Potomac Chapter

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Potomac Library
10101 Glenolden Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
Chapter President: Edie Wingate
Contact: potomac@folmc.org

Library Reopening June 14! 🎉

Following the pandemic closure of over a year, Potomac Library will reopen Monday, June 14. See our latest newsletter, page 3, for more details.

Library Garden Expansion Featured in Potomac Almanac

“Ever since the Potomac Library opened its building on Glenolden Drive and Falls Road in 1986, the Potomac Village Garden Club has worked to add plantings and specialty gardens to the library grounds.

“Last week they got a big assist from members of the Glenstone Museum grounds crew in finishing a Maryland natives garden along Falls Road.

“Early on Tuesday morning, April 13, Glenstone grounds staff arrived at the library with two trucks loaded with a tiller, mulch, new shrubs and flats and flats of ground cover, all Maryland natives and ready to be planted.” Continue Reading…

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Recent Virtual Author Talks

All of the authors FOL-Potomac recently sponsored have informative websites with blogs, newsletters and other information supplementing their talks—see links below:

TIMOTHY BOYCE www.timboyce.com
From Day to Day: One Man’s Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps

RALPH BUGLASS www.peerlessrockville.org
Images of America: Rockville

MICHAEL DOBBS www.michaeldobbsbooks.com
The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between

JENNIFER RYAN www.jenniferryanauthor.com
The Spies of Shilling Lane

DOUGLAS TALLAMY www.homegrownnationalpark.com
Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

YouTube link:
Douglas Tallamy Nature’s Best Hope

Local resources:
(Following Tallamy’s talk viewers were able to ask questions and make comments. Danielle Deaver, Librarian II, Adult Services, Potomac Library and host of our Zoom talks, reviewed the responses and very kindly compiled this list.)

Newsletter

Read our latest Summer 2021 Newsletter.

Check out our past newsletters here.
Check out our ongoing programs here.

Virtual Events

The Friends of the Library-Potomac Chapter encourages you to check out the wealth of virtual events being presented — easy to access; easy to attend.

Go to: https://mcpl.libnet.info/events

You can then filter by age (#1 below; e.g. adult) and by a range of dates (#2; e.g., the rest of the month, June 8 – June 30)

For a complete list of activities, please check out the MCPL calendar of events here. 

 

Honored (and Humbled) to be Potomac Citizen of the Year

“The Friends of the Library – Potomac Chapter serves the community in so many invaluable ways… For anyone who loves to read and share reading, this organization is a conduit to books, discussions of books, authors and activities as well as programs to help children learn to love and cherish books.”

The Potomac Chamber of Commerce selected FOL-Potomac as its Citizen of the Year, based on a nomination by resident Ginny Barnes (excerpted above) citing the ways we strive to support and enhance our local branch library.

Primarily through the book sales and memberships, FOL-Potomac is able to sponsor and/or underwrite a wide variety of adult and children’s programs, bringing in guest authors and other speakers, performers and even plants and animals! (A live wallaby was a big hit this past summer; the fish tank in the children’s area is made possible by a long-time anonymous donor; and we support the Potomac Village Garden Club in their work keeping the library grounds attractive.)

You too can be Citizen of the Year!

Consider becoming a member of the friends—no time obligation involved, just membership dues ($25; only $15 for seniors, students and teachers) to help in bolstering your library. You’ll also receive this quarterly newsletter listing upcoming events and activities, well in advance of it being available at the library. To join, use the form on page 5 or online at www.folmc.org/join.

august, 2021

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