With Gene Meyer | Pre-recorded virtual eventGene Meyer has spent decades exploring every nook and cranny of Maryland from the Eastern Shore to Appalachia — first for The Washington Post and then for Maryland Life magazine. History is always an essential ingredient of his work, and people and places in Montgomery County are part of […]
With Gene Meyer | Pre-recorded virtual eventGene Meyer has spent decades exploring every nook and cranny of Maryland from the Eastern Shore to Appalachia — first for The Washington Post and then for Maryland Life magazine. History is always an essential ingredient of his work, and people and places in Montgomery County are part of […]
with Brian Belanger | Radio in Maryland began as early as 1900, when Reginald Fessenden launched experiments of the feasibility of voice transmission at his facility at Cobb Island. Baltimore got its first entertainment radio stations in 1922. The U.S. Navy built a powerful state-of-the art radio station in Annapolis for long-distance communication during WWI. The […]
with Kimberly Bender and Neil Flanagan | Pre-recorded virtual eventWhy are the western suburbs of DC white and the eastern ones Black Believe it or not, Clues can be found in the parking lot of a strip mall next to Chevy Chase Village. In 1906, when streetcar suburbs were a novel luxury and the ambition […]
Join The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County and Montgomery History on September 30, 7-8pm, for a Trending Topics Webinar: “What do voters know – and what should we know - about the judges who appear on our ballots?” The process by which voters in Maryland are expected to choose circuit court judges – […]