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Friday, September 27, 2013

Carroll County NAACP to hold Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Friday, October 11th

Carroll County NAACP to hold Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Friday, October 11th

This year’s Carroll County NAACP Branch 7014 2013 Annual Freedom Fund Banquet will be held on Friday, October 11th, 2013 at Martin's of Westminster at 6:30pm.

This year's guest speaker is the 1st Woman & African-American Commander for the Maryland Army National Guard Brigadier General Linda Singh and U.S. Congressman Elijah E. Cummings

Adult Tickets $50, Children Tickets $20

For tickets contact: Bernard (410) 876-2358 or Jean (410) 861-6872

Make checks payable to: Carroll County NAACP Branch 7014, 255 Clifton Blvd Suite 310, Westminster, MD 21157


Contributions or gifts to this NAACP unit are generally not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.





Diversity, NAACP, Carroll County, Maryland, Westminster, Maryland Army National Guard, civil rights




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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

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E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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The 2013 Carroll County Ag Center Corn Maze opens Friday September 27, 2013


The 2013 Carroll County Ag Center Corn Maze opens Friday September 27, 2013


The 2013 Carroll County Corn Maze will be open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from September 27 to
November 3, 2013.

Hours
Friday 5PM-9PM
Saturday 5PM-9PM
Sunday 1PM-6PM
Sunday is Family Fun day with straw mazes, hay rides, and more

Group rate and times available. Call 410-848-6704
Check back often for more information about this years maze.
We would also like to take this time to thank our sponsors for helping us have yet another great year with our corn maze.
Thank you again:
Lippy Brother's
The Mill
Bowman's Feed and Grain
Nelson Agri-Service
Finch Services


Agriculture, corn maze, Carroll County, Westminster, family, corn, food, fall






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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

We can always count on WTTR to come out and support the community @fallfest_com

#KED #Westminster @fallfest_com

Time to get something to eat at @fallfest_com. GR8 weather. Lots of people here

#KED #Westminster @fallfest_com

The streets are packed for the annual @fallfest_com Parade in #Westminster

#KED #Westminster @fallfest_com

Bob Mathers and Tom Canon take a break for the camera at the Fallfest Parade

Bob Mathers and Tom Canon take a break for the camera at the Fallfest Parade
#KED #Westminster @fallfest_com

Westminster's Fallfest continues a proud tradition

Westminster's Fallfest continues a proud tradition

By Kevin Dayhoff, September 25, 2013


Westminster’s annual Fallfest celebration begins Thursday with a parade at 7 p.m. that starts on Pennsylvania Avenue and ends just below Westminster City Hall on Longwell Avenue.

Fallfest, which boasts on its website, westminsterfallfest.com, to be “Carroll County’s largest community charity event,” then continues four days through Sunday in the center of downtown Westminster at the playground and the Westminster Family Center.

For many it is one of the highlights of the year -- a time when the greater Carroll County family gets together to celebrate everything that is wonderful about our community.

Friday evening, Sept. 27, highlights the annual Midnight Madness celebration of shopping and eating-out on Main Street in downtown Westminster.

Fallfest hours for Friday are 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 12 noon to 6 p.m.

[…]

Although there are anecdotal stories of various community fall celebrations throughout Westminster’s history; our current version of “Fallfest,” the annual parade and Midnight Madness specifically draw upon a tradition that started many years ago when Westminster came together in September for an event sponsored by the Retail Merchants Association called “Westminster Days.”

An August 29th, 1947 article in the old, out-of-print Democratic Advocate newspaper reported, “At the weekly luncheon meeting on Monday at the Charles Carroll Hotel the Retail Merchants Association of this city, plans were completed for the Westminster Days which will be held on Sept. 25 and 26. President John R. Byers presided.”

The article then described a big parade on Thursday evening and two days of downtown merchant sales on September 25th and 26th, 1947.

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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“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/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art

Westminster's Fallfest continues a proud tradition

Westminster's Fallfest continues a proud tradition

By Kevin Dayhoff, September 25, 2013


Westminster’s annual Fallfest celebration begins Thursday with a parade at 7 p.m. that starts on Pennsylvania Avenue and ends just below Westminster City Hall on Longwell Avenue.

Fallfest, which boasts on its website, westminsterfallfest.com, to be “Carroll County’s largest community charity event,” then continues four days through Sunday in the center of downtown Westminster at the playground and the Westminster Family Center.

For many it is one of the highlights of the year -- a time when the greater Carroll County family gets together to celebrate everything that is wonderful about our community.

Friday evening, Sept. 27, highlights the annual Midnight Madness celebration of shopping and eating-out on Main Street in downtown Westminster.

Fallfest hours for Friday are 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 12 noon to 6 p.m.

[…]

Although there are anecdotal stories of various community fall celebrations throughout Westminster’s history; our current version of “Fallfest,” the annual parade and Midnight Madness specifically draw upon a tradition that started many years ago when Westminster came together in September for an event sponsored by the Retail Merchants Association called “Westminster Days.”

An August 29th, 1947 article in the old, out-of-print Democratic Advocate newspaper reported, “At the weekly luncheon meeting on Monday at the Charles Carroll Hotel the Retail Merchants Association of this city, plans were completed for the Westminster Days which will be held on Sept. 25 and 26. President John R. Byers presided.”

The article then described a big parade on Thursday evening and two days of downtown merchant sales on September 25th and 26th, 1947.

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Westminster celebrates diversity at Tristreet block party

Westminster celebrates diversity at Tristreet block party

By Kevin Dayhoff, 3:45 p.m. EDT, September 17, 2013


Fully equipped with a spatula, sunglasses, hat and an apron, Darcel Harris was all smiles Sept. 15 as she answered questions, cooked hamburgers and hot dogs and helped coordinate activities for over 300 folks who attended the 11th annual Pennsylvania Avenue – Tristreet Association block party in Dutterer Family Park in Westminster.

The event included multi-cultural food dishes made by residents, local fruits and vegetables donated by local farmers, dancing, pie eating contests, and educational activities for children provided by the Westminster Police Department, the Carroll County NAACP and GROW Mission (God’s Regeneration of Westminster) – one of the many local grassroots community organizations in which Harris participates.

According to Harris, the March 2013 recipient of the of the 21st annual Carroll County Human Relations Commission achievement award, the neighborhood get together was the brainchild of former Westminster City Councilwoman, 1991-1995, Rebecca Orenstein.

Orenstein, 71, recently passed away on Aug. 31.






“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/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art

Westminster celebrates diversity at Tristreet block party

Westminster celebrates diversity at Tristreet block party

By Kevin Dayhoff, 3:45 p.m. EDT, September 17, 2013


Fully equipped with a spatula, sunglasses, hat and an apron, Darcel Harris was all smiles Sept. 15 as she answered questions, cooked hamburgers and hot dogs and helped coordinate activities for over 300 folks who attended the 11th annual Pennsylvania Avenue – Tristreet Association block party in Dutterer Family Park in Westminster.

The event included multi-cultural food dishes made by residents, local fruits and vegetables donated by local farmers, dancing, pie eating contests, and educational activities for children provided by the Westminster Police Department, the Carroll County NAACP and GROW Mission (God’s Regeneration of Westminster) – one of the many local grassroots community organizations in which Harris participates.

According to Harris, the March 2013 recipient of the of the 21st annual Carroll County Human Relations Commission achievement award, the neighborhood get together was the brainchild of former Westminster City Councilwoman, 1991-1995, Rebecca Orenstein.

Orenstein, 71, recently passed away on Aug. 31.





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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Ayanbadejo to speak at McDaniel College

Ayanbadejo to speak at McDaniel College

By Blair Ames,

7:00 a.m. EDT, September 20, 2013 


Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo will speak at McDaniel College Oct. 16, discussing his journey from being a professional football player to becoming a vocal supporter of equal rights and same-sex marriage.

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The hour-long moderated question-and-answer session is free and open to the public. It starts at 7 p.m. in WMC Alumni Hall, but doors open at 6:45 p.m.

For more information, go to www.mcdaniel.edu or call 410-857-2290.


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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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200-pound bell stolen from Mount Airy church - Carroll County Times: Crime

200-pound bell stolen from Mount Airy church - Carroll County Times: Crime: "Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2013 12:00 am

By Kelcie Pegher Times Staff Writer http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/crime/pound-bell-stolen-from-mount-airy-church/article_4cc732c1-f682-54fb-9165-c1625ddf7a6d.html

A 100-year-old church bell was stolen from storage in Mount Airy within the last two weeks.

The bronze belfry bell weighs between 150 to 200 pounds, said the Rev. Laura Schultz, of the Howard-Chapel Ridgeville United Methodist Church.

[...]

Schultz said the bell has quite a bit of history to it — it was from the United Methodist Church that closed in 1993 on Ridge Road."

Read more: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/crime/pound-bell-stolen-from-mount-airy-church/article_4cc732c1-f682-54fb-9165-c1625ddf7a6d.html

'via Blog this'

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall



[20131030 Joyce Scott to speak at McD Oct 30]

“Joyce Scott to speak” inadvertently double-posted… Darn it…



Also see:


Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com


Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”


At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall



[20131030 Joyce Scott to speak at McD Oct 30]

"Joyce Scoot to speak..." inadvertently double-posted… Darn it…



Also see:


Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com


Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”


At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall




[20131030 Joyce Scott to speak at McD Oct 30]

“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/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art

Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com

Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”

At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.

Also see: Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall



[20131030 Joyce Scott to speak at McD Oct 30]

“Joyce Scott to speak” inadvertently double-posted… Darn it…


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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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