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14 November 2022

• 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
• 21:2321:23, 17 October 2022 diff hist +200‎ N File:YMCA-WB Tower looking west.JPG ‎ Unique view of the train yard in Brunswick back in 1975. See the bookends of the WB Tower (left) and B&O YMCA (right). (Photo courtesy of Ray Soderberg) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
• 21:2121:21, 17 October 2022 diff hist +399‎ N File:POR Tunnel.JPG ‎ A photo of the Point of Rocks tunnel in the 1990s. The Point of Rocks Tunnel is located along the original route of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad and was first constructed between 1866 and 1868 through the Catoctin Mountain. The tunnel was enlarged between 1902 and 1903 in order to accommodate an additional track. (Photo courtesy of Dave Ware) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
• 21:1921:19, 17 October 2022 diff hist +357‎ N File:Cook Cannon.JPG ‎ Circa late-1960s photo of Roy B "Cook" Cannon in Brunswick on a deck at his West C Street home overlooking the hills of our hometown. See the old high school perched over his shoulder up on 4th Avenue. Cook was a brother to longtime Brunswick Volunteer Fire Chief Sonny Cannon. (Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery) Category:Smoketown People current
• 21:1421:14, 17 October 2022 diff hist +393‎ N File:Shirley-lila.jpg ‎ Brunswick Distinguished Citizens and close friends Shirley Shores (2022) and Lila Wenner (2019) share a laugh at a conference at Claggett Center near Buckeystown in the early 2000s. Among their many contributions to the community, Shirley and Lila served on the altar guild at Grace Church for years. (Photo courtesy of Shirley Shores) Category:Smoketown Houses of Worship current
• 21:1221:12, 17 October 2022 diff hist +339‎ N File:Color guard.jpeg ‎ The BHS Railroader color guard pose for the camera before marching in the unseasonably warm 1977 Veterans' Day Parade. Carrying the banner are Betty Brooks (left) and Sharon Campbell. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Sports current
• 18:4518:45, 17 October 2022 diff hist +366‎ N File:Lowery at Campbells.JPG ‎ Here is a late 1970s photo of Mary Kathleen Lowery working at the checkout counter for Campbell's Market on 24 W. Potomac Street. Rick and Debbie Campbell bought the former Roelke's Market after Bill Roelke's retirement in 1977. Mrs. Lowery also worked for Roelke's for many years. (Photo courtesy of Phil Lowery) Category:Smoketown Businesses current
• 18:4318:43, 17 October 2022 diff hist +194‎ N File:Kem-Tone George's Hardware product label.JPG ‎ Some Kem-Tone brand wall finishing labels along with plug socket covers and screws from S.W. George Hardware. (Photo courtesy of Randy George) Category:Smoketown Advertising current
• 18:4118:41, 17 October 2022 diff hist +218‎ N File:Whistle Stop Matchbook.JPG ‎ A matchbook cover from the old Whistle Stop Restaurant on 201 E. Potomac Street that was purchased on EBay. Maybe for the late 1940s? (Photo courtesy of Asher Adelman) Category:Smoketown Advertising current
• 18:3818:38, 17 October 2022 diff hist +263‎ N File:Ariel View of Brunswick Yard.JPG ‎ Aerial view of the WB Yard in Brunswick. Can anyone guess the year? The roundhouse was still there in the lower part of the photo, but it appears that part of the coal tipple is gone. (Photo courtesy of Keith Yanky) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
• 18:3718:37, 17 October 2022 diff hist +287‎ N File:Swiger Wedding.jpg ‎ Brenda Barger and David Swiger after they had been just married in May 1983 by Pastor George Harpel at Trinity Lutheran Church in Knoxville. Brenda later served as church treasurer. (Photo courtesy of Brenda Barger Swiger) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
• 18:3518:35, 17 October 2022 diff hist +265‎ N File:Eastbound Station in Blue.jpg ‎ The Eastbound Brunswick Station in the late 1970s/early '80s when it was repainted Chessie System blue like the main station across the tracks. (Photo courtesy of Jody Brumage and the South Mountain Heritage Society) Category:Smoketown Railroad current
• 18:2018:20, 17 October 2022 diff hist +310‎ N File:Jefferson Plane Crash Cover.jpg ‎ The aftermath of a stunning air crash of a military jet and commercial airliner on the Smith farm off Fry Road on May 20, 1958. Warren Fry is in the background. We're not sure in which publication this article appeared. (Courtesy of Angela Fry) Category:Smoketown Police - Fire - Ambulance current
• 18:1718:17, 17 October 2022 diff hist +384‎ N File:Diamond Jubilee ladies.jpg ‎ Standing in front of Kaplon's display windows, Pauline King and Janie Gay Breeden pose in 1890s grab for Brunswick's Diamond Jubilee celebration in September 1965. Perhaps the lady behind them is Anna Dawson? (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
• 16:2516:25, 17 October 2022 diff hist +378‎ N File:Mrs Smith and Mrs Barlow.jpeg ‎ During Brunswick's Diamond Jubilee in September 1965. Looks like Mrs. JGF (Sara) Smith and Mrs. Emerson Barlow posed in 1890s garb in front of the Hallmark Card display at Kaplon's on W. Potomac Street. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
• 16:2316:23, 17 October 2022 diff hist +370‎ N File:Mrs. CM Wenner.jpg ‎ Two ladies pose for Mr. Kaplon. The woman on the right was Mrs. C.M. (Edna) Wenner. The lady on the left, who appeared to have been in ill health at the time, is unidentified. The photo probably dates to the 1940s. (From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries) Category:Smoketown People current
• 16:2216:22, 17 October 2022 diff hist +283‎ N File:Wenner gathering 1948 (2).jpeg ‎ A Wenner family gathering in 1948. Not sure if this Brunswick or not. (L-R) Katherine Manor, Eleanor Wenner, Edith Garrott, Virginia Gregory Wenner, Edna Garrott Wenner, ? Gregory. (Photo courtesy of Ann Wenner Osteen) Category:Smoketown Parades and Celebrations current
• 16:2016:20, 17 October 2022 diff hist +597‎ N File:Ladies Card Group.jpg ‎ In a familiar scene from the era, a group of Brunswick ladies are photographed enjoying themselves around a card table in the 1950s behind a quiet early TV. These ladies were part of a group that met weekly to play bridge. Those empty glasses appear to have been soda fountain drinks that were served as part of the post-game refreshments. From left to right were Margaret Orrison, Bertha Eddins, Ada Kirk and Bertha Long. (From the Myer Kaplon Photo Collection at the Brunswick Community Librar... current
• 16:1716:17, 17 October 2022 diff hist +344‎ N File:Girls near old bridge.JPG ‎ Shirley Kline and Barbara Lloyd pose flanking the warning sign at the approach to the old Potomac River bridge on the Virginia side in the early 1950s. Obviously, there was no chance that they would exceed the weight limit on the bridge. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Kline Cogle) Category:Smoketown Potomac River and C&O Canal current
• 16:1516:15, 17 October 2022 diff hist +200‎ N File:KarlShewbridgeCirca1940.jpg ‎ Brunswick Boy Scout Karl Shewbridge circa 1940. Being a scout was a Shewbridge family tradition over at least 2 generations. (Photo courtesy of Kermit Frye) Category:Smoketown Kids current
• 16:1416:14, 17 October 2022 diff hist +321‎ N File:BHS Custodians 1970.jpeg ‎ Bill Merriman and Quenton Cornelius posed on a loading dock at Brunswick High School where both men were custodians. Bill was a very talented pitcher for Brunswick adult baseball teams. He also coached Brunswick youth baseball. (Photo from the 1970 BHS Railroader yearbook) Category:Smoketown Schools current