September 13

Desert Storm Veterans Association Golf Tournament Meadows Farms Golf Course, 4300 Flat Run Road, Locust Grove, Va.

9 a.m.

Enjoy golf, lunch and drinks while you support the VII Corps DSVA Scholarship fund. For information contact VIICORPSDSVA@aol.com.

September 13 - 14

Defenders’ Day Celebration

Maryland Historical Society and Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Md.

Events all day at each location on both days See a recreation of the 30 x 42 ft. flag which inspired Francis Scott Key to write about our Star-Spangled Banner, living history encampments featuring military drills, cooking demonstrations, musket and cannon firing, dress parade, fife and drum music and a children’s program featuring authors and local historians. Enjoy a patriotic concert including the 1812 Overture, complete with cannon fire and fireworks. For information visit www.mdhs.org/star-spangled-banner-project.

September 14

Prince George’s County Master Gardeners Gardening Expo and Fall Festival

6707 Groveton Drive, Clinton, Md.

Noon - 5 pm.

Bring the family to shop for plants, get your plant problems diagnosed, see presentations, take a garden tour or participate in a garden art workshop. For information visit www.mastergardener.umd.edu.

September 15

Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963

Family Theatre, 1333 H. Street N.E., Washington, D.C.

6 p.m.

Hear a staged reading of the play, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the bombing at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. For information visit http://www.project1voice.org/.

September 15

Rusticway Chamber Group

Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalisty Church, 7400 Temple Hill Road, Camp Springs, Md.

6:30 p.m.

The Davies Concert Series presents the “Trout Quintet” by Franz Shubert and teh D Minor Piano Trio by Felix Mendelssohn. For information visit www.dmuuc.org.