The Way We Were:  Rockville People

This six-part educational program series features Rockville people.  

Speakers and audiences will identify people who made history in Rockville or who
influenced the way our City is today.  We’ll look at occupations, citizen organizations,
and celebrities, and see Rockville through the eyes of residents in the 1750s and during
World War II. 

All programs are free and open to the public.  Refreshments served.

Free parking behind the Red Brick Courthouse in the evening.  Enter from Jefferson St.

Sponsored by History Associates Incorporated.

Celebrity Challenge!!!  Nominate your favorite Rockville curmudgeon, celebrity, reformer, sports figure, inventor, civil rights activist, ancestor, or neighbor.  Finalists featured at April 25 program.  Forms available now, due March 15.

Part 1    Changing Faces:  Demographics in Rockville from the
                 Beginnings to Today

Speakers discussed Rockville Demographics from 1770 to today.

This was held January 27, but if you are interested in viewing the tape, please contact us at 301-762-0096 or email us at info@peerlessrockville.org

A panel presented Rockville jobs in medicine, farming, teaching, business, and law, and how they have changed.  Includes perspectives of blacks and women.

This was held February 23,, but if you are interested in viewing the tape, please contact us at 301-762-0096 or email us at info@peerlessrockville.org

Volunteers from groups concerned with youth, fire and safety, civic improvement, women's issues, and Rockville's neediest will discuss how conditions have changed over the years.

             This was held March 22, but if you are interested in viewing the tape, please contact
              us  at 301-762-0096 or email us at info@peerlessrockville.org