Tickets are going fast! Don’t miss out. Be sure to purchase your tickets by February 17th for this fabulous evening! There’s less than a week to secure your place. Gather your friends to enjoy this night to remember!
21+, Cash Only Bar. Barnesville. 6:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Only a year after the end of the Civil War, the Black freeborn Henson family of Nanjemoy, MD, added son Matthew to their sharecropping family. The family moved to Washington, DC and both parents died before Matthew was 11 years old. At age 12, Matthew signed on as a cabin boy abord the sailing ship Katie Hines.
For six years, under the guidance of Captain Childs, Henson received an education, learned navigation and a variety of […]
he 2024 tax season officially began on January 29 and will end on April 15 when you must file your Federal Income Tax Return. If you made $79,000 or than in 2023, you could file using the IRS free file program.
The IRS Free File program is a partnership between the IRS and tax preparation software companies. It allows eligible taxpayers to prepare and file their federal […]
Due to a scheduling conflict there will be no February ADRU opportunity at the Poolesville Library. The next opportunity will be on Monday March 11th when a representative from the Montgomery County Aging and Disability Resource Unit ADRU will be at the Maggie Nightingale Library from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon to answer questions from older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers related to housing, transportation, staying healthy […]
Stay Active – Community Activities
January 29th- April 15th – Maggie Nightingale Library – Volunteers from AARP Foundation Tax Aide will be on hand at the library on Fridays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., to provide tax aide. Service is FREE to taxpayers of any age with low and moderate incomes. Special attention to those 60 and older. Book your appointment by March 1st to guarantee availability. To request an appointment, call 240-777-2577 […]
Don’t miss out. Be sure to purchase your tickets this week for this fabulous evening! Delicious dinner by Simply Fresh caterers. Fantastic music by Gina’s Soul Party and the Souled Out Horns. Gather your friends and neighbors to form your own table of eight for a night to remember!
21+, Cash Only Bar. Barnesville. 6:30 – 11:00 p.m.
February is Black History Month. The 2024 theme, “African Americans and the Arts,” explores the key influence African Americans have had in the fields of “visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and other forms of cultural expression.”
The celebration of Black History can be traced back to Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950). As the son of formerly enslaved people and the second African American to receive […]
Poolesville Seniors is searching for items for the Heart ‘n Soul Auction. If you have unused gift cards that you cannot use, consider donating them to our Heart ‘n Soul Auction.
If you have free flight mileage from Delta, American, JetBlue or United, we would love to bundle them with our donated stay in St. Thomas.
Also, we are looking for sports tickets, theater tickets, and movie tickets.
We are doing […]
Celebrate Black History Month with the Boyds Historical Society at their open house at the Boyds Negro School on February 18, between 2-4 PM.
This one-room historical school was the only public school that educated Black children in the surrounding area of Boyds from 1895-1936. It served grades first through eighth and was solely funded through tax revenues from Black residents.
The building is the […]
On January 31st from 2:00 to 3:00, in an intergenerational event, nine Poolesville Seniors volunteers and 18 middle students from the Barnesville school worked together for a volunteer service project.
The group created and worked an assembly line to package art kits with Story Tapestries. Story Tapestries is a non-profit organization with local ties that works to inspire and motivate everyone to engage in the arts.
Over 355 art […]
