Articles by Leigh Glenn

Summer's Here

Jones Station Severna Park Farmers Market celebrates 25 years

A sensory feast — colorful fruits and veggies, fresh eggs and meat, well-tended ornamental plants along with herbs and veggie plants — that’s the main reason to go to a farmers market. But education and the ability to speak directly with producers run a close second. At the Jones Station Farmers Market, education includes beekeeper and honey seller Peter Quinton’s display of what bees do to make honey and Lori Beard spinning wool roving into yarn. If...

Article - Good Living; by Leigh Glenn; 7/5/12

Bay Schooling

Go to summer school for TEAM DNR and you’ll be teaching come fall

“I’m proud of you that you can name all the states in our watershed and not miss any,” said longtime TEAM DNR volunteer Penny Vahsen to fourth-graders at West Annapolis Elementary School. “Some students say California is part of our watershed.” Not Candice Gaylon’s class this past school year. They’re up on buffers, erosion and water pollution. Volunteers from TEAM DNR — Teaching Environmental Awareness in...

Article - Green Living; by Leigh Glenn; 7/5/12

Get Ready for the 50/50 Challenge

Trash pickup in Anne Arundel goes weekly starting June 4

The day of reckoning is here. Starting Monday, June 4, Anne Arundel County cuts one of your twice-weekly trash pickup days. Your new one-day-only pick-ups for trash, recycling and yard debris will be the day that you usually put your recycling on the curb. So, if Monday’s your tri-refusa day and Thursday your uni-trash day, Monday it will stay. Make sure it’s to the curb by 6am. Forget or come out too late, and your stuff will belong to the dogs and crows until...

Article - News; by Leigh Glenn; 5/31/12

A to Z Recycling

26 ways to get your old stuff into the right hands

Is your house growing tight around the middle? Consider this alphabet soup as your diet to lean down. Antiques and Art These have potential value. Search online, include collector clubs. Ebay may be a sales route and offers research leads. Antique stores. Call ahead. Building Materials Donate new, surplus and salvaged supplies and fixtures. Pick-up available. Community Forklift, Edmonston, 301-...

Article - Green Living; by Leigh Glenn; 5/17/12

The Rocky Horror Show

It’s easy to have a good time at this Theatre at Anne Arundel Community College showing

Every generation has its rites of passage, not to be confused with steps up on the ladder of maturity. For 40 years, seeing and participating in The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been one of those rites. Part of the rite is dressing up. Part is talking back. Part is making rain with water pistols and tossing bread crusts every which way. Not least is doing The Time Warp. Can the live Rocky Horror Show compete with the screen version? The Horror Show now...

Article - Theatre Reviews; by Leigh Glenn; 4/19/12

A 350-Year-Old Farm Goes Modern

A sharing garden keeps Goshen Farm growing

You may have heard whispers about a haunted house somewhere behind Cape St. Claire Elementary School. If yours is one of the 2,500 families living in the Cape, you probably have. If your children heard the stories, they may have even headed up there for an adventure. Fact is, a whole world existed — still exists — back there, through what used to be pastures, along a path that goes through vine-covered shrubs and small trees and emerges on the other side. If you...

Article - Gardening; by Leigh Glenn; 4/5/12

Twin Beach Players’ The (Female) Odd Couple

It’s all out in the open in this very funny comedy

In 1985, playwright Neil Simon revised his original The Odd Couple for the ladies and called it The (Female) Odd Couple. It’s essentially the same storyline as the original 1968 comedy, but instead of two divorced fellows, there are two divorcees, Olive Madison, a slob and savings-and-loan to her ex-husband; and Florence Unger, a neat-freak whose husband wants a divorce. Plus a cadre of female buddies who gather at Olive’s to play Trivial Pursuit — as well as the Costazuela...

Article - Theatre Reviews; by Leigh Glenn; 4/5/12

Who Needs Grass?

The Kniskerns’ yard is a sustainable smorgasbord

The fifth of an acre where James and Mary Kniskern live in Arnold was about what you’d expect for a suburban dwelling: grass, azaleas, daffodils in the spring, pachysandras year-round. As you’d expect, it required the drone of a mower and sweat non-equity to keep it in shape. “I didn’t like to mow,” says James. But what was the alternative? Less than a decade later, the Kniskerns are living the alternative...

Article - Green Living; by Leigh Glenn; 11/10/11