All about Greenbelt during the pandemic: photos, videos, artwork, poems, songs, screen shot, survival tips and resources, all of which will be archived by the Greenbelt Museum. Share YOUR experiences – for others to read now, and to chronicle this time for posterity. Email editor@greenbeltonline.org.
The weather’s so mild today, Greenbelters can eat outdoors! Something to be thankful for right there. Honestly, I started a Thanksgiving post about all the things I’m grateful for in Greenbelt that we’ve gone without this terrible year. Live music … Read More
Due to the pandemic, Greenbelt had to forego its grand Labor Day Festival this year, and most of its Halloween festivities, too. No Kids Costume Parade and Judging. No Pumpkin Carving and Pumpkin Walk. But decorations and scary displays were … Read More
The final video garden tour of the season walks the viewer through the plant-packed garden of a true plant geek – Rachel Channon. She knows ALL the Latin names of her plants. I’d admired Rachel’s garden for years. I’ve also … Read More
Who doesn’t love a wedding story – especially one suddenly upended by the COVID-19 shutdown? For this wedding story we follow a couple creatively doing a 180 in their wedding plans, pandemic be damned. Shayna Skolnik first met Eddie Gonzales … Read More
The New Deal Café recently completed its fund-raising auction, with over 100 offerings and over $14,000 in income to help them weather this long national nightmare for restaurants, especially the ones featuring entertainment. Music at the New Deal attracts people … Read More
Next in our series of stories about Greenbelters adapting to the pandemic is an especially happy one – of how two Greenbelters tied the knot and celebrated with friends and family – covid-safely. Where there’s a will… Original Plan Dee … Read More
I’m happy to finally have a Virtual Greenbelt Garden Tour outside of Old Greenbelt, thanks to Hope McCalla in East Greenbelt. (Here are the 6 Summer Tours.) I visited Hope and her garden in early September. After we video’d, I … Read More
Safe Day Trips from Greenbelt during covid times are a challenge but there ARE ways. Getting There Safely I wasn’t about to take the Metro for an unnecessary trip during the pandemic, but driving from Greenbelt to the National Mall is … Read More
By Gabriel Pietrorazio, Masters Degree Candidate at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Every Sunday, vendors from all around Maryland venture to Roosevelt Center at 9 a.m. to set up their stands in the parking lot for … Read More
Today we’re showing off the last of 6 Virtual Summer Garden Tour videos created this year in lieu of in-person tours. For this one, gardener Katrina Boverman recorded a narration, provided the details below, and chose the opening and closing … Read More
Sadly, the last in-person event of Greenbelt’s Golden Age Club was in early March. But it’s September now and the club is back with its regular Wednesday meeting schedule – on Zoom this time, with plans through the end of … Read More
Our next and almost last Virtual Summer Garden Tour is of a cool oasis created by the talented gardener Sandra Lange. Luckily for us, Sandra’s son David Barnes is a professional videographer and was available to work with her to … Read More
For months I’ve wondered how far apart I really am when I’m around people, so I solicited volunteer models to help me demonstrate distances in photos. Via the Greenbelters Facebook Group, John Zale and Hannah Ruth stepped up and joined … Read More
I know several Greenbelters who dearly miss not just their regular exercise class, but the fun and connection of doing it with friends. Or if not friends, at least the regular bunch they see every Tuesday or whatever. Seniors especially … Read More
Greenbelt Biota, a Facebook group of 397 members as of July 2020, calls itself Greenbelt’s Natural History Society. and indeed these folks KNOW the critters and plants of Greenbelt like nobody else. (They’re also one of the first to get … Read More