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Alexandria’s hidden history
FEBRUARY 2026
Leisure & Travel This winter, chill out in Colonial Beach, Chincoteague, Ocean City or Chesapeake Beach 27
Arts & Style Maryland historian publishes biography of the “real Uncle Tom;” plus, love after 50, and Bob Levey on the best hobbies 30
Fitness & Health
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k How people live to 100 k All about strength training
Living Boldly
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Law & Money
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k Gift card scams k Pros of life insurance Historian Audrey Davis stands in front of the restored Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. The brick building is all that remains of the largest domestic slave trading firm in the United States. Davis oversees the Freedom House Museum and the city’s Black History Museum. See story on page 32. PHOTO BY SCOTT SUCHMAN
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