MoCoLMP Around Town—April 2026

“It Happened Here” photo exhibit now at Wheaton Library

“It is a fantastic display and many people have stopped to read it every day and a few people have commented to say how happy they are that we have it up,” said Kylie Sparks, a librarian at Olney.

The exhibit has now moved to the Wheaton Library where it will be on view until May 8. MoCLMP thanks the Montgomery County Public Libraries for their partnership with this project. 

Appropriate at Olney Theatre 

After-show discussions of the Olney Theatre’s production of the play Appropriate were very successful. We are grateful to the many MoCoLMP volunteers who helped make these events possible. Alexa Fraser and Lesley Younge were among them. “The play was terrific and the conversation afterward was strong,” said Alexa. Lesley added, “I too had a great experience—the play is amazing. We had about 40 people stay for the conversation.”

Tickets are available for Appropriate, which runs through April 26.

Walt Whitman HS's Leadership Academy for Social Justice, Fair 2026

Social Justice Fair at Walt Whitman HS

Noah Agboyibor and Lesley Younge attended the Walt Whitman Social Justice Fair on April 11. “It was very well attended. We talked to a lot of high school and middle school students as well as parents who were fascinated to see the [soil] jars and learn about this history,” Lesley noted. Noah found it to be a “good networking opportunity for MoCoLMP.”

Tour of Tudor Place

Ten MoCoLMP visitors toured the mansion and grounds at Tudor Place in Georgetown on April 11, a beautiful Spring day. From 1805 until 1983 the Peters family and their descendants owned and lived at Tudor Place. The wealth of the family came from enslaved laborers who worked at tobacco plantations in Maryland.

Lilacs in the Tudor Place gardens, Georgetown, April 2026

The participants learned that during COVID, the Tudor Place historians began to re-think their narrative and now present quite a bit of information about the enslaved people as well as the Peters family. Holly Syrrakos noted, “I had never heard of Tudor Place and was impressed with the depth of research that has been done on the enslaved families who lived there.”

Coming Up

MoCoLMP will be tabling at various events for Tony Cohen's FreedomWalk2026. Please come say hi!