed to write the lesson, with help from the Balch staff, and members of the Friends Black History Committee. We piloted the lesson with a fieldtrip group from Loudoun Country Day School in March 2003. It proved to be a productive afternoon. Although such fieldtrips are always encouraged, in talking with teachers about how much time and money is available for making such visits, we realized that because school staffs are constrained by limiting schedules and budgets, this might prove difficult...