PHOTOS • BY JULIE WIATT The Takoma Park House and Garden Tour on May 6 offered an up-close glimpse into both old and new North Takoma. The self-guided

COMMUNITY • BY AMANDA ZIADEH The Civil Rights Educational Freedom Tour will be taking off from Rockville, Md. on April 2 and will be returning on April 7. The

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT AND KAREN BURDITT Last month our column focused on the two types of historic preservation familiar to most of

TAKOMA ARCHIVES • BY DIANA KOHN The numerical notation for today’s date has a familiar look: 2/09/12. Yep, it’s our zip code, which makes today Takoma Park Zip

CONGRESS • BY KELSEY MILLER, CNS Scroll to the bottom to see a timeline of Harriet Tubman's life. After a failed attempt last year to put a Harriet

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY KAREN BURDITT & STEVE KNIGHT We have found the word “preservation” often evokes strong feelings, both for and against. On the

INDIGENOUS CULTURE • BY MARK MILLER, CNS The heads of two Piscataway Indian groups recognized by the state of Maryland this week said they are unlikely to pursue

TAKOMA ARCHIVES • BY DIANA KOHN One hundred years ago, in the election campaign of 1911 and 1912, it was the Progressive wing of the Republican party  who

VOX POPULI • BY WILLIAM SIMS Last spring when Paramount Pictures and Clint Eastwood prepared shooting in the DC area for a major motion picture about the life

TAKOMA ARCHIVES • BY DIANA KOHN From Takoma Park’s first settlers to Motorcat, "Images of America: Takoma Park" celebrates 125 plus years of local history and makes a

INDIGENOUS CULTURE • BY EMAUN KASHFIPOUR Every year around this time, Thanksgiving reminds many Americans of the relationship between Native Americans and Pilgrims who shared a meal hundreds

WORLDVIEW — It was 100 degrees in the early afternoon when I arrived at the Robert Johnson Museum in tiny Crystal Springs, Mississippi. Johnson is thought by

PHOTOS • BY JULIE WIATT Eaglebear (Tomas Shash) and Friends visited the Takoma Park Library on Monday, November 14. Eaglebear, his son Itsa, and their friend Mariana Harvey

The stories behind the graduates who did not come home.

On the left wall of the media center at Montgomery Blair High School, a plaque

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT We’ve made many trips past the blockish modern stone building on the corner of Georgia Avenue

COMMUNITY VOICE BY ED LEVY — The annual Rachel Carson Meadow Festival in Silver Spring’s North Four Corners Park (N4CP) is a great example of how a community

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT The windows on your house not only bring light and air into your life; they are

MARYLAND — Descendants of Harriet Tubman and supporters from Maryland and New York gathered Wednesday, September 14 on Capitol Hill to press for legislation that would create a

Seeking out the various parks and gardens around town provides more than a respite from steamy summer days or a chance to savor crisp fall afternoons. Each park