F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald’s Grave at St. Mary’s Cemetery F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gravesite September 2000 F. Scott Fitzgerald never lived in Rockville. So why is he buried in Rockville? Young Scott regularly visited his father’s relatives at “Locust Grove” in Montgomery County, returning home fascinated with family and Civil War stories. The seven-year-old was a “ribbon […]
Online Event: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 7pm Free on Zoom An illustrated presentation of Rockville in the time of F. Scott Fitzgerald This presentation takes a look at the small town of Rockville that F. Scott Fitzgerald knew in the1920s and ’30s, with an explanation of how America’s favorite writer came to […]
Event: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville: Rockville in the 1920s October 10, 2019 7 pm Glenview Mansion FREE Join us for the October installment of the Peerless Rockville and Glenview Mansion Speaker Series. This presentation takes a look at the small town of Rockville that F. Scott Fitzgerald knew in the 1920s, with an explanation of how […]
17th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
Saturday, October 26 9:00 am – 6:30 pm Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler will be presented the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature at this one-day annual event. He will read from his work, lead a writing workshop and have a book signing. Special Guest Speaker R. Clifton Spargo, […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Gravesite September 2000 F. Scott Fitzgerald never lived in Rockville. So why is he buried in Rockville? Young Scott regularly visited his father’s relatives at “Locust Grove” in Montgomery County, returning home fascinated with family and Civil War stories. The seven-year-old was a “ribbon holder” at his cousin Cecilia Delihant’s home wedding […]
F. Scott Fitzgerald Birthday Celebration
You’re Invited Sept. 23 from 1 to 4 pm in Rockville Town Square to enjoy the following activities in celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday! This event is FREE. 1 to 1:50 p.m. Rockville Swing Band (Plaza Stage) 1 to 1:30 p.m. Film Screening of “Bernice Bobs her Hair” (Library) 1 to 4 p.m. Arts […]
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: Revealing Her Life As a Visual Artist
Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Glenview Mansion Free RSVP at Eventbrite! Want to know more about Zelda Fitzgerald? Join us for an illustrated presentation on Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the next event in Peerless Rockville’s speaker series partnership with Glenview Mansion and the City of Rockville. The program will focus on Zelda as a […]
Peerless People
Peerless People F. Scott Fitzgerald George Baker, Jr., “Father Divine” Notable Rockville Women of the 20th Century Vivian V. Simpson Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Rockville Timeline
Rockville Timeline 8000 B.C. Archaic period of prehistory. After thousands of years of following big game herds, hunters settled into semi-nomadic lives in area which became Montgomery County. 1000 B.C. Native groups established year-round agricultural villages. 1200 A.D. Natives competed for river and forest resources, resulting in a succession of population displacements. 1717-35 Arthur Nelson surveyed and patented […]
Images of America: Rockville
As a suburb of the nation’s capital in the late 1800s, Rockville was proclaimed a “peerless” place to live; its subsequent transformation into a city all its own is equally remarkable. Starting out as a tiny colonial crossroads village, it gained stature as the county seat and evolved into a town. Construction of a train […]
