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November 6, 2009

By Preston Williams
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 6, 2009

Gaithersburg Mayor Sidney A. Katz, a 1968 Gaithersburg High School graduate, has a saying about his home town, where his family has operated a clothing store since 1918.

"When I was growing up, the kids in my class came to the fair to show their cattle," said Katz, who lived near the Montgomery County Fairgrounds. "Now we have to take our kids to the fair to show them what cattle look like. It's a very different world."

Once a rural outpost known for dairy farms, Gaithersburg has grown from a countrified enclave into a multiethnic hub, particularly in the past 20 years, with Holstein talk long ago displaced by such topics as development, immigration and a day-laborer center.

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