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Angella Foster: Dancer, Teacher, Arts Administrator
alight dance theater director Angella Foster Aspiring artists of all types, listen up! Everyone may be telling you to have a Plan B, your Plan B doesn’t have to mean giving up what you’re passionate...
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Meet the Greenbelter who Bought Proteus Bicycles
Laurie Lemieux, a long-time Greenbelter and avid cyclist, recently bought Proteus Bicycles on Route 1 (with Proteus employee Ben Bassett) and you can meet Laurie and cycling husband Jeff tomorrow at...
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Celebrating Marriage Equality
No religious institution has been more active fighting for marriage equality in Maryland than nearby St. George’s Episcopal Church, at least that I’ve noticed from here in Greenbelt. So when I...
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Greenbelter Alison Gary, Fashion Blogger Extraordinaire
It was a fabulous blog story about New Deal bar manager and “fashionista” Amethyst Dwyer that led me to the fashion and style blog Wardrobe Oxygen. That’s a topic I never, ever read about, which...
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Flat-Screen TVs, Explained by Glenise at Best Buy
No, I’m not employed by Best Buy; I just had a nice experience and want to recommend the person who made it happen. It’s Glenise here, who explained for me the many flat-screen TV options and why I’d...
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Lore Rosenthal is Walking for Climate Change Action
About the Walk Greenbelt’s most politically active resident – you all agree, right? – is Lore Rosenthal, and right now she’s in training for the upcoming Walk for Our Grandchildren from Camp David to...
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Greenbelt’s Published High School Poet
Greenbelt Live was recently contacted by Delali Norvor, a senior at Roosevelt HS writing to say that she lives in “lovely Greenbelt” and has written a book of poetry. Called National Eyes of an Urban...
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Greenbelt History Lesson – How the Pioneers were Chosen
Sally Sims Stokes, a faculty librarian in the Art and Architecture Libraries at the University of Maryland, is a scholar and historian, former Friend of Greenbelt Museum Board member and a museum...
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Switching to a Greenbelt Dentist
Since moving to the D.C. area in 1971 I’ve always gone downtown to the dentist – to the Dupont Circle or Farragut Square neighborhoods – even when I lived in the suburbs. I never challenged the need...
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Greenbelter Speaks up for Atheism
For Greenbelt Live’s series of articles about religious communities in Greenbelt, I’ve been asked to reminded not to forget the atheists! Of course atheists are harder to find, as almost by...
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Welcome the Greenbelt Girl to the Blogosphere
Heather Brooks and fiance William Hardy There’s a new Greenbelt blogger on the Interwebs, and it’s Heather Brooks, the GreenbeltGirl! I asked Heather to tell us why the blog, why now, more info...
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The Blogs of Greenbelt
To start with the question “What ARE blogs?,” they’re simply a type of website that’s updated frequently, with the newest articles at the top of the home page, and comments allowed. They’ve become...
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Happy Pride, Greenbelt!
To help celebrate Pride Month, I set out to learn more about Greenbelt’s very own Pride group, with its locally-appropriate spelling: GreenBeLT Pride. In the beginning. Frank DeBernardo told me that...
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Mark Opsasnick, Local Rock Historian, on Greenbelt’s Famous Rockers
Here’s a familiar face to many Greenbelters – Mark Opsasnick at his favorite hang-out – the New Deal Cafe. Mark’s a life-long Greenbelter, so can tell stories about the teen scene here back in the...
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Greenbelt Live’s Nominee (s) for Outstanding Citizen of 2014
Now’s the time when Greenbelters get to nominate someone to receive the high honor of being named Greenbelt’s Outstanding Citizen of the Year. Applicants must be contributing to the community as a...
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Greenbelter Richard Olsen is the National Arboretum Director!
The 446-acre treasure that is the National Arboretum has seemed down on its luck these last few years. It had a short-term director (not a plant person), then several acting directors, and worst of...
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A Greenbelt Connection
Recently I launched a new website that curates gardening videos, and I’ve been blogging about it on the team blog Garden Rant (celebrating 10 years this month!). So I wasn’t too surprised when the...
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Sally Sims Stokes, a faculty librarian in the Art and Architecture Libraries at the University of Maryland, is a scholar and historian, former Friend of Greenbelt Museum Board member and a museum...
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Since moving to the D.C. area in 1971 I’ve always gone downtown to the dentist – to the Dupont Circle or Farragut Square neighborhoods – even when I lived in the suburbs. I never challenged the need...
View ArticleWelcome the Greenbelt Girl to the Blogosphere
There’s a new Greenbelt blogger on the Interwebs, and it’s Heather Brooks, the GreenbeltGirl! I asked Heather to tell us why the blog, why now, more info please! She obliged: Blogging to Connect with...
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