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Prospective parents are invited to attend a virtual open house tour. You'll have the opportunity to meet the principal, see pictures of the school, and ask questions about Murch. Learn more at https://murchschool.org/prospective-parents/open-houses-2/
Join Rock Creek Conservancy, the National Park Service, and Summer Fellow Ruth Wielgosz to learn about the frogs and toads of Rock Creek and their significance for the health of its ecosystem. A brief talk will be followed by a walk along Broad Branch Creek listening to, and maybe spotting, some of these interesting animals. […]
Join Rock Creek Conservancy for a tree identification and nature walk at our Broad Branch restoration site in Rock Creek Park. Learn about the natural and mythic importance of trees, […]
Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in the field near Picnic Grove #13. September 3, 8:00pm: 56% Moon; Planets Saturn and Jupiter; Globular Clusters M22, M4, Open Clusters M44 and M45 October […]
Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in the field near Picnic Grove #13. September 3, 8:00pm: 56% Moon; Planets Saturn and Jupiter; Globular Clusters M22, M4, Open Clusters M44 and M45 October […]
Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in the field near Picnic Grove #13. September 3, 8:00pm: 56% Moon; Planets Saturn and Jupiter; Globular Clusters M22, M4, Open Clusters M44 and M45 October […]
The Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) invites you to join astrobiologist, mineralogist, and author Dr. Robert M. Hazen, for a special presentation entitled, “Minerals: Earth’s Ultimate Time Capsules.” The […]
February 27th at 7 p.m., the artistic director of the DC Jazz Festival will lead a panel discussion on the book, Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers […]
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Save the date for the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Grain Fair and Conference with Friends of Peirce Mill and UDC. Grain Fair: Sunday, October 22, 10:00am to 4:00pm at Peirce Mill Grain […]
The next Carnegie Planets Neighborhood Lecture is all about the moon. By the end of this decade, humans should once again walk on the lunar surface. Dr. Stephen Parman will […]
April 20th 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Learn about the remarkable life of William Beckett, who was once the enslaved manager of Joshua Peirce’s nursery business on Linnaean Hill, now Rock […]
City planners and developers who wanted to make Tenleytown a whites-only enclave displaced a Black middle-class community where Fort Reno Park stands today. "The Reno Community" is a program presented […]