Events for December 19 - October 21

This is a Virtual Event -- Please join us for this fascinating presentation from your home using your own computer or smartphone! If you plan to join us, simply enter your name and email address below and and click CONFIRM RSVP. If you have questions, just email us at info@poolesvilleseniors.org.  The Presentation: A Brief Survey of Our Inheritance The lands around us have played an important part in American history over the last few centuries. [...]

It's Craft Day! Chris Rickert and Annette Rosanelli (of needlepointers.com) will provide a demonstration of how to make a Hanging Kitchen Towel. Your Instructors! Annette Rosanelli and Chris Rickert are a mother/daughter team who have a great passion for handicrafts.  They started Needlepointers.com in 1998 as a crafting resource web site.  In 2010, they started a Youtube channel and now have over 76,000 subscribers and over 600 video tutorials and crafts.  Chris moved to Poolesville [...]

Celebrate National Senior Citizen Day with a Zoom musical event.  Poolesvillian Rick Normoyle will present a smorgasbord of songs that we have all grown up with and loved.  This is an opportunity to sing-a-long, dance cheek-to-cheek or boogie, and reminisce thru music. Rick and his family have been in Poolesville since 1976 and he says these have been the best years of my life.  Rick is a professional pianist, keyboarder and vocalist who has entertained [...]

The good doctors from Darnestown Smiles, just down the road from Poolesville, will be providing a free seminar on dental care, focusing on what we all need to do to preserve our senior smiles as the years go by. Tune in and and bring your questions! Our Speaker Dr. Sridevi Yellepeddy DMD was born in Chicago, IL, raised in Florida, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of South Florida with a Bachelors of [...]

Due to the ongoing pandemic, we haven't been able to enjoy our Quarterly Socials. But wait, maybe we can do it virtually!!! Poolesville Seniors will host a Virtual Quarterly Social with award-winning actress and Smithsonian Scholar, Mary Ann Jung. Mary Ann will present live, via Zoom, a portrayal of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a leading figure in the Women’s Suffrage, Women’s Rights, and Equal Rights Movements of the 19th Century—a topic which is all the more [...]

Kenny Sholes is back for a second night to give us another look at the incredible historic homes in the Medley District area of the Agricultural Reserve, using the homes as a way to better understand the people whose land we’ve inherited and how their dreams, goals, and struggles were not all that different from ours today. The lands around us have played an important part in American history over the last few centuries. The [...]

Poolesville Seniors is proud to provide a special history lesson about the tiny settlements of freed slaves that surround the Poolesville area, revealing both the struggles and contributions of these communities. Our Speaker Our historical guide, Poolesville resident James “Skip” Etheridge,  is the son of a D.C. police officer and a descendant of one of the founders of the Sugarland Community. Skip is a retired Maryland state trooper, a former security officer at Georgetown University [...]

Poolesville Seniors is pleased to offer a free virtual opportunity to enable you to learn more about the ins and outs of Medicare. This will include: an overview of Parts A, B, C, and D Medigap plans initial, annual, and special enrollment periods helping current Medicare subscribers better understand which is the best plan for them Our presenter will be Stephanie Katz, the owner of CETA Benefit Consulting Group, LLC - a company that has [...]

Professor Christine Rai presents ‘Lavender and Humanity”. Christine will explore humanity’s special relationship with this soothing and healing plant through art, folklore and more.