72 HOURS April 20, 2023

THERE’S A NEW MURAL IN TOWN

Take a stroll along South Wisner Street to see the latest public art piece in downtown Frederick. The Frederick Arts Council commissioned Michael Rosato to create the mural, which depicts the rich history of McCutcheon’s Apple Products and the people involved in the local company. Rosato is best-known for his mural of Harriet Tubman at the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center in Cambridge, and we are excited about his contribution here, a welcome addition to our town’s story.

MISSED WOODSTOCK? NEXT BEST THING.

OK, so maybe a night at the Weinberg Center doesn’t compare to four days of drugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll (and mud) in a farm field in Woodstock, New York, nor could we pack 500,000 hippies into the historic auditorium, but the energy and spirit of the music will be in full force when “Neil Berg’s The 60’s” takes the stage this week, bringing a collection of Sixties sounds to Frederick. If you’re a fan of the psychedelic era of rock, step into the Weinberg on Friday and step back in time.

BOOT SCOOT ON OVER TO MOUNT AIRY

Mount Airy Main Street Association will host Boot Scootin’ on Main Street at Liquidity Aleworks on April 24, with local food, ales and country line dancing instruction, courtesy of Dean Garrish, aka the “Dancin’ Realtor.” Learn two country line dances and have the opportunity to participate in a “flash dance” on Main Street.

LISTEN TO AN ART TALK

A new solo exhibition just opened at the FAC Art Center in downtown Frederick, and artist Khánh H. Lê will give an artist talk about his work at 6 p.m. April 20, which is free and open to the public. “Making Memories While We Wait” explores the collective memories of the artist’s and his relations’ experiences as refugees living in Vietnamese internment camps in the 1980s. If you miss the talk, you still have plenty of time to see the show, which will remain up through July at 5 E. Second St., Frederick.

READ A NOVEL THAT TAKES PLACE IN A FICTIONALIZED VERSION OF FREDERICK

Justin M. Kiska, who readers might know through his work at the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, recently published the book “Fact & Fiction” (Level Best Books). What might be perhaps the most interesting to local readers is the murder mystery’s setting, Parker City, a fictionalized version of Frederick that has served as the backdrop of all of Kiska’s novels. “To make the setting as real as possible, like many writers, I looked around for inspiration and ended up not having to look very far,” he says.

Meet Bob & Freddie. When it comes to local businesses, businesspeople and organizations in Frederick, they know best. Here is a personal interview with a 2022 Best of the Best winner or finalist about why they love what they do, helping those they serve and working in Frederick.

Trauma Specialists of Maryland

2022 WINNER FOR BEST MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER

124 North Court St, Frederick

301-304-7108

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Facebook.com/Trauma SpecialistsofMD

BOB HISTORY

2022, 2020 –Winner, Mental Health Provider

2021 – Finalist, Mental Health Provider

WHAT SETS YOUR BUSINESS APART?

We know trauma and how to treat it!

We are committed to cultivating growth with our clients, each other, and the practice. Our commitment to our work also helps to shape our culture to create a space for incredible professionals to flourish.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE OTHERS GOING INTO BUSINESS?

Look at each obstacle as an opportunity for growth! Commit to growing your leadership. Make all decisions by filtering your options through your values.

WHAT MAKES FREDERICK A GREAT PLACE TO DO BUSINESS?

The care for the community. Frederick

has grown, but still cares enough to make meaningful connections with other leaders.

IF YOU WEREN’T IN YOUR CURRENT PROFESSION, WHAT OTHER TYPE OF BUSINESS WOULD YOU BE IN?

We can’t imagine doing any other work. The need for trauma treatment has only grown in the last several years and we feel privileged to be a part of this work!

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOUR BUSINESS IN FIVE YEARS?

Expanding into more of Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Growing our Trauma Specialist Training Institute to offer more advanced training for clinicians.

Vitamin Sea Brewing in Massachusetts

In this episode of the UnCapped podcast, host Chris Sands talks with Dino Funari, founder of Vitamin Sea Brewing in Weymouth, Massachusetts, about his background, how the brewery came to be and where the name came from. Here is an excerpt of their talk.

UnCapped: You just had a recent anniversary. When was Vitamin Sea founded?

Dino Funari: Yeah, we celebrated four years in February. We opened in February 2019. We got a year-plus in before the pandemic hit.

UnCapped: Did you open with canning products in mind, or are you one of the breweries that had to do a real quick pivot?

Funari: Actually, our model was such that we were canning right out of the gate. We were packaging our beer in cans and selling from the taproom from the beginning. For us, it was more like playing catch up, because all of a sudden, everyone was in line waiting for beer [at the onset of the pandemic], with the fear of the unknown. So we pivoted a little bit, in the sense that we had to produce and package more than we had expected.

UnCapped: It was a big boon for canning line manufacturers, as everyone got frustrated with not being able to get time slots with mobile canners.

Funari: We had reached out ahead of time and said, “Hey, can you slot us for the next 24 months?”

UnCapped: What was your first home brew?

Funari: That was back when you had to buy a kit.

UnCapped: Was it Mr. Beer?

Funari: I don’t think Mr. Beer was even around then. It may have been, but it was the same thing, where you have buckets and the extract kit and all that. It just stunk up the house and exploded everywhere. It was a mess. I did that for a little bit and thought, maybe this isn’t the right time.

Then I got into home winemaking, and did that for probably 25 years or

so.

Then about 10 years ago, I got the itch to get back into home brewing. I started brewing with a friend every Saturday at the house. It kind of compounded from there. Other friends would come by, and it became a weekly ritual, if you will.

The beer was slightly better than those initial batches and started to get better and better as we continued to progress and learn. Eventually, we would get the beer out to friends. We had this cooler in the front yard. We’d leave cans of our beer in there, and people could come by to pick them up to try and give us their opinion.

UnCapped: Like those little neighborhood libraries.

Funari: Yeah, or the egg stands. People leave their eggs out for people to come by. The honor system. So we did that, and people were like, “This is good. You should do something with this.” We were kind of like, “OK.”

People pushed us into it. It was not our intention at first. We wanted to make beer — and make good beer — but more for our own consumption, being hobbyists and what we would consider artists. That’s why we did it.

We went along with that and decided to start taking it seriously. Then we realized, wait, this is a business — a real, legit thing. We have to make hard decisions. There’s money involved and all that stuff. We wrote a business plan and started to look for locations and talk to banks and the whole thing.

UnCapped: All the fun part.

Funari: All the fun part. We’re actually not in the town we wanted to be in, although it’s worked out great for

VITAMIN SEA BREWING

30 Moore Road, Weymouth,Mass. 781-803-2104

vitaminseabrewing.com

us. I think our dream of what we had when we opened is completely different now than it was then. We opened much larger, found a much bigger space, which is great because the way things went, we would’ve been in trouble right out of the gate at the other place, with a much smaller system. We wouldn’t have had the capability to grow the way we have. With the space we have, we’ve been able to scale up and organically grow the business.

UnCapped: What size system did you open with?

Funari: We have an oversized 10-barrel brewhouse. We actually do 12 1/2-barrel turns. And then we fill 20- and 30-barrel fermenters.

We still actually have our home brew system, which we brew on five days a week. That’s a treat when we do collabs with people. They come through and see that thing, and they’re all jealous. It gives us a chance to do one- or two-barrel batches of test beers that we can put in the taproom and gauge people’s interests, without having to commit to 20 barrels of a red ale or something.

UnCapped: Enough people are gonna enjoy it, but not enough that you want to dedicate 10 or 20 barrels to it.

Funari: Exactly.

UnCapped: Like, there’s always those people clamoring for a brown ale, but there’s just not that many of them.

Funari: All three of them, right?

UnCapped: Yeah.

Funari: So it’s nice. It gives us that flexibility.

This excerpt has been edited for space and clarity. Listen to the full podcast at fnppodcasts.com/uncapped.

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Dino Funari, founder of Vitamin Sea Brewing in Weymouth, Mass.

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill

Since opening in December 2022 on Buckeystown Pike, the wood fueling Firebirds’ smoker and grill has been flowing as steadily as the customers entering the restaurant’s doors. Executive chef Dustin Starling has been with the restaurant since opening day and, with leadership from general manager Beth Parsley, has helped the national chain’s newest Maryland location take shape. Starling said just about every protein dish on the menu, from the salmon and red snapper to pork ribs and steaks, has a component that is cooked in Firebirds’ wood-fired grill. Restaurant staff start feeding wood to the grill around 10 a.m. and keep adding hickory, oak or apple wood all day long. Vegetables, too, spend time in the restaurant’s wood-fired grill, and their smokey flavor is exemplified by the vegetarian black bean soup. Elsewhere, Firebirds’ pork ribs and chicken wings get an extended treatment in the restaurant’s smoker.

“We slow-cook our ribs overnight ... low and slow, in our smoker, so they fall off the bone and melt in your mouth,” Starling said. He also highlighted the restaurant’s popular lobster spinach queso, a shareable dish made with fresh Maine lobster chunks and a creamy Pepper Jack cheese sauce, which comes with a warm batch of in-house tortilla chips. For dessert, Starling touted with creme brulée cheesecake, with fresh fruit and raspberry coulis. From the bar, Starling recommends the Double Black Diamond Martini, which is infused with fresh pineapple juice. The chef recommends: The Filet & Shrimp. The filet is a bacon-wrapped, 7 oz. tenderloin and, like most cuts of beef and fish at Firebirds, is butchered in-house. The shrimp are cooked intricately, Sparling said. The goal is not to overcook them too much and cause them to shrink but instead ensure they are nice and plump. The dish is finished with a key lime butter sauce.

FIREBIRDS WOOD FIRED GRILL

5201 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick 301-850-0077

Website: frederick.firebirdsrestaurants.com

Social: @Firebirdsgrill Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday through Saturday

Price : Entrees range from roughly $15 to $65; shareable appetizers are $11.50 to $18.75; brunch items, served on weekends, are $13.95 to $21.75; cocktails are $11 to $12 and mocktails are around $6; desserts are about $10.

Staff photos by Bill Green

Firebirds Wood Fired Grill executive chef Dustin Starling with his signature dish, the Filet & Shrimp. Also shown, a Double Black Diamond Martini with infused fresh pineapple and a crème brûlée cheesecake, both of which are popular menu items at the Buckeystown Pike location.

Filet & Shrimp

MUSIC Neil Berg and his merry band of performers revive the psychedelic ’60s for a night

BY GARY BENNETT Special to The News-Post

Relive the powerhouse music that shaped a generation with “Neil Berg’s The 60’s: Peace, Love & Rock N’ Roll,” which will roll into Frederick’s Weinberg Center at 8 p.m. April 21.

Composer, producer, arranger and musician Neil Berg returns to Frederick with this new production, which takes the audience on a musical trip to the stormy, counterculture ’60s. Berg and his talented troupe of musicians last wowed Frederick audiences in October 2021 with his show “50 Years of Rock N’ Roll.”

In this new production, Berg recounts the ‘60s through music and stories, culminating with a celebration of the Woodstock concert in 1969.

If you didn’t make it to Woodstock like me (I was only 12) but remember all the wonderful music wafting down the hall from your big sister’s jukebox, you’ll not want to miss this evening.

Berg is privy to many behind-thescenes stories from Woodstock due to his personal friendship with Michael Lang, the organizer and producer of the iconic event.

“Michael brought me into his New York City office about 15 years ago to discuss the possibility of writing a Broadway musical about Woodstock — stories about unknown artists like Bert Sommer, who was in the Broadway musical ‘Hair’ and who was a solo artist at Woodstock and got the first standing ovation,” Berg said.

That idea morphed into “The 60’s: Peace, Love & Rock N’ Roll,” when Berg realized there are many more stories to tell and music to play that had nothing to do with Woodstock.

And Berg is not shy about sharing these tales.

He promises we’ll hear the story of Joni Mitchell’s song “Woodstock” and her relationship to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, who were famously playing only their second concert ever in public.

We’ll learn about the famous bands that were invited to play but didn’t.

We’ll hear about Carlos Santana playing his entire Woodstock set tripping on LSD, given to him by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.

And don’t forget the music! Berg and his merry band of Broadway

performers will cover the music of Woodstock acts Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, The Band, Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and Joe Cocker.

A who’s who of ‘60s rockers who

did not perform at Woodstock will be covered, too: Bob Dylan, Four Seasons, Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin, Monkees, Neil Diamond, Cream, The Mamas & the Papas, Otis Redding, The Doors, The Shirelles, Tina Turner, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin and others.

For everyone who wanted to be at Woodstock but wasn’t, this show might just make you feel like you were there.

Gary Bennett is a longtime Frederick resident who spends his time hiking, biking, volunteering and providing childcare for grandchildren. He is married and retired from his career as a nonprofit marketing executive.

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Monte Leister hosts the Jazz Extravaganza

Get jazzy with Monte Leister and a host of special guest musicians at the Jazz Extravaganza at 7 p.m. April 22 at the Carroll Arts Center.

Host Monte Leister is wellknown in Carroll County as the front man for jazz ensemble The Leister Quartet. From the smooth melodies of Sinatra and the Great American Songbook, to the eclectic solos of Monk, with the energy of Setzer, the Leister Quartet transports listeners to another place and time with their sophisticated menu of swing, jazz and blues standards as well as smart original compositions. Jay Fenner (tenor saxophone), Johnathan Davis (bass) and Jake Fine (percussion) round out the group.

Joining the Leister Quartet at this celebratory concert are a variety of local jazz musicians, including Bob Coffey, David Motter, Ian Hoke, Dan Andrews and Paul Morales, as well as Cliff

Thompson and his sextet.

“I am humbled, honored, and so excited to be sharing the stage with so many talented musicians, the lion’s share of jazz royalty in Carroll County,” says host Monte Leister. “I’m so grateful to Arts Council executive director, Lynne Griffith, for her vision and work to make this Jazz Extravaganza a night that I’m confident I will never forget.”

A portion of the proceeds benefit the Carroll County Arts Council’s Musical Instrument Bank. This longtime CCAC program collects and repairs gently used instruments to donate to local student musicians in need.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for ages 25 and under and ages 60 and up. Tickets can be purchased at carrollcountyartscouncil.org or by calling 410-848-7272. The Carroll Arts Center is located at 91 W. Main St., Westminster.

FREDERICK SPEAKER SERIES

Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour

THURSDAY, APRIL 20 | 7:30 PM

Neil Berg’s The 60’s: Peace, Love & Rock N’ Roll

FRIDAY, APRIL 21 | 8:00 PM

Afrique en Cirque by Cirque Kalabanté

SUNDAY, APRIL 23 | 6:30 PM

Ngaiire

First Nations Papua New Guinean singer/songwriter

THURSDAY, MAY 4 | 7:30 PM

PLUS UPCOMING FILMS...

SILENT FILM SERIES

Captain January (1924)

SATURDAY, APRIL 22 | 2:00 PM

Show People (1928)

SATURDAY, APRIL 22 | 8:00 PM

Ngaiire

WONDER BOOK CLASSIC FILM SERIES

Tom Jones (1963)

THURSDAY, APRIL 27 | 7:30 PM

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The Leister Quartet

MUSIC New jazz recording by The Trio of Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp and Jeff Cosgrove

The Trio of Ivo Perelman, Matthew Shipp and Jeff Cosgrove released the album “Live In Carrboro” recently, a followup to the trio’s 2017 recording, “Live In Baltimore.”

Ivo Perelman’s free jazz explorations on the tenor sax have been gathering critical superlatives since the early ’90s. The Wire hailed him as a “leatherlunged monster with an expressive rasp, who can rage and spit in violence, yet still leave you feeling heartbroken.”

On many of his finest recordings, he’s been joined by pianist Matthew Shipp, another improvisational virtuoso. Shipp’s approach also ranges through free jazz and abstract post-bop, seasoned by hints of classical music, both contemporary and traditional. NPR’s Nate Chinen said “Fruition,” one of the albums the duo recorded, was a celebration of the “freeform alchemy between Perelman and Shipp. Rarely do two musicians achieve a higher flow

state in real time.”

A few years back, Perelman and Shipp approached drummer Jeff Cosgrove, based in Frederick, about forming a trio. Cosgrove is another maverick, intent on following his own

limitless path. Although he’s played in rock, blues and jazz groups, he’s drawn toward the abstract, allowing his rhythms to flow and evolve in the moment. Joining Perelman and Shipp for their Live in Baltimore session seemed like a natural next step on his musical journey. Cosgrove said the Baltimore recording, and the trio’s new effort Live In Carrboro, affords them all the opportunity to stay in the moment, and in the music, in a profound way.

“That’s what’s so great about what we do,” Cosgrove said. “We don’t talk about the music when we’re backstage. When we start to play, the energy is passing through us, and nobody is caught up in their own routine. It’s a new space in every moment. We can groove together, if that feels right, and we can drift far apart, if that’s what the music needs. How quickly it can change and move is one of the things I find so fascinating

about this collaboration. It feels like a conversation.”

Perelman said the trio’s decision to leave the music on Live In Carrboro untitled comes from their commitment to their art. “The game of naming songs is pointless. Why name something that’s abstract? For us, music is an inner process, we hear it all internally — the harmonics, the movement, the rhythm and dynamics — the personal experience is what matters. If we hear structure in the music, we just follow where it takes us. Your journey listening to this music will be yours. Everybody benefits from their own perspective, so take the plunge. You’ll hear your own structure.”

Shipp agrees with Perelman’s take: “I don’t say anything about this music. It’s a group effort, so listen to the interaction between the three of us.

(See TRIO 13)

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Montgomery College Dance Company presents a spring concert of exhilarating dances in genres including Contemporary Modern,

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FAMILY

Marcus Davis spent an afternoon exploring Monocacy National Battlefield in 2022 with his children, including checking out the cannons on display in the open field.

Plan a visit to Monocacy National Battlefield

Initially established as a National Military Park in 1934, Monocacy National Battlefield commemorates “The Battle That Saved Washington,” fought on July 9, 1864. The park consists of six historic properties covering 1,647 acres. Here are just a few reasons to visit Monocacy National Battlefield this year.

EARTH DAY & PARK DAY

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 22 at the Visitor Center

Celebrate Earth Day and Park Day at Monocacy National Battlefield. This event invites guests to volunteer alongside National Park Service employees to complete maintenance and cleanup projects. Join in and help preserve and improve the natural and cultural resources at Monocacy National Battlefield.

JUNETEENTH: FROM ENSLAVED TO EMANCIPATED

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 17 at Best Farm, 5106 Urbana Pike Rangers at Monocacy National Battlefield will host a guided, 1.5-hour,

1-mile hike that will follow the journey of freedom for those who were enslaved on the farms that make up Monocacy National Battlefield. Learn about those who found freedom through escape, court rulings and the ratification of Maryland’s constitution in 1864, which abolished slavery in the state.

This hike will also pass Monocacy Junction where US Colored Troops were recruited, where hikers will learn about those who gained their freedom by enlisting in the U.S. Army. Hiking shoes, sun and bug protection, as well as drinking water are recommended for this program.

159TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF MONOCACY TOUR (CARAVAN STYLE)

1 to 3:30 p.m. July 7 at the Visitor Center

Join rangers at Monocacy National Battlefield for a guided driving tour. Travel back to 1864 and the Battle of Monocacy, while listening to the personal experiences of both soldiers and civilians on that hot and violent

day, and walk in the footsteps of those who fought valiantly to safeguard their homes and country. This fivestop driving tour will cover the battle chronologically.

159TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF MONOCACY COMMEMORATION WEEKEND

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 8 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 9 at the Visitor Center Commemorate the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Monocacy, aka “The Battle That Saved Washington,” with events that include special ranger programs, along with military living history demonstrations and exhibits. Guests can also attend firing demonstrations by infantry and artillery throughout the day.

ARTILLERY LIVING HISTORY DEMONSTRATION

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Visitor Center

Step into the life of a soldier at

Monocacy National Battlefield and experience the thunderous roar of artillery. Living history volunteers and rangers will demonstrate the firing of Civil War era artillery. This unique soundscape will showcase different kinds of artillery and will help guests envision life as an artillerist during the Civil War.

NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Visitor Center

Monocacy National Battlefield invites guests to a National Public Lands Day event. This event welcomes volunteers to help keep the park beautiful and clean. Work with park rangers to help preserve Monocacy National Battlefield for future generations.

The Visitor Center is located at 5201 Urbana Pike, Frederick. Dates and times and are subject to change. Find Monocacy National Battlefield on Facebook @monocacynps for updates and additional information. For more information, visit nps.gov/mono, or call 301-662-3515.

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Explore the 3 newest national monuments

BY ANDREA SACHS The Washington Post

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established the country’s first national monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming. Last month, the Biden administration welcomed two new members to the prestigious club: Avi Kwa Ame, a sacred Native American site in Nevada, and Castner Range, a former Army training base teeming with wildlife in Texas, joined Camp Hale-Continental Divide in Colorado, which the president designated in October.

National monuments protect public lands containing objects of historic, cultural or scientific importance, but they often have less name recognition than national parks. According to the National Park Service, a national park contains a plethora of valuable resources, whereas a national monument might stand out for one significant attraction.

The new initiates, however, could become the next Grand Canyon, Zion or Acadia, which were designated national monuments before drawing millions of annual visitors as national parks.

“You never know, 10 or 20 years from now one of these monuments could be one of our top-visited national parks,” said Nicole Brown, a communications associate for Outdoor Alliance, a coalition of national conservation and environmental groups.

Presently, the newly minted monuments are more wild than tamed. There are no visitor centers, concessions, gift shops or throngs of people. Large-scale parking lots and restroom facilities are scarce, and maps can be hard to score. However, the monuments are rich in other ways, such as Native American culture, military history, geologic formations and ecology. They are also more permissive than national parks, which restrict certain types of recreational activities.

“One thing that makes monuments so great is that there’s something for everybody — hunting, fishing, backpacking, backcountry skiing, offhighway vehicle [touring],” Brown said.

President Biden created the monuments through executive proclamation, as permitted under the Antiquities Act of 1906. In 2021, he also reversed the acreage cuts the Trump administration had made

to Bears Ears and Grand StaircaseEscalante national monuments in Utah. According to the National Park Service, as of April there were 150 federally managed national monuments.

The National Park Service manages many of the monuments, but not all of them. The Forest Service and Army will continue to oversee Camp Hale and Castner Range, respectively, and the Bureau of Land Management and NPS will act as co-stewards for Avi Kwa Ame.

“We are working on interpretive signage for this summer, information kiosks for next year and a podcast driving tour,” White River National Forest supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams said of Camp Hale.

Unlike the national parks, with their glossy brochures and comprehensive websites, visitor information for the monuments is patchier. To help with planning, we created mini-guides based on suggestions from the federal agencies caring for the monuments, as well as conservation groups that are rejoicing over the designation.

“Our first goal was to make sure that we didn’t lose any more land to development,” said Scott Cutler, a board member with the Frontera Land Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting northern Chihuahuan Desert land, such as Castner Range.

1. CAMP HALE-CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, COLORADO

Total acreage: 53,804 acres

Closest civilization: Vail, Breckenridge and Leadville

National significance: For millennia, Pando Valley was a stop on the Ute tribes’ migratory circuit: Once the snow melted, they would travel to the area in search of game, plants and minerals for food, medicine and spiritual purposes. The U.S. government pushed Ute tribes off their ancestral land in the 19th century, but they still foster strong cultural and spiritual ties to Káava’avichi, or “mountains laying down.”

In the early 1900s, the hills were alive with the sound of silver mining; remnants of this once-thriving industry appear along the Masontown Trail. During World War II, the Army’s 10th Mountain Division trained for mountain warfare at Camp Hale, a sprawling base with 245 barracks, parade grounds, a combat range, ski hills, a stockade and more. Here, 15,000 soldiers prepared for battle in the Italian Alps by learning to ski, mountain climb and survive deadly winter conditions.

“You can get a good sense of the history from the 1940s,” Fitzwilliams said.

Some of the structures remain, such as the foundation of the field house and the rifle range’s berms.

Activities: The four-season destination is a popular spot for backcountry skiing, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, snowmobiling and fishing for brook and rainbow trout.

The monument contains a section of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, and mountain climbers can scale 10 peaks over 13,000 feet high, plus Quandary Peak, one of the “Fourteeners” that exceed 14,000 feet.

On the Camp Hale climbing wall, mountaineers can scramble up the rugged rock course used by the 10th Mountain Division soldiers. The less vertically inclined can take a selfguided driving tour of the military training site. The loop starts off Highway 24 on the south end of the camp and features 10 points of interest with interpretive signage.

Wildlife watch: Keep an eye out for the boreal toad, an endangered species and the state’s only Alpine toad. Other towering and tiny inhabitants include mountain goats, moose, bighorn sheep, Rocky Mountain elk, mule deer, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, bald eagles, hoary bats and pygmy shrews, which are the same length as a golf tee.

Tips: The Forest Service reminds visitors to stick to the roads and trails because of lingering asbestos and live ordnance.

“Unexploded bombs are very rare, but every three years we get a call about one,” Fitzwilliams said.

If you prefer to explore with an expert, Nova Guides leads summer and winter tours. The outfitter also rents cabins in Camp Hale.

Fritz Benedict, a member of the elite Army division, returned from Europe and formed the 10th Mountain Division Hut Association, a network of huts frequented by outdoor enthusiasts. Three of the lodgings sit within the monument’s boundaries. Fitzwilliams said they book up fast in the winter but have more availability in the summer.

The Camp Hale Memorial Campground, which perches at 9,200 feet, has nearly two dozen campsites. To learn more about the 10th Mountain Division, whose members created the modern-day ski industry, drop by the Colorado Snowsports Museum in Vail.

“Now, we can plan on how to make it accessible to the public.”

U.S. Forest Service

The Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument provides habitat for wildlife such as mountain goats.

2. AVI KWA AME NATIONAL MONUMENT, NEVADA

Total acreage: 506,814 acres

Closest Civilization: Las Vegas is 80 miles north. For fuel and supplies, swing by Searchlight, Boulder City or Laughlin, all in Nevada, or Bullhead City, Ariz.

National significance: More than a dozen Native American tribes, including the Southern Paiute, Hopi, Mojave and Chemehuevi, hold this area close to their hearts and souls. The Yuman-speaking tribes consider it especially sacred, because of the central role it played in their story of creation.

In 1999, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places designated Spirit Mountain, which the Mojave people refer to as “Avi Kwa Ame,” as a Traditional Cultural Property, the first of its kind in Nevada.

“The [tribes] express reverence for the spiritual power of this land,” said Grace Palermo, the southern Nevada director of Friends of Nevada Wilderness.

The Mojave Desert monument, which is surrounded by national preserves and wilderness, comprises the eastern border of the world’s largest Joshua tree forest. Some of its trees top out at 900 years and more than 30 feet.

Activities: Hiking, backpacking, wildlife-viewing and stargazing under an inky-black sky free of light pollution.

Wildlife watch: Lots of creatures roam the desert, including coyotes, bighorn sheep, mule deer, Gila monsters, Arizona toads, lizards and snakes, including four venomous species.

The area is also home to the densest population of golden eagles in Nevada and is a critical habitat for the desert tortoise, the only wild land tortoise in the Southwest.

“You don’t see them too often,” Palermo said. “They move slow.”

Tips: Hike Grapevine Canyon Trail, which boasts the greatest concentration of rock art (about 700 pieces) in the monument, or drive through Christmas Tree Pass for stunning vistas of Lake Mohave, the Colorado River and neighboring states.

“From the high point, you can see the entire monument and California,” Palermo said.

The best seasons are spring, when the wildflowers bloom, and fall, when the temperatures are hot but not lethal.

3. CASTNER RANGE NATIONAL MONUMENT, TEXAS

Total acreage: 6,672 acres

Closest civilization: El Paso

National significance: A number of Native American tribes — Apache, Pueblo, Comanche, Kiowa and Hopi, according to the White House — resided in the Castner Range, which unfurls from the Franklin Mountains to the Chihuahuan Desert. More than 40 archaeological sites dot the land. Rock art illustrating animal footprints, human handprints and geometric shapes paint a picture of the early inhabitants’ lives.

The Defense Department took over the land in the 1920s and used it as an Army training ground and firing range until 1966. At Fort Bliss, soldiers sharpened their combat skills before heading off to battle in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

The military built a mock “Vietnamese Village,” but with the

exception of a few cement foundations and ordnance, not many artifacts from the Army’s days remain. The majority of the monument is off-limits because of dangerous unexploded munitions, such as such as grenades, mortars and rockets.

Activities: The 17-acre section of the monument that’s open to the public has several diversions, such as the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, which traces 14,000 years of natural history in El Paso and the Southwest, and the Border Patrol Museum, which highlights the 99-year-old agency’s efforts to secure U.S. land and sea borders.

From the archaeology museum, visitors can stroll the Chihuahuan Desert Garden & Nature Trails, where desert cottontails play hide-andseek among the cholla cactuses and creosote bush.

Wildlife watch: Look high and low for roadrunners, kestrels, mockingbirds, black-throated

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Jose Witt for Friends of Nevada Wilderness

A desert tortoise at Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada, one of three new national monuments designated by Biden.

Paula Peterson/U.S. Forest Service

Remnants of the field house at Camp Hale. Today, few structures remain of the more than 1,000 buildings that stood during its heyday.

BOOKS

Author Justin M. Kiska publishes mystery book based in a fictionalized version of Frederick

Author Justin M. Kiska and publisher Level Best Books recently released “Fact & Fiction,” the third book in the Parker City Mysteries Series by Kiska, which launched in 2021.

In “Fact & Fiction,” it’s the autumn of 1984 in Parker City. As the leaves begin to change colors and the weather starts turning cooler in the historic city in the heart of Western Maryland, Parker City Police Detectives Ben Winters and Tommy Mason are called to St. Paul’s, where the recently installed Father Roland Taylor, who has become very popular in the community, has been found dead in his office at the church. By all appearances, it seems to be a tragic case of a break-in gone wrong.

Only 24 hours later, the detectives find themselves at the home of the city’s well-known morning radio show DJ, Morning Mike Moran, who also seems to have been the victim of a robbery gone wrong. Coincidence?

‘Anthology of Appalachian Writers: Barbara Kingsolver Volume XV’ now available

The just released “Anthology of Appalachian Writers: Barbara Kingsolver Volume XV” centers on the work of Barbara Kingsolver, Shepherd University’s 2022 Appalachian Heritage Writerin-Residence. Kingsolver was at Shepherd for the Appalachian Heritage Festival in September 2022 and has continued to work with the editors on the completion of the book.

“The 2023 volume contains a host of world-class authors, including West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman and Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour,” said Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, director of Shepherd’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities. “Award-winning writers, such as Karen Spears

Zacharias, Marie Manilla, Mark DeFoe and playwright/fiction writer D.W. Gregory, as well as Kingsolver herself, appear in the collection.”

Winners of the 2022 West Virginia Fiction Competition are also included — first place Lisa Taka Younis (“Lambs”), second place Patricia Donohoe (“Close Up and Far Away”), both of Shepherdstown, West Virginia; and third place Noche Gauthier (“Hymnals”), Harpers Ferry, West Virginia — and kindergarten to 12th grade winner, Musselman High School student Nadia Madenspacher (“The Cliff”).

The Barbara Kingsolver volume of the “Anthology of Appalachian Writers” contains fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and essays by

Appalachian writers from West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. A series of photographs also accompanies the literature. A reading of the anthology is planned for 5 p.m. July 8 at Four Seasons Books, 116 W. German St., Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The anthology will be featured at a Sept. 26 celebration during the Appalachian Heritage Festival at Shepherd and an exhibit featuring art from the volume will take place in the Scarborough Library in August and September.

For information about the Appalachian Heritage Writer’s Project or the anthology, email sshurbutt@shepherd.edu.

Neither Ben nor Tommy believe in coincidences. But at first glance, it seems to be just that. Until they find that the victims shared a common interest and begin an investigation that leads them to uncover a secret Parker City has been hiding for over 120 years.

Parker City Mysteries was originally slated to be a three-book series from Level Best Books, an independent publisher based in Silver Spring. At the end of last year, the contract was extended between Kiska and Level Best for an additional three books.

Since its publication, “Now & Then,” the first book in the series, has been picked up by Harlequin Worldwide Suspense for a mass market paperback release and HighBridge Audio for an audio book. Both will be available in June. Parker City, which serves as the backdrop for all of Kiska’s mysteries, is a highly fictionalized version of Frederick.

“Parker City is as much of a character in the stories as Ben and Tommy [the lead detectives in the books],” Kiska said. “To make the setting as real as possible, like many writers, I looked around for inspiration and ended up not having to look very far. Frederick has such a rich history from which to draw. From its buildings to its residents, Frederick is not only an incredible place to live and work, it has everything a mystery writer could dream of for inspiration.”

Kiska is a theater producer and mystery writer. When not sitting in his library devising new and clever ways to kill people (for his mysteries), Kiska can usually be found at The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Frederick, where he is one of the owners and producers.

In addition to writing the Parker City Mysteries Series, he is also the mastermind behind Marquee Mysteries, a series of interactive mystery events he has been writing and producing for over 15 years. He and his wife live along Lake Linganore. Learn more at justinkiska.com.

Justin M. Kiska

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sparrows, red-tailed hawks, golden eagles and the prehistoric-looking horned lizard. Bobcats, javelina, mountain lions and coyotes roam the upper elevations.

Tips: Drive Transmountain Road, which wriggles through the range, and brake for the scenic viewpoints.

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Key into the unfolding collaboration and let go of everything else.”

The music on “Live In Carrboro” unfurls with the ease of a flag dancing in the random breath of a summer wind. The set opens slowly, with Shipp and Perelman sliding up and down the scale, scattering bass and treble accents and drifting in and out of sparse melodic phrases. Cosgrove joins in and the trio wanders into the unknown, changing tempos and intonations, exchanging melodic and atonal phrases, as Perelman takes off into his own world of sound. The music continues its unpredictable fluctuations with a flurry of piano trills, sax passages, drum rolls and unexpected accents on the tom toms and bass drum. A brief melodic sax line, that brings to mind a circus sideshow, is supported by Shipp’s rhythmic bass notes and Cosgrove’s drum rolls.

Things quiet down for a drum solo with tolling floor tom accents that sound like notes from a steel drum. Shipp and Perelman jump back in with a dramatic exchange that has a slight Latin tinge, building up to Perelman’s

On the west side of the monument, Franklin Mountains State Park is one of the country’s largest urban parks, covering about 40 square miles within El Paso’s city limits. In the spring, the Mexican gold poppies transform the foothills into a large-scale Monet painting. “It’s the signature plant,” Cutler said.

Artist Talk

May 20th, 6pm FACArt Center

5E 2nd St

MAKING MEMORIES AS WE WAIT

long whistling solo, supported by thumping rhythms from drums and piano. After a long free section, the tempo slows and a melody emerges, with a give and take between sax and piano. A breezy tempo from Shipp brings the trio together for an excursion with a hint of R&B in its delivery. The players lower the volume briefly, before the set ends with an atonal burst from Perelman’s sax, Shipp’s clanging piano and Cosgrove’s accelerating drum beat. It ends with a long sax note, as Shipp’s left-hand produces a throbbing backbeat. It’s a wild ride, full of the ups and downs and unexpected grace notes of life, all compressed into 55 remarkable minutes.

In keeping with the music’s abstract flow, Perelman created the arresting cover art for Live In Carrboro. “I’ve done some painting on the side for 25 years,” he said.

“I’ve had some pieces exhibited and have had interest from galleries and collectors. I also have a condition called synesthesia. When I hear music, I see shapes and colors, so it’s a complimentary thing to the music and keeps me involved in all the arts.”

Megan Tait for Friends of Nevada Wilderness Petroglyphs in Grapevine Canyon in Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.

COVER STORY

BY CRYSTAL SCHELLE Special to The News-Post

If you’re looking to dust off those cowboy boots, or you’re hankering for a little Texas twostep, Dean Garrish is your guy. He’s also your guy if you’re looking to buy or sell your home.

The 61-year-old Mount Airy resident is commonly known in the area as “Your Dancin’ Realtor.”

On April 24, Garrish will be skipping open houses to show people how to country line dance as part of Boot Scootin’ on Main Street, held throughout downtown Mount Airy. The event features food, music … and dance lessons

Although he was in construction and investing in real estate since he was in high school, Garrish considers his first career to be dance.

“I got into dancing in my 20s, and that kind of took over to be my primary career for almost 30 years,” he said.

He was introduced to country line dancing after going to a firehall dance. At first, he watched others dancing, including his neighbor. “I watched him and his wife do a two-step and I’m like, ‘I like that, because you’re actually touching your partner,’” he recalled. “It’s not just jumping around. It had some structure to it.”

Soon after, Garrish started taking dance lessons, which eventually led him into competitive country dancing. Back in the ’80s, there were plenty of country bars where a person could practice, he said.

“Around here, there had to have been almost a dozen different country bars in the Maryland, Virginia, D.C. area,” he said. “One thing led to another, and I just got hooked. … I’ve always been an athletic type of person, where I played sports all through high school and throughout my whole life. Also, I’ve always enjoyed country music. And the people that I would meet in this environment, I’d say 90% of them were just good, wholesome people. Super nice, and very helpful. … It was a good place to get a positive fellowship.”

Eventually, though, Garrish needed a way to supplement his

BOOT SCOOTIN’ ON MAIN STREET

hobby. That’s when he started to teach dancing and also do some DJing. As he started to build up his credentials, Garrish soon became a sought-after dance instructor and opened Garrish Dance.

“It started to help pay for my hobby, so I ended up making my hobby my career,” he said.

Garrish began to compete professionally and won the 2009 United Country Western Dance World Championship at the ProAm (professional/amateur) level. Additionally, he coached and danced with his amateur students.

Although a teacher should never pick their favorite students, Garrish though can’t help it because two of his students are his daughters, Alexis, 22, and Taylor, 17, both of whom have won world championship titles at the United Country Western Dance World.

“I was able to share this with my daughters, which is probably the most cherished thing I’ll ever do,” Garrish said.

Alexis has multiple World Championship titles at the Pro-Am level, which she won with her dad as well as on her own. She’s a dance instructor on Tuesdays at Cancun Cantina for a swinging country mix night, and she leads classes there on Wednesdays as well.

Alexis said she’s been dancing with her dad practically since she could walk. “I think my first dance competition with him was for a 2-month-old baby contest,” she said with a laugh. “No joke, they slapped some big numbers on us babies who were all born around the same time to all the pros in the circuit. We had a competition, and my dad and I actually ended up winning. So that was my first competition, and we started our winning streak.”

She started competing more when she was 2 years old, i.e., old

enough to walk, and she hasn’t stopped since. She especially loves the experience of dancing with her dad.

“It’s definitely been a lot of fun,” she said. “It’s something that I feel like a lot of young people or even just kids growing up, should experience, just because it’s great to be able to share something with your parents.”

She said dancing was something they could do as a family, and it gives them something in common, something “we can talk about and grow with together.”

And because he was there competing with her, Alexis said her dad told her, “It’s OK to aim for the stars and not necessarily reach that.”

She said those words meant a lot during competitions. “There were a lot of life goals that ended up getting learned and taught throughout the entire process. It’s definitely been cool.”

Garrish said being able to share dancing with his daughters has been his favorite aspect of dancing.

“As a dad, I can’t tell you how proud I am of both of them — and then how blessed I am to be able to dance with my daughters,” he said. “If I could give a gift to any father of a daughter, it would be to have them dance with them.”

In country music, Garrish explained, there are eight dances.

“The only thing that really makes them country, per se, is that the music we dance to comes from Nashville,” he said. “Our waltz is just like a ballroom waltz. Our cha-cha is similar to a ballroom cha-cha. … Then we wear dance boots and cowboy hats, so the attire is a little different.”

In addition to country Western, Garrish also danced, competed and coached Western swing dance, a genre that includes everything from R&B and Motown to contemporary and country, he said, adding that it’s one of the most popular dance styles because it fits across such a large genre of music and age groups.

“I love coaching and teaching people,” he said. “To be able to walk somebody out on the dance floor as their coach or pro and share in the same excitement I had when I first started? It’s, again, a blessing.”

However, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Garrish Dance, like nearly all entertainment businesses, was forced to shut down.

That’s when Garrish started to pivot and went into real estate. After earning his real estate license, he became a member of Keller Williams Realty Centre.

Garrish previously owned his own construction company while teaching dance full-time, but he needed some income during the pandemic and he had to take a hard look at his skills.

“It was either go back to pounding nails and get back into construction, or sell, invest and help people buy, sell or invest in real estate,” he said.

Two years ago, he started a new career in real estate, and he began to realize how his enjoyment for helping people learn to dance translated to the real estate world.

“I found out how much I really love helping people find their homes, because it’s one of the largest purchases somebody’s going to make in their life,” he said. “What better way of having a positive influence on somebody’s life if I can help them find that dream home? It’s been so rewarding.”

The “Your Dancin’ Realtor” name was inspired by a fellow Keller Williams Realtor. Garrish had recently attended a seminar, where another Realtor used tennis to make himself stand out. A coworker suggested he do the same thing but with dance, and the Dancin’ Realtor brand was born.

As for dancing, Garrish said he’s going to keep going until he can’t any longer. He encourages anyone who wants to learn to dance to come out to the Boot Scootin’ event or one of his classes to give it a whirl. He promises anyone can do it and says if you can walk, you can dance. That said, those with disabilities should not shy away from it.

“I’ve coached people that are blind. I’ve coached people that are deaf. I’ve even worked with people in wheelchairs,” Garrish said. “If you have the desire to do it in any shape or form, you can do it.”

For more information on Garrish Dance or his real estate business, go to dancingwithdean. com.

New Frederick mural sheds light on the history of McCutcheon’s Apple Products

A new, large-scale mural on the side of the McCutcheon’s Apple Products building on South Wisner Street in downtown Frederick has just been completed by artist Michael Rosato.

The mural, visible from East Street, celebrates the legacy of the McCutcheon’s Apple Products company, currently in its fourth generation of family ownership, as well as the importance of manufacturing to East Frederick.

It was completed as part of the Frederick Arts Council’s Public Art Master Plan for Frederick County, which generates a work plan each year to place engaging public art in the community.

The McCutcheon’s mural highlights Frederick’s sense of place by telling the story of a business and products that delight Frederick residents and visitors. The mural represents the people who have contributed to McCutcheon’s success,

from its founders to those who work on the manufacturing floor.

“We are delighted to bring another amazing visual narrative of innovation in Frederick to life,” said Louise Kennelly, executive director of the Frederick Arts Council. “McCutcheon’s products are beloved in the region, and their family business is an excellent example of the deeply rooted sense of community that exists here.”

Rosato specializes in designing and painting large-scale murals for public and private spaces. Rosato is bestknown for his mural of Harriet Tubman at the Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center in Cambridge. Rosato’s paintings can be seen in venues across the country, including the Oklahoma City National Memorial in Oklahoma City, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the Loudoun Heritage Farm Museum, in Sterling,

Virginia, the Headquarters of Bacardi in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Texas Ranger’s Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Museum in Cape Charles, Virginia.

Partial funding for the mural was provided by the Maryland State Arts Council.

Frederick Arts Council

A new mural in downtown Frederick celebrates McCutcheon’s Apple Products.

Frederick Arts Council

Michael Rosato stands with his new mural in downtown Frederick, which was commissioned by the Frederick Arts Council.

Links Bridge Featured Artist: Betsy Schoonover— through April 23. Betsy Schoonover is a Frederick photographer who enjoys capturing local scenes in the city and the surrounding Frederick County. Work is displayed in the Tasting Room. Links Bridge Vineyards, 8830 Old Links Bridge Road, Thurmont. 301-602-5733, linksbridgevineyards@gmail.com, linksbridgevineyards.com.

Cumberland Valley Artists and Photographers Exhibitions — through April 23, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown. This juried exhibition features 95 pieces of art and photography from artists who live in the Quad-State area. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 301-739-5727 or wcmfa.org.

“Life Size” and “Under the Same Sky” — through April 30. “Life Size,” by Julie Maynard, is an exhibit of life-size collaged figures. “Under the Same Sky,” by Karen Peacock, features mixed-media work that explores our country’s ever-changing skies. TAG/ The Artists Gallery, 501 N. Market St., Frederick. 301228-9860, theartistsgalleryfrederick.com.

Bettie Awards Exhibition — through April 30. View artworks created by local youth selected as 2023 Bettie Award Winners. Visitors can vote for their favorite artwork throughout the duration of the exhibition. The artwork receiving the most votes will receive the People’s Choice Award. Delaplaine Arts Center, 40 S. Carroll St., Frederick. 301-698-0656, delaplaine.org.

”Angry Women Done Swallowing Our Words” — through April 30, Blanche Ames Gallery, 4880 Elmer Derr Road, Frederick. Featuring the work of Kristan Ryan. For gallery hours, call 301-473-7689 or visit frederickuu.org.

”Strands of Time” — through April 30, Locals Farm Market’s Artist in the House Gallery, 19929 Fisher Ave., Poolesville. Works by Susan Due Pearcy. A selection of her work over 50 years of art making. Visit localsfarmmarket.com for hours.

”Native Plants and Pollinators” — through April 30, The Mansion House Art Center & Gallery, 480 Highland Ave., Hagerstown City Park. Valley Art Association members exhibit. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. valleyartassoc.org or 301-797-2867.

Cowork Frederick Artist of the Month: Julie Jenkins — through April 30 at Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Julie Jenkins creates realistic paintings on wood, acrylic, metal and recycled slate. Her art focuses on landscapes, nature and everyday joys. 240-772-1295, coworkfrederickfoundation.org/julie-jenkins-apr23.

“Mechanical Components: The Seen But UnSeen”

— through April 30. Using inspiration from industrial manufacturing and mechanical components, Gillian Collins develops a style that combines realism and abstraction with the abstract expressionism of geometric shapes to facilitate a contemplation of our most basic technological advancements.

Delaplaine Arts Center, 40 S. Carroll St., Frederick. delaplaine.org.

“Re_Source Art” — through April 30. With an unconventional harmony between academic and neofolk sculpting methods, this exhibition from Nadya Steare is a series of sculptures addressing

With an unconventional harmony between academic and neofolk sculpting methods, Nadya Steare’s “Re_Source Art” exhibition at the Delaplaine Arts Center features a series of sculptures addressing the urgency of the global waste crisis and plastic pollution. Inspired by the Zero-Waste Movement, a trend to maintain a more sustainable lifestyle, this series was created entirely out of discarded, found and donated materials. See it on view in downtown Frederick through April 30.

the urgency of the global waste crisis and plastic pollution. Inspired by the Zero-Waste Movement, a trend to maintain a more sustainable lifestyle, this series was created entirely out of discarded, found and donated materials. Delaplaine Arts Center, 40 S. Carroll St., Frederick. delaplaine.org.

Emerging Artists Exhibition — through April 30. Works in a variety of media. This annual juried exhibition highlights adult artists at the outset of their creative endeavors. Juror Rachel Hsu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with visual art, language and poetry. Delaplaine Arts Center, 40 S. Carroll St., Frederick. delaplaine.org.

”What a Wonderful World” — through April 30, Eastside Artists’ Gallery, 313 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Featuring the work of mother-daughter duo Arden McElroy and Jill Hossler. Both artists draw inspiration from nature for their work, particularly landscapes and seascapes, from places they’ve visited or dreamed about. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and

Sunday. eastsideartistsgallery.com.

“C’est l’art” — through April 30. Featuring work by Michael Hyman, Susan Washington, Dana Ellyn and Al Code, this exhibition challenges the perception of what’s art and its effect on the public. Through an eclectic mix of style, mediums and simplicity, each piece reflects a broad critique of art culture and deliberation of purpose. Gallery B, 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda. bethesda.org/ bethesda/gallery-b, 301-215-7990.

”Structures 2023” — through May 5, Crestwood Center, 7211 Bank Court, Frederick. Original works of art, including oil, watercolors, mixed media, acrylic, photography, and wood carvings from some of Frederick’s talented artists. 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. 240-215-1460 or frederickhealth.org.

”Miniature Worlds” — through May 19, Rosemary and Thyme Gallery, Frederick 50+ Community Center, 1440 Taney Ave., Frederick. Featuring works by local artist Kunie Stabley. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. 301600-3525, dmarkowitz@frederickcountymd.gov or tinyurl.com/50-center.

“Nostalgia” — May 3 to 28. Opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. May 6. Nostalgia can mean a sentimental longing for the past, accompanied with happy remembrances of times gone by. It can also mean a longing accompanied with a sense of loss or missed opportunity. This group exhibition reflects 27 independently juried artists’ interpretations of the word nostalgia. DISTRICT Arts, 15 N. Market St., Frederick. 301-695-4050, staci@districtarts.com, districtarts.com/nostalgia. “Comfort” — through July 1. An interactive multimedia show of art related to coffee and tea and an exploration of the rituals and personal connections surrounding those drinks. FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. frederickartscouncil.org.

“Making Memories as We Wait” — through July 1. Solo exhibition by Khánh H. Lê, who probes his personal and familial histories to carve out a cultural identity for himself. Through the collaging of materials such as acrylic paintings, glitter, prints and sparkling plastic craft jewels, Lê merges narratives — both horrific realities and idyllic fantasies — that are filled with tension as he explores notions of home, country and safety. FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. 301-6624190

“The Hot Button” — through August, Hot Button Gallery, 129 E. German St., Shepherdstown, W.Va. Carol Williams exhibits textiles and poster art that reflect her passion for social responsibility through artistic communication. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. The artist will be available for conversation at these times. anothercarolwilliams.com.

Frederick Artists Night Featuring Vicki Favilla — 4 to 8 p.m. May 6, Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Visually striking abstract paintings. Live music by Mike Elosh. All proceeds from art sales to go the artist. 301-732-5165 or coworkfrederickfoundation.org.

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Khanh H. Le’s ‘Making Memories While We Wait’

Artist Khánh H. Lê is showing work in a large-scale, solo exhibition on the second floor of the FAC Art Center in downtown Frederick through July. “Making Memories While We Wait” features colorful paintings, photographic collage and dramatic cutpaper hangings that stretch from floor to ceiling.

Lê will hold an artist talk at the exhibition at 6 p.m. April 20.

Lê, born in Vietnam in 1981, continuously probes his personal and familial histories to carve out a cultural identity for himself. He creates dazzling compositions based on deteriorating photographs and collective memories of his and his relations’ experiences as refugees living in Vietnamese internment camps in the 1980s.

Through the collaging of materials, such as acrylic paintings, glitter, prints and sparkling plastic craft jewels, Lê merges narratives — both horrific realities and idyllic fantasies — that are filled with tension as he explores notions of home, country, and safety.

Lê graduated with an MFA from Syracuse University in 2008, and his work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vox Populi, the Hillyer Art Space and Pyramid Atlantic, among others. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities awarded Lê an Artist Fellowship for the Visual Arts in 2011, and 2015 through 2020. Lê was awarded second place in the Bethesda Painting Prize in 2018 and was a 2019 semifinalist of the Sondheim Artscape Prize in Baltimore.

The FAC Art Center is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday at 5 E. Second St., Frederick. See frederickartscouncil.org for more information.

CALL TO ARTISTS

Arts Barn City Shop

The City of Gaithersburg invites artists to submit applications to exhibit and sell their works in the Arts Barn City Shop. Selected artists will have the opportunity to display their artwork in the City Shop from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.

Artists will also receive an advance invitation to apply to be part of the Holiday Artisan Market on Nov. 11, 2023, and the Spring Artisan Market on May 5, 2024.

A panel of jurors will review the applications received during the call and select the artists for the upcoming year. The criteria for review includes the originality and technical achievement in the medium and the type and price of work appropriate for the Arts Barn’s typical patron. Please note, all art must fit in the City Shop area within cubicles that are 14” by 14” by 12” — a typical print bin, or a notecard rack. There is no wall or floor space.

There is a $20 application fee for City of Gaithersburg residents and a $25 fee for nonresidents who are new to the program. Exhibitors must be 18 years old or represented by a parent or guardian. Artists do not have to reside within the City of Gaithersburg limits to participate. All artists must have a current Maryland Sales and Use Tax Certificate.

The City retains 30% commission for sales. Application forms and more information are available online. Both current and new artists may apply. All applications and fees must be received by 5 p.m. May 26.

For more information, contact the city shop manager at cityshop@gaithersburgmd. gov, or call 301-258-6394.

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Works by Khánh H. Lê, on view at the FAC Art Center in downtown Frederick.

Baltimore-based comic writer and artist Rafer Roberts sent me a note last week, asking if he’d mentioned his latest project coming up with comics publishing giant Dark Horse in June, “The Rock Gods of Jackson, Tennessee.”

He had not. But Roberts is a hell of a writer and artist, not to mention a good guy, so you can bet I jumped at the chance to talk to him, as well as co-creator and artist on the project, Chicagobased Mike Norton.

Ostensibly a coming-of-age tale, “Rock Gods” is about four nerds and high school nobodies who have a shot as the opening band for a washed-up rock star. The problem? They have only one week to rehearse, inter-member tension, school … and a horde of mutated monsters to defeat. “Rock

Let’s Get Metal!

Gods” will be published by Dark Horse Comics and released June 6.

The book is set in the 1980s, so if you’re getting vibes of “Stranger Things” crashing into “Metal Lords,” you’re not far off.

The idea originated with Norton, a conglomeration of influences and experiences that he had originally planned as a serious autobiography of sorts, except, “I just didn’t have it in me to be serious.” So, he handed the project to Roberts, a past collaborator, and “Rock Gods” was born.

The book takes place in Norton’s former hometown of Jackson and is based on his school experiences and personalities he encountered. And the core of the book — and what makes a it good story, in my opinion — are the relationships and travails of the four young men and their friends. It’s not super gory and is a good tale for young adults.

With about two decades in the comics industry, “it was about time to do an original graphic novel [again]. I haven’t done one since the

‘90s or early 2000s,” Norton said. The book is Roberts’ first fully conceived, one-shot graphic novel, “definitely the most I’ve written all at once.” (Those who know Roberts’ work will be aware of his magnum opus, four-volume “Plastic Farm,” which was initially serialized during publication and was “made up as I went along.”)

“Rock Gods” is a weighty tale, coming in at more than 200 pages, and there won’t be a sequel, Norton says.

GET UP TO SPEED … WHO ARE THESE GUYS?

Rafer Roberts (writer/co-creator): Baltimore-based writer and co-creator of “Modern Fantasy” (with Kristen Gudsnuk) and “Grumble” (with Norton). He’s worked for Dark Horse, Image, Aftershock, Oni, and on two Harvey-nominated titles for Valiant. Find him @plasticfarm on Twitter and Instagram.

Mike Norton (artist/co-creator): Eisner-and Harvey-winning creator of the webcomic “Battlepug” and the co-creator and artist of “Grumble and Revival.” He has worked for pretty much every comic company out there, drawing comics from Superman to Deadpool to Hellboy. Find him @themikenorton on Twitter and @miketron2000 on Instagram.

I should also note that Allen Passalaqua handles colors and Crank! lettering.

COMING UP … FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

Possibly my favorite day of the year, as it does what says on the tin: get you into a comic book store and get you free comics. Yes, Free Comic Book Day is coming up on May 6, an annual event where participating comic book stores give away free comics, celebrate the art of comic books, and encourage new and longtime fans to explore the world of comics.

My favorite local comic store, Beyond Comics, will be taking part, natch, and hosting iconic regional creators Marc Hempel (an artist on

“Sandman” and “Mad Magazine”), Mark Wheatley (he’s done way to much for me to detail here) and Terry Flippo (longtime creator and selfpublisher).

FCBD will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. May 6 at Beyond Comics, 5632 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick. Bring nonperishable food items to donate, and the good people of Beyond Comics may throw in some extra freebies.

I’ll see you there.

BOOK CLUB … I’m currently reading my way through the entire 2022 Image Comics catalog (don’t ask ... Why do I do this to myself?), and I can only add to the critical cheering for Daniel Warren Johnson’s “Do A Powerbomb.” I never thought I’d find a comic about entertainment wrestling compelling, but here we are. I believe DAP has just been released as a trade paperback. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy.

Have a recommendation? I’m all ears. Shoot me a note at cgcumber@ gmail.com or via Instagram, Twitter or (god help me) TikTok, where you can find me @cgcumber.

Courtesy photo

CLIFF CUMBER

‘Showing Up’: The drudgery and bliss of art making

BY MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN The Washington Post

It’s sometimes been said that making art is thinking made visible. In her latest film, “Showing Up,” Kelly Reichardt, the director of 2019’s “First Cow” and virtuosa of slow cinema, turns her thoughtful attention to the act of creation itself, rendering both its transcendence and mundanity with equal curiosity.

Set in the milieu of a small art school in Oregon, and filmed on the campus of Portland’s now-defunct Oregon College of Art and Craft, the film is certainly not the first to hold the creative process up to scrutiny: its agonies and ecstasies, false starts and alchemical transformation of abject failure into — well, more interesting failure. But it is one of the best, in a medium that consistently gets art dead wrong, too often forsaking patience for the moviemaking shorthand of showing the flash of genius as, say, Jackson Pollock discovering drip painting literally overnight, in one alcohol-and-insomnia-fueled burst of discovery.

Co-written with her frequent collaborator Jonathan Raymond, “Showing Up” centers on Lizzy, a tortured ceramic artist specializing in small, sketchily rendered figures of women in awkward poses, created for the film by Cynthia Lahti. (Also accompanied by Lahti’s figurative drawings, Lizzy’s sculptural works sneak up on you gradually, like the film itself. These “girls,” as Lizzy’s friends call them, appear crude and slapdash at first glance, but the longer you look — and Reichardt lets us look and look and look — the more exquisitely expressive their eccentric gestures become.)

Is Lizzy, played by Reichardt’s other frequent collaborator Michelle Williams (“Certain Women,” “Meek’s Cutoff,” “Wendy and Lucy”), always this dour? Maybe not. In her defense, the opening of her next show is a week away, and she’s stressed out by the fact that she has had no hot water in the apartment she rents from her neighbor, fellow artist and (sort of) friend Jo, for several days. Jo is played by the ever-wonderful Hong Chau, last seen in Darren Aronofsky’s polarizing “The Whale,” for which she was nominated for a supporting actress

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Oscar. She is no less memorable here, as a woman whose blithely oblivious solipsism irks Lizzy.

There are other strains on our heroine, not the least of which is the care of an injured pigeon, mauled by Lizzy’s cat, subsequently rescued by Jo and then largely left to Lizzy to babysit while Jo, an installation artist, prepares to open not one but two of her own shows. Other headaches for Lizzy include worrying about her mentally ill brother Sean (John Magaro) and her childlike father (Judd Hirsch), a retired potter.

It’s an artistic family: Lizzy’s mother (Maryann Plunkett) works with her daughter in the administrative office of the school, where kooky students, faculty and staff members drift in and out, most notably musician/ actor André Benjamin’s Eric, who runs the kiln where Lizzy fires her work, and Janet (Orianna Milne), who, while watching a tai chi-like outdoor workshop called “Thinking in Movement,” says, “I can’t figure out what class this is, but I really want to join it.”

You may have a similar sentiment

about the film, which, like Lizzy’s girls, speaks not in words, but with a strange and strangely mesmerizing visual poetry: Reichardt’s camera lingers, with more forbearance than most films, on scenes where not much seems to be happening.

There’s a line in “Showing Up” that teaches us how to watch a film like that. Ironically, it’s spoken by Sean, who seems to suffer from paranoid delusions, and who generally makes no sense. One day, Lizzy finds him in his backyard, digging massive holes in the dirt — mouths, he calls them — for a “major” art piece. “Art is the Earth talking,” he tells Lizzy. “You have to listen to what isn’t being said.”

That’s absolutely true here, too. There’s a lot of talk about nothing. But it’s in between the small talk — Lizzy bickering with her family at the opening about whether there’s too much cubed cheese, or not enough — that Reichardt’s film speaks loudest. What is it saying? That the best art isn’t a religion, or magic, or maybe isn’t even genius. That, instead, it’s hard work. It’s getting your fingernails dirty and paying attention to the silence.

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Michelle Williams in “Showing Up.”

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Sat April 22, 8 a m -2 p m

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Is sponsoring a COMMUNITY CHOIR AND CONCERT

Sun May 7 at 3 p m

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Thursday April 20

CLASSES

Five Million Trees for Maryland — 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Middletown Branch Library, 101 Prospect St., Middletown. Meet Anna Twigg, the tree planting specialist in charge of implementing the Five Million Trees Initiative from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service in Frederick and Washington counties. Twigg will discuss a variety of tree-planting programs in rural and urban areas, including underserved communities.

301-600-7560. wgagne@frederickcountymd.gov. fcpl.org.

“Frederick County’s Enduring Crossroads” Exhibit — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Museum of Frederick County History/Heritage Frederick, 24 E. Church St., Frederick. The history of Frederick County has unfolded around its crossroads, from rural villages and towns to the city’s square corner. This exhibit explores our local crossroads through the themes of community, land, identity and persistence, and will feature artifacts from Heritage Frederick’s museum and archival collections as well as loaned artifacts from South Mountain Heritage Society in Burkittsville.

$12, $10, $8. director@FrederickHistory.org. cognitoforms.com/HeritageFrederick1/ stitchesthroughtimeexhibittickets.

Senior Fitness Class — 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Walkersville Public Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. Low-impact exercise class for seniors. This class will show you exercises to work on your core and help with your strength, balance and posture!

301-600-8200. awadding@frederickcountymd.gov. fcpl.org.

Disaster Preparedness for Consumers: What Can you do Today? Webinar — noon to 1 p.m. at WebEx. Join the Howard County Office of Consumer Protection, CCCSMD, Howard County’s Office of Emergency Management and the Maryland Insurance Administration to learn the importance of preparing for a disaster and steps you can take today to protect your identity and your finances in the aftermath. 410-313-6569. trezvani@howardcountymd.gov. howardcountymd.gov/money-matters.

ETCETERA

Cowork Frederick Grand (re)Opening — 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Cowork Frederick, 120 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Celebrating Cowork Frederick’s Grand (re)Opening with a ribbon

cutting, live music, refreshments, door prizes and tours of the newly renovated space. 240-772-1295. ainsley@coworkfrederickfoundation.org. coworkfrederick.com/cowork-fredericks-grand-re-opening.

Interfaith Celebration — 5 p.m. at Naganna Forum, Roj Student Center at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster. Spring gathering to celebrate diversity and interfaith connections, hosted by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 410-857-2459. odei@mcdaniel.edu. mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

200 Monroe Restaurant — 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at The Monroe Center, 200 Monroe Ave., Frederick. Frederick Community College invites you to enjoy a gourmet dinner created by the talented students at 200 Monroe Restaurant! Reservations are required! For dine-in or carryout, visit opentable.com/200-Monroe.

$40-$44. HCTI@frederick.edu. opentable.com/200-monroe.

Sip + Flow Yoga — 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Kentlands Mansion, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. Relax and unwind with happy hour yoga led by Anastasia of Wellness and Moi. Begin with guided and intentional yoga to open the heart, lungs, mind, body and soul for a total body activation. Enjoy a glass of wine after class and you’re ready to head into the weekend.

$30 resident, $35 nonresident. 301-2586425. kentlands@gaithersburgmd.gov.

Riverworks’ Storytellers: Connection Creatives to the Community — Haunted Houses of the Ag Reserve — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Riverworks Studio at Alden Farms, 19215 Beallsville Road, Beallsville. Co-authors Lennon Gross and Christine Rai chat about their in-progress book project documenting Montgomery County’s Agricultural Reserve’s spooky side and share a few of the tales they’ve gleaned. Their book will be a collection of local folklore and legends, and will capture the rich history and unique beauty of Montgomery County & western Ag Reserve. 301-690-9337. contact@riverworksart.org.

A Night for Nature Dinner & Auction — 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Lodges at Gettysburg, 685 Camp Gettysburg Road, Gettysburg, Pa. Proceeds benefit environmental education programs at Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve. Food, seasonal drinks, auction items include art, handcrafted and locally-made goods.

$60 person. 717-642-5840. strawberryhill.org/nightfornature.

McDaniel College Innovation and Entrepreneurship Challenge — 6:30 p.m. at

Decker Auditorium, Lewis Hall of Science at McDaniel College , 2 College Hill, Westminster. McDaniel College students compete for the top prize in this annual competition put on by McDaniel’s Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Finalists pitch their entrepreneurial ideas and products to a panel of experts. mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

Frederick County Civil War Roundtable Meeting — 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Leon Reed will present “No Greater Calamity for the Country: North -South Conflict, Secession, and the Onset of the Civil War.” The 30 days following the surrender of Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers is one of the most momentous periods in U.S. history. free for members, $5 suggested fee for non-members. gldyson@comcast.net. www.frederickcountycivilwarrt.org/.

Pour House Trivia — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Champion Billiards Sports Bar, 5205 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick. Come on out with the team and play some Pour House Trivia. 7 p.m. start. Extended Happy Hour from 4 to 8 p.m.  301-846-0089.

frederickchampions.com/weekly-specials.

Frederick Speaker Series: Vernice “Flygirl” Armour — 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick. A gutsy trailblazer, Vernice “FlyGirl” Armour’s resume is an impressive collection of “firsts” including America’s first Black female combat pilot. She served two tours of duty in Iraq as a Marine. She was also a diversity liaison officer to the Pentagon for Headquarters Marine Corps. After her military service, FlyGirl revved up her career in the private sector as an entrepreneur, consultant to business, and author of “Zero to Breakthrough: The 7-Step, Battle-Tested Method for Accomplishing Goals that Matter.”

$50. 301-600-2868. bhiller@cityoffrederickmd.gov. weinbergcenter.org/shows/ vernice-flygirl-armour.

The Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Exhibit — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Heritage Frederick, 24 E. Church St., Frederick. From 1896 until 1954, a network of interurban trolley lines were built linking communities across Frederick and Washington counties. This exhibit presents the history of these electric railways and how they changed the landscape and communities of Frederick County. View historical photographs and artifacts from the trolleys and a map showing the various routes that comprised the overall system at its height of operation. $12, $10, $8. director@FrederickHistory.

org. cognitoforms.com/ HeritageFrederick1/ stitchesthroughtimeexhibittickets.

HEALTH

Nurse’s Nook: Spring Allergy Q&A — 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Sophia Wilmot, RN, MSN, CRNP from Summit Nurse Consulting, will discuss ways to survive the spring allergy season, how to tell the difference between allergies and other common illnesses, and when to visit the doctor.  301-600-7004. bbrannen@frederickcountymd.gov.

frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ nurses-nook-spring-allergy-qa.

MUSIC

FCC Jazz Big Band — 7:30 p.m. at Frederick Community College, Visual & Performing Arts Center | JBK Theater, 7932 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick. A swinging night of jazz favorites featuring the music of Howard Burns and the FCC Big Band.

THEATER

Mean Girls: High School Version — 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Tuscarora High School, 5312 Ballenger Creek Pike, Frederick. See “Mean Girls” come to life onstage. April 20 show will have an interpreter for those hearing impaired. Reserve those tickets by emailing thsdramadance@gmail.com. Content is rated PG-13. $10-$15. 240-236-6400. THSdramadance@ gmail.com.

showtix4u.com/event-details/66765.

“Wanda’s Visit” — 7:30 p.m. at Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre, WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster. Christopher Durang’s comedic 30 min. one-act play, directed by senior theater arts major Shakara Sapp of Upper Marlboro, revolves around Jim and Marsha, who have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy.  410-857-2448.

mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

Friday April 21 BOOKS

Artist Talk with Paul Moxon — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Frederick Book Arts Center, 217 W. Patrick St., Frederick. Moxon, of the Vander Blog, is an independent educator, book designer, author of “Vandercook Presses: Maintenance, History and Resources” and website editor for the American Printing History Association. He will discuss his ex-

tensive work in letterpress. Additionally, we have scheduled two workshops, Friday and Saturday, where he will teach us the inner workings and how to maintain Vandercooks. 301-228-9816. corrine.wilson@ fredbookartscenter.org.

ETCETERA

Thurmont Restaurant Week — 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Participating Thurmont Restaurants, Thurmont. Indulge yourself with homecooked goodness from locally owned restaurants and enjoy their Thurmont Restaurant Week featured menus! Visit your favorite or try something new! Show your appetite by supporting them during Thurmont Restaurant Week. 240-626-9980. vgrinder@thurmontstaff. com. thurmontmainstreet.com.

Friends of Emmitsburg Branch Library Fundraiser — 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Roy Rogers Restaurant, 203 Frederick Road, Thurmont. Mention the Friends of Emmitsburg and the group will received 25 percent of the proceeds to support literacy and community programming in northern Frederick County.  301-271-3252. royrogersrestaurants.com.

FAMILY

Connecting with Your Child through Play with Crescendo Speech Therapy — 11 a.m. to noon at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Join Alyssa Gilligan, owner and founder of Crescendo Speech Therapy to learn tips and techniques to join your child in play. In addition to answering caregiver questions, Gilligan will offer free speech and language screenings. 301-600-7000.

RMonaco@FrederickCountyMD.gov. frederick.librarycalendar.com.

FILM

“Bring Your Own Brigade” Documentary (R for language) — 7:30 p.m. at Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., Westminster. Also at 1 p.m., captioned. Featuring wildfire footage and interviews with survivors, firefighters and scientists, this incendiary documentary investigates the global wildfire epidemic and captures the heroism and horror of the California wildfires of 2018. $7. 410-848-7272. carrollcountyartscouncil.org.

MUSIC

Student Solo Recital — 7 p.m. at Coley Rice Lounge, McDaniel Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster. McDaniel College students perform vocal and instrumental solos of musical selections spanning from classical to contemporary. mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

F.A.M.E. Song Circle — 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Mount Airy Town Hall, 110 S. Main St., Mount Airy. A song circle is kind of like singing around a campfire (but without the fire). All ages, all abilities - players, singers, and listeners are all welcome! Acoustic instruments only, please! Meets monthly.

301-471-0889. D.Koronet@att.net. frederickacoustic.org.

Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Awards Concert — 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, 7719 Wisconsin Avenue , Bethesda. The awards, produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District, will feature a live concert performed by the competition finalists. $15+. 301-672-0008. jliu@bethesda.org. bethesda.org/arts-and-entertainment/bernard-ebb-songwriting-awards-tickets.

Seamus Kennedy Live in Concert — 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Cellar Stage at The Timonium United Methodist Church, 2300 Pot Spring Road, Timonium. An accomplished guitarist with a ready wit and a vast store of songs, Seamus has traveled the country making folks laugh, sing and forget their cares for a while.

$25, $12 for ages 10 and under. 443-5400226. uptownconcerts@gmail.com. uptownconcerts.com.

Purcell’s Pub: Bawdy Ballads and Catches — 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Dig Deep Brewing Company, 2 Howard St., Cumberland. Join us for 17th century revelry in a 21st century pub atmosphere. Henry Purcell, the focus of this weekend’s performances, was well known for not only serious music but also the many catches (a type of simple round) and other bawdy music enjoyed by those patronizing seventeenth-century English pubs.

$25. 301-338-2940.

mountainside@mountainsidebaroque.org. mountainsidebaroque.org/april-weekend.

Neil Berg’s The 60’s: Peace, Love & Rock N’ Roll — 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick. Relive the greatest decade of rock and roll: the ‘60s. The counterculture movement of the 1960’s became synonymous with the most iconic music of all time. This powerhouse concert event includes the songs and stories of many of the artists of the era including: Beach Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, The Doors, James Brown and many others. Under the direction of Neil Berg.

$37.50. 301-600-2868. bhiller@cityoffrederickmd.gov. weinbergcenter.org/shows/ neil-bergs-the-60s.

PERFORMER

MET Comedy Night: Oh Crit! ‘22-’23 — 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Maryland Ensemble Theatre, 31 W. Patrick St., Frederick. Celebrate with this D & D inspired improv comedy crew at Maryland Ensemble Theatre for their 5th anniversary! 18 and older.

$15. 301-694-4744. zcallis@marylandensemble.org.

THEATER

“Church Basement Ladies” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . In 1965 rural Minnesota, the ladies of the local Lutheran

Lane Riosley

CALENDAR

church fortify their flock with love, wisdom, and the food they prepare in the church’s basement kitchen. In Church Basement Ladies, we meet the pastor, three cooks, and one daughter who run the kitchen and care for the congregation. This funny musical comedy sees the four women handle a Lutefisk Dinner, a funeral, an Easter Fundraiser, and, of course, a wedding. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. first, third and fifth Sundays; 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 20. Show follows lunch/dinner buffet.

$55 Fridays and Sunday matinees, $59 Saturdays. 301-662-8200. wayoffbroadway.com.

”Mean Girls: High School Version” — 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Tuscarora High School, 5312 Ballenger Creek Pike, Frederick. See “Mean Girls” come to life onstage. April 20 show will have an interpreter for those hearing impaired. Reserve those tickets by emailing thsdramadance@gmail.com. Content is rated PG-13. $10-$15. 240-236-6400. THSdramadance@ gmail.com. showtix4u.com/event-details/66765.

“The Awakening” — 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at New Spire Arts, 15 W. Patrick St., Frederick. Set in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century, “The Awakening” is a compelling story of Edna, a woman ahead of her time, who undergoes a social, sexual and spiritual awakening. This American literary classic was banned when released and rediscovered in the 1950s. Ages 18 and older.

Free. 301-305-1405. christinem@esptheatre.org.

“The Spongebob Musical” — 7:30 p.m. at The Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown. Also 2:30 p.m. April 16 and 23. Family-friendly with a timeless story of identity, crisis and community, with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend and many others. Presented by the students of the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts. $10-$25. 301-790-2000. mdtheatre.org/bisfa.

“Wanda’s Visit” — 7:30 p.m. at Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre, WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster. Christopher Durang’s comedic 30 min. one-act play, directed by senior theater arts major Shakara Sapp of Upper Marlboro, revolves around Jim and Marsha, who have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy.  4108572448.

mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

Saturday April 22

CLASSES

Foraging with a Field Guide with El McFarland — 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Fox Haven Farm, Retreat & Learning Center, 3630 Poffenberger Road, Jefferson. Mushroom foraging is a popular pursuit in

our area, but it can be difficult to search for wild edibles safely, especially without the know-how to identify your findings. In this pop-up foray, walk the lands of Fox Haven scouting for mushrooms with field guide El McFarland. This class will require walking off the beaten path, dress accordingly. If you have a mushroom ID book, we highly recommend you bring it! Though we hope to find edible mushrooms, there is no guarantee. Our intent is to help provide you with some working knowledge so that you can build a safe foraging practice for yourself. $50. 301-418-8248. alecks@foxhavenfarm.org. foxhavenfarm.org.

Freedom BANG class — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Public Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. Freedom Bang is a pre-choreographed fusion of boxing, HIIT, hip hop, world dance, optional weighted gloves and just a touch of attitude. Offering a wide range of intensity options to help you customize your workout. Ages 18 and older.

301-600-8200. AWadding@FrederickCountyMD.gov. fcpl.org.

Zumba Saturdays at the Library — 10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Ready to exercise! Ready to dance! Ready to shake off the pounds? Come on in for Zumba at the Library on Saturday mornings through May 27. Ages 18 and older.

301-600-7004. marchange-desir@frederickcountymd.gov.

frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ zumba-saturdays-library-8.

Make a Bottlecap Pincushion — 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Middletown Branch Library, 101 Prospect St., Middletown. Turn a bottlecap, some felt and some basic sewing into a flower pot. This cutie can be used as a pin cushion.

301-600-7560.

lgrackin@frederickcountymd.gov. fcpl.org/calendar.

ETCETERA

Metals and Electronics Recycling Event — 8 a.m. to noon at rear of Middletown Valley Bank, accessed off Washington Street, Middletown. Metal recycling until noon, includes cans, coat hangers, old hardware, wire (coated or not), pots and pans, chains, etc. Electronics will be collected from 9 a.m. until vehicles are full. Acceptable items include desktops (working or non-working), cellphones, tablets, laptops, flat TVs and monitors, game systems, printers.

USMH Open House — 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at University System of Maryland at Hagerstown, 32 W. Washington St., Hagerstown. University representatives will be on-site to answer questions and provide information about the programs offered in downtown Hagerstown. hagerstown.usmd.edu.

Frederick County Master Gardeners

Plant Sale — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Frederick Fairgrounds, Building 12, 797 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Free admission! Great prices on thousands of plants: annuals, hanging baskets, herbs, heirloom and hybrid vegetables, perennials, “hard to find” natives, etc.  Held indoors rain or shine with Master Gardeners on site to guide your shopping experience.  315-486-5665. mrice92317@gmail.com.

Emmitsburg Clean Up Day & Earth Day Event — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Emmitsburg Town Office, back parking lot, 300A S. Seton Ave., Emmitsburg. Volunteers are needed to help pick up litter and loose trash from downtown, parks & adjacent areas from 9 a.m. to noon. All cleaning supplies provided. From noon to 2 p.m., activities for kids and adults & frozen treats provided. Earth Day and Park Day — 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Monocacy National Battlefield Visitor Center, 5201 Urbana Pike, Frederick. This event, sponsored by the American Battlefield Trust, invites you to volunteer alongside National Park Service employees to complete maintenance and cleanup projects. 301-662-3515. nps.gov/mono.

Foundations of Frederick Walking Tour — 10:30 a.m. to noon at Heritage Frederick, 24 E. Church St., Frederick. Walk in the footsteps of Frederick’s past residents and discover their story. Experience the history and beauty of downtown as knowledgeable guides share the fascinating stories that make up historic Frederick. Tours are 90 minutes.

$12, $10, $8. director@frederickhistory.org. frederickhistory.org/ programs/adults/walking-tours.

Thurmont Restaurant Week — 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Participating Thurmont Restaurants, Thurmont. Indulge yourself with homecooked goodness from locally owned restaurants and enjoy their Thurmont Restaurant Week featured menus! Visit your favorite or try something new! Show your appetite by supporting them during Thurmont Restaurant Week. 240-626-9980. vgrinder@thurmontstaff.com. thurmontmainstreet.com.

Spring Into the Arts: Earth Day Open House — noon to 4 p.m. at Riverworks Studios at Alden Farms, 19215 Beallsville Road, Beallsville. Activities include an art exhibit in the Gallery Barn, studio demos, make-and-take crafts, live music by Brian Jamison and Friends. Box lunches from local available with pre-purchase. Stroll the sculpture garden. $25 advance. riverworksart.org.

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum — 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, 1110 Rosemont Ave., Frederick. Explore the home of Frederick’s pioneer family, the Brunners. Built in 1758, it is the oldest surviving building in the city and a National Historic Landmark. Inside is the only known example of a German heating system that provided safe, clean, energy-efficient radiant heat. Learn the story

of the desperate German immigrants who fled dire conditions in Europe and came to prominence in Frederick County. Walk in for a guided tour.

$8 for adults, free for under age 12. 301456-4912. boycerensberger@gmail.com. fredericklandmarks.org.

Ghost Tours of Historic Frederick — 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Brewer’s Alley Restaurant and Brewery, 124 N. Market St., Frederick. Journey through Frederick’s gruesome and bloody past. Nearly 300 years of war, executions and revenge. True documented stories of the paranormal with Maryland’s oldest operating Ghost Tour. Uncover political savvy and defiant citizens, patriots from the Revolutionary War, beckoning soldiers from the Civil War. Reservations recommended.

$15. info@marylandghosttours.com. marylandghosttours.com.

FAMILY

Earth Day Activities featuring a Youth Climate Institute Showcase — 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Howard County Conservancy , Mt. Pleasant, 10520 Old Frederick Road, Woodstock. Tree plantings, service projects, guided hikes, Youth Climate Institute showcase and more. 410-465-8877. yci@howardnature.org. howardnature.org/event/earth-day-2023service-projects.

Hoedown for Horses — 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at American Legion Post 223, 7327 Slacks Road, Sykesville. Dancing, food, drinks, raffles, kids’ activities, a silent auction, DJ, cash bar and fun for all ages.

Up to $55. events@safehavenequinewarriors.org.

safehavenequinewarriors.org/events2022.

FESTIVALS

Earth Celebration Day & Festival of Art — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Pine Hill Recreation Area, 12684 Mentzer Gap Road, Waynesboro, Pa. Free admission. The Institute celebrates spring with environmental exhibitors, live music, environmental artists and artisans, a student art show and more —paper shredding by OSI, a Goodwill truck pick up, battery collecting by Christ United Methodist Church, and eyeglasses & cellphone recycling by WALL Lions Club also offered. Bring cash for the Recycle Fundraiser that includes hand-painted rain barrels, raffle items, a bake sale and a yard sale. Have lunch in the park with food trucks.

717-762-0373. info@natureandcultureinstitute.org. natureandcultureinstitute.org.

Green Fair — 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Municipal parking lot, 1 Veterans Way , Mount Airy. The Town of Mount Airy hosts. Local sustainability experts will be on hand displaying and discussing all the ins and outs for different ways to be more sustainable at home and/or work.

301-829-1424. acollier@mountairymd.gov. mountairymd.gov.

FILM

Silent Film Series: “Show People” (1928) — 8 p.m. at Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick. A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress. Comedy, romance, with Marion Davies, William Haines and Dell Henderson. (1 hour 23 min.) $7. 301-600-2828. bhiller@cityoffrederick.com. weinbergcenter.org/shows/ show-people-1928.

HEALTH

BANG Class — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville LIbrary, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. Freedom Bang is a pre-choreographed fusion of boxing, HIIT, hip-hop, world dance, optional weighted gloves and just a touch of attitude.  Offering a wide range of intensity options to help you customize your workout. 301-600-8200. awadding@frederickcountymd.gov. fcpl.org.

MUSIC

National String Symphonia — 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at New Spire Arts, 15 W. Patrick St., Frederick. NSS is celebrating 10 years of making beautiful string music and is excited to present some of the most popular selections from their first 10 seasons.  This concert is definitely one that you don’t want to miss so plan to attend and celebrate with the NSS. $35. 301-600-2868. bhiller@cityoffrederickmd.gov. weinbergcenter.org/shows/ national-string-symphonia.

OUTDOORS

Guided Birding Walk — 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Lily Pons Water Gardens, 6800 Lily Pons Road, Adamstown. This exciting and educational walk will start off with a discussion about the ethics of birding or birdwatching. We’ll also briefly discuss the basics of using binoculars to see and observe birds, the importance of noticing “field marks” when identifying birds. Most time will be spent walking around Lilypons seeing, identifying

and observing bird in their natural habitats. $20-$40. 301-663-3416. aharmon@commonmarket.coop.

THEATER

“Mean Girls: High School Version” — 1:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Tuscarora High School, 5312 Ballenger Creek Pike, Frederick. See “Mean Girls” come to life onstage. April 20 show will have an interpreter for those hearing impaired. Reserve those tickets by emailing thsdramadance@gmail.com. Content is rated PG-13. $10-$15. 240-236-6400. THSdramadance@gmail.com. showtix4u.com/event-details/66765.

“Church Basement Ladies” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . In 1965 rural Minnesota, the ladies of the local Lutheran church fortify their flock with love, wisdom, and the food they prepare in the church’s basement kitchen. In Church Basement Ladies, we meet the pastor, three cooks, and one daughter who run the kitchen and care for the congregation. This funny musical comedy sees the four women handle a Lutefisk Dinner, a funeral, an Easter Fundraiser, and, of course, a wedding. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. first, third and fifth Sundays; 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 20. Show follows lunch/dinner buffet.

$55 Fridays and Sunday matinees, $59 Saturdays. 301-662-8200. wayoffbroadway.com.

Mean Girls: High School Version — 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Tuscarora High School, 5312 Ballenger Creek Pike, Frederick. See “Mean Girls” come to live onstage. April 20 show will have an interpreter for those hearing impaired. Reserve those tickets by emailing thsdramadance@gmail.com.

Content is rated PG-13. $10-$15. 240-236-6400. THSdramadance@ gmail.com. showtix4u.com/event-details/66765.

“Wanda’s Visit” — 7:30 p.m. at Dorothy Elderdice Studio Theatre, WMC Alumni Hall at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster. Christopher Durang’s comedic 30 min. one-act play, directed by senior

CALVARY COMMUNITY CONCERT SERIES

Westminster Ringers Handbell Choir

Since 1997, this auditioned group of handbell players has delighted audiences with both secular and sacred songs. One of the largest bell and chime instruments in the Mid-Atlantic area, they hold the prestigious designation of Community/Professional Group by the Handbell Musicians of America. Don’t miss this afternoon of spectacular musical ringing! This group is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

CALENDAR

theater arts major Shakara Sapp of Upper Marlboro, revolves around Jim and Marsha, who have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy.  410-857-2448. mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

“The Spongebob Musical” — 7:30 p.m. at The Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown. Also 2:30 p.m. April 16 and 23. Family-friendly with a timeless story of identity, crisis and community, with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend and many others. Presented by the students of the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts. $10-$25. 301-790-2000. mdtheatre.org/bisfa.

Sunday April 23

CLASSES

Free Intro to Kendo Seminar — 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Han Mi Martial Arts/Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Frederick, 190 Thomas Johnson Drive #2, Frederick. If you’ve curious about Kendo, the Japanese Way of the Sword, here’s a great opportunity to learn all about it and try it for yourself. 240-651-0985. frederick@hanmimartialarts.com.

ETCETERA

Face of America — 8 a.m. to noon at The Promised Land, 10918 Taneytown Pike, Emmitsburg. Tom’s Creek is hosting a rest stop for military veterans as they bike from Arlington National Cemetery to Gettysburg. Worship service follow and the Unclouded Day will play their bluegrass gospel music and patriotic music. Bring flags to wave and show your support for the military.  301-447-3171.

Thurmont Restaurant Week — 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Participating Thurmont Restaurants, Thurmont. Indulge yourself with homecooked goodness from locally owned restaurants and enjoy their Thurmont Restaurant Week featured menus! Visit your favorite or try something new! Show your appetite by supporting them during Thurmont Restaurant Week. 240-626-9980. vgrinder@thurmontstaff. com. thurmontmainstreet.com.

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum — 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Schifferstadt Architectural Museum, 1110 Rosemont Ave., Frederick. Explore the home of Frederick’s pioneer family, the Brunners. Built in 1758, it is the oldest surviving building in the city and a National Historic Landmark. Inside is the only known example of a German heating system that provided safe, clean, energy-efficient radiant heat. Learn the story of the desperate German immigrants who fled dire conditions in Europe and came to prominence in Frederick County. Walk in for a guided tour.

$8 for adults, free for under age 12. 301456-4912. boycerensberger@gmail.com. fredericklandmarks.org.

An Easter Celebration — 7 p.m. at The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints, 199 North Place, Frederick. With choirs, soloists, a brass quintet and more.

FAMILY

Frederick County 275th: Earth Day Celebration — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Walkersville Public Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. The library will host programs covering sustainable practices. Composting demo at 1:15 p.m. and pollination presentation by a master gardener at 2 p.m. Shredding throughout the day to raise money for the library. 301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

FESTIVALS

Kensington Day of the Book Festival — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Old Town Kensington, Howard Avenue, Kensington. The Kensington Day of the Book Festival is a family-friendly street festival, held rain or shine, spanning three blocks of Howard Avenue in Kensington. Meet authors, poets, and literary and community organizations. Live music, guest speakers, poetry readings, cookbook demos, children’s program. 301-949-9416. 2023kensingtonbookfestival@gmail.com. dayofthebook.com.

Town of Mount Airy’s Annual Love Your Park Week — 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at at various parks daily, Mount Airy . Frisbee games at Windy Ridge Park at 3 p.m. April 23. Safari scavenger hunt at Rails to Trails, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 24. Walk in the Park at Watkins Park with Walk Carroll, 5:30 p.m. April 25. Intro to Fitness with TFL Crossfit at Twin Ridge Park, 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. April 26. Kites at Watkins Park softball field, 3 to 5:30 p.m. April 27. Drum Circle at Wildwood Park Gazebo (bring a chair), 7 p.m. April 28. Rock Skipping Contest at Prospect Park (bring flat rocks), 2 p.m. April 29. No registration is required.

301-829-1424, ext. 135. parksmanager@ mountairymd.gov. www.mountairymd.gov.

FILM

Western Movie Night — 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 13025 Greensburg Road, Smithsburg. Are you in the mood to watch a Western? Join us for a Western-themed movie, Western meal and snacks. Wear your boots and bandana.

240-405-2173. prjulie@verizon.net.

MUSIC

Hark, How the Songsters: Purcell’s Music for Court and Chapel — 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 15 N. Smallwood, Cumberland. Included are Henry Purcell’s birthday ode for Queen Mary, “Come ye Sons of Art,” and the “Jubilate Deo” written for Westminster Abbey. Both works include music for the Baroque trumpet performed by Nashville resident

Kathryn Adduci, considered one of the best baroque trumpeters in the nation. She will be joined by orchestra, soloists and choir in recreating this wonderful music. $25. 301-338-2940. mountainside@mountainsidebaroque.org. mountainsidebaroque.org/april-weekend.

College Choir Concert — 7 p.m. at Baker Memorial Chapel at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster. The McDaniel College Choir, under the direction of senior lecturer of music Kyle Engler, performs with Peggy Brengle serving as accompanist. The program features music from diverse locales and historical eras.   mcdaniel.edu/about-us/event-calendars.

PERFORMER

Afrique en Cirque by Cirque Kalabanté — 6:30 p.m. at Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick. A highly colorful creation featuring a handful of amazing acrobats, and musicians from Cirque Kalabanté, performing their authentic choreography to the frantic rhythms of djembes and other native instruments of Guinea. To the melodious sound of the Kora, artistic director and company founder, Yamoussa Bangoura takes us into an elsewhere that radiates the diversity of traditional African arts combined with the virtuosity of the North American modern circus performance. $30. 301-600-2828. bhiller@cityoffrederick.com. weinbergcenter.org/shows/ afrique-en-cirque-by-cirque-kalabante.

THEATER

“Church Basement Ladies” — 12:30 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. first, third and fifth Sundays; 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through May 20. Show follows lunch/dinner buffet. $55 Fridays and Sunday matinees, $59 Saturdays. 301-662-8200. wayoffbroadway.com.

Monday April 24

CLASSES

Meditative Dance Movement — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. The dance experience starts with a brief guided meditation involving breathing, stretching, shaking and gentle yoga-like movements to help become more heart-centered and embodied. Then, dance music starts slow and then ramps up over time.

$10. laurabsherwood@gmail.com.

Elkridge-Harford Point-to-Point Races

100th Anniversary Panel — 4 p.m. at Maryland Horse Library & Education Center, 321 Main St., Reisterstown. A panel discussion on the history of the event. Panelists include Maryanna Skowronski, administrative director of the Manor Conservancy and member of the Elkridge-Harford race

committee; Michael Finney, owner of the art and country clothing shop Yoicks! and race caller for the Elkridge-Harford races; and Jay Young, president emeritus of the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club. 410-252-2100.

bremsberg@marylandthoroughbred.com. bit.ly/41oLHbl.

Parents Plus: Tween to Teen Behavioral Changes — 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Your sweet baby will soon be a teenager. Loriann Oberlin, MS, LCPC, is happy to tell you what to expect and answer your questions. 301-600-7004. marchange-desir@frederickcountymd.gov. frederick.librarycalendar.com.

FESTIVALS

Boot Scootin’ on Main Street — 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Liquidity Aleworks, 8 N. Main St., Mount Airy. A fun-filled night in downtown Mount Airy featuring local fares, ales and Texas country line dancing by Dean Garrish. $35. 240-449-6435. info@mountairymainstreet.org. mountairymainstreet.org/event-details/ boot-scootin-on-main-street.

Tuesday April 25

ETCETERA

Teen Kitchen Studio: Cookie Decorating — 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Teens and tweens, join us for Teen Kitchen Studio and create your own cookie masterpiece. Enjoy cookie themed trivia and other sweet challenges! For grades six to 12. 301-600-7004.

lconforti@frederickcountymd.gov. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ teen-kitchen-studio-cookie-decorating. Pride On The Patio — 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Showroom, 882 N. East St., Fredrick. Weekly LGBTQIA social mixer. Relaxed an casual. Happy hour pricing, full menu available; drink special Gender Fluid. 21 and older. 240-409-8858. prideonthepatio@gmail. com. facebook.com/PrideOnThePatio. Acoustic Open Mic — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Liquidity Aleworks, 8 N. Main St., Mount Airy. Come out and play! All talent levels welcome! Dave Koronet hosts. 301-471-0889. D.Koronet@att.net.

FILM

Art Center Bijou — 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. Meet on the second, third and fourth Tuesdays for Bijou, a curation of films presented by Falling Squares. Brief discussion of the film(s) after the viewing. 301-662-4190.

artcenter@frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/ news-events/calendar-grid.

MUSIC

Acoustic Java Jam — 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Join local musician Cristina Rivero and bring your acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle or violin. Sip some coffee or tea and jam with us.

301-600-7004.

marchange-desir@frederickcountymd.gov. frederick.librarycalendar.com/ event/acoustic-java-jam-1.

OUTDOORS

Mount Airy Garden Club Flower Show — 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Carroll County Public Library, Mount Airy Branch, 705 Ridge Ave., Mount Airy. For adults. Stroll through large and small meeting rooms and enjoy beautiful flower displays submitted for evaluation by a panel of judges. Members of the Garden Club will be on hand to answer questions.

410-386-4470. ask@carr.org. ccpl.librarymarket.com/event/ mount-airy-garden-club-flower-show.

Wednesday April 26

CLASSES

Mount Airy Knitters — 10 a.m. to noon at Carroll County Public Library, Mount Airy Branch, 705 Ridge Ave., Mount Airy. For adults. Join the Mount Airy Knitters for a

weekly roundtable of knitting, conversation and fun. All experience levels are welcome. 410-386-4470. ask@carr.org. ccpl.librarymarket.com/event/ mount-airy-knitters-58.

Heritage Frederick Speaker Series: An Era of Trolleys in Central Maryland — 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Museum of Frederick County History/Heritage Frederick/ Reed Room, 24 E. Church St., Frederick. The Reed Room at the Museum of Frederick County History will be open for socializing and lite refreshments between 5 and 6 p.m., and the presentation will start at 6 p.m. RSVP required, limited seating. director@FrederickHistory.org. frederickhistory.org.

History of Mourning Jewelry and Photographs — 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Myersville Town Hall, 301 Main St., Myersville. The Myersville-Wolfsville Area Historical Society will feature a talk by historian and writer Ann Longmore-Etheridge on 18th and 19th century mourning jewelry and photographs. She will share highlights from her collection, gathered over 35 years, and discuss the importance that mourning had for our ancestors. 301-926-4613. juliacarlson@ gmail.com. mwahistory.com.

ETCETERA

Career Fair — 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The

Frederick News-Post, 351 Ballenger Center Drive, Frederick. Looking for a new job or career change? Don’t miss the chance to meet with employers who are looking to hire now. Register online. tinyurl.com/3tmnytda.

Thacher & Rye Local Weds Dinner — 7 p.m. A culinary journey featuring Frederick’s local craft beverage businesses with a 3-course menu expertly crafted by Chef Bryan Voltaggio and team. Reservations recommended, walk-ins welcome if space allows. $75 person plus tax and gratuity, beverages included. 240-332-3186. info@ thacherandrye.com. thacherandrye.com.

HEALTH

Gentle Yoga Class for All — 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at The Common Market Co-op, 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Low impact movement, seated postures and stretching. 301-663-3416. aharmon@commonmarket. coop.

Thursday April 27

CLASSES

Let’s Talk Art — 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at online , . Director Sarah Hall and Agnita M. Stine Schreiber, curator Daniel Fulco will discuss new acquisitions. Register in advance for link by contacting Donna Rastelli

at 301-739-5727 or drastelli@wcmfa.org. 301-739-5727. cschelle@wcmfa.org. wcmfa.org.

All About Mushrooms — 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Walkersville Public Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. For those who love to forage for wild mushrooms or enjoy learning about these culinary delights, join us for a program by William Needham. He will share his vast knowledge of mushrooms (both edible and nonedible). 18 +. 301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

Virtual Genealogy Lecture Series: “Research Cousins: Historic Preservation and Genealogy” — 7 p.m. at Virtual, . Presenter is Mary Mannix. All lectures on the fourth Thursday via Zoom.  240-818-1937.

ETCETERA

“Spies, Hostages & Armies on the March: Woodsboro in the Civil War “ — 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Woodsboro Evangelical Lutheran Church Social Hall, 101 S. Main St., Woodsboro. Woodsboro Historical Society hosts Frederick County historian Dahl Drenning’s presentation “Spies, Hostages & Armies on the March: Woodsboro in the Civil War.” The local band, Home Comfort, will perform period bluegrass music. Free. Light refreshments. 301-524-5167. robmch6@aol.com. woodsborohistoricalsociety.org.