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• 15:42, 20 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page Charles E. Harris (Created page with "Category:2024 Brunswick Distinguished Citizen Category:Brunswick Distinguished Citizen == Media == thumb <gallery> File:Smoketown Rotary Club 2016 Honors Charlie Harris.jpg File:Smoketown Rotary Club 2018 Charter Dinner, May 10th, Charlie Harris, May 10, 2018.jpg File:Smoketown Rotary Club 2018 Sergeant at Arms, Charlie Harris, with his new bell! Joined by Dick Foot and Julie Couillard, club president. April...")
• 15:38, 20 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Charlie Harris - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf
• 15:38, 20 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Charlie Harris - Distinguished Citizen Bio.pdf
• 18:51, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Bill Peer & Melody Boys & Girls Apple Blossom Festival.jpg (Bill Peer and the Melody Boys and Girls at the 1954 Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, VA. Cheryl Wilt My late parents used to go to shows at the Brunswick Moose. My dad just got back from Korea. Bill Peer was also the parts man for Goode Brothers ,my grandfathers and his cousins garage in Charles Town. Linda Runkles I sure do remember those days! I was young but I went with my parents! David Fink My parents Patsy (Taulton) & Ray Fink used to see them there all the time. I grew up on th...)
• 18:51, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Bill Peer & Melody Boys & Girls Apple Blossom Festival.jpg (Bill Peer and the Melody Boys and Girls at the 1954 Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, VA. Cheryl Wilt My late parents used to go to shows at the Brunswick Moose. My dad just got back from Korea. Bill Peer was also the parts man for Goode Brothers ,my grandfathers and his cousins garage in Charles Town. Linda Runkles I sure do remember those days! I was young but I went with my parents! David Fink My parents Patsy (Taulton) & Ray Fink used to see them there all the time. I grew up on th...)
• 18:41, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Wenner Store N. Maple.jpg (An unidentified employee posing outside Wenner's store at G Street and N. Maple Avenue in the late 1930s. See the Brunswick Tri-state league baseball player walking into the store. (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 18:41, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Wenner Store N. Maple.jpg (An unidentified employee posing outside Wenner's store at G Street and N. Maple Avenue in the late 1930s. See the Brunswick Tri-state league baseball player walking into the store. (Photo courtesy of Jo Jamison) Category:Smoketown Businesses)
• 18:39, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Joseph Tojo Himes and Family.jpg (Joseph “Tojo” Himes retired from the B&O in 1980 after 32 years and seven months on the job, first as a fireman then is an engineer. The Brunswick Citizen reported that "at the time, he and his wife Clara were thinking of trying out life in Fort Myers, Florida. Here he is pictured with his grandchildren: Holly and Susan Phillips in front, Skip Himes and Terry Himes Robinson in back. James Bowden Mr Himes was my next door neighbor growing up I used to sit on his front porch for hours every da...)
• 18:39, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Joseph Tojo Himes and Family.jpg (Joseph “Tojo” Himes retired from the B&O in 1980 after 32 years and seven months on the job, first as a fireman then is an engineer. The Brunswick Citizen reported that "at the time, he and his wife Clara were thinking of trying out life in Fort Myers, Florida. Here he is pictured with his grandchildren: Holly and Susan Phillips in front, Skip Himes and Terry Himes Robinson in back. James Bowden Mr Himes was my next door neighbor growing up I used to sit on his front porch for hours every da...)
• 18:36, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Westbound Train by the Y.jpg (In this photo from the 1970s, the westbound train has just changed crews and is leaving Brunswick. See the old YMCA on the left and WB Tower on the right. Rhonda Mcgaha-Meise My father was an Engineer & spent many a day at that YMCA Jeana Fawley Harmon And my Aunt Yonnie (Longerbeam) was probably inside waiting on railroaders and giving them a “hard time”! 😂😂😂 (Photo courtesy of Bill Rettberg, Jr. and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad History) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:36, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Westbound Train by the Y.jpg (In this photo from the 1970s, the westbound train has just changed crews and is leaving Brunswick. See the old YMCA on the left and WB Tower on the right. Rhonda Mcgaha-Meise My father was an Engineer & spent many a day at that YMCA Jeana Fawley Harmon And my Aunt Yonnie (Longerbeam) was probably inside waiting on railroaders and giving them a “hard time”! 😂😂😂 (Photo courtesy of Bill Rettberg, Jr. and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad History) Category:Smoketown Railroad)
• 18:33, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Potomac Hotel Menu.jpg (An extensive menu from the restaurant at the Potomac Hotel at 123 E. Potomac. Look at the prices! According to "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" in a piece written by Marg Jones Smith, the hotel was owned by her father, prominent local businessman Howard Marvin Jones. Jones had purchased the Yardley Hotel at public auction in 1924 and renamed it the Potomac Hotel. He "intended to make a fine hotel with a quality dining room." The mystery is that Marg Smith wrote that her father's "dining r...)
• 18:33, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Potomac Hotel Menu.jpg (An extensive menu from the restaurant at the Potomac Hotel at 123 E. Potomac. Look at the prices! According to "Brunswick: 100 Years of Memories" in a piece written by Marg Jones Smith, the hotel was owned by her father, prominent local businessman Howard Marvin Jones. Jones had purchased the Yardley Hotel at public auction in 1924 and renamed it the Potomac Hotel. He "intended to make a fine hotel with a quality dining room." The mystery is that Marg Smith wrote that her father's "dining r...)
• 18:29, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Old Potomac River Bridge Sign.jpg (Dedication sign for the old Potomac River bridge that connected Brunswick to Lovettsville. According to Megan Vogel, the sign was on the Virginia side on a rock across the street from the gas station on the northbound side of the road. Our thanks to the Brunswick Heritage Museum for showing us this gem! (Courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 18:29, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Old Potomac River Bridge Sign.jpg (Dedication sign for the old Potomac River bridge that connected Brunswick to Lovettsville. According to Megan Vogel, the sign was on the Virginia side on a rock across the street from the gas station on the northbound side of the road. Our thanks to the Brunswick Heritage Museum for showing us this gem! (Courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal)
• 18:26, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge.jpg (The inscription on this Edwin Forbes drawing reads, “General Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge into Virginia, at the town of Berlin on Thursday, October 27th, 1862.” This was around the time of Alexander Gardner's famous photos of Union encampments at the river bottom in Berlin. Could that have been the toll house on the Virginia side of the river? Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He replaced General George McClellan on November 7,...)
• 18:26, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge.jpg (The inscription on this Edwin Forbes drawing reads, “General Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge into Virginia, at the town of Berlin on Thursday, October 27th, 1862.” This was around the time of Alexander Gardner's famous photos of Union encampments at the river bottom in Berlin. Could that have been the toll house on the Virginia side of the river? Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He replaced General George McClellan on November 7,...)
• 18:23, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Class of 1947.jpg (This photo came from the cover of the 60th reunion of BHS Class of 1947 held at the Brunswick VFW Post (formerly the West End School) on September 29, 2007. Seems like a big class for that time. --Neil Gordon on left side second one in standing in front of the two guys in white shirts. --Delores Snoots (Renn) is in the lower right hand corner. Second from the right, front row. --Front row, third from left, Robert Trenton Comer (nickname Mike). --Connie Taylor (Grams) is in the 3rd row, secon...)
• 18:23, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Class of 1947.jpg (This photo came from the cover of the 60th reunion of BHS Class of 1947 held at the Brunswick VFW Post (formerly the West End School) on September 29, 2007. Seems like a big class for that time. --Neil Gordon on left side second one in standing in front of the two guys in white shirts. --Delores Snoots (Renn) is in the lower right hand corner. Second from the right, front row. --Front row, third from left, Robert Trenton Comer (nickname Mike). --Connie Taylor (Grams) is in the 3rd row, secon...)
• 17:53, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Moler's Food Market Red Moler.jpg (An inscription on the back of this photo read: "Moler's Market 207 East Potomac Street, Forrest (Red) Moler, Sr." This is likely an early photo of Moler's store at this location. The backstory is that Forrest Moler Jr. bought this store in 1957 from Churchman & Ridgeway following the tragic death of Jimmy Ridgeway in a small plane crash. For a time, veteran grocer and railroader Red Moler, who had sold his interest in the New York Hill Market several years before, ran the store while Junior...)
• 17:53, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Moler's Food Market Red Moler.jpg (An inscription on the back of this photo read: "Moler's Market 207 East Potomac Street, Forrest (Red) Moler, Sr." This is likely an early photo of Moler's store at this location. The backstory is that Forrest Moler Jr. bought this store in 1957 from Churchman & Ridgeway following the tragic death of Jimmy Ridgeway in a small plane crash. For a time, veteran grocer and railroader Red Moler, who had sold his interest in the New York Hill Market several years before, ran the store while Junior...)
• 17:50, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Nellie Roby Vote.jpg (Homemade signs on the family station wagon when Nellie Roby first ran unsuccessfully for Brunswick City Council in 1956. She was elected in 1960 and served until her death in 1972. The 1956 Chevy wagon appears to have been parked outside the Roby home on 3rd Avenue. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works)
• 17:50, 18 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Nellie Roby Vote.jpg (Homemade signs on the family station wagon when Nellie Roby first ran unsuccessfully for Brunswick City Council in 1956. She was elected in 1960 and served until her death in 1972. The 1956 Chevy wagon appears to have been parked outside the Roby home on 3rd Avenue. (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works)
• 18:39, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Betty Brooks-Billy Brooks-Jean Moyer.png (Betty Brooks, Billy Brooks and Jean Moyer pose in front of a vintage car and the former Kaplon's store windows in the 1970s. See the folks looking at the display windows. Maybe an early Potomac River Festival? Jean Moyer worked at the West End Grocery store at 326 W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:39, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Betty Brooks-Billy Brooks-Jean Moyer.png (Betty Brooks, Billy Brooks and Jean Moyer pose in front of a vintage car and the former Kaplon's store windows in the 1970s. See the folks looking at the display windows. Maybe an early Potomac River Festival? Jean Moyer worked at the West End Grocery store at 326 W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:36, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Gene Bowers Littens Salesman.jpg (Super salesman Gene Bowers posed in front of Jim Haley's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership on 600 W. Potomac Street in 1971. Longtime owner Russell Litten had sold the business to Mr. Haley around that time and gave the building facade a facelift. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:36, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Gene Bowers Littens Salesman.jpg (Super salesman Gene Bowers posed in front of Jim Haley's Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership on 600 W. Potomac Street in 1971. Longtime owner Russell Litten had sold the business to Mr. Haley around that time and gave the building facade a facelift. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown People)
• 18:34, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Kodachrome Alma Smith-Ann Malone-Beverly Langley.jpg (In another of several Kodachrome photos we have from the early 1940s, the inscription on the back identified these Brunswick girls as Alma Smith, Ann Malone and Beverly Langley. This photo is believed to date to the Summer of 1943. (Photo courtesy of Mindy Niles from the Duane Smith Collection and the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:34, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Kodachrome Alma Smith-Ann Malone-Beverly Langley.jpg (In another of several Kodachrome photos we have from the early 1940s, the inscription on the back identified these Brunswick girls as Alma Smith, Ann Malone and Beverly Langley. This photo is believed to date to the Summer of 1943. (Photo courtesy of Mindy Niles from the Duane Smith Collection and the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:31, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart.jpg (Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart posed in their Sunday best near the corner of the 500 block of West Potomac Street, south side, about a block from Littens. Early 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:31, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart.jpg (Gary Bowers, Doug and Donna Stewart posed in their Sunday best near the corner of the 500 block of West Potomac Street, south side, about a block from Littens. Early 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:30, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Brunswick Street Summer Gang.jpg (Brunswick Street summer gang photographed in Gene and Margaret Bowers's yard at 616 Brunswick Street in August 1953. Back row: Gary Bowers, Pat O'Connor, Mike O' Connor, Gloria Moore Front row: Freddy Moore, Brenda Bowers, Sherry Bowers The O'Connors were from Illinois and visited their aunt during the summer. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:30, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Brunswick Street Summer Gang.jpg (Brunswick Street summer gang photographed in Gene and Margaret Bowers's yard at 616 Brunswick Street in August 1953. Back row: Gary Bowers, Pat O'Connor, Mike O' Connor, Gloria Moore Front row: Freddy Moore, Brenda Bowers, Sherry Bowers The O'Connors were from Illinois and visited their aunt during the summer. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Smoketown Kids)
• 18:18, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest.jpg (July 20, 1954. Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest the Bowers' family yard at 616 Brunswick Street. Leslie's grandmother lived next door. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Brunswick Kids)
• 18:18, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest.jpg (July 20, 1954. Sherry Bowers and Leslie Forrest the Bowers' family yard at 616 Brunswick Street. Leslie's grandmother lived next door. (Photo courtesy of Sherry Bowers Stull) Category:Brunswick Kids)
• 17:47, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:Prescription Arts ladies.png (Edith Alger, Mildred "Pinky" Harper and Betty Powers pose in period clothes in the lunch area of the old Prescription Arts pharmacy in the mid-1970s. These ladies worked at the lunch counter. Maybe a Potomac River Festival? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 17:47, 16 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:Prescription Arts ladies.png (Edith Alger, Mildred "Pinky" Harper and Betty Powers pose in period clothes in the lunch area of the old Prescription Arts pharmacy in the mid-1970s. These ladies worked at the lunch counter. Maybe a Potomac River Festival? (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations)
• 19:00, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:SW George Lehigh Cement.jpg (An advertising sign for a cement brand that was available at S.W. George & Co. The longtime Brunswick business was located at 302 W. Potomac Street. (Photo courtesy of Randy George) Category:Smoketown Advertising)
• 19:00, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:SW George Lehigh Cement.jpg (An advertising sign for a cement brand that was available at S.W. George & Co. The longtime Brunswick business was located at 302 W. Potomac Street. (Photo courtesy of Randy George) Category:Smoketown Advertising)
• 18:58, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (7) 2.jpg (BHS under construction, 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketwon Schools)
• 18:58, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (7) 2.jpg (BHS under construction, 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketwon Schools)
• 18:57, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (6) 4.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:57, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (6) 4.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:56, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (5) 5.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:56, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (5) 5.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:55, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (4).jpg (BHS under construction. April 1965. The school opened for classes in the Fall of that year. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:55, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (4).jpg (BHS under construction. April 1965. The school opened for classes in the Fall of that year. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:51, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (3) 3.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. The boy is unidentified. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:51, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs created page File:1280px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (3) 3.jpg (BHS under construction in 1964. The boy is unidentified. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)
• 18:36, 15 August 2024 Pwenner talk contribs uploaded File:1024px-Brunswick High School (new) being built circa 1960 (2).jpg (BHS under construction. View of the frame and foundation, looking toward Jefferson. (From the Lee B. Smith Collection courtesy of the City of Brunswick MD History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools)