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• 18:17, 14 August 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Haley-sterling.jpg (Myer Kaplon photo of Kathy Haley and Debbie Sterling, circa 1973. This appears to have been taken at the bottom of S. Maryland Avenue. (Photo courtesy of Katherine Haley Rudeseal) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:16, 14 August 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Burkittsville Carnival (2).png (Sam Crone on the left, Bob Huffer (standing at the Coke machine), Richard Geisler and Paul Smith at a Burkittsville Ruritan carnival in the 1960s. The carnivals have long been held on the grounds of the Ruritan Hall, which was once home to Burkittsville Elementary School. Looking at Mr. Crone, you'll note his nail apron, which Ingalls Lumber in Middletown always donated those carnivals. (Photo courtesy of South Mountain Heritage Society) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 18:14, 14 August 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Burkittsville Carnival1.jpg (This photo caption of a 1960s-era Burkittsville Ruritan Carnival read "the Dime Pitch -- Mr. Smith." According to Cheryl Beachley Varkalis: "Loved dime & nickel pitch. Won a lot of glassware for my hope chest & then my 1st apartment in Jefferson. My Dad Emmett worked at those games in the 70s. He got tired of picking up coins so he built a table with a wire top & slanted bottom for the coins to roll down." (Photo courtesy of South Mountain Heritage Society) [[Category:Smoketown Parades an...)
• 18:11, 14 August 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Anne-Lynn Gross.jpg (Brunswick's "singing auctioneer" Anne-Lynn Gross held up one of many historic items that she auctioned off at the old Gross Brothers' store on S. Maryland Avenue next to the railroad tracks. According to the photo caption from The Brunswick Citizen, September 24, 1987, the auction was "one of the many events being held this busy weekend." It also posed the question "will she blow the horn she is holding to start the event." (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) [...)
• 08:30, 5 August 2022 Gfaith talk contribs uploaded File:Catlett, George Drury house 1904.pdf (Building the house on E Potomac Street about 1904 or 1905. George Drury Catlett--Mary Pearl Hughes Catlett--eight children first two died in early childhood--burried in cemetery (old) in west end of Brunswick, near Brunswick Street)
• 08:02, 5 August 2022 Gfaith talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick High Class of 1923.jpg (Helen Virginia Catlett Second row-fifth from left-Mrs Brakehill teacher-This could be our graduating picture-Brunswick High School class of 1923)
• 07:47, 5 August 2022 Gfaith talk contribs uploaded File:Flood 1936 Brunswick B+O RR .jpg
• 17:05, 24 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick History Commission group photo, July 21, 2022.jpg (The Brunswick History Commission, July 21, 2022. Left to right: Bruce Funk, John Faith, John Caves (Secretary), Don Peterson, Wayne Allgaier (Chairman). Not pictured is Vicki Dearing (Vice Chair). Category:City)
• 16:42, 24 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Harry Fowler obituary, The Frederick News-Post, July 23, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 16:39, 24 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Carolyn Stine obituary, The Frederick News-Post, July 21, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 16:37, 24 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Doris Sizemore obituary, The Frederick News-Post, July 21, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 17:13, 17 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Kim Doyle obituary, The Frederick News-Post, July 16, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 17:10, 17 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Earline Keyser obituary, The Frederick News-Post, July 5, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 16:54, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Original Y.jpeg (Old postcard of the original B&O YMCA on E. Potomac Street. Postmark is May, 1908. Bonus points for identifying the recipient's name. The first "Y" was opened along with the hospital on April 5, 1907. It measured 90 by 45 feet and cost $16,000. According to Reuben Moss, this version had 46 dorms and was expanded in the mid-1920s to have 76. The first officers were W.E. Shannon, Chairman; H.M. Jones, Treasurer; and Mr. McNeally, Secretary. Directors were Dr. Levin West, J.J. Haskett, T.A. Si...)
• 16:53, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:YMCA circa 1970s.JPG (Here essentially is what the expanded location looked like from the mid-1920s until the building was destroyed by fire in November, 1980 right before the annual Veterans Day Parade. This photo was likely taken sometime in the 1970s. The main entrance was obscured by the Christmas tree. Rotary Club entrance on the left. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown B&O YMCA)
• 16:50, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Westbound Station 1982.jpg (The historic westbound train station in Brunswick back in 1982. It was built in 1907 and was the last station in the CSX system staffed by a human ticket agent, Blair Harrington. The station was blue at the time. According to Norm Cornelius, the blue or bluish gray was a Chessie System color. The B&O Station, WB Tower & B&O YMCA carried the same B&O R.R. color.—cream with brown trim. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 16:49, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Ladies on the River WVA.jpeg (Some Brunswick ladies relaxing on the Potomac River in the 1930s. This was likely taken at the Mohler farm in Bakerton, W. VA. Brunswick folks often camped on Garland Mohler’s farm along the river in the '30s. Pictured here are Eleanor Wenner, Mary Jane Watson, and Eva Mohler Watson (all standing). These are the only ladies we can identify. (Photo courtesy of Ann Wenner Osteen) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 16:47, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:JJ Newberry Celebration.jpg (J.J. Newberry’s dinner honoring Helen Cooper hosted by the store manager at the time, who’s standing and name is thought to be Woodworth. Mrs. Cooper, her niece Carol Ann and Carol Ann’s mother Margaret are to the left of Mr. Woodworth. Photo looks to have been taken sometime in the 1950s. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 16:46, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Frederick Shopping Center Carnivals-Circuses.JPG (Carnivals and circuses were held annually in the Frederick Shopping Center parking lot in the 1950s and '60s. This photo was included in a retrospective of the Shopping Center's 11th anniversary on 7th Street. It opened in 1957. (Frederick Shopping Center "Shopper" clipping courtesy of Jeff Pearl 5/17/68) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 16:44, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Softball Field Lights.jpg (The caption under the photo read "The lights go on. Jim Main, in back, puts his hand on the switch to turn on the new lights at the slowpitch ballpark that Jim and many others have worked so hard to bring to Brunswick. “Helping” him are Neil Wilhelm, Wayne Hill, Bubby Dixon, Junior Lowry, and Angie Hill. What a crew! This was a clipping from the Brunswick Citizen. The photo was likely taken in the mid 1970s. Category:Smoketown Baseball)
• 16:42, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Moler's Last Day.JPG (Junior and Fern Moler working in their East Potomac Street store on it’s final day in business on June 15, 1990. When Moler’s Market served its last customer at 8PM that evening, it left Brunswick without a grocery store downtown. Mr Moler followed in his late father's footsteps when he bought the market on East Potomac St in 1957 from Churchman and Ridgeway. His father had operated the New York Hill Market in Brunswick for a number of years. You could buy just about anything at Moler's st...)
• 16:38, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Veterans's Day Parade Nov 1961 Old Guard street scene 001.jpg (Even though this was an unseasonably balmy Veterans' Day Parade in November 1961, the 3rd Infantry Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps of Ft. Myer, VA works for the 4th of July. Can you pick out any of the spectators shown here on W. Potomac Street? We’ve identified Finks Heffner standing, holding daughter Karen, and wife Oneida in the middle of the street facing the camera. Daughter Lavonne Heffner is standing in front of her parents. Her brother Larry is sitting on the curb. The photo was taken...)
• 16:33, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Mrs. Brooks 100th Birthday.jpg (Milestone birthday for Mrs. Brooks who lived to 106. She was the daughter of a slave and for a time was Maryland's oldest citizen. Her 100th birthday celebration was held at the Smith farm in Jefferson in 1969. (News clipping courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 16:32, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Maryland and Virginia General Store.jpg (This store was briefly in business in the old Mace Building where King's Pizza has operated for years? Before this store, Mace Furniture, and City Meat Market did business. After that, it was the Berlin Restaurant. We think the Maryland and Virginia General Store operated from 1962 until sometime in the mid-'60s. It was an empty storefront after Cavell went out of business and was the Democratic campaign headquarters in 1968; an empty Kaplon's building served for Republican candidates. (Bl...)
• 16:27, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Stroup.jpg (Adrian Stroup poses next to the door to the basement furnace at 1 N. Virginia Avenue in the early 1960s when the William W. Wenner family lived there. Mr. Stroup lived in the old Knights of Pythias "golf house" that was connected to the main house. At this time, the back of the golf house looked out into the parking lot of the Maryland and Virginia General Store where the miniature golf course once was. The fire sirens were extra loud at that location. Les Conner stoked the coal furnace ins...)
• 16:27, 10 July 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Joe Shewbridge c1949.jpg (Most people who know Joe Shewbridge recognize him for his expert fiddle playing gigging with bands including Bill Peer and the Melody Boys and Girls, the Western Gentlemen, the Midnight Express, Free State Boys and more. Here he is as a teenager circa 1949 playing guitar. (Photo courtesy of Kermit Frye) Category:Smoketown People)
• 22:11, 8 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Shirley Shores - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:10, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Walter Sheridan Stull III - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:09, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Thomas Lee Smith - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:08, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Shirley Shores - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:07, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Linda Heffner - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:06, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Lee and Anne Zumbach - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:05, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Katie Bishop - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:04, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:June Phillips Orrison - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:03, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Jim and Sandra Cox - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:02, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Bob and Shirley Ward - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 22:00, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:James Franklin Roby - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf (Category:People)
• 21:10, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Eagles host Maryland state convention.jpg (June 25-27, 2010. Category:Organizations)
• 21:08, 7 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Eagles celebrate 75th anniversary.jpg (December 28, 2001; articles from The Frederick News-Post (left) and The Brunswick Citizen (right). Pictured left: Linda Heffner. Category:Organizations)
• 21:07, 4 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Janet Hall obituary, The Frederick News-Post, June 30, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 21:03, 4 July 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:John Bane III obituary, The Frederick News-Post, June 28, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 17:02, 26 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Nancy Frazier obituary, The Frederick News-Post, June 20, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 17:01, 26 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Cindy Rose makes fourth run for school board, The Frederick News-Post, June 21, 2022.pdf ("Rose's focus remains same in her fourth bid," by Jillian Atelsek, The Frederick News-Post, June 21, 2022. Category:People)
• 16:59, 26 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:City Council approves FY2023 budget, The Frederick News-Post, June 24, 2022.pdf ("Property tax rate to remain same for FY23," by Clara Niel, The Frederick News-Post, June 24, 2022. Category:City)
• 16:57, 26 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick's railroaders vote to go on strike in 1922, The Frederick News-Post historical reprint, June 23, 1922.pdf (Category:Railroad Category:History of Brunswick)
• 16:15, 19 June 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Wade in the Water.JPG (This photo shows Lorraine Kronk (Ferrell) on the left, an unknown lady in middle, and Zettie Lucas (Smith) on the right. It was taken around 1939 in shallow water down by the Potomac River Bridge. Note the other bathers in the lower left. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Ferrell Piper) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 16:14, 19 June 2022 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Reed-Myers kids.jpg (This photo is of Edith Reed, Austin Myers, and Nell Reed at 205 East A Street around 1922. The Reed girls were the daughters of Harry and Mary Cole Reed. Harry was a conductor on the B&O and died in 1912. The family resided at 212 A Street through the 1930's. Harold and Mary had 12 children. The children look like they were dressed for church with bibles in hand. (Photo and information courtesy of Kim Myers) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 16:10, 19 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:Larry Shafer Sr. obituary, The Frederick News-Post, June 18, 2022.pdf (Category:Obituary)
• 16:06, 19 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:A Knoxville rabbit incident, The Frederick News-Post historical reprint, December 6, 1921.pdf ("His right shoulder and the right side of his neck and face badly torn by gunshot, and suffering from shock and exposure, Charles Giles, about 20 years of age, is in a serious condition at his home in the mountains near Knoxville, while Walter Grimm, about 20 years old, is confined in the Frederick county jail, charged with firing the shot that wounded Giles. The shooting was the outcome of a hunting expedition, the two being in the same vicinity together. It is said that the quarrel occurred...)
• 16:04, 19 June 2022 Jcaves talk contribs uploaded File:The Brunswick Herald Vol. 2 No. 13, May 27, 1892.pdf (Category:The Brunswick Herald Newspaper (1891-1910))