Red Brick Courthouse
Lunch and Learn: Rockville Women Who Dared [POSTPONED]
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesThis event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. Celebrate Women's History Month during this free lunchtime presentation about Ann Maria Weems, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Vivian Simpson and more of the remarkable women in Rockville history. Mary van Balgooy, executive director of the Society of Women Geographers and former Peerless Rockville executive director, […]
Great Escapes: Journeys on Maryland’s Underground Railroad [POSTPONED]
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesThis event will be rescheduled to a later date. Join Peerless Rockville and historian Anthony Cohen for a free lecture and preview of the upcoming book Great Escapes: Journeys on […]
Lunch & Learn: Rockville 1850
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesBring your lunch and join Peerless Rockville for a presentation on what life was like in the small town of Rockville in 1850! Lunch & Learn: Rockville 1850 will look at a time when slavery was the practice of the day and the community experienced the rising tensions of a nation drifting towards the Civil War. […]
Emancipation Day Preview: Forging Freedom
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesObserve Emancipation Day in Maryland with a sneak peek of Peerless Rockville's new Forging Freedom exhibit at the Historic Red Brick Courthouse. Forging Freedom: Endurance and Escape on Rockville's Underground Railroad is the story of Rockville in the era of the Underground Railroad, when slavery cast a shadow over life in this farming town, and separatist tensions steadily propelled the […]
Lecture: Life of Josiah Henson
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesPeerless Rockville welcomes Jamie Ferguson Kuhns, senior historian for Montgomery Parks, as she presents on her newly published book, Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of […]
Book Talk with Bob Levey
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesJoin author and former Washington Post columnist Bob Levey as he discusses his recent novel, Larry Felder, Candidate. Levey will look at how his background in journalism instilled a love and […]
Lecture: Rockville History
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesThis March, Peerless Rockville invites the public to learn about one of the earliest communities in Rockville. Quality Hill traces its roots to the 1784 division of 45 acres of land into […]
Lecture: Five for Freedom
Red Brick Courthouse 29 Courthouse Square, Rockville, United StatesJoin author Eugene L. Meyer as we take a deeper look into the creation of his recent book, Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army. Five […]