Join the PS! Book Club on June 20th at 7:00 pm, for a thoughtful discussion of Piranesi by renowned author, Susanna Clark.
Piranesi, the second novel by Susanna Clark, is a fantasy novel, for which the author won the 2021 Women’s Prize […]
Join Poolesville Seniors on June 16th @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 homes – standing as visual […]
Need a driving getaway still close to DC? Join Barbara Paulson on June 9th at 7 pm when she leads a virtual tour of coastal […]
Join Ralph Buglass from the Montgomery County Historical Society on June 2nd at 7pm for a discussion of one- and two-room schoolhouses in Montgomery County. The one-room schoolhouse symbolizes the earliest days of public education.
In Montgomery County a surprising number of those one- and two-room schoolhouses still exist—in one form or another. This presentation tells the early history of public education in the county, including the nearly […]
Join Eileen McGuckian, historian, author, and historic preservationist on May 26th at 7:00 pm
Join the PS! Book Club on May 16th at 7:00 pm, for a thoughtful discussion of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, a masterful work by an award winning and renowned author.
In her most recent non-fiction book, Wilkerson presents the reader with a dark history of the scope of human violence. She looks at this history through the lens of caste systems as […]
Join Poolesville Seniors on May 19th @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 homes – standing as visual […]
More than two centuries before the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, British forces captured Washington and burned the Capitol during the War of 1812. Join local writer Steve Vogel in-person on May 24th at 7pm
Montgomery Connects has announced that Montgomery County has received a federal grant to provide 40,000 computers for residents who do not have access to a computer. There is a limit of 1 computer per person and every person receiving a computer must have a library card number to make an individual appointment to pick up a computer and must show photo ID at pick-up. If a parent wants a computer for […]
If you have been missing our local Maggie Nightingale Library since it closed for renovations last August, we have great news!
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich invites residents to a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, May 21 at 11:30 a.m. to celebrate the grand reopening of the newly refreshed Montgomery County Public Libraries’ (MCPL) Maggie Nightingale Branch located at 19633 Fisher Avenue in Poolesville.
“I am pleased the Maggie Nightingale […]