Join Poolesville Seniors virtually on October 19th @7pm for the next Historic Ag Reserve Properties presentation with local historian Kenny Sholes. In 1933, as part of the New Deal, the National Park Service launched the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). “Guided by field instructions from Washington, D.C., the first HABS recorders were tasked with documenting a representative sampling of America’s architectural heritage." Luckily for us, many of the historic Ag Reserve homes were documented. In most cases, these are the oldest [...]

Join us on October 20th at 7:00 p.m. for the Friday Movie Night feature Jules. Retiree Milton Robinson (Ben Kingsley) lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, until a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash lands in his backyard. Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harriet Sansom Harris and Jane Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes [...]

Join Jon Wolz on Monday October 30th at 10:00 a.m. for a 3 ¾ mile Pop-up Walk on the C&O Canal. After meeting at the Monocacy Aqueduct parking lot, we will walk out to the mouth of the Monocacy River to view the trees looking out across the Potomac River towards Virginia.  Walking back to the aqueduct we’ll view the mystery stone beneath the first arch. We’ll cross the aqueduct to the Indian Flats [...]

Join Brad Stone, popular presenter for Poolesville Seniors, on Tuesday November 7th at 7:00 p.m. for a fun and educational talk. Hear how the Civil War helped transform an informal harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 into one of our nation’s most revered holidays. His presentation focuses on how the symbolism of the story of Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving increasingly became a rallying point for pro-Union and Abolition forces leading up to the Civil War. [...]

Join us at the Kunzang Palyul Chöling (KPC) Buddhist Temple on November 9th at 1:00 p.m. for an outing and social at the Peace Park and Gardens.  If you’ve ever driven by the Buddhist Temple on River Road and wondered what it was about, now is your chance to visit! This tour of the grounds, prayer room, and 3 miles of hiking trails is right in our backyard. Visit consecrated Stupas (sacred monuments to [...]

Join us on November 10th at 10:00 a.m. at Monocacy Battlefield National Park when we explore this site where Union troops lost a battle but saved the Nation’s Capital.  We’ll explore the interactive museum in the visitor center, less than 20 miles from Poolesville in nearby Frederick. Then we will travel by car to sites where the action took place with a park ranger who will provide narration about what happened there in the [...]

Come join us on November 16th at 10:00 a.m. for a refreshing hike through the fall woods in Little Bennet Regional Park. We will hike a 5-mile loop of wooded, natural trails starting on the Pine Grove Trail.  We'll stop half-way for a short break before proceeding on the Sidewinder and Western Piedmont Trails. Bring water. Hiking shoes are recommended. The terrain is up and down and rocky in places.  Elevation gain is about 360 [...]