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6 August 2021

5 August 2021

  • 05:3405:34, 5 August 2021 diff hist +4,024‎ N File:Lee Craigie-Marshall Paint Downtown Mural from the Frederick News-Post, August 5, 2021.jpg ‎ Brunswick artist working on massive downtown mural By Jillian Atelsek From The Frederick News-Post, August 5, 2021 Photo by Teresa Schaeffer Once a bustling railroad town, Brunswick has quieted over the years. Lea Craigie-Marshall likes it that way. Craigie-Marshall, born and raised near Washington, D.C., has called Brunswick home for about a decade. And now, she’s working on a 2,500-square-foot mural that she hopes will add some color — and inspiration — to the city’s historic downtown. “... current

4 August 2021

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25 July 2021

  • 09:0309:03, 25 July 2021 diff hist +499‎ N File:Jane Weisemann Memorial Collection, July 2021.jpg ‎ The library is honored to remember our friend Jane Weisemann. Jane had a passion for science, adventure, the library, and above all else, she loved her dogs. Thanks to a very generous donation, the library now has a collection of fiction and nonfiction titles in memory of Jane that celebrates the special bond between people and their dogs. These books are on display and available for check out at the Brunswick Branch Library. From Friends of Brunswick Library Category:People current

23 July 2021

  • 06:2606:26, 23 July 2021 diff hist +2,042‎ N File:Abbie Ricketts shares her C&O Canal Store.jpg ‎ Abbie Ricketts, Chairman of the Board of the Canal Towns Partnership Abbie: My canal story begins long ago, even before the C&O canal became a national park, when as a small child, my father and mother began taking me camping on the Maryland side of the Potomac River along the towpath. In those days, my father could drive “Martha”, our beloved old fishing car, on the towpath to our cabin or tent destinations as sections were once open to motor vehicles. The ride was a bumpy one. What wonder... current
  • 04:2604:26, 23 July 2021 diff hist +11,321‎ N File:Track Olympics 2021 Luke Campbell.jpg ‎ From lukewarm to burning passion: Brunswick's Campbell has been building up to his Olympic run By Joshua R. Smith from The Frederick News-Post, July 23, 2021 Tony Lawson, then the Brunswick High boys outdoor track coach, had to do some running of his own back in 2009 after the final school bell rang. He was trying to chase down Luke Campbell — a lean, lithe freshman soccer and basketball player for the Railroaders who, despite a year as a runner and jumper in the Potomac Valley Youth Associ... current

22 July 2021

  • 16:3216:32, 22 July 2021 diff hist +429‎ N File:Russell Litten, owner of the Litten's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership.jpg ‎ Young soapbox derby racers pose with Russell Litten, owner of the Litten's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership and sponsor of the Brunswick races that were run on E. Potomac Street just below "dead man's curve" around 1950. Shown here are: Front (L-R) Noel Shewbridge, Blaine Davis, Atlee Grams Back (L-R) Mr. Litten, Dan Lutman, Brock Gordon (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
  • 16:3016:30, 22 July 2021 diff hist +577‎ N File:ACME Store on West Potomac Street.jpg ‎ An ACME Store employee mugs for the camera in this post-World War II street scene on W. Potomac Street. He wore a bag over his head before this big reveal. Can anyone identify him? Looks like then Shell station owner Bill Deener behind him on the left and a man sitting in front of Watson's Cut Rate on the right. The ACME or American Store was located at 24 W. Potomac Street next door to J.J. Newberry's. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and... current
  • 16:2916:29, 22 July 2021 diff hist +508‎ N File:Seminary teacher Ben Campbell leading the kids in song.jpg ‎ For at least 10 years, Vacation Bible School classes were taught by divinity students (or seminarians) shared between Bethany Lutheran and Grace Episcopal Church on E. A Street. Here is a seminary teacher named Ben Campbell leading the kids in song outside the Lutheran church in a photo dated from sometime around the Summer of 1965. What are your memories of Vacation Bible School at your church in Brunswick? (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship current
  • 16:2516:25, 22 July 2021 diff hist +1,294‎ N File:Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) 1994.jpg ‎ This photo is from the 1994 BHS Yearbook and shows the members of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA). This was the first year that VICA existed as a club at Brunswick and it consisted of students from the Auto I & II classes. Similar to FFA (Future Farmers of America) members of VICA competed with other students at various competitions at the local, state, and national levels. Competitions not only involved public speaking but also in the area of diagnostic and repair in which... current

20 July 2021

  • 15:4615:46, 20 July 2021 diff hist +819‎ N File:Dunkin Donut 2021 Ribbon Cutting, July 10, 2021.png ‎ In the Photo: Front Row: GBACC Vice President Phil Graves(holding banner), Brent Fauntleroy, franchisee owner, GBACC President Sheila Gray, Xander Ripley, City Council Brian Sandusky and Angel White. Back Row: City Administrator Dave Dunn, City Council Vaughn Ripley, GBACC At large Member Arch Hodges, and Dunkin Employee. Stacy Fauntleroy holding the banner. At 10:00 AM on July 10, 2021 local Dunkin' franchisee network Upcounty Frederick Donuts welcomed City Administrator David Dunn for the... current

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16 July 2021

  • 12:4012:40, 16 July 2021 diff hist +1,012‎ N File:Museum 2021 welcomed a donation, July 2, 2021.jpg ‎ Museum Receives Donation of Rare C&O Canal Photo On Friday, July 2, 2021, the Brunswick Heritage Museum welcomed a donation of a rare ca.1917 image of the C&O Canal in Brunswick. Donated by Dr. Thomas Dilamarter of East Aurora, New York, in memory of his aunt, Judith Patricia Ellenburg, the image was discovered in a larger collection of glass slides of the B&O Railroad and shows a view of the C&O Canal looking down from the bridge onto the Lock 30 area. The framed photo is currently th... current

15 July 2021

14 July 2021

13 July 2021

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