Events for week of Nov 24, 2024

Join us on June 28 at 7pm when we discuss Sierra Crane Murdoch’s first book. Murdoch describes it as “part true crime, part social criticism”. Yellow Bird chronicles a murder on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, tracing the steps of an Arikara woman, Lissa Yellow Bird, as she searches for a young white oil worker who went missing from the reservation.  Sierra Crane Murdoch is a journalist based in the American West. Her writing has been featured in the [...]

Twyla Insalaco is a 500hr Certified Yoga Instructor specializing in Vinyasa (flow) yoga.  She's been teaching from her home studio in Poolesville, in corporate settings and in elementary schools since 2012.  She also specializes in Chair Yoga where traditional yoga poses are practiced with the help of a chair.  Each class starts with a few minutes of breath work, then slowly flows into yoga poses aimed to build strength and lengthen tight muscles. Class [...]

Join the Hoewing family on July 1 at 7pm as they recall their family’s 60-year association with Poolesville and Montgomery County from the perspective of two generations. Ray, Reva, and Link will discuss the highly competitive politics, changing development and demographics of the town and county, and area businesses that were dominated by old family names like Jamison, Elgin, Selby, Kohlhoss, Titus, Glass and Dietrick.  Ray and Reva Hoewing moved to Poolesville in 1970 at the beginning of Ray’s extensive career at the Public Affairs Council and became involved in his church and the community. Ray was on the Boards of WUMCO and PACC. He was a co-founder [...]