Welcome to the NEW official web site of the Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table Our 12th year! Come Join Us!
Our 7th annual Corbit's Charge commemoration will be held on June 26 - 28th. at 224 N. Center St. This event is free to the public. A schedule of activities has been posted in the Corbit's Charge section. Please join us!
Encampment opens for re-enactor camp setup, located at 224 N. Center Street
6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Living history Civil War presence on Main Street in downtown Westminster. Historic Downtown tour of CW sites at 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
Free period music concert by "O’ Be JoyFull" on the Locust Lane stage from 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
10:00 a.m.
Encampment opens to the public with unit drill and camp life demonstrations and displays. Children’s games available on request. Sutlers and food will be available.
12:30 p.m.
Re-enactors assemble for parade to Court House for wreath laying at battle monument and
Lt. Murray’s grave. Tours of the battle site begin immediately following the ceremony until 4:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Re-enactors return to encampment to continue unit drill and camp life demonstrations and displays.
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Michael Crutcher, Sr. interprets Frederick Douglass. Mr. Crutcher will be available all day to speak with the public.
5:00 p.m.
Re-enactors dinner is served.
7:00 p.m.
Concert of civil war period music. Music provided by the Susquehanna Travellers.
Snack Food service is available to the public.
9:30 p.m.
Encampment closes to the public.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Encampment is open to the public with camp life demonstrations, unit drill and displays. Children’s games available on request. Sutlers and food will be available.
10:00 a.m.
A Civil War Tent Style Church Service. Chaplin Allan Farley officiating.
Public is welcome.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Michael Crutcher, Sr. interprets Frederick Douglass. Mr. Crutcher will be available all day to speak with the public.
12 noon
Tours of the battle site begin.
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Music by the Victorian Parlour Ensemble for your listening pleasure.
4:00 p.m.
Encampment closes.
Re-enactor Units
1st Maryland Artillery, CSA, 8th Virginia Infantry, CSA
Field Hospital, Robert Urban, 24th Georgia Infantry, Co. H, CSA
26th Virginia Infantry, Co. K, Sons of Confederate Veterans, MD. Div. Color Guard
11th Virginia Cavalry, Co. H, CSA, 3rd PA. Cavalry, Co. I
4th North Carolina Infantry, CSA, 3rd Maryland Infantry, USA
150th New York Vol. Infantry, USA, 22nd North Carolina Infantry, CSA
The American Civil War Education Foundation/Heritage Restorers
Officer Interpreters:
*Civil War Heritage Foundation (CSA First Corps. HQ)
*Lt.-General James Longstreet, *Major Fairfax
Major General J.E.B Stuart, General Issac Trimble
"Soldiers and Subjects of the Queen" (British Military Observers)
Stephen Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate Navy
Sutlers – Displays
Pipe Creek Civil War Round Table, Historical Society of Carroll County
Victorian Photography Studio, Rick Barrick, Chaircanning Demo.
Liz Oats, Seamstress, Joe "Reb" Staup, Blacksmith
Jeff Leister, Tinsmith and his tole lady, Patrick & Joann Dunnigan, Chaircanner & Band boxes
Andrew Maher, Custom Furniture, Chaplain Alan Farley, Re-enactor’s Mission for Jesus Christ
C.W.Whitehair, Author, Dennis Duerbeck, Civil War Artillery Projectiles
Dan Toomey, Author, Joe Hollingsworth, Artist
Michael Crutcher, Sr. interprets Frederick Douglass
Subject to change as more units and displayers respond
DAYHOFF: Hoffa Field and the Sheathing of the Sword Published June 23, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle ... . Lightner and the June 1922 American Sentinel newspaper article have left us with an extensive and fascinating account of the “The Sheathing of the Sword.” Kevin Dayhoff may reached at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
'Year without summer' killed crops ... and created a monster Published June 21, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle ... village folk that it's not a bad idea to keep a torch handy on these cool summer nights. When he is not playing with laboratory-harnessed lightning, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at ...
Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge Published June 20, 2009 by Westminster Eagle UNION BRIDGE — Several hundred folks braved threatening weather June 20 to witness the unveiling and dedication of the historic 1900 Blue Ridge College bell in Lehigh Square, the original site of the college which had thrived in Union Bridge from 1898 to ... ...
Dayhoff: New councilmember tackles alleged hit and run driver Published June 1, 2009 by Westminster Eagle, Carroll Eagle ... Westminster city police arrived and took control of the situation The accident is under investigation. All in a day’s work. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.
Celebration of memory and change Published May 26, 2009 by Westminster Eagle This year’s Westminster Memorial Day ceremonies witnessed many changes over the past — although the solemn tradition of 142 years continued. On Memorial Day the normal hustle and bustle of downtown Westminster paused to remember fallen veterans, and ... ...
Michael Jackson, the record-breaking, sensationally gifted "King of Pop" who emerged from childhood superstardom to become the entertainment world's most influential singer and dancer, and the tabloid world's most disturbing celebrity, has died. He was 50
Politics Rocks wrote at the time: Most of the pictures in the slideshow are from Gervais Bridges at Barbecue & Politics. Unfortunately, Gervais retired his blog the other week. In honor of his legacy, the slideshow and song below are dedicated to him. The blog posted underneath comes from BBQ & Politics on June 28, 2006, the day after Andre Bauer defeated Mike Campbell in the run-off. My personal favorite and an instant classic. For the History of the Song, click here- DOT Official's Song Hits Sour Note http://politicsrocks.blogspot.com/2006/08/in-honor-of-bbq-politics-mark-sanford.html
Lyrics to Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita) :
It won't be easy
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love
After ll that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see
Is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressd up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen
I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it too
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for fortune and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world
They were all I desired
They are illusions
They're not the solutions
They promise to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
Don't cry for me Argentina
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
Have I said to much?
There's nothing more I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do
Is look at me to know
That every word is true
[ Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita) Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- A southern Indiana lawyer said he's embarrassed and has apologized for being found asleep headfirst in neighbor's trash can after a night of drinking.
Published June 21, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
It's halfway through June, and for those of us who love Maryland's melting heat and humidity, many are wondering — where is summer?
For me, though, thoughts turn to the birth of Frankenstein.
First things first. In 1816, there really was a "year without summer." Carol Lee, in her book, "Legacy of the Land," explains that the year without summer caused quite a bit of hardship in Carroll County. "Farmers in Maryland and elsewhere would remember 1816 as ... 'eighteen hundred and starve-to-death.' " According to Lee, there were freezing temperatures well into June.
What caused the year without summer? According to a July 2002 article in Smithsonian magazine, "Blast from the Past," by Robert Evans, the agricultural and economic catastrophe of 1816 was a volcanic winter, caused by the eruptions of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, in what we now know as Indonesia, April 5-15, 1815.
... village folk that it's not a bad idea to keep a torch handy on these cool summer nights.
When he is not playing with laboratory-harnessed lightning, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff at gmail.com or visit him at www.westminstermarylandonline.net. ...
Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge Published June 20, 2009 by Westminster Eagle UNION BRIDGE — Several hundred folks braved threatening weather June 20 to witness the unveiling and dedication of the historic 1900 Blue Ridge College bell in Lehigh Square, the original site of the college which had thrived in Union Bridge from 1898 to ... ...
Dayhoff: New councilmember tackles alleged hit and run driver Published June 1, 2009 by Westminster Eagle, Carroll Eagle ... Westminster city police arrived and took control of the situation. The accident is under investigation. All in a day’s work.
Celebration of memory and change Published May 26, 2009 by Westminster Eagle This year’s Westminster Memorial Day ceremonies witnessed many changes over the past — although the solemn tradition of 142 years continued. On Memorial Day the normal hustle and bustle of downtown Westminster paused to remember fallen veterans, and ... ...
Of the many reckonings that black people of honest political consciousness must endure, the appointment with black slavery is the most agonizing. I don't mean the appointment with the notion of white people as the enslavers of our ancestors, but the appointment with our African ancestors as brokers.
I think, when you're in your intellectual infancy, myth keeps your sane. When I was young I believed, like a lot of us at that time, that my people had been kidnapped out of Africa by malicious racist whites. Said whites then turned and subjugated and colonized the cradle of all men. It was a comforting thought which placed me and mine at the center of a grand heroic odyssey. We were deposed kings and queens robbed of our rightful throne by acquisitive merchants of human flesh. By that measures we were not victims, but deposed nobles--in fact and in spirit.
Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of Leningrad describe the first performance of this great symphony
Videos from the 1950s show architect Frank Lloyd Wright at the site of the Guggenheim Museum
The Historic Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires Take in the sights and sounds of the European influences of Argentina’s capital city Cooking with Crickets Chef Darin Nesbit demonstrates how to cook cricket-crusted redfish Home Movies of the Patton Family The grandson of Gen. George S. Patton shares his family's home movies Movie Magic at the Museums The entertainment curator at the American History Museum shows cinematic highlights from the museum's collections, including Dorothy's red slippers and Superman's cape
June 14: General Interest 1777 : Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes
During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." The national flag, which became known as the "Stars and Stripes," was based on the "Grand Union" flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.
With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states.
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance.
Come by Off Track Art for a mini opening this Thursday, June 11, 2009 after work. Stop by and meet the artists, browse new work and pick up something special for that upcoming summer wedding/anniversary/birthday!
(I have not had a chance to visit the National Marine Corps Museum. As a matter of fact I have not been back to Quantico Virginia since 1972. I look forward to the opportunity to re-visit… ~ Kevin Dayhoff)
Dayhoff: New councilmember tackles alleged hit and run driver Published June 1, 2009 by Westminster Eagle, Carroll Eagle ... Westminster city police arrived and took control of the situation The accident is under investigation. All in a day’s work.
Celebration of memory and change Published May 26, 2009 by Westminster Eagle This year’s Westminster Memorial Day ceremonies witnessed many changes over the past — although the solemn tradition of 142 years continued. On Memorial Day the normal hustle and bustle of downtown Westminster paused to remember fallen veterans, and ... ...
Mulkey is one of many, yet a special son of Carroll County Published May 22, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle ... thanks to Mount Airy councilwoman Wendi Peters and American Legion Post 191 commander Roy True for their help with this column.
Utz elected as new mayor of Westminster Published May 18, 2009 by Carroll Eagle ... with 130 votes; Eleanor DeMario, 105; William Gill, 130; and William Hughes, 58. — compiled by Kevin Dayhoff Incumbent, two newcomers elected council Hampstead … Hampstead Town Councilman Wayne Thomas won election along with newcomers Jamey Ayers and ... ...
