The Ursids meteor shower is active annually, approximately between December 17 and December 26. In the Washington area, the shower should peak before Christmas between 5:00 p.m. on December 21st and 7:00 a.m. on December 22nd. At its peak, observers may be able to view as many as 10 meteors in an hour.
The shower is named the Ursids because the meteors seem to radiate from the direction of the constellation Ursa Minor […]
The mission of One Acre Farm is to deliver organically grown vegetables to our local community, while minimizing the impact on the environment, maintaining a sustainable business, and paying their employees a fair wage.
Despite its name, One Acre Farm sits on 34 acres in Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve. In 2006, Farmer Mike Protas started his farming business, renting a small plot of land and farming on just one acre […]
Today is the last day to enter the Poolesville Holiday Lighting Contest!
Home is where you hang your lights, so get in the holiday spirit and dazzle your friends and neighborhood with your decorations!
This year the Town of Poolesville is hosting a new style of Holiday Lighting Contest. […]
In 1878 when Wilbur and Orville Wright were 11 and 7 years old, their father gave them a toy based on the model airplane, the planophore, designed by French aeronautical engineer Alphonse Penaud. The small model helicopter was made from bamboo, paper, and cork and was powered by a rubber band. The toy fascinated the boys and sparked their lifelong interest in flying and aeronautics. The rest is history.
The family moved often […]
Poolesville Seniors Winter Indoor Pickleball meets in the Poolesville Baptist gymnasium on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for two sessions of open play, EARLY 8:30-10:30 a.m. and LATE 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.. On Tuesday there are two sessions EARLY 8:30-10:00 a.m. and LATE 10:00-11:30 a.m. for Skills practice and Thursday from 8:30- 10:00 a.m. and 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. for Ladder Play.
To facilitate fair play during these sessions, the pickleball committee offers this guidance:
2025-2026 […]
For the holidays each year, Wreaths Across America (“WAA”) coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies to “Remember, Honor, and Teach” about the sacrifices made by our veterans and their families. This tradition began in 1992 as The Arlington Wreath project with the laying of 5000 Christmas wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery by Morrill Worcester.
WAA remained relatively obscure until a photo of the snow-covered, wreath-adorned Arlington Cemetery gravestones went viral in 2005, resulting […]
In December 1955, a department store seamstress in Montgomery, AL, was on her way home from work by bus. Quiet, well-mannered and impeccably dressed, Rosa Parks was seated on a crowded bus with three others in a row designated for “colored” passengers. When a White man boarded the bus, that row immediately became seats for Whites only. When the bus driver ordered Rosa and three other Black passengers to stand and give up their […]
St. Lucia’s (St. Lucy) Day is a festival of lights, celebrated widely in Scandinavia and Italy. It signifies the beginning of the Christmas season on December 13th. St Lucia, whose name means light, was a young girl martyred in 304 A.D. under the Christian persecution orders of the Roman Emperor Diocletian.
Travel writer Rick Steves explained the legend this way, “the Scandinavian version of the legend is that a young woman […]