Archive for April, 2007
Lewis Black Coming Home to Silver Spring, Md on June 29th
April 13th, 2007 Categories: Famous Silver Spring People, Houses in Silver Spring, Silver Spring Neighborhoods
Lewis Black comes home! 
Springbrook families, staff and alumni - For one night only, one of our school’s most famous alums (or infamous, depending on your perspective) is returning to 201 Valley Brook Drive for a very special benefit show. Yes, the madly comic and comically mad Lewis Black, Class of ’66, will play SHS on Friday, June 29. And you’re invited to be there, but only if you move fast. Download and read the attached announcement. Print the ticket order form, make out your check and get both in the mail ASAP. We expect tickets to sell out quickly - very quickly. Hope to see you in June, in an auditorium filled with more than four decades of Blue Devils! Download announcement and order form (pdf) here. Click here to read Examiner articleÂ
 Lewis Black’s Childhood Home in Burnt Mills Knolls
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Crate and Barrel in Silver Spring? COOL! Yes or No?
April 9th, 2007 Categories: Silver Spring Neighborhoods
This email was on my neighborhood’s List Serve, I am personally for it, How about you?. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
This was on Silver Spring Moms - I thought I’d pass it onto others: Though I’m not usually one for big chains, given the loss of Storehouse and IA ETC, this might be a good addition to our neighborhood- and help anchor even more stores. If you’re so inclined.……..
Posted by: “GeorgeNeighbors@ jhu.edu” georgeneighbors@ gmail.com loganneighbors Fri Apr 6, 2007 7:08 am (PST) Once again, I need your help. I’m trying to help with an e-mail campaign to bring Crate & Barrel to Silver Spring. Rumor has it they they are considering it. We’ve managed to find the e-mail address for the real estate consultant they are using, and we’re asking that you 1) send some version of the message below to him and 2) that you circulate this or some other message that you write to your friends, neighbors, listservs, colleagues to get them to write as well.You may recall that we had at least some impact on bringing DSW here - so let’s try again. Thanks for your support. The e-mail address is: jjosephs@mmrs. com Dear Mr. Josephs: I understand that you are one of the real estate consultants for Crate & Barrel. I’ve heard that Crate &Barrel has contemplated opening a store in downtown Silver Spring. I’m writing because I believe that Crate & Barrel would make a great addition to our downtown and - more importantly from your point of view – that the store would make a killing here. I will shop there regularly and so will my friends, family and neighbors.
By the way, I heard that our local Whole Foods is the highest grossing Whole Foods on the East Coast. You might want to check out the veracity of that since it might give you some perspective on how well Crate & Barrel would do here. If there is something more I can do to impress upon you how ready for a Crate & Barrel Silver Spring is, please let me know. I’m really looking forward to spending lots of time and money in the new Crate & Barrel in downtown Silver Spring.
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The Oldest House in Silver Spring?
April 4th, 2007 Categories: Famous Silver Spring People, Houses in Silver Spring, Real Estate, Silver Spring Neighborhoods, Woodside
This old farmhouse sits at the highest point on a hill overlooking Colesville Road from the top 
of Greyrock Road and Harvey Roads in The Woodside Park Neighborhood of Silver Spring. Built in 1833, it is by far the oldest house I have ever encountered in Silver Spring.
Surrounded now by homes built in the 1940’s on Harvey Road and Greyrock Road, it looks to me like before these homes were built around it, it must have looked out on Colesville Road and down at Mrs K’sTollhouse with lots of acreage around and 
probably had a Colesville Road address. The address now is 9315 Greyrock Road, Silver Spring, Md 20910, the street address is at the back of the 3/4 acre property. The front of the property (front of the house with the porch) is at the end of Harvey Road.Â
I was surprised to find out that this was the home of David and Elizabeth Scull. They purchased it from the Watson family in 1949 and Elizabeth Scull lived in the house until her death in 1981. Elisabeth L. Scull was a descendant of the Blair and Lee Families of Silver Spring and had a tremendous career on the Montgomery County Council. I found it cool that she was a Champion of Affordable Housing and Housing for the poor in Montgomery County.Â
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Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Md Famous People’s Houses - Goldie Hawn’s House
April 2nd, 2007 Categories: Houses in Silver Spring, Real Estate, Silver Spring Neighborhoods
Goldie Hawn, the famous actress and comedian grew up in this quaint and charming circa 
1927 Brick Duplex in Takoma Park, Md 20912. The Hawn Family lived in the Left Side of this duplex. Goldie’s small wedding to John Hudson was in the backyard of this home. Goldies father Edward Hawn, a musician, died in 1982 and Goldie’s mother Laura lived in this home up until 1984, when she sold the house and moved to California, where she passed away in 1994. Goldie graduated from the old Blair High School in Silver Spring, Md in 1963 and attended American University in Washington DC. Although she grew up in Takoma Park, her “stomping ground” was Downtown Silver Spring in it’s heyday. She speaks of her fond memories in the Documentary Film “Silver Spring, Story of an American Suburb”
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