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10 July 2022

  • 17:3317:33, 10 July 2022 diff hist +353‎ N 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 current
  • 17:3217:32, 10 July 2022 diff hist +629‎ N 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... current
  • 17:2717:27, 10 July 2022 diff hist +701‎ N 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... current
  • 17:2717:27, 10 July 2022 diff hist +352‎ N 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 current

19 June 2022

13 June 2022

12 June 2022

  • 22:2222:22, 12 June 2022 diff hist +284‎ N File:BRLL Opening Day 54 Babo.jpeg ‎ The Railroader Little League Cubs on the first opening day in June, 1954. Manager Lee "Babo" Merriman on the right. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
  • 22:2122:21, 12 June 2022 diff hist +242‎ N File:BRLL Opening Day 54 Cubs.jpeg ‎ The Railroader Little League Cubs on the first opening day in June, 1954. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
  • 22:1922:19, 12 June 2022 diff hist +243‎ N File:BRLL Opening Day 54 Lions.jpeg ‎ The Railroader Little League Bears on the first opening day in June, 1954. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
  • 22:1822:18, 12 June 2022 diff hist +243‎ N File:BRLL Opening Day 54 Tigers.jpeg ‎ The Railroader Little League Bears on the first opening day in June, 1954. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
  • 22:1722:17, 12 June 2022 diff hist +243‎ N File:BRLL Opening Day 54 Bears.jpeg ‎ The Railroader Little League Bears on the first opening day in June, 1954. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
  • 18:5818:58, 12 June 2022 diff hist +1,381‎ N File:Flook Farmhouse 2.jpeg ‎ The two-story Flook Farmhouse, built in the early 20th century by Daniel Charles Flook was home to several generations of the Flook Family. The house incorporates design features from the Queen Anne Revival period (1880-1910), with its focus on elegance and simplicity, and the Colonial Revival period (1880-1930) with its use of design features common to colonial American architecture. The Flook house was the center of the Flook family farm and Daniel and Nena Flook raised their seven childr... current
  • 18:5418:54, 12 June 2022 diff hist +322‎ N File:Machine Shop Capino-Green.jpg ‎ According to the library records, this photo shows Charlie Capino and Gene Green in a machine shop, dated August, 1974. Does anyone know where this shop was located? (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People current
  • 18:5318:53, 12 June 2022 diff hist +365‎ N File:New F&M Bank Welty.jpg ‎ Keith Welty takes his place behind the teller's desk at the then new Farmers & Mechanics bank branch soon after it opened on the corner of Maple Avenue and Souder Road on June 9, 1975. It is now PNC Bank. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
  • 18:5218:52, 12 June 2022 diff hist +345‎ N File:Bank Books.jpg ‎ Bank book sleeves from the old Bank of Brunswick, which was located were City Hall is today. This was one of the primary ways people did their banking long before the Internet age, all in person. These items belonged to Brunswick businessman Donald Woods. (Courtesy of Nancy Merchant Langley) Category:Smoketown Advertising current
  • 18:5118:51, 12 June 2022 diff hist +306‎ N File:Grams Cousins B Street.JPG ‎ Sharon Grams (Green), Adriene Reynolds (Yount), Billie Grams (Hickman), Kenny Reynolds, and Sandra Grams (Cox) in a 1950s-era photo taken on West B Street in Brunswick. If you look closely, Kenny is holding some baseball cards. (Photo courtesy of John Brubaker) Category:Smoketown Kids current
  • 18:5018:50, 12 June 2022 diff hist +317‎ N File:Howes.jpg ‎ Doug and Mary Howe posing in the mid-1970s. This photo may have been taken in their backyard on W. Potomac Street across from Littens Chevrolet-Olds dealership. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People current
  • 18:4918:49, 12 June 2022 diff hist +273‎ N File:Fire Nikirk Thorntons.jpg ‎ Construction site for the new Brunswick Elementary School, June 2022. The current school, which opened in the Fall of 1952 and can be seen from a distance, will be replaced. (Photo by Kathy Carter Escamilla) Category:Smoketown Police - Fire - Ambulance current
  • 18:4618:46, 12 June 2022 diff hist +255‎ N File:New BES Construction Site.JPG ‎ Construction site for the new Brunswick Elementary School, June 2022. The current school, which opened in the Fall of 1952 and can be seen from a distance, will be replaced. (Photo by Kathy Carter Escamilla) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 18:4518:45, 12 June 2022 diff hist +170‎ N File:New BES Artist Rendering.JPG ‎ Artist's rendering of the new school which will be built on the current site. (Courtesy of Frederick County Public Schools) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 18:4118:41, 12 June 2022 diff hist +493‎ N File:New BES Plan 2.jpg ‎ This image provides a wider view of the west Brunswick view surrounding the plot where the new school will be located. The school grounds are shown in pink. The area in yellow, in the tax data base, is owned by the city and is a large piece of land at 7.21 acres. That includes basically everything around Greenwood Street and what touches Petersville Road. (From the Frederick County Public Schools website; information courtesy of Eric Minnick) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 18:4018:40, 12 June 2022 diff hist +524‎ N File:New BES Pans 1.jpg ‎ Here is the plan for the new BES complex. Left side is Central Avenue, bottom right corner shows the corner of West C and Dayton Avenue. Once the current school building is razed, the entrance will remain on Central Avenue. The area where the current school sits will become the new parking lot for teachers, visitors and school buses. The new building will essentially reside behind the current BES. (From the Frederick County Public Schools website courtesy of Eric Minnick) [[Category:Smoket... current

30 May 2022

  • 23:3323:33, 30 May 2022 diff hist +686‎ N File:Jimmy Dickens.jpeg ‎ Contract for Little Jimmy Dickens and his Country Boys at the old Brunswick fire hall for September 4, 1952. Jimmy stood all of 4'11" tall and was well known for his rhinestone-studded outfits for which he was an early influencer. Before his death in 2015 at age 94, he was the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry. Does anyone remember seeing Little Jimmy and his band at the fire hall and if there were return engagements? Other country legends like Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones and Strin... current
  • 21:3421:34, 30 May 2022 diff hist +295‎ N File:Earth Day 1972 hard work.jpeg ‎ Students working hard during the 2nd BHS Earth Day celebration on April 17, 1972. John Schuster (Class of '76) is wiping his brow. Steve Moser (Class of '77) is facing the camera with hands in his pockets. (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 21:2921:29, 30 May 2022 diff hist +235‎ N File:Kathy Beall Earth Day 1972.jpeg ‎ Kathy Beall (Class of '73) picks up trash along the roadside during the 2nd BHS Earth Day celebration on April 17, 1972. Can anyone identify her? (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 21:2721:27, 30 May 2022 diff hist +223‎ N File:John Schuster Earth Day 1072.jpeg ‎ John Schuster (Top) and Tim Dawson clean what appears to be the music room during the 2nd BHS Earth Day celebration on April 17, 1972. (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 20:4320:43, 30 May 2022 diff hist +191‎ N File:Doris Capino Earth Day.jpeg ‎ Doris Capino (Class of '76) cleans a classroom on the 2nd BHS Earth Day celebration on April 17, 1972. (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 20:3920:39, 30 May 2022 diff hist +374‎ N File:Boy looking over Kaplon's Counter.jpg ‎ A boy looking over the counter at Kaplon's Department Store in the early '60s. Myer Kaplon loved to take photos of children inside the store. Can anybody recognize him? Amos Kaplon is visible in the right of the frame. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Kids current
  • 20:3820:38, 30 May 2022 diff hist +326‎ N File:Fannie Kaplon Graduation Dress.jpg ‎ According to their great-grandson Roby Morsberger, this is perhaps the last photo of J.P. & Barbara Ellen Roby together. The Look magazine Mrs. Roby is reading was dated July 1949. That sedan was big enough to carry those rocking chairs! (Photo courtesy of John Roby Morsberger) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 20:3520:35, 30 May 2022 diff hist +1,055‎ N File:Distinguished Citizens 1987.jpg ‎ This photo was featured in the November 10, 1987 edition of the Brunswick Citizen. These Brunswick Distinguished Citizens had been recently honored at a luncheon at the Eagles Club. First row: Ann Wenner Osteen was a noted southern painter and designer; Betty Lou Cavalier taught generations of Brunswickians to dance at her studio on W. Potomac Street; Carlos Myers was a longtime business leader; Leona Sauser a lawyer and community leader along with her husband Bill; Connie Koenig is a local... current
  • 20:2820:28, 30 May 2022 diff hist +1,407‎ N File:Distinguished Citizens 2018.jpeg ‎ Brunswick Distinguished Citizens of 2018. This ceremony at American Legion Post 96 was the first since 1993. The honorees were: Front row - Joanne Runkles, educator and moving force behind the Brunswick Medical Center for which she served as President of the Board; Ruth Kline Staples, Brunswick's pioneering and last "Rosie the Rivetor" who worked hard jobs on the railroad during World War II; Estelle Belt, Master Docent of the Brunswick Heritage Museum, who was one of its first volunteers in... current
  • 20:2320:23, 30 May 2022 diff hist +566‎ N File:Weverton Station Eastbound View.jpg ‎ The former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot in Weverton that briefly flourished along the canal and river about a mile west of Knoxville. We believe it was torn down in 1929. According to Reuben Moss: "The station stood around the area of the triangular section of road where people park on Keep Tryst Road. The track to the Washington County Branch needed realigning and most of the remnants of old trackside Weverton were removed to put in present day 340." (Photo courtesy of the South Mount... current
  • 20:1720:17, 30 May 2022 diff hist +1,027‎ N File:Leon Enfield Jousting Worldseries.jpg ‎ A longtime dairy Knoxville dairy farmer, who was inducted into the Maryland Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1995, Leon Enfield (1933-2018) was well known for his jousting activities. He was a member of various clubs including the Maryland Jousting Tournament Association and the Western Maryland Jousting Club. He won four National Jousting Championship titles and eight State Championship titles. He was a charter member of the National Jousting Hall of Fame, Class of 1979. Leon was inducted into th... current
  • 20:1520:15, 30 May 2022 diff hist +1,290‎ N File:Flook Farmhouse.jpeg ‎ The two-story Flook Farmhouse, built in the early 20th century by Daniel Charles Flook was home to several generations of the Flook Family. The house incorporates design features from the Queen Anne Revival period (1880-1910), with its focus on elegance and simplicity, and the Colonial Revival period (1880-1930) with its use of design features common to colonial American architecture. The Flook house was the center of the Flook family farm and Daniel and Nena Flook raised their seven childr... current

17 May 2022

  • 01:0801:08, 17 May 2022 diff hist +8‎ File:Earth Day 1972.jpeg ‎No edit summary current
  • 01:0201:02, 17 May 2022 diff hist +220‎ N File:Earth Day 1972.jpeg ‎ Students clean what appears to be the music room during the 2nd BHS Earth Day celebration on April 17, 1972. John Schuster on top? (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools
  • 01:0101:01, 17 May 2022 diff hist +191‎ N File:Earth Day 1972 Doris Capino.jpeg ‎ Doris Capino (Class of '76) cleans a classroom on the 2nd BHS Earth Day celebration on April 17, 1972. (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
  • 00:5900:59, 17 May 2022 diff hist +387‎ N File:Ruth Kline Staples Legion.JPG ‎ Ruth Kline Staples was honored by the ladies at the Brunswick American Legion Auxillary, Post 96 a few years back when the members posed with her in "Rosie the Riveter" headscarves. Having worked on the railroad in town when the men were away fighting World War II, Mrs. Staples was the last of Brunswick's "Rosie's". (Photo courtesy of American Legion Auxillary, Post 96) current
  • 00:5700:57, 17 May 2022 diff hist +297‎ N File:SN Katz Frank Miglio.jpeg ‎ Frank Miglio, longtime manager of the S.& N. Katz jewelry store on the Square Corner Brunswick and city coucilman poses in the doorway. Maybe 1976? This building was destroyed by fire in 1992. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick History Commission) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
  • 00:5400:54, 17 May 2022 diff hist +594‎ N File:Wenner Family Reunion 1948.jpeg ‎ Family celebration of future Judge William W. Wenner's graduation from St. James School in the Spring of 1948. Not sure if this is in Brunswick, but maybe? Can anyone place it? In the photo are: Front row - Ed Wenner, Ann Wenner (Osteen), Ed's wife Virginia Gregory (Dee) Wenner, Bill's Grandmother Edna Garrott Wenner, Edith Garrott Back row - William W. Wenner, Ted Wenner (son of Ed), Ted’s wife Esther, Katherine Manor, Joseph Kerns, E. Virginia (Patty) Wenner, a Gregory sister, ? (Photo... current

14 May 2022

  • 19:1419:14, 14 May 2022 diff hist +497‎ N File:Hits & Misses 1971-72.jpeg ‎ Singing around the piano with Mr. Sam Huffer in 1972. Was this the "Hits and Misses"? Standing left to right: Linda Ifert, Mike Hale?, Sheree Childers, ?, Deborah Riggs, Michelle Guyton, Keith Welty, Tim McLane, Buddy Cunningham, Mickey Lynn, Lou Ann Dawson, ? Sitting at the piano: Chester Loy was on guitar siting next to Mr. Huffer Does anyone remember or can decipher what was written on the blackboard? (Photo from the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Music current
  • 19:1219:12, 14 May 2022 diff hist +376‎ N File:The King & I (2).jpeg ‎ In this scene of Sam Huffer's production of "The King and I", the King of Siam (Roger Hatcher) and teacher (Lou Ann Dawson) were prostrated in front of Prince Chulalongkorn and the monks. In back (L-R) David House, Johnny Kitts, David Hamilton, ?, ?, ?, Bill Cauley, Peter Wenner, Drew Hawes, ?, (From the 1972 BHS Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Performance current
  • 19:0919:09, 14 May 2022 diff hist +243‎ N File:Tim McLane Injury.jpeg ‎ Tim McLane nursing a knee injury suffered while playing basketball during his senior year. The shoes on Timmy and whoever was sitting behind them were so of the times. (From the 1972 BHS Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Sports current
  • 19:0719:07, 14 May 2022 diff hist +460‎ N File:The King & I Finale.jpeg ‎ This appears to have been the finale of "The King and I". It was Sam Huffer's Brunswick High School production from the Spring of 1972. Johnny Kitts (left foreground) was Prince Chulalongkorn. Lou Ann Dawson (center) played the English governess Anna. Linda Ifert was standing in back between Johnny and Lou Ann and to the far right of Lou Ann in white is Sheree Childers (From the 1972 Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Performance current
  • 19:0319:03, 14 May 2022 diff hist +594‎ N File:BHS Glee Club 1971-72.jpeg ‎ The BHS Glee Club of 1971-72 with Mr. Sam Huffer on piano. Front row: ?, Kim Garrott, Donna Hahn, Nancy Huffer, Louann Dawson, Gail Webber, Kristi Deener, Sandy Reynolds, Eric Koogle, Davey Webber, Keith Welch Second row: Second row: Cindy Williams, ?, Susan Waters, Joan Cook, Joan Williams, ?, ?, Jerry Ebersole Third row: ?, Sharon Loy, Patti Woullard, ?, ?, Christy Ayers, Dena Vanover, Lois Remsburg Fourth row: ?, Sharon Harrison, Debbie Gosnell, Joanna Feaster, Debbie Haller, ?, Linda... current
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