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Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman will receive the Award for Achievement in American Literature at the 25th annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival on Saturday. For the second year in a row, due to the pandemic, the festival will be streamed virtually from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival started in 1996, in honor of […]

Sept. 24, 2021 marks the quasquicentennial, or 125th anniversary, of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birth. Indeed, the “Great Gatsby” author has been buried in Rockville for more than 80 years. For the rest of eternity, F. Scott Fitzgerald rests at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Cemetery, sharing the same plot of land with his wife Zelda, where […]

There is a new list out that may be of great interest if you love small towns and books. The website, AboutGreatBooks.com, has assembled a list recognizing towns that have strong connections to literature, and both the cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are included on the “30 great small towns for book lovers” list. Rockville […]

The author of “So We Read On,” Maureen Corrigan attended the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 16. In this MyMCMedia Extra video, she shares her thoughts on the burial plot of author F. Scott Fitzgerald in Rockville. Related:

St. Mary’s parish is celebrating 200 years in Rockville. CCM’s Susan Kenedy reports there are events planned from now through June.

The Rockville High School community is grieving the loss of 17-year-old Michelle Miller, a popular senior at the school, who police said was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide. At a press conference earlier that day, the school’s principal and lacrosse coach shared their memories of Miller and talked about how students are coping […]