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YOU DID IT! Thank you!  You “LIT UP OUR WORLD” with your generous donations to our Annual Individual Donor Fundraising Appeal! 

Because of your faith in our organization, we exceeded our goal! Your generosity is helping us continue offering pickleball, mahjong, bridge, Tai Chi, Zumba, yoga, Chi Gong, our popular speakers, and other new and exciting events for another year. We look forward to growing Poolesville Seniors and expanding the number, breadth, and […]

It was a delight to host Ellen Letourneau and Claudia Kousoulas as they recounted their mission to bring attention to the Ag Reserve with their writing projects “Bread and Beauty” and “A Culinary History of Montgomery County.”  Many thanks to this duo who traced changes in Montgomery County power, politics, markets, and technology by examining its “foodways,” the “eating habits and culinary practices of a people, region, or historical period”. 

Among other […]

Happy National Pickleball Day!

National Pickleball Day is on August 8, and we are celebrating more than seventy participants who have played pickleball with Poolesville Seniors since the beginning of our program in 2016. 

While our program has been going strong for 6 years, pickleball has been around for 57 years. It is a fun, social and simple game that combines elements of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong into one. It […]

Did you know that the Maryland Senior Olympics Pickleball Championships are held practically in our own backyard? On August 12 – 14, the Montgomery TennisPlex in Boyds will host these qualifying games for the 2023 National Senior Olympic games in Pittsburgh. 

At least five of the Poolesville Pickleball players will be competing. Come out to the games and support: 

Mixed Doubles D1 Team 8: Brian Peper and Gail Becker (Mt. Airy) Game […]

What Happened on this Date in history – August 8th 

1900—First Davis Cup tennis match held in Boston 

1940 – Battle of Britain begins with German air attacks 

1945 – Truman signs the United Nations Charter 

1963 – Great Train robbery in England 

1974 – Nixon announces his resignation 

1978 – US launches Pioneer Venus probe 

2009 – Sonia Sotomayor sworn in as Associate justice […]

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: […]

Join Poolesville Seniors on September 2nd at 6:00 p.m. for Friday Night Polo at the Seneca Polo Club in Poolesville, MD. Experience this state-of-the-art Ag Reserve treasure and meet up for a friendly one-hour pre-match social gathering when the gates open at 6:00 p.m. Register and carpool with friends and neighbors. Relax with a cool drink and your own picnic on the grassy hill prior to the match. (Adult beverages permitted) 

Join Sarah Hedlund from the Montgomery History Speaker’s Bureau on September 8th at 7:00 p.m. when she explains the basics of organizing and preserving your family’s documents and photographs. Sarah is the archivist and librarian for Montgomery History’s Jane C. Sween Research Library and Special Collections. 

Every family has papers and photographs sitting around—dad’s letters from the war, mom’s recipe cards and photo albums, various diplomas and certificates from three […]

Join Poolesville Seniors on August 18th @7pm for next Historic Ag Reserve Properties presentation with local historian Kenny Sholes. The lands around us have played an important part in American history over the last few centuries. The fields we pass through each day have spurred economic development, been the scene of battles, provided escape from the pace of daily life, and brought families together at the dinner table. Dotting this landscape is an array of impressive historic […]

Join the PS! Book Club on August 15th at 7:00 pm, for a thoughtful discussion of the August Book Club Selection: The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. 

The award-winning author of Station Eleven, brings us an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events–a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. It […]