Poolesville Seniors is making a big difference for seniors in and around Poolesville. Our program is full of many varied opportunities for your participation. Our daily, weekly, and monthly activities and events keep area 50+ residents mentally, physically, and socially active. In fact, we are currently offering over 100 events to over 1,400 participants EVERY MONTH!  For us to offer our quality programing, we need [...]

Are you a Poolesville Senior who has always wanted to walk in the Poolesville Day Parade? Now is your chance to join other Poolesville Seniors on Saturday, September 19th as they walk the ½ mile parade route from Cattail Rd. (next to PES) to Elgin Rd. (Rt #109). Sign up to walk in the parade with us. Look for Poolesville Seniors booth on [...]

Have you ever tasted pawpaw? This tree, Asimina triloba, is a species in the plant family Annonaceae. Pawpaw is a fruit tree native to North America, growing wild in 26 states, mostly east of the Mississippi. It may be best known and loved in the Mountain South, where stands of trees produce fruit that weigh between 5 and 16 ounces. They are considered [...]

This year is the 25th anniversary of the deadliest foreign attack on American soil since the attack on Washington, DC in War of 1812. On 9/11/2001, nineteen Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda operatives hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC, a field in Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon in Virginia.   A total of 2,977 direct victims [...]

The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial was designed to capture that moment in time at 9:37 a.m. on 9/11/2001 when 184 lives became intertwined for eternity. On the first anniversary of the attack a granite marker was laid at Arlington National Cemetery. In September 2002 after Pentagon repairs were completed, the America's Heroes Memorial and chapel were located where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed [...]

Celebrate Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) on the anniversary of her first attempt to reach freedom on September 17, 1849.  Tubman was born into slavery as Araminta Ross on a plantation in Dorchester County, MD. As a child she was beaten and suffered a traumatic head injury when an overseer threw a heavy weight that hit her in the head  In 1849, Tubman escaped to [...]

National Grandparents Day is an observance and not a public holiday in the United States. This year it falls on Sunday, September 13, 2026. National Grandparents Day has more than one origin. Some people consider it to have been first proposed by Michael Goldgar in the 1970s after he visited his aunt in an Atlanta nursing home. He made 17 trips to Washington [...]

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It begins the celebration of ten High Holidays known as Yamim Nora'im --Days of Awe—which conclude with Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah covers two days (first day is called Tishrei).  Festivities have marked the beginning of the fall harvest since the earliest days of the Israelites. It is also believed to mark the "birthday of the world"-- [...]