Cindy Lindsay and the History of Arlington
County, Virginia
Cindy Lindsay's chainsaw rampage story, from Lloyd Wolf's Post
Magazine essay, is quoted in 13th Gen., a book with some important
things to say but which has too much statistical crap for me to read all
the way through. But it strikes me, I guess the chainsaw thing was the last
big historical event that happened in Arlington, the only others being the
first military airplane flight, the first military balloon flight (spying
from Bailey's Crossroads); the Andrae Crouch shopping-mall mass-wedding
scandal; the Court House fire and consequent implosion; the Rockwell assassination,
which my uncle saw or maybe just heard (he also heard his well-chosen last
words: "Where's the bleach?", and by the way his mother-in-law
dated Rockwell when they were attending Brown and Pembroke, and his brothers
used to hang out at Rockwell's house); the battle of Upton Hill, held at
the house that later was Rockwell's HQ, a couple blocks from the laundromat
where he was killed; my aunt's ex-father-in law Crandall Mackey's casino
raids (he was a Sheriff like the one in "Lone Star," and is a
local hero for raiding and closing all the gambling joints in Arlington,
which were competing with his floating casino in Georgetown); a bunch of
funerals, e.g. JFK, and John Smith sailing past. I love the truly Arlingtonian
dénoument -- Cindy's fun was spoiled by "some space cadet who
lived across the street with his mother" and was home in the middle
of the day to call the cops about something that was none of his business.
There's one on every block here. Marguerite
Grable Adams reports that she saw Cindy in recent years, but all she'll
say is that "she was just being Cindy Lindsay." In case you wondered.
More about Sheriff Crandall Mackey and
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