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Washington County Museum Ramble has planes, trains, old autos, cooking demos and more
The Museum Ramble, a self-guided tour including 24 museums and historic sites from Clear Spring to Smithsburg, will be Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5. Some museums will be open only one day. A printed guide and map to participating sites are...
Tags: Travel, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Wars and Interventions, Human Interest, Museums
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
OBIT-STARKER Grammy-winning cellist Janos Starker dead at 88 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88. Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Jacobs School of Music at...Tags: China, Fine Artists, Explosions, Homelessness, Emergency Incidents
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SW Indiana's Gibson County celebrates its bicentennial by paying homage to 19th century roots
PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) — A southwestern Indiana county has marked its bicentennial year by honoring the pioneer-era beginnings that saw its borders carved out of the Indiana wilderness. Local members of the National Society of the Daughters of the...Tags: Arts and Culture, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Sociology, Culture
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Re-enactors cover all walks of 18th-century life during Fort Frederick's Market Fair
alnotarianni@aol.comTraders pulled primitive carts full of wares across fields in the cool morning air. Servants used long sticks to stir stew in sturdy black pots, and a town crier announced an auction to take place after noon. The wistful tunes of a fife sailed in the...Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, Gardens and Parks, Travel, Tourism and Leisure, State Parks
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U.S., county celebrated bicentennials in 1976
"Rediscover America 1976 Bicentennial Celebration, United States of America-Washington County, Maryland, 1776-1976" was the full name of an event that would involve most of the members of the Washington County Historical Society and the community, as a...Tags: Gerald Ford, Washington, DC, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Wars and Interventions, Human Interest
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Spring cultural and historical day trips offered
The Continuing Education and Business Services Division at Hagerstown Community College is offering several cultural and historical day trips this spring. “Spies of Washington and the International Spy Museum” will take participants to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Washington, DC, Travel, Wars and Interventions, Trips and Vacations
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Weekend calendar - April 13
Spring arts and craft show Arts and crafts vendors will sell handcrafted furniture and primitives, scroll saw wooden pieces, silk flower arrangements, Bolivian textiles, oil paintings and more. Several authors will sign and sell copies of their books....Tags: Arts and Culture, Fashion Shows, Methodist, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Religion and Belief
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Discovering Historic Plymouth
The Hartford CourantThe plan was a good one. I would drive out to Plymouth and hike a place called Peat Swamp Woods and explore the ruins of an old carriage factory. Then I discovered Plymouth's historic Main Street, so I took a few detours into the past before heading into...Tags: Terryville, Wetlands, War of 1812, Manchester
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Charles de Langlade subject of Mackinaw Area Historical Society program
MACKINAW CITY -- The Mackinaw Area Historical Society will present a program on French-Indian leader Charles de Langlade, who was made second in command at Fort Michilimackinac in 1757. Local historians Sandy Planisek and Jim Tamlyn will present the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, France
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Fort Dewart celebration plans taking shape
Daily American Staff WriterAt least 70 members of Clan Maclean will join their Scottish chief in Bedford County this September to honor their ancestor’s establishment of Fort Dewart. Organizers have set the attendance number as plans continue taking shape for the...Tags: Human Interest, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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Boaze to speak at Historical Society meeting
Living history interpreter Raleigh Boaze will speak to the Sharpsburg Historical Society at Sharpsburg Town Hall Tuesday, March 12. Boaze will appear in the persona of a backwoodsman dressed in period clothing and carrying the weapons and...
Tags: Sandwiches, Preschools, Lifestyle and Leisure, Easter, Schools
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How Postal Service, pit bulls intertwine: history can be bizarre
At a pivotal point in history, the deputy postmaster for all the American colonies arrived in Bethlehem because of a grave threat to Pennsylvania, where the French and their Indian allies were winning the French and Indian War. If emergency defensive...Tags: Justice and Rights, Allentown, Carbon County, Wars and Interventions, Lobbying
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Mar 16, 2013
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Mar 1, 2013
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Feb 9, 2013
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