Events for week of Nov 24, 2024

Britt Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half, introduces the identical Vignes twins, who, as teenagers, run away from their home in the Deep South. Bennet explores the consequences of both the past and race on their separate lives in different worlds, one Black and one White.  Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writer's Program. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New [...]

Join us for our first face-to-face, in-person evening event on July 29 @ 7 pm!  Landscape architect Bernie Mihm will tell us all about Summer Garden Maintenance and demonstrate tips to help you beautify your landscape of annuals, perennials, vegetables, lawns, trees or shrubs. Light refreshments will be provided, so please register by July 26. The location address will be provided in your registration confirmation, and is on Budd Rd. in Poolesville.  In accordance with CDC Guidelines, “If you’ve been fully vaccinated: [...]