The Washington Post’s Weekend Section Friday featured “Best Bets” that are all outdoors and include most of my favorite places in DC. They’re all free and OPEN, at least the outdoors part and at least for now. But DON’T go … Read More
It was seeing “Harriet” at the Old Greenbelt Theatre that inspired me to learn more about Harriet Tubman. And lucky for us, her travels and travails were local and memorialized in the Cambridge area on the Eastern Shore – as close … Read More
Greenbelters still haven’t gotten over the loss of Behnkes Nurseries, but I encourage you all to discover Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville if you haven’t already. It’s east on Route 50, about 40 minutes from here. Any time of the … Read More
Just about this time last year I wrote about the one-of-a-kind plant-based decorations at the U.S. Botanic Gardens that start on Thanksgiving Day. While the train room featured plant-based train stations that year, this time its structures depict botanic gardens “from … Read More
Fall is a great time for day trips from Greenbelt, and we have another one to suggest – to Solomon’s Island near where the Patuxent River meets the Bay, just about 90 minutes from Greenbelt. See it on this map. … Read More
There’s only one national park dedicated to aquatic plants, and that’s Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, located in N.E. Washington, about a 15-minute drive from Greenbelt. I was there in Mid-July for their Lotus and Water Lily Festival. All summer but especially at … Read More
I first realized that the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History had unveiled a redesigned and expanded Dinosaur Hall by stumbling upon this NPR interview with the museum’s (very impressive) director, the paleontologist Kirk Johnson. He told the story of how … Read More
The DC area’s biggest art news in 2018 was by all accounts the opening of a much-expanded contemporary art museum on 230 acres in the suburb of Potomac, Maryland. The Washington Post alone has covered Glenstone Museum it at least three times so … Read More
This time of year, visitors entering the U.S. Botanic Garden get this rather somber view of the U.S. Capitol across the street. Inside, from now until New Year’s Day, the views are festive as all get out. I attended a … Read More
The “Day Trip” feature on this blog has been for destinations within a 2-hour drive from Greenbelt – until now. Though a 4-hour drive away, the Big Apple gets included because thanks to BoltBus, it’s a very do-able and affordable day … Read More
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
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
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
Recently Greenbelter Christine Doran took her kids to North Beach for the day and reviewed it here on the blog. Much discussion followed in the Greenbelters Facebook group and I was prompted to go see the place for myself by commenter … Read More
by Greenbelter Lauren R. Silberman, Deputy Director, Historic London Town and Gardens I first visited Historic London Town and Gardens in 2006. To be honest, I’d never heard of it before but was intrigued that there was a place nearby that … Read More
