Text Box: AROUND TOWN Text Box: Melinda Henneberger got off to a big start at AOL with a story about Hillary Clinton’s testimony at her confirmation hearing that appeared on the AOL welcome screen. She is helping launch AOL’s forthcoming political website, PoliticsDaily.com. Renny Springuel was in the inauguration parade last month with the Special Olympic torch contingent. He will be a Team USA Snowshoe coach for the World Winter Games this February in Idaho. The parade is one of the stops for the Olympic torch on its way from Athens to Boise, Idaho for the opening ceremony. Carol Barton worked with NPR Radio host Scott Simon to construct a commemorative inauguration pop-up on Weekend Edition Saturday morning, Jan. 17 The pop-up then appeared in the The Washington Post’s Jan. 20 Inauguration special edition. “Carousel of Memories,” an award-winning documentary which captures the historical significance of Glen Echo Park’s 1921 Dentzel carousel, will be shown at the Montgomery County Historical Society’s Beall-Dawson House on Sunday, March 1, at 4 p.m. A discussion with filmmaker Cintia Cabib will follow the screening. The half-hour film is being presented in conjunction with the Historical Society’s exhibit “Amusement Parks of Montgomery County,” which runs through April 12. “Carousel of Memories” features carousel operators mother and son team Irene and Max Hurley, the late Maryland State Senator Gwendolyn Britt, who protested the park’s segregation policy in 1960, Glen Echo Councilmember Nancy Long, who Text Box: led the efforts to keep the carousel at Glen Echo Park, restoration artist Rosa Ragan, and several local families who recall their happy rides. “Snapdragon 2008,” a film made by Diana Hudson-Taylor done in conjunction with the Bethesda Presbyterian Church youth group, was aired four times on Comcast Ch. 95 and RCN Ch. 10 last month. The 15 minute film is about animals and people's thoughts and feelings about them, targeted for kids and adults. Diana will also be showing the film at her Ladies Night on Feb. 18. Laura Beers, daughter of Debbie and Don Beers, was interviewed by BBC Radio last month on the history of politics and the media. It is the topic of her PhD thesis at Harvard and will be published as a book by Harvard University Press. She has also just accepted a tenure track position as assistant professor of history at American University.