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With a watch on our wrist and a cell phone with us 24/7, time is a concept we take for granted and seem to question only when changing to and from Daylight Saving Time. Until relatively recently, this idea of time as we know it was foreign to most humans. Through most of  history humans were too busy staying alive to think about regimented time.  

If you lived in the Middle Ages your […]

On Thursday December 1, 1955, a department store seamstress in Montgomery, AL, was on her way home from work by bus. Quiet, well-mannered and impeccably dressed, Rosa Parks was seated on a crowded bus with three others in a row designated for “colored” passengers. When a White man boarded the bus, that row immediately became seats for Whites only. When the bus driver ordered Rosa and three other Black passengers to stand and give […]

Thanksgiving week, November 20th to 26th is National Game and Puzzle Week. Celebrating the gatherings and homecomings of families around the country, it is a week dedicated to enjoying games and puzzles as a group. Get everyone off their devices and go old school. 

Board games, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, and other types of games and puzzles, and word games, are a great way to spend time with the […]

‘Tis the season for giving thanks. We would like to thank all those who made it possible for Poolesville Seniors to continue to fulfill our mission to provide free programming to keep adults physically, mentally and socially engaged. 

We are so grateful for the support from Montgomery County, The Town of Poolesville, PACC, Corporate Sponsors, individual donors, volunteers, talented presenters and instructors, pickleball venues, Poolesville Presbyterian Church for the use of their facilities […]

As you notice Christmas decorations popping up around Thanksgiving, you should either thank or curse Macy’s department store.  Founder Rowland Hussey Macy was noted for his innovative marketing that included in-store Santas.  

In 1924, Macy’s had just completed a huge expansion of the flagship Manhattan store, enlarging it to one million square feet and a full block on 34th street. The Macy’s staff assembled a parade on Thanksgiving Day with […]

Contributed by Cheryl Watts 

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, during the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each year. The first Thanksgiving meal […]

Bill Clinton designated November 15th as America Recycles Day by Presidential Proclamation in 1999. Almost every president since then has issued a similar proclamation and encouraged Americans to commit to recycling. 

In 2009, this effort became a part of the Make America Beautiful Campaign to raise awareness about recycling correctly all year long. The EPA estimates that recycling has increased from 7% in 1960 to the current rate of 32%. […]

For over twenty years the Poolesville Odd Fellows Lodge #97 has been fulfilling a keystone of its service mission, to care for widows and orphans, by sponsoring a Christmas Dinner and social get together.  After a hiatus during covid, this highly anticipated event is returning on December 3rd from 12:30 – 3:00 p.m. at the Poolesville Memorial United Methodist Church. 

A special gift of the IOOF is letting people know that […]

For the holidays each year, Wreaths Across America (“WAA”) coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies to “Remember, Honor, and Teach” about the sacrifices made by our veterans and their families. This tradition began in 1992 as The Arlington Wreath project and started with the laying of 5000 Christmas wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery by Morrill Worcester. 

WAA remained relatively obscure until 2005 when a photo of the snow-covered gravestones adorned with wreaths went […]