Free Speech Freedom Motivator

Free Speech Freedom Motivator

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I may not agree with what you say but, but I respect your right to be punished for it.

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Westminster Patch Artist Profile: Carolyn Seabolt Keeps the Art of Tinsel Painting Alive

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Westminster Patch Artist Profile: Carolyn Seabolt Keeps the Art of Tinsel Painting Alive

Carolyn Seabolt, artist, teacher and illustrator aims to revive the dying art of tinsel painting.

By Kerri Gaither January 3, 2012

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Carolyn Seabolt is working to keep the art of tinsel painting alive. 

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Seabolt, who was the art department chair at Westminster High School, said that when she was in her 20s she saw a woman exhibiting the now-rare tinsel painting at a fair in Pennsylvania. She was so impressed that she learned as much as she could about the craft; gaining knowledge and skills that she now passes on to her own students in an effort to keep this “dying art” alive. 

Tinsel painting was highly popular in England and France in the 1800s. It started as an artistic way for women to re-purpose foil, or tinsel, as the English called it, from teas that their husbands brought home. Tinsel painting involves painting in reverse on glass with stains and acrylic paint. Once painted, foil, or tinsel, is placed behind the transparency, giving it a glitter.

“Tinsel painting is a beautiful type of art that is not around anymore. I teach it in hopes that the craft will not die out completely” Seabolt said.

Seabolt spends her summers teaching silk scarf painting and tinsel painting at Common Ground held at McDaniel College. She also teaches watercolor classes at Carroll Community College and at her very own Cat Tracks Studio… http://westminster.patch.com/articles/artist-profile-carolyn-seabolt-keeping-the-art-of-tinsel-painting-alive

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Seabolt’s works can be viewed at the Shop at Cockey’s, Mat About You in Ellicott City, and by appointment in her own Cat Tracks Studio.

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Off Track Art Exhibition with guest artist Kelly Heck

Carroll Arts Center

"Lucky 13" by Off Track Art Showing at Birdie's Cafe

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Play: "My Unspeakable Confessions: Gala Dali Declines to Explain Herself" | Sarasota Theater and Art & Entertainment Events on Patch - Sarasota, FL Patch:

"Today, January 6, 7:00 pm

741 Central Ave, Sarasota, FL, $10

This one-act play previously presented at the Dali Museum returns to Sarasota. The museum says it “touches on the secrets, fears, promises and lies and told through Gala Dali’s fascinating relationship with the Tarot.” Written by Heather L. Jones and performed by Roxanne Fay, both founders of the writers’ and artists’ collaborative Blue Scarf Collective."

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Blue Scarf Collective Presents Gala Dali at Home Resource, Sarasota 11/28/11

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The irreverent artist, Salvador Dali, sizzled in his own right; but throw in the fire of his passionate wife and muse, Gala, and you can well understand how a clock could melt in their presence. (google: "The Persistence of Memory" by Dali)

In a powerful one act/one person play sponsored by Michael and Kathy Bush, owners of Home Resource, (a showroom of mouth watering contemporary furniture in Sarasota,) the Blue Scarf Collective of Tampa presented My Unspeakable Confessions: Gala Dali Declines to Explain Herself, beautifully written by Heather L. Jones, to sold out crowds on Nov. 25th and 28th.

This is Home Resource's first collaboration with the Dali Museum and Blue Scarf Collective. Looks like there may be a repeat January 2012 performance at HR, which I suggest you run out and see.

Roxanne Fay brilliantly played Gala, Salvador Dali's charismatic, devoted and headstrong seductress. Tarot cards, a favorite pastime of Gala's, were read, one by one, to cleverly introduce the chapters of Gala's personal story, an act of dramatic creation itself. The lady did as she pleased.

Through Ms. Fay's moving performance, we got up close and personal to Gala's all consuming love for Dali (and herself) and his equally intense connection to her. She wished to be everything to him: lover, wife, mother, collaborator and inspiration. We came to understand how this rapport completely defined each of them and allowed their creative and personal lives to flourish. Like a plant needs water, Gala told us that without the intensity of love, she was 'invisible"; a state simply unacceptable to her. (She seemed to have lots of attractive young men doing their best to help keep her visible.) ... http://srxq.blogspot.com/2011/11/gala-dali-at-home-resource-sarasota.html

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Kelly Heck Photography: Come check out the exhibit, "Beautiful Silence", b...

Kelly Heck Photography: Come check out the exhibit, "Beautiful Silence", by Kelly Heck - Feb 4 2012

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In exactly one month, the reception for my solo show opens! I hope to see many of my local friends and community out to enjoy the show. G...

Kelly Heck Photography: Come check out the exhibit, "Beautiful Silence", by Kelly Heck - Feb 4 2012

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Thoughts & work of a Photographer, Artist & Entrepreneur.

Come check out the exhibit, "Beautiful Silence", by Kelly Heck - Feb 4 2012

In exactly one month, the reception for my solo show opens! I hope to see many of my local friends and community out to enjoy the show.

Guests will also enjoy shows in the center’s other gallery spaces when stopping by. Other February shows include Michael Langley, Brooklyn NY based painter, the Baltimore Watercolor Society juried show, Richard Weiblinger macro photography and Cardew Evans, mixed media wall sculpture.

For more details about the show (date/time/location), please continue reading the invitation, below! Thanks!

You are invited to attend a photographic exhibition at The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, 40 S. Carroll Street, Frederick, MD. Meet the artist, Kelly Heck, on February 4, 2012 from 3:00 pm till 5:00 pm and enjoy the Beautiful Silence series, which features winter landscapes in and around Carroll County, Maryland. If you cannot attend the reception, please consider stopping by during the show from January 28th till March 25th.

If you could, please RSVP! I would love to know who's able to attend. You can RSVP on Facebook or LinkedIn:
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Thanks so much, and hope to see you soon!

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Main Street Happenings This Weekend - Westminster, MD Patch

Main Street Happenings This Weekend - Westminster, MD Patch:

"Main Street Happenings This Weekend

Live music, art and the Civil War for kids--all on Westminster's Main Street this weekend.

By Kym Byrnes"

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Village East Cinema - Cinema History

Village East Cinema - Cinema History: "HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE EAST CINEMA

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The Village East Cinema, located at 181-189 Second Avenue, opened in 1926 as The Yiddish Art Theater in the heart of New York City’s Jewish Rialto district. Designed by prominent Brooklyn lawyer and Jewish community leader Louis Jaffe, the historic building was built as an elaborate, 1265 seat live theater for Yiddish theater pioneer Maurice Schwartz. The interior was designed in the Moorish Revival style that was popular in synagogues at the time, and included a forty-foot ornamental ceiling with a spectacular Star of David in the center that is still present today.

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Kevin Dayhoff: A Tribute to Calvin Brothers, long serving firefighter, 4-H volunteer and Chief Building Inspector for Carroll County

Kevin Dayhoff: A Tribute to Calvin Brothers, long serving firefighter, 4-H volunteer and Chief Building Inspector for Carroll County

Calvin Brothers, long serving firefighter, 4-H volunteer and Chief Building Inspector for Carroll County, has died at age 79

Kevin Dayhoff,

Monday, January 2, 2012

Labels: Fire CC Depts 13 Gamber, People Tributes

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Also see: Calvin Brothers, firefighter, 4-H volunteer and chief building inspector, dies at 79 

Updated: 3:25 p.m. Firefighters and friends from across Carroll County gathered at the Haight Funeral Home in Sykesville on Jan. 1 to celebrate the life of... 

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Firefighters from all across Carroll County gathered at the Haight Funeral Home in Sykesville on Sunday to celebrate the life of Calvin Warren Brothers, 79, of Finksburg, who died Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster.

The service was conducted by the Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association Chaplain, Deacon Charles Barnhart, of whom many emergency services personnel turn to in times of trouble or grief in Carroll County.

Barnhart began the service by saying, “My friends, we have gathered here to praise God and to witness our faith as we celebrate the life of Calvin Brothers. We come together in grief, acknowledging our human loss. May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.”

Brothers wore many different hats in the greater Carroll County community and many folks knew him well by his steadfast community leadership in the many responsibilities he took upon himself. The one common thread is that he did everything well and no matter how difficult the task, he was always a good friend to everyone.

He was born February 2, 1932 in Finksburg, and was the son of the late Ernest Claude and Amelia I. Ward Brothers. He was the husband of the late Carol Ann Baumes Brothers, who died in 2010.

He was a U.S. Army veteran, who served in Korea. He was a member of the Westminster VFW, Westminster Moose, and the Westminster American Legion.

He worked for many years for Luther L. Brothers Builders and later as the Chief Building Inspector for Carroll County.

Others knew him well as a volunteer with Carroll County 4H and FFA programs where he once served as the Chair of the Board for the Carroll County 4H and FFA Fair.

Folks gathered Sunday evening to celebrate Brothers’ service to our community as a volunteer firefighter. In May 1964, after several devastating fires in the Gamber area of Carroll County, the Gamber and Community Fire Company was organized. According to an old newspaper article, “Two months after the company established itself, Calvin Brothers joined up. His uncle, a member, recruited him. ‘Between 1965 and 1975, this was a very small company,’ he said. ‘It didn't seem like we were going to go too far.’”

But through the hard work of Brothers and countless other community leaders, the upstart fire company has gone far over the years.

“By 1965, the company purchased land and a building at the intersection of Md. 32 and Md. 91, and ordered the first piece of fire equipment…”

Here, Barnhart picked-up the story of Brothers’ work for our community at his memorial service. Brothers “gave his volunteer spirit for 46 years.” He was the company president for a total of eleven-years in five different decades.

Over the years, in addition to serving as a delegate to the Carroll County Volunteer Firemen’s Association, and member of numerous committees, he also served as Gamber fire chief, first vice-president for four years, second vice-president for three years, and a member of the board of directors for an additional four years.

He also served as president of the county firefighters’ association from 1992-1993 and was elected to the Carroll County Volunteer Firemen’s Association Hall of Fame in 1990.

Barnhart spoke for many when he said, “There is so much to share about Calvin’s dedication to” the Gamber volunteer fire company. “His personality and devotion will never be forgotten. In every role, Calvin touched your lives with charm and wit, with courage and hope, with kindness and love. And I’m sure that it was a great reunion at the heavenly gate when Calvin arrived this past Wednesday…

“Calvin became for all, the model of what it means to be an honest hard working sensitive adult. And now, as long as you live in the memory of his witness and faith, he will always live through you…

“We have been blessed with various gifts of service. We give thanks for the life of Calvin W. Brothers and say thank you for his 46 years of service to the Gamber and Community Volunteer Fire Company and the Gamber community. We are grateful for his time and commitment for the betterment of others.”

According to attribute ob the fire company website by Gamber fire company treasurer Clay Myers, Brothers was the husband of Carol Ann Brothers who died in 2010. Surviving are daughter and son-in-law Jen and Chad Dean of Odenton, sons and daughter-in-law Rick Bartels of Glen Burnie, and John and Alisha Bartels of Gamber.

Also surviving are brothers and sisters-in-law Robert Brothers of Gamber, Luther L. and Eva M. Brothers of Gamber, and Carl Melvin and Bonnie Brothers of Traverse City, MI, sister Joan Gist of Gamber, and grandchildren Kera Jefcoat, Kaitlyn Crabtree, Tyler Bartels and Olivia Hope Bartels, and great grandson Layton Jefcoat.

He was predeceased by his sisters Grace Shipley, Jeanette Robertson, Marietta Clark, and Amelia Sue Green, his brother-in-law Richard Gist, and his grandson John Eric Bartels.

Funeral services were held Monday, January 2, 2012, at 10:00 am at Haight Funeral Home & Chapel with Deacon Charles Barnhart officiating. Interment was at the Providence Cemetery, Gamber.

Donations in the honor of the memory of Brothers may be made to the Gamber and Community Fire Department, 3939 Niner Rd., Finksburg, MD 21048.

Online condolences may be offered at www.haightfuneralhome.com

Photo of Calvin W. Brothers in uniform courtesy of the Gamber and Community Fire Department

Kevin Dayhoff: A Tribute to Calvin Brothers, long serving firefighter, 4-H volunteer and Chief Building Inspector for Carroll County

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The engine bays at the Westminster Fire Company. It's cold there. BE SAFE

The engine bays at the Westminster Fire Company. It's cold out there. BE SAFE

Top films of 2011 go back in time, and many find success

Top films of 2011 go back in time, and many find success

By Mike Giuliano

December 29, 2011 | 10:26 a.m.

The very best movies of the past year went back to the earliest years of cinema for their subject matter, but 100 or so years amount to just a few film frames when you consider that some of the other movies in this 10-best list went back to the dawn of time for their stories.

In any event, the end of the year is a natural time to think about the good, the bad and the ugly movies that came our way in 2011. It actually turned out to be a pretty good year in terms of the diversity of subjects and level of craftsmanship. Where the latter is concerned, it was reassuring to see that the trendy 3D process can be worthwhile when a crafty director is behind the camera; as for the more routine movies that tried to grab your attention by being released in 3D, well, not even the added dimension can help some movies.

This isn't the place to dwell on movies you forget even as you're watching them, of course, so let's celebrate the ones worth remembering in the years ahead... http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/events-entertainment/ph-ho-go-top-films-1229-20111229,0,5654066.story

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Big turn out for first annual Westminster New Year’s Eve celebration

Big turn out for first annual Westminster New Year’s Eve celebration

Almost 500 attend a flag raising at the stroke of midnight.

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January 1, 2012

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Labels: Annual New Year, Annual New Year 2012, Westminster, Westminster Art Culture Artists, Westminster File community events

For more on Westminster’s New Year’s Eve celebration go to “Westminster Welcomes 2012” by Kym Byrnes on Westminster Patch: http://westminster.patch.com/articles/westminster-welcomes-2012

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At the stroke of midnight New Year’s Day in downtown Westminster, nothing dropped. Not a brightly lighted ball - or anything, for that matter.

As the crowd shouted in unison, “five, four, three, two, one; Happy New Year” - a large American flag was raised on a bright yellow bucket lift donated by Ben’s Rental. “2012” accompanied the flag in numbers in bright lights on a homemade four-by- eight Styrofoam backboard powered by a portable generator.

“Hey, you know, I mean, why not, we’re always looking up in Westminster…and if anything, we’re patriotic…,” said Westminster Kevin Utz with a broad grin, as he nodded approvingly at the flag suspended about thirty-five-feet in the air above Main Street.

With the temperature in the lower 40s, no snow and hardly any wind, the weather was perfect for almost 500 people who attended the first annual Westminster New Year’s Eve celebration in historic downtown Westminster Saturday night.

Lori Graham, who spearheaded the event, had put a great deal of thought as to “what the heck do you drop” for a new Westminster New Year’s Eve tradition. Oh, there were plenty of silly ideas, smiled Graham devilishly. In the end, it was decided to not drop anything at all.

In honor of the troops, the men and women in uniform, coming home from the Middle East, Graham wanted to honor their service by raising the flag for the Carroll County New Year’s celebration in the first unit block of West Main Street. “I wanted a patriotic Westminster family-oriented event.”

The Westminster police and the Westminster street department blocked-off the area just minutes before 11:30 p.m., Saturday evening, as folks had already begun to gather.

Westminster Councilman Tony Chiavacci was there, with thirty folks from his New Year’s Eve party. “I brought the whole party here,” said Chiavacci as he peered over the crowd. “Great to see everyone here… Give us a couple of years and look out Times Square,” in a reference to the hundreds of thousands who attend the traditional dropping of an expensive Tiffany Ball.

New York City got started on its New Year’s Eve celebration over a hundred years ago - in 1906. This was Westminster’s first year for a family-community celebration and Graham and city officials and other community leaders got started on last Saturday’s event, about 100-days ago...

“Just like New York,” said Bernie Stallknecht, from Hampstead. She was there with her family. “We unusually go the (Baltimore) harbor. We wanted to support a Carroll County celebration… (This was) just wonderful. Keep it local.”

“No wonder they came here. New York hasn’t got anything on Westminster,” added Graham, as families hugged and kissed and strangers greeted each other with “Happy New Year.”

Westminster Volunteer Fire Department President Bob Cumberland, watched from the back of the crowd with fire department treasurer Bob Ruby and Westminster Police Chief Jeff Spaulding – who was busy coordinating crowd control with Captain Nancy Yeager.

“Happy New Year – be safe in 2012. We’re thankful for all the community support last year and looking forward to even better things this year,” said Cumberland.

Ruby, who also serves with the fire police, stopped in the middle of his greeting to listen to his radio. “Happy… wait a minute. Well, there goes the first call of the year, shrubs on fire from fireworks… Where was I? Oh, Happy New Year.”

Utz noted that he was “overwhelmed with the turn-out. We thought we might just get a few folks – a Westminster crowd - from the downtown restaurants. But, families came from all over Carroll County,” said Utz.

Long after midnight, Utz, Graham, Westminster Street Superintendent Larry Bloom, Westminster Administrator of Economic Development Stan Ruchlewicz and his wife, Pat, waited patiently to dismantle the flag and lights while families lined-up to have their pictures taken with the “2012” display.

Ruchlewicz was all smiles as he and his wife clicked-away with cameras handed to them. “Great turn out for a first time event,” said Ruchlewicz, a seasoned urban planner and veteran of helping putting together many events over the years. “Especially for a family-centered event at midnight…”

Mike Johnson, from Westminster, was also pleased with the event and added, “All traditions have to start somewhere…” as he surveyed the families having their pictures taken.

Bloom, who is also in charge of the city’s snow clearing operations, was glad for good weather. “This weather was great for a good turn out,” said Bloom as he began to unplug the lights.

“This was awesome,” Graham kept saying to no one in particular. “Just awesome that so many families came out. It’s good to have a local community event for families right here in Carroll County.”

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Westminster’s first annual New Year’s Eve celebration a big success

With the temperature in the lower 40s, no snow and hardly any wind, the weather was perfect for almost 500 people who attended the first annual Westminster New Year’s Eve celebration in historic downtown Westminster Saturday night.

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Happy New Year from historic downtown Westminster

Exhibition "Beautiful Silence" by Kelly Heck; February 4, 2012 at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM; The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick

Exhibition "Beautiful Silence" by Kelly Heck; February 4, 2012 at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM; The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick

Exhibition "Beautiful Silence" by Kelly Heck

February 4, 2012 at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick http://www.delaplaine.org/

You are invited to attend a photographic exhibition at The Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, 40 S. Carroll Street, Frederick, MD.

Meet the artist, Kelly Heck, on February 4, 2012 from 3:00 pm till 5:00 pm and enjoy the Beautiful Silence series, which features winter landscapes in and around Carroll County, Maryland.

If you cannot attend the reception, please consider stopping by during the show from January 28th till March 25th.

Note: There will be two more shows up as well for you to enjoy! If you have any questions feel free to contact me (Kelly) or contact The Delaplaine directly at 301.698.0656. Thanks!

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