Historian-Journalist Charlie Clark Lives On

He thought global, wrote local; created a vast archive; and still helps the public learn about a rare brain disease

My dear friend Charlie Clark, 70, a journalist and historian in Arlington, Virginia, just outside the nation’s capital, has died after a brief illness from an extremely rare and mysterious brain disease. But he lives on in his huge archive of local history columns, and leaves a deep legacy of connections, as evidenced by the hundreds who attended his me…