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12 June 2022

• 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
• 18:4818:48, 14 May 2022 diff hist +18‎ File:Potomac River Bridge Aerial View.jpeg ‎ →‎Summary current
• 18:4618:46, 14 May 2022 diff hist +107‎ File:Potomac River Bridge Aerial View.jpeg ‎No edit summary
• 18:4118:41, 14 May 2022 diff hist +866‎ N File:Potomac River Bridge Aerial View.jpeg ‎ An aerial view of the then new Potomac River Bridge which was dedicated in Summer 1955, next to the old bridge built in 1897. Within this view of Potomac Street at the time, there were 4 grocery stores, a Dime Store, the Eagles Club lodge, a lunch counter inside a patent drug store, a department store, a Shell station and 2 churches. According to Thomas Watson: South side of Potomac St from the bridge was Roelke's market, Reformed church, flower shop, Kaplon’s, Watson’s Cut Rate, Eagles Lodg...
• 18:3418:34, 14 May 2022 diff hist +194‎ N File:Canal Boat at Lock 30 with Lockhouse.jpeg ‎ A canal boat at Lock 30 looking westward. See the old lockhouse on the right. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal current
• 18:2918:29, 14 May 2022 diff hist +990‎ N File:Horines on the Square Corner.jpeg ‎ An undated photo of Horine's Drug Store. Dr. Arlington G. Horine built his signature business and residence at the corner of Maple Avenue and Potomac Street in 1910 as the railroad yard expanded and forced merchants to move the business district up the hill. (Photo courtesy of the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Ruth Kennedy: They were the sweetest people. Mr. Horine was always whistling. She has such patience at the candy counter. Melanie Stewart: Loved that place. Daddy used to take Arney and... current
• 18:2418:24, 14 May 2022 diff hist +331‎ File:Werntz Dry Goods Store at 100 E. Potomac Street, circa 1933.jpg ‎No edit summary current
• 18:1918:19, 14 May 2022 diff hist +665‎ N File:C&O Lock 30 Eastward View.jpeg ‎ An old view of the C&O Canal at Lock 30 looking in the opposite direction of the earlier photo we posted this week. In addition to the canal boat, the tow path and the men in the foreground, we see the old mill, which in those days, was likely run by B.P. Crampton & Co. Prior to that, it was known as Jordan, Crampton & Co. after the widow of C.F. Wenner sold her interest following her husband's death in 1882. It had been operated as Jordan & Wenner and in 1859 was spoken of as Berlin Milling... current
• 18:1718:17, 14 May 2022 diff hist +3,099‎ N File:Edward Schafer Morsberger research.JPG ‎ Edward Shafer was born in Burkittsville. He came to Brunswick, started investing in real estate, and founded a newspaper, its first issue rolling off the press on 6 March 1891. Shafer was a real man-about-town and made the guest list of many private parties and dances. While he was probably popular, he could also mention the soirée in the paper. On the serious side, he was also tapped to serve on committees for public improvement and community celebrations, was a candidate for the Maryland H... current

17 April 2022

• 17:1217:12, 17 April 2022 diff hist +596‎ N File:Jimmy Dean Contract (2).jpeg ‎ Tendered contract for 3 more return engagements for Jimmy Dean and the Texas Wildcats at the old fire hall in the Spring of 1956. At the time, Dean hosted the popular Washington, DC radio program “Town and Country Time” on WARL-AM and with his Texas Wildcats became popular in the mid-Atlantic region. Patsy Cline and Roy Clark both got their starts on the show and Clark played with the Wildcats. Jimmy Dean and his band performed so much in those days that a 1957 Chevrolet pumper was dubbed "... current
• 17:1017:10, 17 April 2022 diff hist +215‎ N File:Jimmy Dean Contract 1956 (1).jpeg ‎ Signed contract by H.E. "Sonny" Cannon for a return engagement of Jimmy Dean and the Texas Wildcats at the old fire hall on February 17, 1956. (Courtesy of Mary Jo Brown) Category:Smoketown Music current
• 16:5916:59, 17 April 2022 diff hist +178‎ N File:Cannon's Historic Piano.JPG ‎ The old piano that was played on by big bands as well as honky tonk acts in the ballroom's heyday. (Photo courtesy of Vicki Allgaier) Category:Smoketown Music current
• 16:3116:31, 17 April 2022 diff hist +344‎ N File:Cannon's Dance Floor.JPG ‎ This photo shows the large dance floor at Cannon's, which has been estimated at around 10,000 square feet. In a 1967 feature story on Brunswick, Sonny Cannon told the Washington Post: "Duke Ellington--you shoulda seen his face when he saw the size of this place!" (Photo courtesy of Vicki Allgaier) Category:Smoketown Music current
• 16:1316:13, 17 April 2022 diff hist +493‎ N File:Cannon's Stage.JPG ‎ The renovated ballroom located above the old fire hall, now Smoketown Brewery, which was built around 1948. Namesake Sonny Cannon was both fire chief and impresario, who booked big bands conducted by Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Guy Lombardo, as well as bands fronted by country legends such as Jimmy Dean and Patsy Cline. Those acts helped pay for fire engines and other lifesaving technology of the time. (Photos courtesy of Vicki Allgaier) Category:Smoketown Music current
• 16:1116:11, 17 April 2022 diff hist +366‎ N File:Cannon's Entrance.JPG ‎ This new back entrance to the ballroom is a revelation to those who remember the narrow stairs that led up to the ballroom in the days of the old Fire Hall dances. The old kitchen has been converted to modern bathrooms, another relief to those who remember the cramped, smokey spaces. (Photo courtesy of Vicki Allgaier) Category:Smoketown Music current
• 16:0216:02, 17 April 2022 diff hist +561‎ N File:FDR-Willkie Bet (3).jpeg ‎ Back in November 1940, the man on the right lost his bet that Wendell Willkie would defeat Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1940. He fulfilled his obligation to push the winner (left) up and down Potomac Street, which was a dirt road on the east side. Not an easy task. Looks like the business on the right was called Dyer's, perhaps a dry cleaner. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum)... current
• 15:5915:59, 17 April 2022 diff hist +319‎ N File:FDR-Willkie bet (2).jpeg ‎ The loser of the FDR-Willkie bet prepares to chauffeur the winner up Potomac Street. See the old post office on East Potomac Street. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works current
• 15:5715:57, 17 April 2022 diff hist +423‎ N File:FDR-Willkie bet (1).jpeg ‎ East Potomac Street scene across from the old YMCA in November 1940. These folks were watching two Brunswick men getting set to pay off a bet on the 1940 presidential election when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won an unprecedented 3rd term. (Photo taken from the home movies of Marvin Younkins, courtesy of the Younkins family and the Brunswick Heritage Museum) Category:Smoketown Politics and Public Works current
• 15:5415:54, 17 April 2022 diff hist +485‎ N File:Judge Gross 1983.jpeg ‎ Classic news clipping of a recuperating Judge Bill Gross holding up a Brunswick Citizen issue that had incorrectly announced that he was either dead or dying. There was an article on him the next week featuring this picture showing him very much alive and quoting Mark Twain with the words "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Judge Gross did pass away not much longer after this. (Brunswick Citizen clipping sometime in 1983) Category:Smoketown People current
• 15:5015:50, 17 April 2022 diff hist +1,120‎ N File:West End Elementary School Class Photo.jpg ‎ Here is a class photo from the old West End Elementary School in Brunswick. It belonged to Elaine Koogle Bowers, who graduated in the BHS Class of 1939. We think these children may have been in the 5th or 6th grade. Mrs. Bowers attached a list of names she could remember. She started numbering from the top down. It's believed that the photo may date to the 1932-33 school year. Here is the list of students: Top row: Bill McLane, Mary Ellen Griffith, Mary Wood, Katie McLane, Jeanette House... current

10 April 2022

• 18:5418:54, 10 April 2022 diff hist +1,595‎ N File:WB Tower New Location.JPG ‎ On April 2, 2022, the B & O Westbound Tower was relocated to E. Potomac Street adjacent to the site of the old YMCA, which was destroyed by fire in November, 1980. Following years of planning and discussion, the City of Brunswick, Maryland finally moved the historic WB Tower off of CSX property. The interlocking tower, built around 1906-07, was removed from service a decade ago and residents feared the historic Baltimore & Ohio structure would be demolished. Coordination of engineering ser... current