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50 Ways to Leave Your Summer

Your 2017 guide to finding fall fun

Chesapeake Autumn Invites You In

Beaches, marsh and mountains blaze with color

Hey There, Autumn

This week we bring you 50-plus ways to revel in the new season

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Spoofing Bond with ups and downs

Picking Up Tricks of the Trades

In Makerspaces workshops, you can make most anything

The Postcard

A missive 20 years delayed sent me into my future

Never Too Young to Read

New parents take books home with babies

First-time parents in Anne Arundel County now have another bundle to carry home from the hospital: Baby Learns to Read Bags. The bags include board books, a library card application and activity cards for early literacy as well as guidance for parents on being their child’s first teachers. The bags go home with parents of children born at both the Anne Arundel Medical Center and the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center....

Article - News; by Kathy Knotts; 6/8/17

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

In Bay Weekly’s annual Summer Guide, you’ll find 101 Ways to fill yours with fun

It’s getting to feel a lot like summer. Days are long as the sun sidles north. At 14 hours and about 52 minutes of daylight, we’re rushing toward the longest days of this year, June 20 and 21, when the sun is with us 14 hours 56 minutes 18 seconds. With all that sun time, skies are blue and clouds shape-changing puffballs — except when thunderstorms clatter through and drench our plans. The vegetable kingdom is in riot, encompassing...

Article - Letter from the Editor; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 6/8/17

Twilight Zone on the Bay

Where else can you be when nothing goes wrong?

There is nothing like an early June morning on the Chesapeake. A bit of smoky haze was still rising off of the Eastern Shore in the far distance as we cleared the ramp and eased out of the channel onto glassy Bay surface. The quiet burble of our outboard was the only sound, and for a long while neither of us cared to hear anything else. At last, looking around at the rocky piers we were approaching, I took an already rigged light spin outfit and...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle, Fishing; by Dennis Doyle; 6/8/17

Too Much of a Good Thing

Even with compost you can overdo it

Recently a Bay Weekly reader complained she could not grow cauliflower or broccoli. The plants grew big and lush but never produced edible heads — all this despite the large amount of compost she added to her garden soil each year. My response was too much of a good thing. Compost is a good source of not only long-lasting fiber but also slow-release nutrients. For every percent of organic matter in soil, an acre of soil generates 10 pounds of nitrogen each year. If...

Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin, Gardening, Green Living; by Dr. Francis Gouin; 6/8/17

Wonder Woman

Women finally get their hero in this triumphant DC Comic adaptation

Amazons have thrived for centuries on the island of Themyscira, content to train for battle and broaden their minds with language and philosophy. This matriarchal society follows rules: no men and no leaving. But Diana (Gal Gadot: Keeping Up with the Joneses) chafes. Banned from combat training by her mother, Queen Hippolyta (Connie Neilsen: Stratton), Diana learns the art of war in secret from her aunt, the famous general Antiope (Robin Wright: House of Cards). With super...

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 6/8/17

2nd Star Production’s Mary Poppins

Practically Perfect in every way

It’s always dangerous to take on a classic; the chances of disappointment are so great. Who could ever compete with Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews as Bert the Chimney Sweep and Mary Poppins? Popular brother-and-sister team Nathan Bowen and Emily Mudd, that’s who. And what about this new script (2005) with its added plot twist and songs? Won’t the audience revolt? No. They gobble it up like a Spoonful of Sugar...

Article - Performing Arts; by Jane Elkin; 6/7/17

Riding at the Top of Her Game

Lily Fisher-Flaherty is the first woman jousting champ in 55 years

Kicking up dirt, a girl and her horse gallop hard through three arches in a dusty field. The girl’s lance, six feet long and chiseled to the point of a needle, is aimed at a ring that may as well be a dust speck. The girl is Lily Fisher-Flaherty, a 19-year-old college student who lives in Lusby. Her horse is Sunny, a spirited palomino American Warmblood. Together, they are the winners of the 2016 Maryland State Jousting Tournament. Fisher-Flaherty...

Article - History & Lore, News, People; by Sarah Jablon; 6/1/17

From Anne Arundel County to Armenia

My first days as a senior Peace Corps Volunteer

I have a view of Mount Ararat from my bedroom near Artashat in Armenia. The peak dominates the landscape, flat land that doesn’t see much rain. The mountain, the national icon of Armenia, is now in territory claimed by Turkey, but people here still consider it their own. Every day in Shady Side, I was awed by the beauty and size of the Bay. In this landlocked country, I look out upon another wonder of the world: Noah’s mountain, the peak where the Ark is said to...

Article - People, Places; by Liz Barron; 6/1/17

Getting to Know Her Face

Harriet Elizabeth Brown portrait puts a face to the name that helped earn equal pay for teachers of all races

Equal pay for Maryland teachers across the races was a battle quietly fought and won in Calvert County 80 years ago, thanks to the efforts of a young, determined African American teacher, Harriet Elizabeth Brown. We all know the name Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who helped her prevail and went on to great things, including the U.S. Supreme Court. After winning her landmark Fourteenth Amendment challenge, Brown went quietly back to teaching in Calvert...

Article - History & Lore, News, People; by Tracy Contrino; 6/1/17

Don’t Throw Back that Horseshoe

He’s keeping the species alive

It’s a dark and stormy night, the moon is shaded by clouds. The only light streams from our headlamps and the revolving beam of a nearby lighthouse. The rain is pelting sideways, and the water is above our ankles. Tired and cold but hopeful, our trio trudges down a Calvert County beach at 3am, scanning the turbulent water for a prehistoric monster. Suddenly in the surf, someone spots a dark silhouette, like a rock … we draw closer, anxious with excitement. It is...

Article - Creature Feature; by Audrey Broomfield; 6/1/17

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