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Let us be your guide to discovering the charm and beauty of Frederick, Maryland.
Let us be your guide to discovering the charm and beauty of Frederick, Maryland.
The music of KIX has been heard across the country and around the world. Even deep below. “When my husband was in the Navy and on a submarine, he had a Walkman and he took their cassettes with him,” says Chary Varkalis, a longtime fan. “So, KIX has been played at many leagues under the sea.”
Andy Bennett reaches into a pile of reed-thin plant stalks and fine fiber sitting on the floor in his barn. To the uninitiated, this could be straw or hay or many other plants grown on Frederick County farms. To the initiated, it is hemp.
The great designs of the world—from the sublime cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris to the bucolic Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece Fallingwater—are rarely based on cautious ideas. Architectural swagger still takes place today, perhaps in less-noticeable measures.
As a youngster living in New Jersey, Eric Byrd recalls his father coming home from work, sitting with The Philadelphia Inquirer and listening to the records of Earl Gardner and other jazz greats.
My friend Becky has a special affection for Switzerland, starting with the Brown Swiss cows her family once raised, her selection as the 1982 National Swiss Miss and her wedding in the Alps. Years ago, she heard about Helvetia, this speck of a village in West Virginia settled by Swiss immigrants shortly after the Civil War.
There are fans of musical groups and then there are actual “friends of the band.” The latter would unquestionably be true of Frederick resident Patricia Simons, whose love for the American western music and the singing group Sons of the Pioneers reaches back to the 1950s, when at the age of 5 she saw her first rodeo…