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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 28, 20181 min read
Museum Week: Kids
The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is GREAT for kids! We're actually hands on! No ropes! Whether it is dressing up, doing activities...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 26, 20181 min read
Museum Week: Heritage
Greenbelt, Maryland was a planned community with cooperative businesses such as a food store, gas station, barber shop and theater. Its...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Apr 25, 20181 min read
Museum Week: Cities
We often hear "Wait...your historic house museum is MODERN!" It IS and it's a 1937 gem! The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is an...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Mar 30, 20181 min read
Women's History Month: Lenore Thomas Straus
Our last Women's History Month post is about artist Lenore Thomas Straus, whose seminal sculptures are found throughout Greenbelt, such...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Mar 16, 20181 min read
Women's History Month: Catherine Bauer
As part of on ongoing celebration of Women's History Month and the women who have been important to Greenbelt's history, let's talk about...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Mar 9, 20181 min read
Women's History Month: Eleanor Roosevelt
For Women's History Month, let's talk about the women who have been important to the history of Greenbelt, Maryland! Let's start with...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 23, 20181 min read
Research: Looking for Descendants
Are you a descendant of one of the early African American families who lived on the land that is now Historic Greenbelt? Or do you have...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 16, 20181 min read
African American History Month: Rossville Rural Development Homesteads
This c. 1937 Lenore Thomas Straus photograph is of African American laborers at what is now the Community Center. Her "Promote the...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 9, 20181 min read
Black History Month: Aberdeen Gardens
Another African American New Deal community in the mid-Atlantic region is Aberdeen Gardens in Hampton, VA. It was originally named...
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Lawana Holland-Moore, Greenbelt Museum Staff
Feb 2, 20181 min read
African American History Month: Langston Terrace Dwellings
Did you know that there are African American New Deal communities in our region too? Let's learn more about the Langston Terrace...
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