Leaders in Excellence
2012 Fort Belvoir Post Guide
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Contains the Opera House, Concert Hall, Eisenhower Theater, the Terrace Theater and the American Film Institute Theater. The building is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to the public. Group tours are given Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For group information call (202) 416-8341. 2700 F. Street NW, Washington, D.C., shuttle available from Foggy Bottom Metro. For theater and tour information call (202) 4674600. Internet: www.kennedycenter.org.
region. Park rangers are available from 8 a.m. to midnight every day except Christmas day, 900 Ohio Drive, S.W., Washington, D.C. (703) 426-6841.
Georgetown Shopping boutiques, restaurants, nightclubs in the old colonial section of Washington, includes the Old Stone House on M Street, the oldest standing house in Washington, Georgetown University and the C&O Canal. West of Rock Creek Park from the Potomac River north to Massachusetts Avenue. Great Falls National Park Take a packet boat ride up the C&O Canal, visit the Great Falls Tavern, and see the massive Great Falls of the Potomac, where the Potomac River drops 76 feet over a massive rock formation. Open daily, 8 a.m. until dark. Entrance fee $4 per car, annual pass $15. Intersection of MacArthur Boulevard and Falls road in Potomac, Md. 12 mileds from downtown D.C., (301) 299-3613.
Holocaust Museum The Holocaust Museum represents the history of the Nazi killing of Jews. The Museum’s pemanent exhibition spans three floors and presents a narrative history using more than 900 artifacts, 70 video monitors, and four theaters that include historic film footage and eyewitness testimonies. Recommended for visitors 11 years of age and older.
Korean Memorial Commemorating the 628,000 troops who were killed in Korean “conflict,” this memorial consists of 19 giant polished steel statues. On an adjacent black granite wall, you can see more than 2,000 photographic images from the war that have been sand-blasted onto the wall. Across the Reflecting Pool from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Mall. (202) 426-6841. Open daily 24 hours a day.
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