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27 November 2022
- 23:2623:26, 27 November 2022 diff hist +144 N File:Local Veterans 2022.jpg Local Veterans truck in 2022 Veterans Day Parade (Photo courtesy of Jeff Pearl) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 23:2323:23, 27 November 2022 diff hist +218 N File:D House with young passenger.jpg Brunswick Eagle Rider David House with his young passenger make their way up E. Potomac St in the 2022 Veterans Day Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Pearl) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 23:2123:21, 27 November 2022 diff hist +219 N File:Ambulance Co 2022.jpg Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Company begins its procession up E. Potomac Street in the 2022 Veterans Day Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Pearl) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 23:1823:18, 27 November 2022 diff hist +62 File:POW-MIA 2022.jpg No edit summary current
- 23:1723:17, 27 November 2022 diff hist +159 N File:POW-MIA 2022.jpg POW-MIA float on E. Potomac Street in 2022 Veterans' Day Parade. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Pearl) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations
- 23:0723:07, 27 November 2022 diff hist +411 N File:First Methodist Sunday School 1950s.png One of several photos in the Kaplon Collection of Sunday School students at the old First Methodist Church on S. Maryland Avenue, this cute group included Mickey Orye, Michael Spurrier, Sylvia Feaster, Ann Eury, Nancy Frey, and Michael Coates. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship current
- 23:0223:02, 27 November 2022 diff hist +394 N File:Brown Farm Butchering Ladies Cooking.png Ladies in the kitchen on the Brown farm near Lovettsville preparing the meal on Thanksgiving. Ida Brown with her back to the camera is on the right. The men were outside butchering. This photo was likely taken in the early 1950s. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
- 23:0123:01, 27 November 2022 diff hist +313 N File:Butchering Smith.png Country butchering at the Farmers Woods in the late '60s. The boy facing the camera appears to be Sam Smith and his father Willard Smith behind him. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Farm Community current
- 22:5822:58, 27 November 2022 diff hist +376 N File:City Council 1955.jpeg Brunswick City Council poses on the front steps of what was then City Hall on A Street (now the police station) in 1955: Front: Bud Albert, Chester Phillips Back: Dick Danner, Carl Hahne, Bill Hortman (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works current
- 22:5622:56, 27 November 2022 diff hist +409 N File:Diane Shewbridge Oscar Mitchell.jpg Young Diane Shewbridge poses sometime in the 1950s with Oscar "Mitch" Mitchell before leaving with family and friends on a trip out of the Brunswick Westbound train station. In the background are Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Hightman and Mrs. Pauline Hawkins. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Kids current
- 22:5422:54, 27 November 2022 diff hist +417 N File:Pettie Brown Winn.jpg Pettie Brown Winn posed on S. Maryland Avenue in front of the then new extension to First Methodist Church sometime in the 1950s. Mrs. Winn was among the women pioneers, who worked on the railroad in Brunswick when local men left for service in World War II. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People current
20 November 2022
- 20:1620:16, 20 November 2022 diff hist +155 N File:Senior Center.jpg Brunswick Senior Center Ladies circa late '90s? Who can you recognize? (Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery) Category:Smoketown Organizations current
- 20:1120:11, 20 November 2022 diff hist +503 N File:Acme Prize.jpg Store manager Joe Reed presented Beth Mentzer with a GE heavy duty dryer at the old Acme supermarket in 1987. Acme gave away the dryer as part of an ongoing promotion that also featured a color TV set. Beth said that prior to this, she had "never won anything". If anyone has other photos of the Acme store on New Addition, please feel free to share them with us! (Brunswick Citizen clipping courtesy of City of Brunswick Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
- 20:0520:05, 20 November 2022 diff hist +560 N File:Buddy Gilbert v. Middletown.jpg Buddy Gilbert makes a head fake before driving around his Middletown opponent during what the newspaper called the Railroaders' “stunning upset” over the Knights on a Saturday night in March 1968. Following the game, Coach Herb Daugherty credited the BHS varsity team for playing some of their best basketball of the season. The Middletown player number 14 is Robert Rogowski. In the background for the Knights is Paul Throne. (Blade-Times photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland Histo... current
- 20:0320:03, 20 November 2022 diff hist +129 N File:Charlie King sitting.jpg Railroader Charlie King (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
14 November 2022
- 02:0002:00, 14 November 2022 diff hist +342 N File:Bob Stewart.jpg Leroy Herbert (Bob) Stewart and Ada Belle Arnett. This photo is believed to have been taken on their wedding day in April 1917 during World War I. It was taken on the sidewalk in front of his fathers house in Brunswick on A Street next door to Grace Church. (Photo courtesy of Mark Stewart) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
- 01:5701:57, 14 November 2022 diff hist +157 N File:Charlie Porter.jpg Charlie Porter worked for the passenger department. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:5501:55, 14 November 2022 diff hist +225 N File:Pete Stair.jpg Pete Stair. He worked from Brunswick to Martinsburg on a turnaround train service for years. Good message on the wall. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:5301:53, 14 November 2022 diff hist +172 N File:Bill Baker.jpg Artistic photo of Bill Baker with the bridge in a soft background. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:5101:51, 14 November 2022 diff hist +118 N File:Charlie King 2.jpg Charlie King (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:5001:50, 14 November 2022 diff hist +262 N File:WWII Army Private.jpeg A U.S. Army private boards the train as local soldiers deployed for duty in World War II. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
- 01:4601:46, 14 November 2022 diff hist +152 N File:Bennie Harsh.JPG Bennie Harsh Sr. in his U.S. Army uniform during World War II. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Harsh Baker) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
- 01:3901:39, 14 November 2022 diff hist +182 N File:Buzz Darr.jpg Buzzy Darr poses in the Brunswick yard in 1982. He worked on the track team. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:3601:36, 14 November 2022 diff hist +150 N File:Roy Lipscomb.jpg Roy Lipscomb having a bite of lunch in 1982. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:3301:33, 14 November 2022 diff hist +182 N File:Barry Jones.jpg Barry Jones worked on track and was later transferred to the carpenter gang. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:3101:31, 14 November 2022 diff hist +157 N File:Joe Thomas.jpg Joe Thomas in 1982. He was an operator agent/clerk. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:3001:30, 14 November 2022 diff hist +145 N File:.Gayhart.jpg Dave Gayhart was Track Foreman in 1982. (Photo by Blair Harrington courtesy of Laura Alcarese) Category:Smoketown Railroaders current
- 01:2701:27, 14 November 2022 diff hist +243 N File:Mr. Cook.JPG A great photo collage of beloved longtime BHS science teacher Paul Cook, who taught advanced biology to at least 2 generations of students. Mr. Cook made science fun. (Courtesy of BHS Throwbacks) Category:Smoketown Schools current
- 01:2001:20, 14 November 2022 diff hist +427 N File:Mr. Imwold.jpeg Mr. Dennis Imwold taught English and drove a candy-apple red convertible Karman Gia as a young teacher back in the early '70s that he was good-naturedly teased about by students. After he left BHS, he spent his career in the State Department working in embasssies around the world. He married, raised 2 children and retired to Florida. (Photo from 1970 BHS Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
- 01:1001:10, 14 November 2022 diff hist +254 N File:Mr. Sullivan.jpg Mr. Gregory Sullivan taught art at BHS when the high school was still considered new. He was a talented artist, but was remembered as a sometimes irrascible teacher. (Photo from 1970 BHS Railroader Yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current
- 01:0301:03, 14 November 2022 diff hist +1,793 N File:Grace Church Centennial.jpeg Program for the centennial celebration of Grace Church that was held in Brunswick on October 23, 2022. See the cornerstone in the middle of the page. Grace Church, as we know it today, was originally part of All Saints Parish, Frederick, which was organized from Prince George’s Parish in 1742. In 1801, Saint Mark’s Parish was formed with Saint Mark’s, Petersville as the mother church of the parish. By 1890, Saint Marks parish in Frederick and Washington counties included the churches of Sai... current
13 November 2022
- 23:2223:22, 13 November 2022 diff hist +483 N File:Grace Chapel Burgess.jpeg Reverend Edward E. Burgess with acolytes and choir at the old Grace Chapel, which preceded the current Grace Church, which just celebrated its centennial on 10/23/22. We believe this photo dates to circa 1915. Father Burgess presided over the transition into the then new church until his death in 1938. The crucifer appears to have been Richmond "Dick" Wenner. (Photo courtesy of Shirley Shores and Grace Episcopal Church) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship current
- 23:2023:20, 13 November 2022 diff hist +330 N File:Hartman Anniversary.jpg Hartman family at a 50th anniversary party for Virts and Jerry Hartman in the 1960s. Daughters Marie Huffer on the left and Virginia Hartman on the right. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 20:2120:21, 13 November 2022 diff hist +306 N File:Mike Dallas.jpg Young Mike Dallas (BHS Class of '71) poses on W. Potomac Street in front of Kaplon's in the late 1950s in what appears to have been a Halloween costume. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Kids current
- 20:1920:19, 13 November 2022 diff hist +362 N File:Veterans Day Parade E Potomac.jpg This appears to have been a World War II era Veterans Day parade as the procession makes its way east on Potomac Street, as it did in those days. See Horine's on the southside, the Lace Store and Bank of Brunswick on the north. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 20:1720:17, 13 November 2022 diff hist +308 N File:Veterans Day Parade African-American Band 40s.jpg An African-American marching band makes its way down the first block of W. Potomac Street during a Veterans' Day parade in the 1940s. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 20:1520:15, 13 November 2022 diff hist +352 N File:Veterans Day Parade 1940s.jpeg In the 1940s, a marching band heads down the first block of W. Potomac Street from what must've been a window in the old Katz building on the Square Corner. See the old Bank of Brunswick where City Hall resides today. (Photo courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 20:1320:13, 13 November 2022 diff hist +441 N File:Veterans Day Parade Spectators 1961.jpg The crowd, who have staked out prime seats for the unseasonably warm 1961 Veterans' Day Parade, await. See the boy on the lower left bending over trying to see if anything was coming. Also noted is Donald Darr's Corvair van in front of his business Brunswick Florist. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
- 20:1020:10, 13 November 2022 diff hist +415 N File:Veterans Day Parade Silver Bit.jpg The Silver Bit Riding Club makes its way down W. Potomac Street in a Veterans' Day Parade in what might have been the late 1950s. Right to left: Tom Hagan (with flag), Les Fry, Harwood Watson, Ruby Kemp, Buddy Sigler, Dawn Kemp, Tom Watson (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
21 October 2022
- 22:1622:16, 21 October 2022 diff hist +217 N File:Stewarts.jpg Ada Belle Stewart poses with her son Gerald Stewart in the backyard of their home on 47 East B Street. This photo was taken in 1945. (Photo courtesy of Mark Stewart) Category:Smoketown Our Soldiers current
- 22:0922:09, 21 October 2022 diff hist +427 N File:Trinity Lutheran Church Knoxville Harpel.jpeg Pastor George Harpel presides at a Sunday service at Trinity Lutheran Church in Knoxville in the 1970s. The old church is now a residence. The painting of Christ now resides in the sanctuary at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Burkittsville. Please feel free to share your memories of this church. (Photo courtesy of Jody Brumage and the South Mountain Heritage Society) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship current
- 22:0522:05, 21 October 2022 diff hist +450 N File:B&O Emergency Hospital Porch.jpeg A view of the B&O Yard likely taken from the porch of the old emergency hospital building next to the YMCA. Although the date is unknown, this photo was taken after 1907 as the original roundhouse had been replaced by this structure as part of an infrastructure improvement that included the YMCA and the west half of the yard. (Photo courtesy of Jody Brumage and the South Mountain Heritage Society) Category:Smoketown B&O YMCA current
- 22:0322:03, 21 October 2022 diff hist +845 N File:Square Corner Post Office.jpeg This building on the square corner, which many of us remember as S.& N. Katz jewelers was an early post office for Brunswick. Judging from the photo style, we believe it dates to the early 20th century between 1900-1910. It was later a grocery store before it became Katz. According to Jody Brumage, a copy of a Frederick News article from 1927 stated in that year the Post Office was moving to the "building nearly completed by Dr. J.G.F. Smith on South Maple Avenue." The Brunswick post office... current
- 21:4921:49, 21 October 2022 diff hist +308 N File:Old bridge before new construction.jpeg A view from the Virginia side during construction of the then new Potomac River Bridge with the old bridge still operational. The bridge was dedicated in August, 1955. (Photo courtesy of Jody Brumage and the South Mountain Heritage Society) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal current
- 21:4721:47, 21 October 2022 diff hist +775 N File:Grace Reformed Church Knoxville.jpg This was Grace Reformed Church in Knoxville. It was built in the 1848 and used as a field hospital during the Maryland Campaign of 1862. According to Jody Brumage, "the church was originally built in Weverton. It was used as a hospital and badly damaged. According to records, the congregation disbanded after the Civil War. Rev. William Wire, pastor of Saint Paul’s, Burkittsville, began holding services in a schoolhouse in Knoxville which formed into Trinity Church. In the 1870s, the old Weve... current
- 21:4321:43, 21 October 2022 diff hist +411 N File:1966 LL State Champs.jpg P.L. Orrison, Mitch Deener, Brent Albert and Craig Crowl celebrate on their home field in Brunswick after our Little League all stars defeated East Frederick 4-1 to advance to the State Tournament in Hagerstown. The year was 1966. Brunswick won the state tournament and went to the regionals in Louisville, KY. (News clipping courtesy of Kristi Deener Mitchell) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
- 21:3721:37, 21 October 2022 diff hist +382 N File:Board of Trade 1968.jpg Under the headline "Board of Trade Meets", this Blade-Times photo from March 7, 1968 shows (left to right) Draper Sutcliffe, Dr. Paul Shaffer and Richard Snoots talking over the tallying of election votes. Schaefer and Sutcliffe had just been elected to the board. (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Organizations current
- 21:3021:30, 21 October 2022 diff hist +283 N File:American legion champs 1968.jpg The 1968 Blade-Times caption read: "Paul Barker and Paul Taylor present American Legion District baseball trophy to Bill Merriman during Sunday's banquet at the Legion." (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Baseball current
- 21:2421:24, 21 October 2022 diff hist +257 N File:BHS Cheerleaders 1969.jpg BHS Cheerleaders from the 1968-69 school year: Terry Dawson, Roxanne Dixon, Linda Ifert, Sherry Crampton (Mascot), Lou Ann Dawson, Tana Anderson (Courtesy of the City of Brunswick, Maryland History Commission) Category:Smoketown Schools current
17 October 2022
- 21:2621:26, 17 October 2022 diff hist +463 N File:Miss Hood at Kaplons.jpg We believe this lady shopper in 1890s period garb at Kaplon's during the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Brunswick's 75th birthday in September, 1965 was Miss Lavinia Hood. That may have been Miss Fanny Kaplon who was partially hidden as she selected an item from a drawer for the customer. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current