The decision by the Havre de Grace City Council last Monday to withdraw all $12,000 in city funding originally designated for the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway may also jeopardize significant funding for local museums and the city itself.
In an eight-page letter sent to Mayor Wayne Dougherty and the City Council last Wednesday, Greenway Executive Director (and Harford County Councilwoman) Mary Ann Lisanti informed the City Council that its decision to cut all funding for the Greenway – which describes itself as “a non-profit organization whose mission is to stimulate local economic activity by developing a linkage between our natural, historic and cultural resources” – may result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in additional grants and aid being lost.
“We hope that the City now fully understands that this minor budget
amendment substantially impacts current and future capital projects by creating an unintended but serious consequence. Our ...Continue Reading
The Dauntless Base Ball Club of Havre de Grace, sponsored by the Susquehanna Museum at the Lock House, will be playing their first home match June 28 at the Steppingstone Museum. Match time is 12:00p.m.
Come out and enjoy Base Ball 1860’s style! Players wear vintage uniforms from the period, compete according to the rules of 1864 and even play without gloves. There will be early base ball history displays, historical re-enactors, kids games and more.
See how the game was meant to be played.
Home Matches are played at the Steppingstone Museum in Susquehanna State Park (Admission)
Home Dates:
June 28, 12:00 pm vs. Talbot Co Fair Plays at Steppingstone (Home)
July 19, 12:00 pm vs. Elkton Eclipse at Steppingstone (Home)
July 26, 12:00 pm vs. Diamond State at Steppingstone (Home)
August 16, 12:00 pm vs. Chesapeake-Potomac at Steppingstone (Home)
For more information check out lockhousemuseum.org or call 443-567-0507
Back by popular demand is Clontarf, which re-enacts a battle between the Vikings and Irish from 1014. There should be even more re-enactors than last year. There will be fighting demonstrations, encampments and daily life interpretations. There will even be a re-enactor on horseback!
April 4 (Saturday)
10am-5pm (poster says 4)
Adults 3.00
Kids 5-12 are 1.00
Kids under 5 are free
Please see our website www.lockhousemuseum.org or call 410-939-5780
It was my Mom who turned me on to Andrew Wyeth’s paintings early on in my life. She would always point out his works whenever they appeared in print magazines. I would cut out the images and put them on my bedroom wall…staring at them late into the night and wondering what it was about them that so interested me. For a boy of 9 it was refreshing and invigorating to take in all the colors, hues and shapes of Mr. Wyeth’s work.
Tony Hyde the art teacher at Bel Air High School, when I first went there, took me a few steps farther in learning about art, painting and images…It was 9th grade, and luckily there was Art I as an elective, and I stayed with his classes until I graduated.
“The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.” So said Babe Ruth. Agree with him or not, I have no doubt that the grand-daddy of home runs is up in the baseball heavens, prepping himself to bid farewell to his iconic home.
Uh-huh. Yankee Stadium is going down and the ensuing countdown – considering the All-Star break typically marks the mid-point of the season – inevitably brings up times of reflection and moments to remember. While Yankee fans and baseball fans in general might mourn the destruction of the House That Ruth Built, they can take comfort in knowing that just because his stadium is getting bulldozed, the Sultan of Swat isn’t going anywhere – he’ll always be in our hearts.
Three hundred and seventy-three years ago, or thereabouts, a small ship attempted to trade with Native Americans at Palmer’s Island, now known as Garrett Island, on the Susquehanna River at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. The ship never made it to the island - it was captured in what was dubbed the first act of piracy in Maryland.
Several centuries later, the Susquehanna Museum at the Lock House in Havre de Grace is celebrating the history of piracy on the Chesapeake with a Pirate Gala on July 12. Aside from eye patches, peg legs, shoulder-mounted parrots, plank-walking and an unimaginable number of scurvy-mouthed “arghs!,” the event will also feature a reggae band, an auction, food and beverage, a costume contest and a re-created pirate encampment.
It’s our great American pastime. Other sports might be more action-packed, hard-hitting and in-your-face, but there’s just something special about the pace of the game, the crack of the bat and the thrill of a home run.
Nothing symbolizes summertime in America more than the underhanded toss of the pitcher, the smack of the ball into a bare, ungloved hand and the unmistakable colored shield adorning the chest of each “ballist.”
There’s nothing quite like good old fashioned base ball – played 19th century style – and it’s coming soon to a field near you.
The land, the water and the wildlife have been there forever, at the confluence of Big Branch and Deer Creek in Pylesville, but the forward-thinking nature center designed to provide environmental education as well as preservation, interpretation and management of the ecological and cultural resources of the site is a relatively recent amenity.
Eden Mill Nature Center and Historic Mill Museum is celebrating 17 years in operation with an open house and rededication party Saturday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eden Mill was once an actual, functioning mill built in the early 1800s. It became a power plant with the rebuilding of its dam in 1917, but functioned as a mill up through the 1960s. Harford County then purchased the land for park property and in 1991 a group of local nature-lovers, led by Frank Marsden formed Eden Mill and began the laborious process of cutting trails through the forest, building a nature center and rehabilitating the ...Continue Reading
Dinosaurs! The name itself infers impending awesomeness. It is derived from the Greek words ‘deinos’ (terrible) and ’saura’ (lizard). Already you know you are in for a show. Where do I find these terribly awesome lizards? Nowhere. You can find bones, fossils, footprints and even coprolites (fossilized poop).
I have been enamored with these ancient creatures as long as I can remember. I was even rewarded for being potty-trained with a trip to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum to see the bones (I remember that trip clearly, I mean I was 17). I had dinosaur sheets, shirts, and books galore. I also forced my mother to take me to the Maryland Science Center every spring when the animatronic T-Rex came to town. I am even currently reading Stephen Jay Gould’s, Bully for Brontosaurus.
