The mission of the BRA is to involve the residents in a range of activities,
events and experiences to increase their enjoyment of life and sense of community.
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Broadmead Weather
Thanks to Eric van den Beemt​​
New or Recently Updated (click on item to view)
- Fall Barn Sale Dates
- Nature Committee October Meeting
- Open Forum - Joe Tubman
- The Voice - October 2025
- Trip to Hillwood Estate, Museum & Garden
- Trips to Martin Marietta - Texas Quarry
- Trips to the Warren Road Recycling Plant (date change)
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Special Barn Sale Announcement
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We will have No Barn Sale Donations
Thursdays Oct. 2, 9 & 16.
We will have a super Barn Sale for you on
Friday & Saturday, October 17 & 18!
Barn Sale Donations will resume
on October 23rd.
The Barn Sale thanks you all for your support with donations and purchases!
Photo Galleries & Music Concerts
Weekly Events
(go to Events for details)
Monday:
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Book Clubs
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Creative Arts Class
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Writers Group
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Duplicate Bridge
Tuesday
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Beads & Recycled Paper Art
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Stitching Interest Group
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Mexican Train Dominoes
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Movie Night (schedule)
Wednesday
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NCR Trail Trips - Starts March 20
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Sew & So
- Bridge Lessons
- Supervised Rubber Bridge
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Round Robin Bridge Tournament (monthly)
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Paint & Pastels Class
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Rubber Bridge
Thursday
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Mah Jongg
- Ceramics Class
- Barn Sale Receiving
- IT Help & Information Sessions
Friday
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Chorus Practice
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Flower Committee
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Christian Men's Connection Group
- Free Bistro Happy Hour
Saturday
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Men's Social
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Saturday movie: (schedule).
Sunday
- Quaker Meeting
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Other Events
This Week and Beyond (chronologically)
(go to Events for details)
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New Gallery Exhibit - Broadmead Collects II (more)
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Resident Smartphone Exhibit (more)
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East Hall Exhibit - Complimentary Colors (more)
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Miniature Display (more)
10/1-2: YOM KIPPUR
10/1: Musical Movie Matinee - Bye Bye Birdie
10/1: Veterinary Visit - Make an Appointment (flyer) ​​
10/2: Nature Committee Meeting - Julia Craddock
Speaker (flyer)
10/2: Korean Dance Video (flyer)
10/2: Open Forum - Joe Tubman Speaker (flyer)
10/4: Men's Social in the Auditorium/Fireplace Rm
10/4: Movie Night - The Wind That Shakes the
Barley
10/6: First Monday Book Club - The Paris
Express (Members of the Train Group are
invited).
10/6: Quilling Arts Class Starts (flyer)
10/6: Trip to Recycling Plant - (more)
10/7: Honey Sale (flyer)
10/7 & 9: Flu and Covid Shots (schedule)
10/7: Reading the Bard - Hamlet (more)
10/8: Blessing of the Animals (flyer)
10/8: MaCCRA Presentation - (flyer)
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The Photography Club Presents
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Resident Smartphone Exhibit
(Oct.- Nov.)
Lower Level of the Community Center
Nature Committee 2025-2026 Schedule
The Nature Committee has announced the it FY 2026 schedule is to meet on the first Thursday of each month in the Auditorium at 11:00 am starting in October. Exceptions are December's meeting will be in the Seminar Room and January's meeting will be on January 8.
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October's meeting will be on October 2nd. The speaker will be Julia Craddock, Broadmead's horticulturalist. (flyer)
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Questions should be directed to Ruth Reiner
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*** NEW *** Sunday Game Day
Come one, come all! Game Day in the Bistro at 1:30 on Sundays! We play Rummikub, but are open to any game you wish to bring. We will be more than glad to teach any new to the game. There is also a small Scrabble contingent at one of the tables. Let the games begin!
​Questions? Contact Lynne Shue
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Quilling Classes Start October 6
Starting Monday, October 6th​, quilling Classes will be rum on consecutive Mondays in the Arts & Ceramics Studio from 3:15 to 4:45pm. Quilling is a decorative art form that involves, rolling, shaping,and gluing strips of paper. To sign up Contact Leslie Gkickman. (flyer)
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Barn Sale Fall Dates
The Barn Sale has announced the dates for the Fall Sale
Thursday, October 16 - Set up
Friday , October 17, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm - Sale day
Saturday, October 18, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm - Sale day
Family and friends are invited
Be ready to volunteer
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October East Hall Exhibit
The October show for the East (OPD) Hall is from Complementary Colors, a group of 6 watercolor artists whose artwork is very diverse. Hope that you enjoy the show!
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New Exhibit in the Gallery Hall
On Friday, August 29, the next Arts Council exhibition, Broadmead Collects II, will be installed in the Gallery. The exhibit consists of selections from Resident art collections. It is the second of a series of such exhibits. (flyer)
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Fall NCR Trail Trips Start September 18
NCR trail trips will resume on September 18th (Thursdays). The bus will leave from the lower level entrance at 9: 30 am. Sign-up is required. (flyer).
For information and to sign-up contact Health & Wellness at 443-578-8060
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Miniatures On Display
The Display Cabinet Adjacent to the Front Desk in the Community Center currently has an exhibit of miniatures. Many of the items were made by fellow resident & International Guild of Miniature Artisans (IGMA), juried artisan, Tom Boytim, but there are also Petit Point Carpets by our Elsa Collins. Additionally, there are items displayed by other IGMA Artisans from the US, UK & Japan whose works are paintings ceramics, silver and textiles such as mini samplers.
If you are in the Community Center, please check out miniatures as an art form. Making the World……Smaller.
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BRA Trips and Tours Scheduled for the Fall
Texas Quarry Trip and Recycle Center Trip
The BRA and Broadmead's Transportation department have scheduled four short trip to two nearby facilities, the Martin Maretta Texas Quarry on Beaver Dam Road in Texas, MD, and the Baltimore County Recycling facility on Warren Road. The tours will take about 90 minutes with an additional 30 to 45 minutes for transportation. The tour cost of $5 will be billed to the resident's Broadmead bill. Quarry tours will be on September 15th and 29th. CLICK HERE for more information and to sign-up for the quarry tour. The tour of the recycling center will be on October 6th or 27th. CLICK HERE for more information and to sign-up for the recycling center tour.
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Hillwood Estate, Museum & Garden Trip
The BRA and Broadmead's Transportation department have scheduled a trip to the iconic Hillwood Estate's Museum and Gardens in Washington DC on Thursday, October 9. Hillwood Estate was the home of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Marjorie Merriweather Post was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation. For much of Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States. She was also built Mar-a-Lago. For more information and to sign up CLICK HERE.
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Questions? Contact Lisa Berres or Sue Appling
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Socrates Cafe
October Meeting. Socrates Cafe will meet on Tuesday, October 21st at 10:30 am in the Auditorium. They will start with a short video, "Why Time Feels Faster As We Age: The Philosophy of Time" followed by a discussion of the question How has our perception of time evolved during stages of our lives? The meeting is open to all and is sponsored by Towson Unitarian Universalist Church.
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Questions? Contact Carel Hedlud
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Broadmead Writers Group Meeting Schedule
Starting September 22, the Broadmead Writers Group will meet on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the Magnolia Room. For further information contact Maggie Babb.
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Site4Sight Meeting Information
Does your vision, like other parts of your anatomy, not work as well as it once did? Site4Sight is the low vision subcommittee of the BRA Health Committee. We’ve been in a time of reorganization for the past year, and are interested in your thoughts and experiences about how those with low vision navigate life at Broadmead. To this end, we will be holding an informal gathering for anyone interested on the second Wednesday of the month from 10-12 in the Fireplace Room. We’re not a group that can address medical needs, but will host outside guests from Functional Pathways in August and the low vision department at the Wilmer Institute later in the year. If you can’t come on July 9, and would like to chat, please get in touch by phone or email.
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Questions? Contact Mari Quint, R-11, 410-804-7876
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First Monday Book Club Update
The first Monday Book Group meets the first Monday of each month at 10:30 am in the Fireplace Room to discuss readings. The 2025 selections for next months of 2025 are listed here. Everyone is invited. Some attend in order to decide if they want to read a specific book. Send suggestions to elsacollins@gmail.com.
Monday, August 4: Table for Two by Amor Towles.
Monday, September !: NO MEETING
Monday, October 6: The Paris Express by Emma Donuhue (Attention: members of the Train Group are invited).
Monday November 3: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
Attention The Multicultural Group: This book deals with First Nations Members from Canada who yearly pick blueberries in Maine.
December 1: NO MEETING
Questions? Contact Elsa Collins
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Reading the Bard Literary Group
The Shakespeare series, Reading the Bard, meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 2 o’clock in the auditorium. On the first Tuesday, we watch a film version of a Shakespeare play and on the third Tuesday we talk about both the play and the film and lots of other things too. Everybody is welcome. You don’t need to read the play in advance. Our next meeting will be October 7. The play is Hamlet and the film will be shown in two parts 3:30-5:30 and 7 to 9.
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In November, the play will be merchant of Venice and in December Twelfth Night
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SAVE THE DATE!
Youth and age will confront Shakespeare together on December 15, 1:00-4:00 While senior citizens at Broadmead have been studying plays of Shakespeare, a class of seniors at Friends school happens, studying the same plays. And on December 15, the two groups will be together for the first time here at Broadmead. I’m looking forward to seeing what those seniors have to tell us and vice versa.
Everyone is welcome. Questions? Call Tom Scheye.
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Classic Book Club
For new and all interested residents, Broadmead has a Classics Book Club that meets monthly in the Fireplace Room. We are a lively but very low-key group of about 20 readers of those classic books that we read or were planning to read in high school or college but never got around to--or have since forgotten. We have a great time for an hour or so every month and would love to have new members. Click here for the list of books we are currently reading. We meet at 10:00 a.m. on the third Monday of each month. If interested, just show up or contact John Mattingly at 443-826-8660. Our next meeting will be on Monday, August 18 at 10:00 am in the Fireside Room. We will be reading Henry Esmond by Thackery.
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Mystery Book Club
The next meeting will be Monday, August 19 at 1:00 pm in the Community Room in the Upland building. The book under discussion will be In Too Deep by Lee Child. For the updated list of books we will be discussing click here. Everyone is welcome.​
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The current reading schedule is as follows:​
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August 19 - In Too Deep by Lee Child.
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Big Books Club
Ours is a small group who meet the fourth Monday of each month at 10:00 am in the Fireplace Room to informally discuss one of those heavy volumes you never got around to in college. We read each book over the course of 'however long it takes.' We are currently reading all four volumes of the Jewel in the Crown. We are a very informal group who just enjoy each other's company. Feel free to drop in and enjoy the fun. Any questions can be sent to johnbosco360@gmail.com, or call John Mattingly at 443-826-8660.
Everyone is welcome.
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LIBRARY NEWS
New Books in the Library
The Broadmead Library has acquired a new batch of books especially rich in autobiographies and memoirs (Amos Oz, Jamie Raskin, Anthony Fauci, Keith Richards, Alex Trebek) as well as a major biography of John Lewis by David Greenberg. And here's a chance to catch up on writers such as Penelope Lively and Henning Mankell. For a list of these acquisitions click here. The books are shelved in the New Books section of the library, near the fireplace. For more about the Library click here
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Books Not Returned
Many of our books have been checked out for several months and are therefore not available to other residents. If you are not actively reading a library book that you have checked out, please return it to the drop box marked book return, near the nonfiction section of the library.
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Library Book Donations
BRA Library book donations will be the second Thursday of each month at 9:30 am, the same time that the BCPL Bookmobile is here. Please note that the library does not accept donations outside of the monthly collection. Non-Broadmead Library books found in the book return box or left on the library tables will be discarded. Click here to view the Library's book donation guidelines.
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BRA Library Online Catalog
The Broadmead Library catalog is online, and no login or password is required. It will tell you which books the library owns, although not whether the book has been checked out. You can search by author, title, or keyword. To access the BRA library online catalog click here
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Barn Sale Receiving Donations Weekly
The Greater Barn Sale is ready to receive inventory from all residents every Thursday from 10:00 am to noon and 2:00 to 4:00 pm. Please deliver ALL donations (except books) to the Barn Sale workroom in the back hall of the Lower Level of the Center. Book donations are the second Thursday of the month in the library area (see library notice below). Please make sure all clothing is clean, in good repair and desirable by another person. also, please no men's trousers or suits. All donations to the Barn Sale contribute to the support of the many BRA activities we enjoy. For any questions or concerns please email Lucy Wright. Click here for a list of the Barn Sale organization and the department heads.
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The Barn Sale also accepts donations from families of residents who are moving to assisted living or who have passed away. We also accept donations from new residents who are downsizing during their move to Broadmead. Click below for a donation guide for residents and families. Information for new residents is available through the Marketing department.
For more information about the Barn Sale, go to www.broadmeadbra.org/barn-sale.
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​Listserv Guidelines
There has been some discussion about the use of the email system, listserv. Here is a link to guidelines that were established several years ago about its use. Listserv Guidelines To register for the Listserv, see the note at the bottom of the Documents page
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