The snow and the ice from the latest winter storm caused multiple closures in the Bowie area this weekend.  The Bowie Race Course, however, ...

How are you spending your Thanksgiving day?  In 1936, there were no football games on television, but there was horse racing in Bowie.  This...

Philip Seymour Hoffman played the part of Truman Capote in the 2005 movie “Capote.” In 1975, Truman Capote wrote a short story called “L...

Most people know that George Washington crossed the Delaware River , but who marched down Route 450 (or what would eventually become Route...

Portrait of Catherine Ogle Goodrich acquired by City of Bowie A portrait of an Ogle family member who lived at Belair was recently purc...

I received the first edition of a new magazine called Bowie Life in the mail last Saturday.  It's published by a company called Hibu,...

Lifetime Bowie resident Gabriel “Flick” Nalley passed away this week. He was 95. My condolences go out to the Nalley and Kuciemba familie...

These two houses on the corner of Maple Avenue and 9th Street in Old Bowie are known as the Twin Houses.  According to the Huntington Heri...

The City of Bowie is encouraging current and former Bowie residents to come and share their Bowie memories in an informal setting on Wednesd...

An area of land that runs parallel to U.S. Route 1 between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore has been dubbed Dinosaur Alley, and it is believed...

Levitt and Sons attempted to have nearly an acre of land rezoned to allow for the operation of a gas station near the intersection of Route ...

Neighborhood Names Significant at Belair is an article published by The Washington Post in 1965 that reveals the origins of the neighborhoo...

In a previous post , I asked where this picture was taken in Bowie. This was the most challenging Where in Bowie post yet. The first three...

In a previous post , I asked where this picture was taken in Bowie. The picture shows a portion of the Showcase Market Place Cinema 6 sign o...