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Father’s Day dates to 1908 when Grace Golden Clayton organized a memorial service at her church in Fairmont, West Virginia to honor her own father and 361 other men who were killed the previous year in a coal mining explosion. This was the country’s first-ever event honoring fathers. 

The following year, Sonora Smart Dodd began a crusade to establish Father’s Day as a national holiday. Dodd was one of […]

Losing patience with insects decimating your garden? Why not try companion planting?  Also referred to as inter-planting, inter-cropping, or polyculture, this eco-friendly, non-toxic method of pest management benefits insects such as bees, butterflies, and ladybugs.  

Companion planting, or placing two or more different plants near one another, is likely to provide seven benefits:  

1. soil preparation and conditioning – using cover crops that fix […]
   

This spring, Poolesville Seniors in partnership with Story Tapestry offered a multi session photography class led by professional photographer and teaching artist Jessica Wallach.  Using cell phones, point-and-shoot cameras, mirrorless cameras, and DSLRs, participants developed photography skills while investigating light, motion, time, composition, editing, and visual storytelling. Through field trips, discussions, hands-on practice, and collaborative photo reviews, they explored not only how cameras work, but how photographers make choices about what to notice and what matters. 

Participants photographed familiar landscapes, historic sites, […]

National Donut Day is the first Friday in June,- this year that’s June 5th. While fried dough confections have existed in most cultures, the US roots go back to the fried dough scraps, oilykoeks (oil cakes) of Dutch settlers. The fried dough was often uncooked in the center prompting some to fill the center with nuts to help complete cooking, thus the doughnut moniker. In 1847, sixteen-year-old schooner crew member Hanson Crockett Gregory punched a hole in […]

The 1871, the Washington Olympics were the first professional baseball team in the nation’s capital. They joined the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (known as the National Association or NA) which formed that year. The league had nine teams and the Washington Olympics finished in fourth place with a record of 15-15. In the Olympics’ second and final year of existence, they fell to 10th […]

Scammers know that seniors trust official‑looking mail, which is why a growing number are receiving fake “new” plastic Medicare cards in their mailboxes. These cards look convincing—laminated, glossy, and sometimes even stamped with fake holograms—but they are not real. Medicare does not issue plastic cards under any circumstances. Most importantly, Medicare has no program that requires you to “activate” a new card by giving your Social Security number.  

Falling for this Medicare card scam will most assuredly expose you to identity […]

Are you interested in local history? Would you like to imagine what living in this area was like several centuries ago? Darnall Farm, one of the few area properties that demonstrates the way of life of early 1800’s small farm life, is a hidden gem located along Whites Ferry Road (Rt 107) a few miles east of Poolesville on the way to Gaithersburg. The historic complex of stone structures is also reminiscent of a farmstead in Europe or the British […]