Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Kevin Dayhoff - Eagle Archive: Celebrating Carroll County at the 4-H and FFA Fair
Eagle Archive: Celebrating Carroll County at the 4-H and FFA
Fair
By Kevin Dayhoff July 30, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/opinion-talk/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0729-20120725,0,418259.story
Carroll County Agriculture Center
has been a beehive of activity in preparation of the annual Carroll County 4-H
and FFA Fair, which officially opened on July 27.
Historically, the summer and end of harvest events have
always played an important role in Carroll County because of the region's
agricultural roots.
Prior to 1865, the business of farming was, for the most
part, our subsistence existence. Farmers were essentially self-sufficient.
However, after the Civil War, farmers became increasingly
"dependent on creditors, merchants and railroads for their
livelihoods," according to James Stewart of Reed College, who has
concentrated his studies on this period of agriculture and economics.
"These relationships created opportunities for economic gain, but also
obligations, hardships and risks that many farmers did not welcome."
In Carroll, this period evoked celebrations of the farming
way of life. A "program of events" found in an 1871 publication of
the oldAmerican Sentinel refers to a "Grand Exhibition of Farm
machinery under the auspices of the Carroll County Agriculture Society on the Fair Grounds, Westminster, MD."
Actually, the first authoritative mention of an organized
agricultural fair event in Carroll County occurs in 1869. Nancy Warner writes
in her book, "Carroll County Maryland, A History," that on Jan. 11,
1869, the Carroll County Agricultural Society was organized "at a meeting
at the Court House."
"Capital of $25,000 was raised through the sale of 500
shares of stock at $50.00 per share. Thirty acres of land was bought between
the present Fair Street and Malcolm Drive," Warner wrote.
It is believed that the first agricultural fair in Carroll
County may have taken place on July 4, 1869, on East Main Street in Westminster
— though the current Carroll County 4-H and FFA Fair celebrates its roots going
back to a picnic held Aug. 14, 1897, at the Otterdale Schoolhouse, in
Taneytown.
The fair moved to Westminster in 1954. The Carroll County
Agriculture Center was established as a private organization on March 20, 1954,
by a group of visionary leaders who purchased the land at the end of an old
dirt lane off Gist Road, way outside of town — or at least it was back then —
with their own money.
This year's fair runs through Saturday, Aug. 4, with racing
pigs, the annual Combine Demolition Derby, Wild West Night, Car Demolition
Derby, Lawn Mower Racing, Tractor Pull and more. Many are looking forward to
seeing country music singer and songwriter Kip Moore on Aug. 4, at 8 p.m.
For a calendar of events and more information, go to
carrollcountyfair.com.
See you at the fair.
When he is not eating his way from one end of the fair to
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Paula Waterman Opening Reception at Off Track Art Friday, July 27, 2012 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Friday, July 27, 2012
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Paula Waterman
Meet the Artist, and view her exceptional wildlife
portraits!
Paula Waterman can’t remember a time she wasn’t making art.
For the past decade she has been doing just that as a full time artist working
in scratchboard, oil painting, and most recently in bronze sculpture. Her
subject matter is mostly the animals she sees in the wild and in the company of
people. She has a particular interest in birds, and of dog subjects, though
landscape and marine subjects are also important to her.
A common thread in all her work in all media probably is the
critical importance of light source and light color; in fact she feels that
light is the true subject in all her work.
(from www.paulawaterman.com)
Please join us!
See our art at
"OFF TRACK ART"
an Artist Cooperative
at 11 Liberty St--side entrance
in downtown
Westminster, MD
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Kip Moore - Mary Was The Marrying Kind
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Monday, July 23, 2012
1931 Maryland State Firemen’s Association Convention
By Kevin Dayhoff July 15, 2012 Westminster Patch
A lengthy July 17, 1931 newspaper article describes the
Westminster Municipal Band and the Westminster Fire Department arriving home
from participating in the Maryland State Firemen’s Association annual
convention earlier that July “in a jubilant mood, as the band brought home $100
for the best band in line of parade…”
The history page from the Frostburg Maryland Fire Department
reports that it was one of nine member fire companies that organized the first Maryland
State Firemen's Association convention in Frederick in June 1893.
In 1899 the convention was held in Westminster. A June 8,
1899 Baltimore Sun article, “Have A Hot Time In Westminster And Make Brave Show
MANY DROP OUT OF RANKS Twenty-Six Companies And Forty Organizations In The Line
Of The Great Parade” observed:
“…From 10,000 to 12,000 people were in Westminster for the
opening of the seventh annual convention of the Maryland State Firemen's
Association. From midnight until noon today trainloads of people arrived. By
everyone it is conceded to have been the greatest day in the history of
Westminster...” … http://westminster.patch.com/blog_posts/1931-maryland-state-firemens-association-convention
The 1931 newspaper article described the trip to Ocean City
in the days long before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built. “The firemen and
band left Wednesday morning at 6:35 and arrived at Ocean City at 12:15 p.m. in
a Blue Ridge line bus. They traveled by Green Spring Valley to Towson to Havre
de Grace, Elkton, Dover to Ocean City, about 190 miles…
“Thursday passed off in sight-seeing with a pajama parade by
the Westminster Band at 11 o'clock at night which was followed by several
hundred people cheering as they passed down the board walk…” The band also gave
concerts on the boardwalk and at the Del-Mar-Va Hotel and Hastings Hotel.
One of the biggest attractions at the end of the convention
is the grand parade which is described in great detail by the 1931 newspaper
account, “On Friday morning at 11 o'clock the firemen's parade was the feature.
The parade was led by Gov. Ritchie, Comptroller William S.
Gordy, and Mayor William W. McCabe. Twelve hundred firemen, representing 83
Maryland and Delaware fire units, paraded.” The parade extended over 2 miles
long that year.
According to the newspaper article, “Members of Westminster
Fire Department taking part in the convention were Frank T. Shaeffer, Michael
E. Walsh, Edw. O. Diffendal, Francis N. Keefer, J. Floyd Diffendal, Frank B.
Dillard, James Pearre Wantz, Jr., Ralph Royer, Edward B. Orendorff, Wilbur
Weller, J. H. Ryland and Claude Buckingham.”
“The $100 purse was a princely sum in 1931,” says local
historian Jay Graybeal. “In this early year of the Depression, a pound of
coffee cost 20 cents; a pound of peanut butter, 21 cents; and two cans of
tomatoes were 15 cents.”
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Art Deco Buildings: Crescent Hotel, Miami
Art Deco Buildings: Crescent Hotel, Miami: The Crescent Hotel on in Miami South Beach. Another masterpiece by Henry Hohauser built in 1938. And like all the hotels along Ocean Drive ...
“Off Track Art” is an artists’ co-op and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland.
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Saturday, July 21, 2012
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Westminster Volunteer Fire Department will host a crab feed on Saturday, July 21
The Westminster Volunteer Fire Department will host a crab
feed on Saturday, July 21 at the department’s John’s Street quarters attached
to the firehouse at 28 John Street in Westminster.
The menu features steamed crabs, pit ham and beef, macaroni
salad, coleslaw, baked beans, corn on the cob, Maryland crab soup, veggies,
fruit dip, cheese, and desserts.
The tickets are priced at $40.00 per person and proceeds go
to supporting the Westminster Volunteer Fire Department’s ambulance and
firefighting services.
For more information on the crab feed to support the fire
department, call 410-848-1800 or go to the department website at
westminstervfd.org.
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Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: The #art and culture of economic development part 2
Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: The #art and culture of economic
development part 2
New Engines of Growth – Part 2 http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5223
Kevin E. Dayhoff July 12, 2012
Last Monday, after studying the report, New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture, and Design,
prepared by the National Governors Association, I found myself lost in thought
about the role of the arts as an economic engine.
Later that day I met with a travel writer, Leonard M. Adkins
of Richmond, VA, at the cooperative art gallery, Off Track Art, of which I am a
founding member.
For three-years, the 10 artists in the cooperative have made
a conscious effort to act as an arts and culture incubator for Carroll County
as well as to promote the sale of our art.
Mr. Adkins, an outdoor and travel writer, photographer, and
“The Habitual Hiker,” is touring
Maryland through August 8 to update his book “Explorer’s
Guide Maryland.” He visited Carroll County in 2001 when he first wrote the
book and has been back several other times for updates.
It was exciting to talk with Mr. Adkins about the role of
tourism, arts, and culture in Maryland. He has also written about theAppalachian
Trail and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
As fate would have it, my wife and I spent last Saturday
bicycling from Brunswick to Harpers Ferry and back, where we had dinner at “Beans in the Belfry” on West
Potomac Street near the offices of our good friends, Mayor Carroll Jones and
City Administrator Richard Weldon at Brunswick
City Hall.
Located in a 100-year-old restored historic church, Beans in
the Belfry is an excellent example of an artistic approach to adaptive re-use,
and arts and culture as an economic driver and jobs creator.
The National Governor Association’s “New Engines of Growth”
report is a must-read for anyone involved in the development of public policy
that affects the arts and economic development.
The National
Governors Association website elaborates: “Globalization and the
changing economy have affected individual states differently, but all are
searching for ways to support high-growth industries, accelerate innovation,
foster entrepreneurial activity, address unemployment, build human capital and
revive distressed areas… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5223
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Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: National Governors Association
New Engines of Growth http://tinyurl.com/825mo9r
Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: The #art and culture of economic
development part 1 http://tinyurl.com/825mo9r
July 11, 2012 http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5218
Kevin E. Dayhoff Art
Econ Benefits of Art, Labels: Art
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Econ Benefits of Art, Bus Econ, Dayhoff
Media The Tentacle, Dayhoff
writing essays Art Artists, US
st National Governors Assoc
The National Governors Association recently released a new
report on the role that community arts, culture, and design play in job
creation and economic growth.
The remarkably creative and thoughtful report, New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture, and Design,
was prepared by the group’s Center for Best Practices, in collaboration with
the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Assembly of State Arts
Agencies.
The 52-page report itself is an eye-catching and
well-designed piece of artwork in its layout and design.
However, even more amazing is that, page-by-page, the report
presents a compelling and persuasive case for encouraging community arts and
cultural programs, businesses, shops and industry to create economy and jobs –
in a manner surprisingly devoid of mind-numbing public policy wonk-speak.
The executive summary of the report states, in part … http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5218
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By Kevin Dayhoff
July 11, 2012
One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the
heat, is the Tour de
France. This year, June 30 was one of my greatest days of summer…
That was the day that the 99th Tour de
France began with the “prologue” event. What follows, until July 22, is a tour
of France’s picturesque agriculturally dominated countryside, in 20 stages that
will cover 3,497 kilometres.
By the time a cyclist finishes the Tour de France, he will
have burned a total of 118,000 calories or the “equivalent to 26 Mars Bars per
day,” according to the BBC.
The Tour de France has a little something for everyone –
history, drama, intrigue, science, a mini geography tutorial of Europe, and all
of the fanfare and spectacle of what is arguably, one of the most difficult
sporting challenges in the world today...
And besides, so much of the humble – and insane – beginnings
of the Tour de France were started by journalists and a newspaper.
The humble beginnings of the bicycle race were as a
newspaper publicity event, brainstormed by Henri Desgrange in 1902, to promote
the sports newspaper “l'Auto.”
According to the history section
of the Le Tour de France website, “The line between insanity and genius is said
to be a fine one, and in early 20thcentury France, anyone envisaging a
near-2,500-km-long cycle race across the country would have been widely viewed
as unhinged.
“But that didn’t stop Géo Lefèvre, a journalist with L’Auto
magazine at the time, from proceeding with his inspired plan. His editor, Henri
Desgrange, was bold enough to believe in the idea and to throw his backing
behind the Tour de France. And so it was that, on 1 July 1903, sixty pioneers
set out on their bicycles from Montgeron. After six mammoth stages (Nantes -
Paris, 471 km!), only 21 “routiers,” led by Maurice Garin, arrived at the end
of this first epic.”
Although the eyes of the world are on the Tour de France
every July, did you know that there were several celebrated bicycle races, in
the central-Maryland area, a number of years before the first Tour de France in
1903?
According to an American Sentinel newspaper article
published on October 20, 1895: “The most remarkable cycling event … was a
century run, undertaken by over three hundred riders, from Baltimore, on
Sunday last.
“Mishaps reduced the number, by the time the cavalcade
started, to two hundred and ninety-nine, among whom were several ladies.
The run was to Frederick and return.
“Two hundred and forty-six of the starters continued in the
run to the finish and made the 100 miles… Messrs. George M. Parke and John H.
Cunningham, of the Cycling Ramblers of Westminster, were in the run and
completed the century.”
At the Corbit’s Charge encampment on Sunday, June 24, I was
inspired by several conversations with local historians Tom LeGore and Ron
Kuehne, known well for his historic interpretation of Westminster Mayor Michael
Baughman; to revisit our local history at Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Washington
DC, and Gettysburg.
All are comfortable family-friendly day trips for those of
us who live in Carroll County. Well, by car that is…
So, in honor of the Tour de France, on Saturday, July my
wife and I spent bicycling through history from Brunswick to Harpers Ferry and
back on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath.
We had dinner at “Beans
in the Belfry” on West Potomac Street, in Brunswick, near the offices of my
good friends, Mayor Carroll Jones and City Administrator Richard Weldon at
the Brunswick City Hall.
Located in a 100 year-old restored historic church, Beans in
the Belfry is an excellent of an artistic approach to adaptive re-use, and arts
and culture as an economic driver and jobs creator.
We loved the ambiance and atmosphere of Beans in the Belfry.
Our food was wonderful and the service friendly and welcoming.
Next week - Saturday, July 14, 2012, we’ll try the Northern Central
Railroad Trail, in Gunpowder
Falls State Park in Baltimore County.
See also:
Eagle Archive: Saluting Carroll County's love of that dangerous 'foreign invention' ... the bicycle
Baltimore Sun By Kevin Dayhoff July 14, 2012 2012http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story
More than 100 years ago, "bicycle riders and racers,
were filled with excitement over an event to take place at the Pleasure Park, a
newly built horseracing track with grandstand one mile north of Westminster on
the road to Littlestown."
That property is now known as Carroll County Regional
Airport.
Thanks to research for the Historical Society of Carroll
County by historian Mary Ann Ashcraft, we know that on June 25, 1898, the
now-defunct American Sentinel wrote that "Thursday, the 30th day of
June, will be the greatest day among cyclists in Carroll County that has ever
occurred in its history.
One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the
heat, is the Tour de France. This year, June 30 was one of
my greatest days of summer.
That was the day that the 99th Tour de France began with the
"prologue" event. What follows, until July 22, is a tour of France's
picturesque and agriculturally dominated countryside, in 20 stages that will
cover 3,497 kilometers…http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story
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Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/ “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:10Eagle Archive: Saluting Carroll County's love of that dangerous 'foreign invention' ... the bicycle
Baltimore Sun By Kevin Dayhoff July 14, 2012 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story
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More than 100 years ago, "bicycle riders and racers, were filled with excitement over an event to take place at the Pleasure Park, a newly built horseracing track with grandstand one mile north of Westminster on the road to Littlestown."
That property is now known as Carroll County Regional Airport.
Thanks to research for the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian Mary Ann Ashcraft, we know that on June 25, 1898, the now-defunct American Sentinel wrote that "Thursday, the 30th day of June, will be the greatest day among cyclists in Carroll County that has ever occurred in its history.
One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the heat, is the Tour de France. This year, June 30 was one of my greatest days of summer.
That was the day that the 99th Tour de France began with the "prologue" event. What follows, until July 22, is a tour of France's picturesque and agriculturally dominated countryside, in 20 stages that will cover 3,497 kilometers… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0715-20120711,0,1917523.story
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