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The Biden administration recently advised renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of booster shots for those who are eligible, and recommending mask wearing indoors. This reflects the appearance of new highly transmissible variants which are rapidly spreading, and more contagious than their predecessors. Staying up to date on your COVID-19 vaccines will provide the best protection against severe outcomes.  

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has […]

There are still some interesting reads on the PS! Book Club list for 2022. We have an excellent group of regular and occasional participants. Our reading choices include some books we might not ordinarily have chosen for ourselves. 

There is no need to travel, and you can join us from wherever you are located. This friendly, non-academic, non-judgmental group meets on Zoom. We are happy to have you join us for any of […]

It has taken us a while, more than a year, since we first started climbing that mountain to get 100 YouTube subscribers!   

This past week we reached our goal of 100 subscribers. Instead of an alpha-numeric designation, Poolesville Seniors now qualifies for a dedicated, named channel that will make it easier for you, our patrons, to access our YouTube channel to find the great recorded programming we post there.  

True to our […]

While most people think of John Denver and West Virginia when they hear “Take me Home, Country Roads”, its actual origin is much closer to home. The song was written by Bill Danoff and Taffy (Mary Catherine) Nivert, and completed with the help of John Denver. 

Danoff was studying Chinese at Georgetown University, on track for a Foreign Service career. At night he was a doorman at one of the coolest small […]

Let’s Celebrate Our August Birthdays!! 

•  8/11 Laura Dietz 
• 8/12 Ronald Chesemore 
• 8/21 Tookie Gentilcore 
• 8/26 Chris Jacklin 
• 8/27 Maria Briancon 

 Congratulations! 

Many thanks to Dalis Davidson who graciously showed us around her Dancing Leaf Farm and invited us into her fiber studio to observe her vertically integrated business that we playfully titled “Sheep to Shawl”. Dalis raises her own wool sheep, and explained the process of harvesting the wool, from sheering, carding, washing, spinning it into skeins, dying, and using the yarn in shawls, scarves, mittens, and other wearable art. She also demonstrated the Numo felting process where the […]

Mahjong is back on Thursdays at Speer Hall (behind Poolesville Presbyterian) 10 am – 12:30 pm 

Bridge is back on Tuesdays at Speer Hall (behind Poolesville Presbyterian) 1 pm – 2:30 pm with Open Play from 2:30pm – 4:00pm. 

Poolesville Farmers Market Saturdays 9:00am to 1:00 pm at Whalen Commons. (20+) Poolesville Farmers Market | Facebook 

 Sarah Auer Pool — 3-hour sessions Open weekdays: […]

What Happened on this Date in history – August 1st 

1790 – First US census 

1794 – Whiskey Rebellion 

1876 – Colorado becomes the 38th state 

1914 – World War 1 erupts 

1943 – Japanese destroyer slices PT 109 in half. Lt. John Kennedy and crew are left for dead 

1944 – Last diary entry by Anne Frank before her family was sent to […]

Join authors Claudia Kousoulas and Ellen Letourneau on August 4th at 7pm when they interpret the history of the Ag Reserve and Montgomery County and the effects of that history on the culinary legacy of the area. From the earliest Native Americans to European farmers, to the Quakers, and even the Marriott Corporation, our history has shaped our culinary tastes. 

The passion of these co-authors for the Ag Reserve […]

If you are planning your yearly pilgrimage to see the fabulous sunflowers at the 1,971-acre McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area, you may want to thank English immigrant, Richard Brightwell, who purchased the original 1,086 acres along four miles of the Potomac River in 1695. 

At the age of 21, Brightwell came to Maryland from Suffolk, England as an indentured servant to Captain Thomas Trueman. The first colonists came to Maryland only 29 years before.