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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
the other, Kevin Dayhoff …
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Friday, July 27, 2012
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
Open: Wed-Fri. Noon
to 6 PM, Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Kip Moore - Mary Was The Marrying Kind
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Kip Moore - Somethin' 'Bout A Truck
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Art forever changed by World War I - Veterans - Stripes
Art forever changed by World War I - Veterans - Stripes
*****
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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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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Art Deco Buildings: Crescent Hotel, Miami
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Art Medium Art Deco,
US st Florida
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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