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Brookeville is a town located twenty miles (32 km) north of Washington, D.C. and two miles (3 km) north of Olney in northeastern Montgomery County, Maryland. Brookeville was settled by Quakers late in the 18th century, and was formally incorporated as a town in 1808. The town served the local agricultural industry, with a toll […]

  In 1814 James Madison was President of the U.S. On August 26 of that year, and during the war, President Madison  left Washington DC and went to Brookeville MD and held up there  for a day. Since then Brookeville has been  known as the U.S. Capital for a day. There is a sign, as […]

Olney should be nicknamed the City of Food, It seems like so many things revolve around food and drink or have names related to that.  Coming up this week  beginning September 26 at the Olney Theatre Center is the stage perfomance Over the Tavern. For more information, to get  tickets and find the times for the performances […]

It’s that time again, family vacations are over, summer break is over,  and it’s time for kids to get back to school. For those stay at home moms and dads, I guess your vacation begins. I hope everyone had a great summer traveling like  I did, or just taking the time to not have to go anywhere. We offered a […]

Well folks Estes Park is our final destination of this 2000+ mile car journey through the southwest. We left Mesa Verde Colorado Friday morning and stopped to see the cliff dwellings. This is the way the many soutwestern Indian tribes built their homes thousands of years ago.. They used the resources of the land and built […]

Traveling is always a tiring event especially at the rate I’ve been going this week.  I must give my kudos to the 2 little girls you have seen in some of the pictures. For 2 kids in elementary school to travel the 1400 miles so far this week and still be so pleasant. We have […]

  This part of the trip was in Albuquerque and our stopovers on the way to Flagstaff. We visited the Petrified Forest, painted desert and saw a huge hole where a meteor hit earth. The site has been preserved. We got to see a Pueblo village which was built on top of a Mesa (table) […]

Hi everyone it’s Wednesday morning an I’m recapping the first two days of our trip to Denver and the southwest. Monday we spent most of the day in airports, renting cars and geting settled in. Tuesday our journey began with the first leg, going from Denver CO. to Albuquerque New Mexico. It was a long but […]

  I will be traveling for a while so will keep the Olney blog going but it will be about what’s going on with me. I will try to keep updates daily about where I am and what I’m doing outside of Olney. To begin with I had an interesting experience by trying something different Sunday the […]

The National Night Out is an event held on the first Tuesday in August. The focus is on crime prevention, fire safety and bringing communities together. August 7, 2012 will be 19 years that Olney will have held this event, and has been recognized nine times for its participation in NNO. There will be exhibits, activities, […]