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Get to Know the Family

Come, learn and share your history

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Seven hundred were way more guests than Maryland State Archives director of outreach Emily Oland Squires planned for at last year’s innaugural Family History Festival. “I would have been happy if we had more people than staff,” she told Bay Weekly in 11th-hour planning for the second festival. No matter how many people come to the Archives, in Annapolis, Saturday, November 7, she and Archives staff will have room. Especially for you.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 11/5/15

Thomas Point Reunion

Lighthouse keeper John White returns to his one-time home after four decades

Petty Officer 2nd Class David Marin

In John White’s boyhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, schools and water fountains were separated for whites and colored. Rising from the final years of segregation, he could not imagine his future self, as the first black man in command of Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse, ushering in its 100th year of service in 1975. He got a glimpse of his future when his two older brothers were drafted into the Army for the Vietnam War. In 1969, the year he graduated high school, White too was drafted.

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– by Petty Officer 2nd Class David Marin – 10/29/15

The Bay We Deserve

Celebrated Chesapeake writer and advocate Tom Horton on the state of our beloved estuary

Excerpted from a talk at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s 50th anniversary lecture series (Editor’s note: Horton’s words have been rearranged in the shape of this story)

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– by – 10/29/15

Conservationist of the Year

Greenstreet Growers uses land wisely

Sandra Olivetti Martin

For using land wisely so as to preserve it for future generations, Greenstreet Growers is Anne Arundel Soil Conservation District’s 2015 Conservationist of the Year. Greenstreet Growers has been at the forefront of agriculture in South County since 2000, growing bedding annuals and perennials in commercial greenhouses for both retail and wholesale customers. In those years it has installed soil-saving, pollution-reducing innovations including grassed waterways, heavy-use area protections, irrigation management systems, pond and roof runoff structures.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 10/29/15

Patience Pays Off

Franklin Point State Park opens after 17-year wait

Kathy Knotts

Keeping South County rural seems to be a motto with might behind it. A former ground of contention is opening as Franklin Point State Park. After stalwart citizens and former Gov. Parris Glendening blocked development, the former Deep Creek airport sat untouched for over a decade thanks to shrinking budgets and a critical wetland habitat the county seemed to not know how to best use. The 477-acre peninsula bordering Chesapeake Bay, Deep Creek and Flag Pond represents a large swath of potential public water access.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 10/29/15

New Skipper at the Helm of WNAV Boat Show

Three-man crew includes fishing expert and Deale marina manager

Sandra Olivetti Martin

When you’ve used up your week’s worth of Dennis Doyle’s fishing tips, tune into WNAV Boat Show Wednesday afternoons at 2 on 1430fm (99.9am in Annapolis). With Captain Dave Hanson retiring after 14 years and more than 700 shows, the radio Boat Show has a new crew. Host is Hanson’s decade-long co-captain, Rick Franke, a familiar name in the Annapolis maritime community as former general manager of the Annapolis Sailing School. He holds a 100-ton Inland Master’s License with a sail endorsement.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 10/29/15

Greetings from the North Pole

30,000-horsepower Healy makes the nation’s first solo visit

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Satellites snatch glimpses of the North Pole effortlessly, but human visits remain a rare achievement — and a dream. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy reached the pole on September 5. Healy’s was the fourth ever visit by a U.S. surface vessel and the first to reach the pole unaccompanied.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 10/15/15

Veterans Visit Their Ship’s Namesake

USS Calvert carried thousands into three warsVeterans Visit Their Ship’s Namesake

Sandra Olivetti Martin

Veterans of the USS Calvert (APA-32) and families visited Calvert County, their ship’s namesake, for the first time, on a day that coincided with a blustery nor’easter. The veterans meet annually, this time in Baltimore, where they toured Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, where the amphibious assault ship was built. They also visited the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 10/15/15

Roll Up Your Sleeve

Annapolis-AACo partnership provides free drive-through flu shots

Kathy Knotts

We’re already seeing the reminders at the pharmacy, the doctor’s office, on TV. It’s time to get a flu shot. On Wednesday, Oct. 21, if you live, work or attend school in Anne Arundel County, you can get your shot without leaving your vehicle at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. From 11am to 6pm or until the 1,000 doses are used up, free shots are given on a first-come-first-served basis to all over six months old.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 10/15/15

Reviving a Poe Tradition

Will you be his next Toaster?

Kathy Knotts

Who was the Poe Toaster? No one is fessing up to being the mysterious stranger who visited Edgar Allan Poe’s final resting place at Westminster Hall every year on his January 19 birthday, beginning sometime in the 1940s. The hatted stranger, dressed in black but for his white scarf, would lay down three red roses, raise a glass of cognac to Poe’s memory and disappear, leaving the open bottle and the flowers on the memorial.

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– by Kathy Knotts – 10/15/15

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