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Happy birthday, Hagerstown: Hub City celebrating 250th anniversary
chrisc@herald-mail.comTwo hundred fifty years ago, in 1762, Jonathan Hager founded a community near the stone house he built for his future wife, Elizabeth. He named the new town Elizabethtown after her. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the city's founding, the City...Tags: Museums, Music, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment, Blues (genre)
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General pays tribute to the soldiers who fought in Battle of Antietam
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comOn a small stage near a country church that witnessed some of the bloodiest fighting in American history, a U.S. Army general told several hundred people the story of a 15-year-old private who received the nation’s highest military honor during...Tags: U.S. Army, War of 1812, Pulitzer Prize Awards, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Antietam National Battlefield
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'The angel of the battlefield'
janeth@herald-mail.comAt a time when women were not allowed to travel without male companions to battlefields or tend to men who were not their relatives, Clara Barton nursed and comforted the wounded and dying on Civil War battlefields. It was at the Battle of Antietam...Tags: U.S. Army, American Red Cross, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Historical weapons, pastels and other ongoing exhibits for June 28
Historical weapons Among weapons in the display are authenticated artifacts from Little Big Horn and a Sharps carbine similar to those taken during John Brown’s raid in Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859. Exhibit concludes Friday, June 29. Allison-Antrim...
Tags: NASA, War of 1812, Museums, Artists, Culture
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Paintings at the hospital, decorative arts at the museum and other ongoing exhibits for May 31
Art in the Hallway Artwork by Eliane Ambrose will be on display and for sale through the gift shop. Exhibit continues today. Artwork is in the hallway near the information desk at Meritus Medical Center, 11116 Medical Campus Road, east of Hagerstown. A...Tags: NASA, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Museums, Artists
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Ongoing exhibits for June 7
‘Sojourns’ Paintings and watercolor sketches by Ann Schaefer are on display. Concludes Sunday, June 10. Gallery 322, 322 N. Market St., Frederick, Md. Call 240-529-7743 or go to www.gallery-322.com. Treasures from the attic “Potpourri...
Tags: NASA, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Museums, Artists
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Historical weapons, the War of 1812 and other ongoing exhibits for June 14
Historical weapons Among weapons in the display are authenticated artifacts from Little Big Horn and a Sharps carbine similar to those taken during John Brown’s raid in Harpers Ferry, Va., in 1859. Exhibit continues through Friday, June 29. Allison-...
Tags: NASA, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Museums, Culture
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Staff picks for May 18 to 23
The Top Five Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival Featured bands include Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, The Boxcars, The Roys and The Seldom Scene. Today through Sunday, May 20. Granite Hill Camping Resort, 3340 Fairfield Road, Gettysburg, Pa. Tickets cost $30 to...
Tags: Culture, Music, Comedy Central (tv network), Ceremonies, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Altadena Junction: Civil War memorial, a summer market and rally
It's a little-known fact that Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena may have one of the largest collections of remains of Civil War veterans outside of the areas where the battles were fought. According to Nick Smith, a historian who works at the...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Human Interest, Relay for Life, American Cancer Society, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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READER SUBMITTED: New Britian Parks And Recreation Department Memorial Day Services
New BritainMayor Timothy E. O'Brien and the Veterans Commission announced today that the New Britain Parks and Recreation Department will be hosting the 2013 Memorial Day Services. The Memorial Day Services are commemorative ceremonies that recognize and honor the...Tags: New Britain, Holidays, Human Interest, World War I (1914-1918), Vietnam
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A window into artist Grant Wood
Before “American Gothic” and his other paintings, artist Grant Wood left his mark at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Wood, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, designed a 24-foot stained-glass window for the memorial, which was...
Tags: Germany, Arts and Culture, War of 1812, Artists, Travel
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Maryland seeks historic status for Fort Carroll
When she thinks of Fort Carroll, the abandoned 19th-century military installation in the Patapsco River, Beverly Eisenberg thinks of her grandfather — and of duckpin bowling balls. She visited the six-sided artificial island as a little girl, just...
Tags: U.S. Army, Justice System, War of 1812, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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