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Morven Park Launches Initiative to Encourage Effective Civic Leadership

Thursday April 11th, 2013

Morven Park announces the launch of a new program, CivicsNOW!, designed to provide models of active and educated citizenship and to offer opportunities to learn through active citizenship, rather than just about citizenship.
CivicsNOW! is designed to cultivate civic-minded leaders capable of renewing public trust in a political system suffering from incivility, dysfunction, and declining public [...]

Morven Park Announces ‘Local Leaders’ Speaker Series

Thursday April 11th, 2013

LEESBURG – On Thursday, April 25, Morven Park hosts the first event in a new speaker series that recognizes active local leaders and provides an opportunity to meet and be inspired by those making real and measurable change in our community.
This first event in Morven Park’s new “Local Leaders” series features Waterford resident Nicole Hamilton, [...]

Free Tours at Morven Park Unveil Added Artwork, New Visitors’ Center

Thursday January 17th, 2013

Morven Park celebrates the re-opening of its Davis Mansion and Winmill Carriage Museum for the 2013 tour season with a weekend of free public tours on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2.
Open House guests, who can enter to win a year of free tour passes, will be among the first to experience the new visitors’ entrance, [...]

Governor’s Mansion at Morven Park Hosts Holiday Festivities

Monday December 3rd, 2012

Morven Park kicked off the season with its annual Holiday Open House on Saturday, Dec. 1, with holiday tours and other festive events planned throughout December, including special twilight tours of the Davis Mansion and a workshop to make gingerbread-style houses.
Guests at Saturday’s open house were treated to carriage rides and hot apple cider as [...]

Morven Park Offers Full Day of Sesquicentennial Activities

Thursday November 8th, 2012

Both the Confederate and Union forces will be equally represented during a day of living history at Morven Park, Saturday, Nov. 17.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., reenactors will portray members of the 17th Maine who will describe to visitors what it was like to move into the Loudoun County area 150 years ago and [...]

Extreme Makeover: Amphibian Edition

Thursday November 8th, 2012

With the threat of Hurricane Sandy nipping at their heels, more than a dozen area nature enthusiasts worked through the weekend to restore one of several amphibian habitats located in the hilly woodlands of Morven Park.

The workshop, sponsored by Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and Morven Park and funded by the Virginia Environmental Endowment and the [...]


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