Sunday, July 15, 2012
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.
Open: Wed-Fri. Noon to 6 PM , Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Westminster Fire Department to hold history museum open house and pit beef sale
Westminster fire history museum to hold open house
Later on Saturday, July 21, 2012, the Westminster Volunteer
Fire Department will host a crab feed.
By Kevin Dayhoff,
July 14, 2012 Labels: Carroll
Co Community Events, Fire
CC Depts 03 Westminster, Fire
CC Depts 03 Westminster fundraiser, Fire
CC Depts 03 Westminster history, Fire
CC Depts 03 Westminster history museum, Food pit
beef
On Sunday, July 15, 2012, the Westminster Volunteer Fire
Department will swing open the doors to the past with an open house to the
department’s critically acclaimed history of local firefighting museum, from 1
to 4 p.m.
Veteran firefighters and historians will be hand to answer
questions and conduct tours of the museum which is attached to the southern-end
of the firehouse on John Street in downtown Westminster.
Also available is pit beef and pit ham sandwiches for the event.
The museum at the Westminster firehouse offers the public a
glimpse into the history of the fire department that spans two centuries. It
was dedicated on October 24, 1998, when the fire department moved from the fire
station located at 66 East Main Street, which had served the community for 102
years, to its current location on John Street.
The first mention of a fire department in the city of
Westminster was in the year 1808 when the Maryland General Assembly “passed an
act authorizing the raising of money by lottery to pay for a fire engine…”
The Act of the Maryland General Assembly named several
“commissioners” who were charged with conducting the lottery. Even in those
early days, they were also some of Westminster’s prominent community leaders.
Several were among the first elected officials of the town
after the town’s first election in April 1819: Jacob Sherman, Daniel Zacharias,
John Fisher (the first Burgess of Westminster) and Jacob Yingling.
It took another fifteen years before the fire company was
formed. The name of the first fire company in Westminster, formed in 1823, was,
the “Union Fire Company of the Town of Westminster.” The first firehouse was on
Church Street.
Another little known tidbit of history is when the
“firehouse” was moved from its beginning location on Church Street, to near the
intersection of Court Street and Main Street, around 1834, it was used as a
“drunk tank.”
When a town drunk was picked up, the local authorities would
move the firefighting apparatus out of the “firehouse” and lock up the offender
inside. Remember, although Westminster had first incorporated in 1818; at this
time, it was still in Frederick County and there was no “county jail” in
Westminster.
According to the Westminster Fire Department website,
today the department’s
museum looks “like an old station dating back to the late 1800's. The
station is octagonal in design and in the front above the window contains the
original stained glass window from our previous station…
“Inside the museum, you will find our two antique motorized
pieces, 2 hose carts, and assorted photos, documents, and other historical
memorabilia. The room is designed to look like a station of the late
1800's/early 1900's…”
In addition to display cases containing many artifacts from
two-hundred years of firefighting in Westminster; on display are several pieces
of historic firefighting equipment, including items such as hand drawn hose
carts that date back to approximately 1893… A 1924
American LaFrance city service ladder, and a 1933
American LaFrance type 75 pumper; and much more.
In addition to this Sunday’s open house, 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, and the museum.
For more information on the museum open house or 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 - Soundtrack: Bicycling the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Kevin Dayhoff - Soundtrack: Bicycling the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal: By Kevin Dayhoff July 11, 2012 One of my passions for July, besides thoroughly enjoying the heat, is the Tour de France . This ye...
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By Kevin Dayhoff
July 11, 2012 Labels: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, MD muni Brunswick, Sports Bicycling, Sports Bicycling Tour de France
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.
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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
Labels: Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, Dayhoff
Media Explore Carroll, History
Carroll Co, MD
muni Brunswick, Sports
Bicycling, Sports
Bicycling Tour de France
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
Labels: Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, MD
muni Brunswick, Sports
Bicycling, Sports
Bicycling Tour de France
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
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,
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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Generations have been touched by Frock's 4-H and church leadership By Kevin Dayhoff, May 3, 2012
Eagle Archive: Generations have been touched by Frock's 4-H
and church leadership http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0506-20120502,0,7820360.story
By Kevin Dayhoff, May 3, 2012 Labels: 4H, 4H
Carroll Co 4H FFA Fair, Ag
Carroll Co MD Ag Center, Dayhoff
Media Explore Carroll, People
Frock Kathryn, People
Obituaries, People
Tributes
Fourteen years ago — on April 12, 1998 — the Baltimore Sun carried
an article about my neighbor and good friend, Kathryn Myers Frock, in which it
was noted:
"The Westminster woman, who is believed to be the
longest-serving 4-H volunteer in the country, was surprised recently to be
honored for 58 years of volunteer service.
"Fifty-eight years? thought Frock. Why 58?
"'Maybe they don't think I'm going to be here for 60
years,' she said with a smile."
Well, Frock made it to 60 years. As a matter of fact, make
that 74 years that she was a 4-H leader and volunteer fair judge.
That said, with Frock, it was not as much about the quantity
of years, but the quality.
Frock passed away on April 26 at age 94. http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0506-20120502,0,7820360.story
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Kathryn
A. Myers Frock, 94, of Westminster, died April 26, 2012 at Emeritus at
Westminster. http://www.prittsfuneralhome.com/vcalendar/event_view.php?event_id=245
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Westminster Eagle - Katie V. Jones: Kathryn Frock touts
merits of 4-H life
Fair 'queen' touts merits of 4-H life 07/26/06 By Katie V.
Jones
Labels: 4H, 4H
Carroll Co 4H FFA Fair, Ag
Carroll Co MD Ag Center, People
Frock Kathryn, People
obituaries
When Kathryn Frock joined 4-H in 1934, there were girl 4-H
clubs and boy 4-H clubs. If you lived on a farm and worked with animals,
however, you were allowed to belong to a "co-ed club."
In those days the fair was held in Taneytown, before moving
to its current location behind the Agricultural Center in Westminster.
To build the buildings at the new site, the 4-H clubs raised
money through various methods such as making moccasins and selling household
"guidebooks."
At 89, Frock has more than 60 years of memories of being in
4-H, first as a member, then as a leader and currently as a judge… http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2006/08/westminster-eagle-katie-v-jones-kathryn.html
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Accolades mark a life of volunteering Westminster woman
lauded for 4-H service April 12, 1998 By Sheridan Lyons
Accolades mark a life of volunteering Westminster woman
lauded for 4-H service
By Sheridan Lyons SUN STAFF http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-04-12/news/1998102100_1_4-h-volunteer-carroll-county-frock
The Westminster woman who is believed to be the
longest-serving 4-H volunteer in the country was surprised recently to be
honored for 58 years of volunteer service.
Fifty-eight years? thought Kathryn Frock. Why 58?
"Maybe they don't think I'm going to be here for 60
years," she said with a smile last week.
If there were a grandmaster of homemaking, Frock, 80, would
qualify: Her skills range from the "seven-day pickles" she puts up to
the carefully centered daisy buttons on a dress she made in 1936 that swept 4-H
Club local, state and national needlework honors.
…
[…]
"This woman is phenomenal," said Bob Shirley,
Carroll County's recently retired extension agent for 4-H. "The amount of
volunteer work she's still doing and the number of organizations she's giving
support to. And she still is a very strong, active leader," he said.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Sunday, July 08, 2012
Grace Lutheran Church Westminster MD for early Sunday morning services
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Saturday, July 07, 2012
Lock 31 C and O Canal around the 58 mile post or so
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Friday, July 06, 2012
The dancing bears may be best at the Manchester Fire Dept carnival
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