A message from Jerry McCoy, President, Silver Spring Historical Society:

Grab your bowl of popcorn, family and friends for the television broadcast on PBS WETA-26 this Sunday, March 9th at 6:00 p.m., when TWO documentaries on historic Silver Spring will be broadcast...

Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb, 6:00 p.m.

Next Stop: Silver Spring, 8:00 p.m.

WETA-26 reprises the co-production Silver Spring: Story of an American Suburb, created in partnership with local filmmaker Walter Gottlieb's Final Cut Productions and the Silver Spring Historical Society. The 2002 film presents a 160-year survey of the Washington suburb's history, exploring the community's rise, decline and ultimate rebirth--and how Silver Spring was shaped by historical forces.

Premiering on WETA is Next Stop: Silver Spring, also by Gottlieb and Silver Spring Media Arts, Inc. in partnership with Montgomery Preservation, Inc. The film chronicles the history and restoration of Silver Spring's Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station. From this station, countless local residents went off to war, went to visit loved ones, took trips West, or set out to start a new life. The program intertwines the history of the station itself with the story of the renovation and painstaking restoration of the present 1945 Colonial Revival structure, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

To read an article about Walter in the March 5, 2007 Gazette newspaper, click on http://www.gazette.net/stories/030508/silvnew203841_32355.shtml.