Timely Videos from GATE: Halloween Happenings, MakerSpace, GCAN and Animal Blessing
posted in: Fun Stuff
Thanks to the Greenbelt Access Television for these informative and fun videos posted to their YouTube channel:
Greenbelter Sam Bahr and his UMD Gardens
posted in: Home and Garden
Horticulturist Sam Bahr, like so many people who work at the University of Maryland, is a Greenbelter, having purchased his GHI townhouse in 2016.. Sam got a coveted job at the university back in 2008 thanks in part to his good … Read More
New Videos from GATE
posted in: Arts/Entertainment, Community
Time to catch up with new videos created by Greenbelt Access Television and posted to their YouTube channel. And we thank them for making them accessible online! First up, something new and very cool is happening in Beltway Plaza. It’s … Read More
Utopia Film Festival is Coming!
posted in: Arts/Entertainment
Just out – the trailer for the 2018 Utopia Film Festival, happening October 12-15 right here in the heart of Greenbelt.
Amidst a Lively Festival, a Musing on Mortality
posted in: Arts/Entertainment
By Theresa Diffendal In a hallway with a giant papier-mâché snake slinking across the wall, you wouldn’t expect to find a tri-part artistic reflection on life, death and their intersections. The aptly named exhibit “Where two worlds touch” invited visitors … Read More
Labor Day Festival 2018’s Community Information Day
posted in: Community
A terrific, community-building event during the awesome Greenbelt Labor Day Festival is the Information Day, always Saturday in Roosevelt Center. If you missed it, here’s at least a virtual tour for you. Sorry, the dozens of people in the photos … Read More
Dr. Mudd’s House and the Greenbelt Connection
posted in: Day Trips
This is a day trip AND a Greenbelt story, as you’ll see. I recently visited the Dr. Mudd Home Museum in Waldorf, about a 45-minute drive from here. Here’s some brief history, from the museum’s website: Sam was a 31-year-old … Read More
Day Trip to the Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore
posted in: Day Trips
I’ve lost count of how many people have recommended to me the American Visionary Art Museum that opened near Baltimore’s Inner harbor in 1984, and I finally paid it a visit. located just south of the Inner Harbor, it’s only a 30-minute … Read More
At Lake Artemesia, Beauty with Touches of Death and Trash
posted in: Outdoors, Environment
Greenbelters, I do love our own lake but for a change of pace I drive to beautiful, sunny Lake Artemesia, just 2 miles down Greenbelt Road. Blooming in this recent shot are white Hibiscus and purplish Joe Pye Weed. Catmint is … Read More
Red Carpet for “Walk in My Shoes” in Roosevelt Center
posted in: Arts/Entertainment
What a treat to see the Greenbelt Theatre and Roosevelt Center all dressed up and glittery for a film premiere – let’s hope it’s a trend! Last weekend’s dress-up event was for the film Walk in my Shoes by David Lloyd … Read More
Small Flowering Trees for Small Yards
posted in: Home and Garden
The original large shade trees planted in the town of Greenbelt are now 80 years old, close to or beyond their expected lifetime. To take their place we need lots more trees to be planted but for understandable reasons, residents … Read More
Apartment Choices in Old Greenbelt
posted in: Business, Home and Garden
Old Greenbelt is surprisingly affordable, especially its historic housing cooperative (GHI). If you can’t swing the required 10 percent down payment, are priced out of the single-family homes in Old Greenbelt, or just aren’t ready to buy, renting is still … Read More
A (Longish) Day Trip to Wildwood, NJ
posted in: Day Trips
I admit this “day trip” location – a three-hour drive with no traffic problems – is a bit too far for a real day-tip and I did stay the night in this fun-looking motel. (Just $95/night mid-week in early … Read More
Dem Raider Boyz, Greenbelt’s Champion Steppers
posted in: Kids, Sports/Recreation
Hailing from Eleanor Roosevelt High School are Dem Raider Boys, the team that recently won another national championship! Watch their winning performance. Thanks to GATE’s Andy Zmidzinski for interviewing a coach and some of the steppers and filming a … Read More
Where Greenbelt Performers Joe and Hillary Grow Cut Flowers
posted in: Arts/Entertainment, Outdoors, Environment
Remember the wedding of Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris in Roosevelt Center back in 2015? Thought so! They’ll be returning to their wedding venue this Saturday, when they perform for the Crazy Quilt Festival, organized again by Joe. But this … Read More