Montgomery County

Gaithersburg Community Museum

September 14, 2009

9 S Summit Avenue (map it) Gaithersburg, MD 20877 301−258−6160 The Gaithersburg Community Museum is nei­ther big nor fancy — it is just a one room affair with a model train set up,  gift items for sale, his­tor­i­cal dis­plays, and a friendly docent — but it is worth stop­ping by if you are in the […]

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Woodend Sanctuary 8940 Jones Mill Road Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301−652−9188 We love the Audubon Nature Fair, and look for­ward to attend­ing each year. We pic­nic with friends, shop for gifts for upcom­ing events, meet bee keep­ers, learn about inva­sive species, find lit­tle crea­tures in the pond, make card­board binoc­u­lars, enjoy per­for­mances geared at both […]

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Happy belated Thanksgiving! We snagged a great book from the library recently! In A Plump and Perky Turkey (writ­ten by Teresa Bateman and illus­trated by Jeff Shelley) the turkeys all skip town before Thanksgiving and the town-folks try to trick them back, but (after pages of engag­ing illus­tra­tions and rhymes that please me) they end […]

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Audubon Nature Preschool

February 19, 2008

Audubon Nature Preschool I have seen the folks at the Audubon Nature Society’s Woodend Santuary in action dur­ing their spring fair the last two years and would send my kids there in a heart­beat if it were closer and cheaper. You can get all the details on their web­site… just wanted to put the name […]

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