Springfield Tour

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I had to laugh at your reference to "Nerds." As you know, Surratt House is owned and operated by a government agency, The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and administered through the Department of Parks and Recreation for Prince George's County. 85% of the Parks & Rec programs are community centers, golf course, swimming pools, sports complexes, basketball courts, football fields, tennis courts and bubbles, etc.

The other 15% of us come under cultural classifications such as Arts and Cultural Heritage, Special Programs (special needs oriented), and our 40+ historic sites, nature centers, and outdoor classrooms come under Natural and Historical Resources Division - NHRD. From the very first, we called ourselves "nhrds," and it stuck. The jocks consider us that anyhow, so let's get some mileage off of it! We actually have our own newsletter, The NHRD Word. What's interesting, however, is that the NHRD sites are the ones that attract economic, heritage tourism with visitors from across the country. The other guys just get the same old county participants day in and day out. Wasn't there a movie named "Revenge of the Nerds?" That's us.