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Nature Crafts

Seneca Creek State Park 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD

Fun crafts, games, and hands-on nature items. Activities at the Seneca Creek State Park office vary each week!

Reptile Encounter

Seneca Creek State Park 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD

Come to Seneca Creek State Park for a fun, 30-45 minute program for all ages. Meet a living snake or turtle and examine shells and skins from reptiles living in the park! Program takes place at the park office.

Reptile Feeding

Seneca Creek State Park 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD

Check out Seneca Creek State Park's resident snake at the park office. Learn some quick facts about reptiles of Maryland and watch the live corn snake eat its meal!

Nature Nook

Seneca Creek State Park 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD

Fun crafts, games, and hands-on nature items. Activities at the Seneca Creek State Park office vary each week!

Lecture: Differing Historical Perspectives on Slavery in MD and DC

Rockville Memorial Library 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD

The word “slavery” brings up a mental image of the “peculiar institution” as it existed in the Deep South right before the Civil War. Slavery in the Washington area was different. It began the same – in the late 1600s, Ninian Beall’s tobacco plantation occupied the land where the White House is today – but […]

Maple Sugaring Days

Brookside Nature Center 1400 Glenallan Avenue, Wheaton, MD

February is Maple Sugaring Month at Brookside Nature Center. Every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday you’ll have an opportunity to experience an American tradition: maple sugaring! Watch the whole maple sugaring process from start to finish. See sap drip from trees and taste it. Watch it boil down into sweet maple syrup, then sample a tasty […]

$7

Weekday Hike

Seneca Creek State Park 11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD

This is a chance to get some fresh air and exercise in the middle of the day at Seneca Creek State Park. We will hike a loop of between 1.5 and 2 miles, with frequent stops for animal sightings, plant and praying mantis egg case searches. Route varies with trail conditions, and will occasionally stay […]

Art Exhibit Opening Reception

Silver Spring Civic Building One Veterans Place, Silver Spring

The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County is pleased to celebrate the opening of The Shape of Things to Come with a public reception at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery and Music Room on February 7, 2019, from 6-8 p.m. The Shape of Things to Come features contemporary sculpture by noted Montgomery County based artists: Shelley Picot, Gretchen Schermerhorn, […]

Lecture: Josiah Henson, The Man Behind the Myth

Takoma Park Community Center 7500 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD

During his lifetime, Rev. Josiah Henson’s remarkable life story was closely affiliated with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which generated outrage about slavery before the Civil War. He was an enslaved man living on a plantation in Montgomery County before he escaped by walking more than 600 miles to Canada with his […]

Lecture: Five for Freedom

Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville

Join author Eugene L. Meyer as we take a deeper look into the creation of his recent book, Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army. Five for Freedom is not only about how these men came together at a fateful time and place, October 1959 in Harper's Ferry. It is also […]