The McLean Community Center’s annual community festival McLean Day 2012: “Celebrating Our Hometown” will take place Saturday.

MCC district residents are invited to come out for a day of outdoor activities. The festival will be held from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. at Lewinsville Park, 1659 Chain Bridge Road, McLean. Admission is free.

The McLean School and Civic League originally sponsored the festival in 1915 as a way to raise funds for a host of school and community projects. The first McLean Day was held in a field adjacent to Franklin Sherman School. Over the years following, various community organizations kept McLean Day going until MCC began producing it in the mid-1970s. As it grew and became more popular, it soon outgrew the capacity of the center’s Ingleside Avenue address and in 1988, MCC relocated it to its current location, Lewinsville Park.

For festival updates, driving directions, shuttle bus stop locations and a festival area map, visit www.mcleancenter.org/special-events/mcleanday.asp or call the center at 703-790-0123.