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.
Chrissy Wilkin, art teacher and art coordinator for the New Deal Cafe, held the cafe’s first-ever completely virtual art reception – for Paul Downs’s “Bridges,” now on display in the Cafe’s windows. In the announcement, Chrissy wrote: In celebration of … Read More
Since summer, I’ve taken a few day-trips to North Beach, Maryland, just an hour away but boy, what a change of scene. The water, small lapping waves, seagulls, and a sparse number of other humans. A safe respite. Like Chris … Read More
These are the faces of many of our Greenbelt city staffers and nonprofit service providers, seen lighting candles in the window of their facility and waving to the camera for a special holiday video. The YouTube text explains that … Read More
The pandemic hit Greenbelt Arts Center like it hit indoor entertainment venues across the state and most of the country – like a ton of bricks. Like a destroyer of all plans, including most of its ambitious and impressive 2020-2021 … 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
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
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
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
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
One of Greenbelt’s most essential businesses is certainly McCarl’s Dental Group, which I assumed has been severely impacted by Covid-19, like all dental practices. Sure enough, McCarl’s had to close for all but emergency and palliative care from March to … Read More
