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Bus Trip to Lorton Workhouse and Art Center

  • September 27, 2018
  • 9:15 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Arrive Great Falls Library 9:15

Please join Great Falls Senior Center members in a local history trip to the old Lorton prison complex, now the Workhouse Arts Center, plus a luncheon buffet at Laurel Hill Country Club.


“The Workhouse Arts Center, once a former prison, is now a flourishing arts community that is home to over 100 of the finest regional artists, with a rich local and national history.The Workhouse has a beautiful campus open year round to the public, with eight artist studio buildings, two main galleries, a prison museum, cafe, gift shop and art supply store...”


The GF Seniors will be attending a presentation at 11:00 am in the prison museum on the history of the prison and transformation to the Workhouse Arts Center and the history of the suffragists who were incarcerated there in 1917. There will be a brief time to visit the gift store before heading to lunch.


After the presentation, we will be having lunch at 1:00 pm at the Laurel Hill Golf & Country Club, Tower Grill. The menu is:


Buffet 

House salad

Dinner Rolls

Chicken Marsala with Marsala, Sweet Wine & Fresh Mushroom Demy Glaze

Rice

Beef stew with potatoes and vegetables

Dessert - Brownie (no nuts)

Beverage - water, ice tea, lemonade included but Sodas, coffee & hot tea, $2.50 extra 


Price for this event $31.00 or $33.00 IF you want soda, coffee or hot tea. The pricing is all inclusive for driver tip, country club buffet meal including meal, tax and tip.  Transportation and Workhouse Arts Center are of no cost to participants.


   PLEASE BE AT GREAT FALLS LIBRARY PARKING LOT BY 9:15 am. Bus leaves promptly at 9:30 am and will return by 3/3:30 pm depending on traffic. 


Please call or email your RSVP with names of attendees to:


sandigee@yahoo.com

Or call 703-475-6473


Please make your check out to GFSC for $31.00 or $33.00. You may mail it to: 


Great Falls Senior Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Post Office Box 425, Great Falls, Virginia 22066

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