ARLINGTON - The Arlington Townscape Association will host its annual meeting on Sunday, June 24, starting at 2 p.m., at Bailey Hall on Ice Pond Road in East Arlington. Following a short business meeting, the 2012 Good Citizenship Award will be presented to Keith Squires, Chair of the Arlington Select Board and head of the town's emergency services committee. He will accept the award on behalf of all the first responders and emergency workers, including civilian volunteers, who helped Arlington residents during and in the aftermath of Hurrican Irene's devastation last August.

The program, which will immediately follow, will be presented by Bill Budde, curator of the Russell Collection, Vermont's second largest collection of Vermontiana, located in the Martha Canfield Library. His slide show will feature photographs taken from 1904-14 by Herbert Wheaton Congdon, a full-time resident of Arlington from 1923 until his death in 1965.

Congdon documented many of Arlington's historic residences and commercial buildings, as well as the early work of the Green Mountain Club, including the construction of the Long Trail. Included in the program will be some candid, rarely seen photographs of Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted author and Arlington resident, at her leisure, circa 1912, shooting and skiing.

The photographs in Budde's presentation were donated to the Russell Collection by Congdon's son Steve; the rest of his extensive photography collection resides in the Wilbur

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Collection at the University of Vermont.

Anyone interested in classical Vermont architecture, historical photography and/or early 20th century Arlington is invited to attend this unique, free program, which will be followed by refreshments.

Bailey Hall, located next to the Federated Church of East Arlington, is handicap-accessible, For more information or directions, contact Nancy Boardman at 802-375-6138.