Time to check in with the Greenbelt Museum to find out how they’re weathering the pandemic shutdown. They’re keeping surprisingly busy. #MuseumfromHome Director Megan Searing Young writes about the new #Museumfromhome blog posts: We had to temporarily close the doors … 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
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
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
When the Greenbelt Museum announced its “Rexford Review” fund-raising evening at the Arts Center, the event poster said “Comedy! Sideshow! Burlesque!” Little did we suspect that the burlesque would be the real deal. But before we get to that, check … Read More
I’m hearing great things about the new exhibit “Greenbelt: The First 75 Years, 1937-2012 by the Greenbelt Museum, on display at the Community Center. According to their website, the exhibit “examines Greenbelt’s history in timeline form and features photographs, ephemera, … Read More
