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Monday, January 5, 2015

Recent articles in the Carroll County Times by Kevin E. Dayhoff


  • December 10, 2014 |column

    Winchester embraced opportunity

    Dean Minnich
    ...recorded and preserved by generations of local residents and others who love history. The website, with a lot of input by Kevin Dayhoff, and other writings by Catherine Baty, Anne and George Horvath, Mary Ann Ashcroft and others give us a glimpse of how Westminster...




  • April 22, 2014 |Article

    Westminster celebrates 250 years and Arbor Day with tree planting

    By Jon Kelvey, Advocate Staff Writer
    ...One of those families is that of Kevin Dayhoff, mayor of Westminster from 2001 to 2005...Westminster for generations, according to Dayhoff, and as it happens, the Willis Street...were both part of the Longwell Farm," Dayhoff said. "It just all comes together and...
  • January 2, 2015 |Article

    A love story that began on New Year's Eve, 1945 [Eagle Archives]

    By Kevin E. Dayhoff
    A love story that began on New Year's Eve, 1945 [Eagle Archives]
    Much of the time, history can be the dry stuff of names and facts or memorized dates found in textbooks. Nothing can bring history alive more than our own memories or growing up listening to the recollections of our parents or grandparents.

    TAGS: History

  • December 30, 2014 |Article

    Carroll County's connection to Cuba began with sugar in 1800s

    By Kevin Dayhoff
    Carroll County's connection to Cuba began with sugar in 1800s
    Powder, serving with the U.S. Army's 6th Cavalry, was waiting to be deployed to Cuba when he wrote to his sister, "Mrs. Wm. Stansbury," from Tampa, Florida: "Dear Sister. I and our troops are still here.
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The Wars of the Roses – and the Battle of Towton, March 29, 1461

The Wars of the Roses – and the Battle of Towton, March 29, 1461

Shakespeare Henry VI, Part 3, Act 2, Scene 5

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December 31, 2014

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Dan Jones: "The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors" (Rebroadcast)

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Dan Jones: “The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors” (Rebroadcast)

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The author of the bestselling book "The Plantagenets" picks up the story of the English crown where his last book left off. It describes how the longest-reigning British royal family tore itself apart and was replaced by the Tudors.

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Battle of Towton March 29, 1461

According to an article in the Sunday Times on August 28, 2008, by Adrian Anthony Gill, the Battle of Towton was fought on a Sunday, March 29, 1461. “By all contemporary accounts, allowing for medieval exaggeration, on this one Sunday between 20,000 and 30,000 men died. Just so that you grasp the magnitude, that’s a more grievous massacre of British men than on the first day of the Somme.

Without machineguns or shells, young blokes hacked, bludgeoned and trampled, suffocated and drowned. An astonishing 1% of the English population died in this field. The equivalent today would be 600,000.”

In an article by Martin Kettle for The Guardian, on Friday, August 24, 2007:

“It is often said that the bloodiest day in our history was July 1 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, when 19,200 soldiers went over the top and were mown down by German guns. As a result, the Somme has become synonymous with the frightful, mindless slaughter of a whole generation of young British men. It traumatised the survivors so much that they barely spoke of it. But it hangs over our country still, nearly a century later. Merely to think of it can make one weep.

Yet Towton was bloodier than the Somme. When night fell on March 29 1461 - it was Palm Sunday, and much of the battle took place in a snowstorm - the Yorkist and Lancastrian dead numbered more than 20,000. It should be said that the figures are much disputed and rise to as many as 28,000 in some accounts, and there were countless wounded besides.

Now remember two other things while you absorb that. First, that while the population of Britain in 1916 was more than 40 million, that of England in 1461 was considerably less than 4 million, so the proportionate impact on the country must have been seismic. One in every hundred Englishmen died at Towton. Its impact must have been a bit like an English Hiroshima.

And, second, that, this being 1461, not a shot was fired. This was not industrial killing from a distance. Every Englishman who died at Towton was pierced by arrows, stabbed, bludgeoned or crushed by another Englishman. As a scene of hand-to-hand human brutality on a mass scale, Towton has absolutely no equal in our history. It was our very own day of wrath.


Towton is not a secret. It is in the books and on the maps. If you visit, there is a memorial. The same river which was so packed with corpses that men fled across them from one bank to the other still runs through it. If you study the Wars of the Roses, you learn it was a decisive Yorkist victory. If you go online you can discover some of the detective work done by the University of Bradford on mutilated skeletons exhumed from some of Towton's mass graves. And if you go to a performance of Henry VI Part 3, you will see that the national poet himself set potent scenes at Towton, where, in the thick of battle, a father finds he has killed his son and a son that he has killed his father, and where the watching and hapless Lancastrian king wishes himself among the dead - "For what is in this world but grief and woe?"
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July 10, 1840 Burgess WM. SHIPLEY, Jr. of Westminster Maryland: Paving Notice for King Street

July 10, 1840 Burgess WM. SHIPLEY, Jr. of Westminster Maryland: Paving Notice for King Street

I hereby give notice that the ordinances of the corporation of Westminster, requires that the sidewalks of the main street of the town "King Street," be graded and paved with stone or brick, on or before the 1st day of October last.-

-And I hereby give notice to the owners of houses and lots situate on King Street, between the Washington road and the Alley immediately east of Davis' tavern on the south, and between Wampler's Mill road and the south west corner of John S. Murray's lot on the north, that have not graded and paved as directed by said Ordinances of the town, to forthwith comply with the requirements of the ordinance.

And I hereby further give notice that every part, parcel, lot or lots of ground on King Street, that remains unpaved, on the first day of September next, I will by the authority in me vested, proceed immediately to grade and pave the same at the proper cost of the owner or owners of the lots.

WM. SHIPLEY, Jr. Burgess.

The (Westminster) Carrolltonian, July 10, 1840.

Notes: 18400506 18410506 William Shipley Burgess May 6, 1940 – May 6, 1841 PAVING [Westminster Main Street Known as "King Street" as late as 1840.]


18400710 Paving King St Notice Burgess Shipley
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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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