Montgomery Community Media

Celebrate Heritage Montgomery‘s annual event from noon – 4 p.m. on June 25th and 26th at 30 locations across the county. Find out more in this report, below: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Save the date: Heritage Montgomery hosts the annual Heritage Days celebration on the last weekend in June. That’s June 27th and June 28th.

Here is our final Heritage Montgomery Civil War moment. Our last installment left off as Maryland adopted a new constitutional ammendment aboloshing slavery in the state. This segment picks up with events leading to the end of the war. Here’s Barbara Grunbaum with more. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of […]

Let’s take a look at another Heritage Montgomery Civil War moment. Our last installment told of the destruction of the federal camps and blockhouses along the Potomac by John Singleton Mosby and his raiders in October of 1864. Mosby’s men returned to Montgomery County engaging with some Quakers in Sandy Spring. Here’s Barbara Grunbaum with […]

Let’s take a look at another Heritage Montgomery Civil War moment. Take a look:   Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

A Heritage Montgomery Civil War moment: We left off with Confederate General Jeb Stuart’s raid on Rockville in the summer of 1863. Once the General left Montgomery County, he joined a major battle, already in progress. Here’s Barbara Grunbaum with more: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, 40 African American churches were constructed in Montgomery County. Heritage Montgomery has produced a new 60-minute documentary video featuring five of these historic church communities. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk attended the “world premiere” of the film where members of the church congregations saw the documentary for the […]

Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement, 40 African American churches were constructed in Montgomery County. In a unique “world premiere,” Heritage Montgomery will show its new 60-minute documentary profiling five of these historic church communities where generations of black families created their own spiritual, social and educational opportunities. The documentary titled “Community Cornerstones,”  […]

Heritage Days occurs on June 29 and June 30 to celebrate the rich history of Montgomery County dating to Colonial and Civil War times. Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart marched through Montgomery County on the way Gettysburg in 1863. Barbara Grunbaum explains the events that took place in Rockville 150 years ago in this Heritage Montgomery […]

The aftermath of the Battle of Antietam is highlighted in this Heritage Montgomery’s Civil War Moment. Producer Barbara Grunbaum tells us this battle is remembered for the savage fighting that resulted in 23,000 casualties. The communities surrounding Sharpsburg aided the wounded even while the fighting raged. The courthouse in Rockville was used as a hospital […]