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www.kevindayhoff.city Address: PO Box 124, Westminster MD 21158 410-259-6403 kevindayhoff@gmail.com
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.
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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
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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Westminster-Fire-Department-to-hold-history-museum-open-house-and-pit-beef-sale
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Museum, firefighters, Westminster, history,
“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 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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Westminster-Fire-Department-to-hold-history-museum-open-house-and-pit-beef-sale
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Museum, firefighters, Westminster, history,
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Patuxent Publishing Co., The Carroll Eagle: www.explorecarroll.com: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dayhoff&action=GO
The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
Westminster Patch: http://westminster.patch.com/search?keywords=Dayhoff
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Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org
Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/ or http://kevindayhoffart.com/ = http://www.kevindayhoff.com/
Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
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Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
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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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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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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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Earlier today we bicyled the Northern Central Railroad Trail in Baltimore Co
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Police recover gun, charge Westminster man in shooting in Eldersburg that left one dead
Police recover gun, charge Westminster man in shooting in Eldersburg that left one dead
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Restaurant owner: 'This isn't the kind of thing that happens around here'
By Jim Joyner, Carroll Eagle July 13, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-carroll-shooting-0715-20120713,0,1763573.story
The owner of the Harvest Inn in Eldersburg said Friday there was no warning — and in his mind, no precedent — for the early morning shooting that left one man dead and another injured, and turned the parking lot of his family restaurant and lounge into a homicide crime scene this morning.
"It's baffling to me," said Tony Trombetta, who has run the restaurant in the 2000 block of Liberty Road since 1993. "This isn't the kind of thing that happens around here."
David J. Garrett, 36, of Carmae Road, in Sykesville, died when he suffered multiple gunshot wounds in a confrontation on the parking lot of the Harvest Inn shortly after midnight, according to Maryland State Police.
A second man, Gary Hale, of Granite Road, in Woodstock, was shot in the arm during the incident and was transported toUniversity of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where police said Thursday he continues to recover.
At about 7 a.m., police arrested Jacob B. Bircher, 24, of Wimert Avenue, Westminster, in connection with the incident. Police said he surrendered after police contacted him by phone and met him in the parking lot of the Church of the Open Door, along Route 140 in Westminster.
Greg Shipley, spokesman for the state police, said… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-carroll-shooting-0715-20120713,0,1763573.story
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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Patuxent Publishing Co., The Carroll Eagle: www.explorecarroll.com: http://www.explorecarroll.com/search/?s=Dayhoff&action=GO
The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
The Tentacle: www.thetentacle.com http://www.thetentacle.com/author.cfm?MyAuthor=41
Westminster Patch: http://westminster.patch.com/search?keywords=Dayhoff
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Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org
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Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net
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Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
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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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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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