Black History Month #7 - FSA Photographs of Black Workers
This photo of Black workers at the Greenbelt construction site is one of many taken by the photographers hired by the Resettlement...
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Megan Searing Young
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Black History Month #6 - Architect Paul R. Williams
Paul R. Williams was the other Black architect who worked on Langston Terrace Dwellings with Hilyard Robinson. He was born and was...
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Megan Searing Young
Feb 5, 20212 min read
Black History Month #5: Langston Terrace Dwellings and Hilyard Robinson
Langston Terrace Dwellings, which opened in 1938, was the DC area’s first federally funded public housing program and was built for low...
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Megan Searing Young
Feb 5, 20211 min read
Black History Month #4 - Langston Terrace Dwellings
We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month - we hope you’ll follow along! Greenbelt planners realized probably c. 1936 that...
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Megan Searing Young
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Black History Month #3 - More About Rossville
We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month - we hope you’ll follow along! The map above was discovered by Ben Fischler at...
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Megan Searing Young
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Black History Month #2 - Rossville Rural Development
We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month! We hope you’ll follow along! Early plans for Greenbelt included an area to be...
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Megan Searing Young
Feb 3, 20211 min read
Black History Month #1- Sharing a Fact Each Day
For Black History Month we’ll be posting a fact each day here on our blog. We'll put the same content on the Museum's Facebook and...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Dec 31, 20203 min read
What Are You Doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?*
If it is 1948 and you are living in the New Deal planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, you’ve got some options. Almost every New...
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Megan Searing Young
Dec 16, 20204 min read
Exploring Some of Greenbelt's Holiday Traditions
The holiday season in Greenbelt has always been a festive time, from when the first residents arrived in the experimental town in 1937 in...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill and Megan Searing Young
Nov 25, 20203 min read
Celebrating Thanksgiving in Greenbelt
Please note: We at the Greenbelt Museum recognize the complicated legacy of the Thanksgiving holiday as it relates to Indigenous peoples...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Oct 21, 20203 min read
Halloween From the Start
Since the first residents of Greenbelt were moving in just a little before Halloween, and the new town’s newspaper, The Cooperator,...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Oct 1, 20202 min read
Fala, President Roosevelt’s Beloved Dog
In accord with Greenbelt’s deep connection with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and keen interest in canines too, here is brief...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Aug 28, 20203 min read
Summer in Greenbelt
In a small community surrounded by trees and bejeweled with a lake, a swimming pool, picnic areas, playgrounds, tennis courts, ball...
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Megan Searing Young
Jul 31, 20203 min read
Rossville Rural Development: Housing for Black Families in Greenbelt that Was Never Built
The Resettlement Administration's earliest plans for the land that would become Greenbelt included an area called the Rossville Rural...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Jul 2, 20202 min read
#MuseumFromHome - July 4th in the New Town
Greenbelt’s first July 4th was a very special celebration, brimming with the enthusiasm of the earliest residents about their new town....
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Megan Searing Young
Jun 9, 20203 min read
#MuseumFromHome - Lenore Thomas Straus, A Courageous New Deal Artist
WARNING: The first image included depicts graphic violence and may be upsetting to some. Scroll down for the unedited version. This is a...
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Megan Searing Young
May 22, 20203 min read
#MuseumFromHome - Memorial Day Greetings
Memorial Day is this Monday and there’s no doubt it will look and feel different for all of us as we adjust to the precautions we must...
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Megan Searing Young
May 15, 20202 min read
#MuseumFromHome Greenbelt's Five and Dime
Retail stores are struggling in the midst of the pandemic, it’s clear that some may not survive being closed, but retail shopping in...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
May 11, 20203 min read
#MuseumFromHome Dogs and Pets in Greenbelt - A Brief History
The utopian planned community of Greenbelt has had a complicated history with “man’s best friend.” When families were first moving into...
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Megan Searing Young
Apr 30, 20202 min read
#Museumfromhome Can All You Can! Preserving Food from the Garden
Interest in gardening is surging as Americans practice social distancing to keep everyone safe and although the growing season is just...
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