"We meet to eat," observed William W. Moore--a tradition that began with the venerable Senior Farmers' Club. Here it celebrates its 110th anniversary in 1954 at the Muncaster home, The Ridge, near Olney. At the front table, facing, from left: guest Samuel Riggs IV, Richard H. Lansdale, Will Hines, Josiah Hutton, and John E. Muncaster, Jr.; backs to camera: a Washington Star reporter, Ridgely B. Chichester, Dr. Herman Ladson, and County Agent O. W. Anderson. Rear table, facing: Donald Hobbs, Frank Palmer, Sam McCeney, and host John E. Muncaster, Sr. Serving are Carrie Allnutt Griffith and Laura Ann Waters Whirley.

An 1888 newspaper photo of the Women's Mutual Improvement Association proclaimed in the caption that members "Represent the Sterling Qualities of American Womanhood." They gather here at the Thomas home Tanglewood. Among members attending are, front row, Elizabeth Porter Thomas, Rebecca Porter Thomas; back row, Martha Stabler Peirce, Susanah Leggett Thomas, Nellie Lansdale Hartshorne, Ellen Farquhar, Lucy Stabler, Mary Stabler Miller, Ellen Stabler, Annie Gilpin, Martha Thomas Farquhar, Sarah Kirk Stabler, Mary Ellicott Gilpin, and Harriet Iddings Kirk. Alban Gilpin Thomas joined the group for the photo.

Missionary of the Grange movement, Quaker Joseph T. Moore organized lodges of the Patrons of Husbandry at Olney and Brighton in 1873-74 and served as first president of the Maryland Grange. He was President and a guiding force of the Mutual Insurance Company.

The Home Interest Society, founded in 1870, assembles at the Brooke home Walbrooke in 1899. The Home Interest is the recorder of births, deaths and other events for future Annals. It also receives a monthly report of a Railroad Committee, spoofing the cherished dream that the train one day would chug through Sandy Spring. It and the similar Neighbors Club (1897) both still flourishing, bear out Annals historian William Henry Farquhar's observation of Sandy Springers as practitioners of "the science of combined action."

A blood donor of the Sandy Spring Lions Club gives another pint--one of 85 given during fifty years by Lion Willard Derrick. Derrick, Jim Kibbe, Tim Conner, and John Howes wear the wide-brimmed hats of the Ten Gallon Club (80 pints or more), and many more Lions give regularly. With some 80 active members, the Sandy Spring Lions are one of the strongest chapters in a district that includes Montgomery, Charles, and Prince Georges Counties and Washington,D.C. The local Lions pitch into numerous civic projects, including maintenance of the Sandy Spring spring.