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All in the Family

Is artistic talent genetic or a matter of upbringing? Father-daughter painters Peter and Lisa Egeli say “Yes”

Sandra Olivetti Martin
You probably know families with a run of talent. History is full of them, in both pure brainery and in hands-on and physical achievements, from sports to art, music to politics.     It makes you wonder. Does talent follow bloodlines?     Father Peter Egeli and daughter Lisa Egeil, a pair of Southern Maryland painters, are just two in a family deeply rooted in the arts.     Peter’s parents, Bjorn Egeli and Lois Baldwin Egeli, were both painters. All of their five children were artists.
article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 3/12/15

Playing Their Way

Musicians start young and work hard

Storrie Kulynych-Irvin
Allison Reisinger plays chords on her violin, tuning as she waits for her call. When it’s time to show her stuff, she steps onto the stage, a picture of confidence and concentration. Faculty judges sit below, pens ready. Allison takes a deep breath and lifts her instrument to her shoulder. Her fingers and bow slyly dance across the strings.     Reisinger, of Annapolis and now a senior in violin performance at the University of Maryland, is again looking ahead. The outcome of this graduate program audition could determine the future of her musical career.
article –   –  by Storrie Kulynych-Irvin  – 3/12/15

The Journey of a Piper

From 9/11 to St. Patrick’s Day

Lin Whetzel
Among the lives changed September 11, 2001 were my Southern Maryland family’s. Our change was for the better.     “How would you feel if I learned how to play the bagpipes?”     My firefighter husband Bill had never picked up a musical instrument in his life — and he’s starting with the bagpipes?
article –   –  by Lin Whetzel  – 3/12/15

Healing the Animal Kingdom

One man is the difference between life and death for creatures great and small

Sandra Olivetti Martin
Deep in the maze of Chesapeake Ranch Estates, St. Francis of Bay Country gives sanctuary and modern medicine to the creatures of our wild. From tiny to the mighty, all are welcome — within the guidelines of federal and state agencies and six permits that control the work of Orphaned Wildlife Rescue Center.     “My main thing is that every life form has a right to live,” says Ron Wexler, whose lifelong calling is giving “the helping hand that makes the difference between life and an ugly death.”
article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 2/26/15

March into the ­Garden

Learn from plantsman Bill Cullina and ­benefit Unity Gardens

Leigh Glenn
This time of year gardeners feel the itch for warm weather. We’re wistful about anything green and have gardening books spread out in inconvenient places in eagerness for another season.     Scratch the itch by honing your design skills with plantsman, author and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens executive director William Cullina. He comes to Annapolis March 7 to talk about the botany of design.
article –   –  by Leigh Glenn  – 2/26/15

Jim Toomey Takes Us to the Bottom of Sherman’s World

The world’s most famous lagoon is created daily in Annapolis

Bob Melamud
I’m always surprised to discover someone world-famous living nearby. In New York City it would be routine, but not so much here. Everyone has to live somewhere, but why Bay Country?     For many people, home is dictated by family roots or livelihood. For some, it’s a choice of desirable characteristics rather than ties.     What brings Jim Toomey, creator of the nationally syndicated cartoon series Sherman’s Lagoon, to Annapolis?
article –   –  by Bob Melamud  – 1/15/15

Hoofing it to Warmer Pastures

In winter, Maryland horse riders head to balmy Florida

Diane Burt
When the first cold winds of winter blow through, some intrepid riders pile on layer upon layer of warm clothing to keep riding outdoors. Still, snow, ice and frozen ground often send them hunting for the friend of a friend’s indoor arena.     Warmer-blooded riders scheme ways to get themselves and their horses to warmer climates, trading down-filled coats for T-shirts and heavy blankets for lightweight flysheets.
article –   –  by Diane Burt  – 1/8/15

Great Expectations

16 Chesapeake neighbors answer one tough question: What do you see in your future in 2015?

New years make optimists of us. Once again, we believe that determination or luck will win out, making us healthy, wealthy and wise in the unmapped year ahead. If past years have brought disappointments and damage, well, let old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Let the good times roll!     For all our faith and frenzy, every new year is full of surprises likely to steamroll our puny human plans.     So it was a tough question we posed to a variety of Chesapeake neighbors this new year: What do you see in your future in 2015?
article –   –  by  – 1/1/15

A Celtic Christmas Tradition

Join Maggie Sansone for Cold Frosty Morn at historic Christ Church
 

Thomas C. Hall
Since 2002, Shady Side musician Maggie Sansone’s Celtic Christmas concerts have filled historic Christ Church in West River with the tingling sounds of hammered dulcimer, harp and fiddle. Inspired by a visit to Ireland to study early Christianity, then-rector Sandra Cordingley invited Sansone’s collaboration.
article –   –  by Thomas C. Hall  – 12/4/14

Ghost Hunting

If there be spirits, now’s the time to find them

Melissa Barba
Storm clouds shot lightning in the distance across the water that cool, damp evening. The flash of the camera was the only other light that pierced the night. Nothing could be seen in the screen except two small balls of light. But when the picture was enlarged, a man appeared: a bearded man in a long coat with — perhaps — a lantern in his outstretched arm. Later, this same face appeared in the photo of a window pane.     Those photographs were our reward on an early October ghost hunt at the historic Point Lookout Lighthouse.
article –   –  by Melissa Barba  – 10/30/14

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