Jason Green, former Associate Counsel to President Obama, left the White House in 2013 to begin work on The Quince Orchard Project, a documentary about a small community in Montgomery…
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as published by The North Potomac Times, written by Susan Petro, August 2016 On Saturday, June 26, the Pleasant View Historic Site, located at 11810 Darnestown Road in Gaithersburg, opened its…
by Quince Orchard Contributor Colin Hardy During the Spring 2016 semester, I participated with the project between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Public History department and the Quince Orchard…
by Quince Orchard Contributor Jasmyn Shumate The Quince Orchard team is embracing expectations for the social impact of our upcoming documentary: a film that can “lead to a greater awareness…
We find this across the country. Historic preservation, generally, has focused on the European American legacy, and people are surprised to learn that African Americans have been present for hundreds…
In 1874 when Gary Green and several other church trustees sold a house and lot for $5 on the Pleasant View site to the county school board, it was stipulated…
When School Board members unanimously agreed Quince orchard should be the name of the upcountry’s newest high school, there was a sigh of relief… What to name the facility became…
History is shaped by small steps and big leaps of progress.
A time in our history that we’ve evolved beyond, but must never forget.