A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . tely organized are apt to be very socialcommunities; those which are not are correspondingly less so. In thesuburban sections, circumstances are different from elsewhere in thecounty. The suburb is neither flesh, fish nor fowl; it differs fromthe city and the country alike. In communities here which have beensettled up for some time and by a fairly homogeneous group, thereis considerable local social life; Kensington is a case in point
A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . tely organized are apt to be very socialcommunities; those which are not are correspondingly less so. In thesuburban sections, circumstances are different from elsewhere in thecounty. The suburb is neither flesh, fish nor fowl; it differs fromthe city and the country alike. In communities here which have beensettled up for some time and by a fairly homogeneous group, thereis considerable local social life; Kensington is a case in point other sections where the population is more shifting, morerecent or more diverse, there is little social life. Along the Districtof Columbia line, in Takoma Park and parts of Bethesda, there is con-siderable social dependence upon Washington; here, though, there iscoming to be more local social life. The many Citizens ImprovementAssociations are encouraging this. Throughout the county, the sameclasses which we have said were practically without social organizationand recreation facilities, are also practically without social life of any sort. 51. 52 SANDY SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD Sandy Spring is not a town or village or civil division of any sort,but a natural division, a neighborhood, whose people are united by thebonds of religion and bloodkinship, and contrasted more or less sharplywith the people of the adjoining territory by differences of thought,feeling and custom. The first settlement was made by the Society ofFriends and the community has always been under their predominantinfluence. The limits of the section at present occupied by this com-munity are clearly defined. Most of the territory lies within the OlneyDistrict, but a part of the Colesville District, as far east as Spencervilleis included. The real centre of the community is in the vicinity ofthe Sandy Spring Post Office where are located the meeting houses, theschool, the Lyceum Hall, the old library and the banks
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