Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk

Civic leaders of Rosemary Hills, Lyttonsville, and North Woodside (including Talbot Avenue Bridge Committee members Eva Santorini and Pat Tyson), light the Unity Lantern at the commencement of the 6th Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk (2023). Photo by Jay Mallin

The 8th Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk will take place Saturday, November 8, 2025.

The Talbot Avenue Bridge Committee organizes the annual Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk, a family-friendly community event that weaves together neighborhoods once divided by racial segregation and fittingly takes place during Montgomery County’s Remembrance and Reconciliation Month. We invite you to join us in shining our lights in the darkness, promoting unity over division, remembering the past and taking steps toward a brighter future.

For more information or to request to be subscribed to our Talbot Avenue Bridge Events email list for event updates, email talbotavenuebridgecommittee@gmail.com.

Gallery of Previous Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walks

Click on the links to view more photos and videos from each year. See further background below.

* Year with no physical Talbot Avenue Bridge to cross, between demolition of historic Talbot Avenue Bridge and opening of the new Talbot Avenue Bridge

Event history: The inaugural Lantern Walk crossed the historic Talbot Avenue Bridge on November 10, 2018, following the Talbot Avenue Bridge Centennial Celebration a couple months earlier. After the historic bridge was demolished in 2019 to make way for the Purple Line, the second Lantern Walk was held in Rosemary Hills-Lyttonsville Local Park. Due to continued delays in construction of the new Talbot Avenue Bridge, for the following three years the Lantern Walk route connected one side of the bridge construction site to the other, starting in North Woodside and ending in Lyttonsville. In 2023, the Lantern Walk was finally able to cross the new (still incomplete and unopen) Talbot Avenue Bridge, and in 2024, it crossed the completed new bridge for the first time.

Select Videos of the Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk

By David Rotenstein (2018)

By Jay Mallin (2021)

View more videos of the Talbot Avenue Bridge Lantern Walk here.

The Talbot Avenue Bridge Committee gratefully acknowledges support from the Lyttonsville, North Woodside, and Rosemary Hills civic associations; the Montgomery County Neighborhood Events Matching Funds Program (2021); significant volunteer, in-kind, and financial contributions from community members; and our fiscal sponsor, IMPACT Silver Spring. To make a tax-deductive donation to support this and future Talbot Avenue Bridge-related events and programs, click here.