Culture and Recreation

Peerless and Rockville Launch Speaker Series

Public Information Office

April 27, 2017
4:39 pm

Peerless Rockville and Rockville’s Glenview Mansion have partnered to sponsor a speakers’ series, set to kickoff June 8 with a talk by City of Rockville Horticulturist Rob Orndorff on the mansion’s formal gardens and grounds.

Six events are planned in total, one every two months into 2018. They begin at 7 p.m. at Glenview Mansion, 603 Edmonston Drive, and are free to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

June 8: “Celebrating Glenview Mansion’s Formal Gardens and Grounds.” Rob Orndorff, horticulturist, City of Rockville.
Aug. 10: “Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: Revealing Her Life as a Visual Artist.” Roberta Mandrekes, secretary, Fitzgerald Literary Festival.
Oct. 12: “The Evolution: From Farms to Community.” John Carter, AIA, architect and planner.
Dec. 14: “Rockville: Portrait of a City.” Eileen McGuckain, Rockville historian.
Feb. 8, 2018: Film Screening of Community Cornerstone’s “African American Communities in Montgomery County, MD.” Film produced by Heritage Montgomery.
April 12, 2018: “Learn the Three B’s: Bee, Beneficials and Blooms.” Marie Rojas, owner of Borders & Butterflies.

For more information, visit www.rockvillemd.gov/glenview or www.peerlessrockville.org.

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