Event name
PCV Speaker Series: Hidden Gems of Maryland
When
Thu 03 / 16 / 2023
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Where
Potomac Community Center
11315 Falls Road
Potomac MD 20854
11315 Falls Road
Potomac MD 20854
Who can attend
Open to all
Limited capacity: Registration Closed
Price
Free, but donations appreciated to allow us to continue to offer these free programs. Click on "Donate for this Event" below.
PCV Speaker Series. PCV presents “Hidden Gems of Maryland,” with author and journalist Gene Meyer, on his new book (published in September 2022), Hidden Maryland: In Search of America in Miniature. The book is available on Amazon - click here.
Mr. Meyer will be joining us on Zoom; he is unexpectedly not able to join us in person. We will, however, gather as a group at the Potomac Community Center, as planned, to talk with him live, see his presentation on a big screen TV, and ask questions. We will also still have the Tech Lessons class for members that immediately precedes this event with Mr. Meyer.
About the program and our speaker:
Maryland, the ninth smallest state, has been called "America in Miniature." Within its borders: maritime (Chesapeake) and mountains (Appalachia), the industrial north (Baltimore), the plantation South (Southern Maryland). It's all here in Hidden Maryland: In Search of America in Miniature. Gene Meyer has spent decades exploring the state's hidden nooks and crannies, meeting people and finding places not on any traditional tour map. This richly-illustrated guide through the state's regions includes side trips to its sporting life and military history, along with profiles of Maryland personalities that include noir novelist and filmmaker George Pelecanos, wine guru Robert Parker, and Tony Mendez, the CIA operative behind ARGO, the successful extraction of American hostages in Iran turned into a 2012 Oscar-winning film, and Charlie Koiner, an honest-to-goodness urban farmer.
Mr. Meyer is an award-winning veteran journalist with eclectic interests but special passions for history, lifestyles, travel, real estate and the Chesapeake Bay. He has been widely published in magazines, authored four books and was for many years a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. Since leaving the Post in 2004, Meyer has received 17 awards for his work, and he has had more than 50 bylines in The New York Times. His first journalism job was as Washington bureau librarian for the old New York Herald Tribune, where he got to tag along with a White House reporter and watch the 1964 Civil Rights Act being signed into law.
Admission to this program is free, but we welcome your support with a donation at any level to help us continue to offer free programs and events to our wider community.
We look forward to an engaging and informative presentation followed by Q & A.
PLEASE NOTE: Now that it is so easy to get a COVID booster, we ask that all attendees be fully vaccinated, using the CDC definition that you have received the most recent booster for which you are eligible. Also please consider testing prior to attending. Feel free to wear a mask if you feel more comfortable.