I recently attended a professional conference in Salt Lake City and was especially curious to see this OTHER of the.“10 Towns that Changed America.” Salt Lake City was originally a planned community of small farms but when I saw the … Read More
Notice anything new at the Community Center? The perennial and rose bed in front of the building (above) was a weedy mess until very recently. Now it looks like this – turfgrass having replaced landscape roses, perennials and weeds. … Read More
The latest in the Greenbelt Museum’s terrific lecture series was a talk and book signing by Amanda Kolson Hurley, author of Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City. As the Museum wrote, “The book includes … Read More
When people first buy a home in Old Greenbelt’s housing coop (GHI), they become members (not owners), and begin to learn what living in co-ops means, especially if they’re historically significant co-ops like ours. So for reference by new and … Read More
It may seem presumptuous to lifelong Greenbelters, but in my seven years living here and writing about the place, I thought I was pretty well informed. Then I listened to Megan Searing Young interviewed on this very cool podcast … Read More
As a newcomer to Greenbelt I was immediately impressed by its unique history and importance in several spheres – architecture, urban planning, American political history, and local journalism, among others. And I’m convinced that Greenbelt’s history – especially as … Read More
Greenbelt is one of three New Deal-era “greenbelt” towns created to provide housing and jobs during the Great Depression. It was recognized as a National Landmark Historic District. for its architecture, planning, landscape, and community attributes, but here we’ll focus … Read More
Since moving to Greenbelt I’d become interested in Radburn, the New Jersey development that was America’s first garden city and the predecessor to Greenbelt. So I visited Radburn this past October, and had the good fortune to be connected … Read More
Greenbelt was one of just “10 Towns that Changed America” in the PBS series “10 that Changed America.” Click here to see the 5:36-minute video about Greenbelt, as well as the videos about St. Augustine, FL; Philadelphia; Salt Lake City; Riverside, … Read More
One of our two sister cities – Greenhills, Ohio – held a Share your Memories Day in 2012 and made a video using lots of the stuff people brought from home. We don’t recognize the people but boy, does their … Read More
There’s a new Greenbelt Museum exhibit in the Community Center that I highly recommend – it’s about the New Deal Art of Lenore Thomas Straus, whose work we see on that building and in Roosevelt Center. There I learned that … Read More
A highlight of the Labor Day Festival for me was taking the Walking Tour of Greenbelt with the very knowledgeable Steve Oetken, docent at the Greenbelt Museum. Steve’s degree in historical preservation was evident and much appreciated. Here’s just some … Read More
Greenbelters are rightly excited about the new Ken Burns documentary about The Roosevelts that will start its 7-night airing this Sunday night at 8 (and repeating at 10) and follow for the next 6 nights. The entire 14 hours will also … Read More
Sally Sims Stokes, a faculty librarian in the Art and Architecture Libraries at the University of Maryland, is a scholar and historian, former Friend of Greenbelt Museum Board member and a museum volunteer. She shared her research on the Resettlement … Read More
Here I am at my new volunteer gig – at the FDR Memorial near the National Mall. I love the spiffy official shirt and cap they give the volunteers, love this statue added four years after the memorial opened … Read More