Saturday, May 3rd, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The Silver Spring Historical Society sponsors a FREE open house of the historic 1945 B&O Railroad Station, 8100 Georgia Avenue (at Sligo Avenue) in downtown Silver Spring, MD.

Bring the young ones to play with our Thomas the Train set (they can also watch real trains go by outside)!

Limited free parking is available in front of the station (please do not park next door at the fire station!) with ample street parking and a parking garage available nearby. The railroad station is also an easy four block walk from the Silver Spring Metro
station on the Red Line.

Information 301-495-4915

The Silver Spring Historical Society sponsors a FREE open house of the historic 1945 B&O Railroad Station, 8100 Georgia Avenue (at Sligo Avenue) in downtown Silver Spring, MD.

Limited free parking is available in front of the station (please do not park next door at the fire station!) with ample street parking and a parking garage available nearby. The railroad station is also an easy four block walk from the Silver Spring Metro station on the Red Line.

Signed copies of the award-winning book Historic Silver Spring will be available for purchase ($20, cash or check only) along with a variety of Silver Spring-themed postcards and stationary items.

If you cannot attend the open house but would like to order a book, go to

http://silverspringhistory.homestead.com/Shopping.html .

Information: (301) 537-1253.

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.