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MOUNT AIRY AUTHOR IS A WINNER IN INTERNATIONAL WRITING CONTEST

Go ahead and call Mount Airy author James Davies a bonafide “writer of the future.” The author is a winner in the international L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, which earned him a trip to LA to participate in a master class workshop. His winning short story, “Ashes to Ashes, Blood to Carbonfiber,” will be published in “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 40.” His story is the amalgamation of a vivid dream and an extrapolation of technology under the shadow of human nature at its worst — and its best. We look forward to his epic fantasy novel, which he plans to publish in the near future. Learn more at writersofthefuture.com.

KATIE POWDERLY RELEASES NEW ALBUM

Frederick singer-songwriter Katie Powderly just released her new, longawaited album, “Live by the Song, Die by the Song,” on New Year’s Eve. This five-song EP was worth the wait. Learn more about the Americana artist, and grab a copy of the album at katiepowderly.com.

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UNCAPPED

Checkerspot Brewing Co. in Baltimore In this episode of the UnCapped podcast, host Chris Sands talks with Rob and Judy Neff, owners of Checkerspot Brewing Co. in Baltimore, about their backgrounds, the history of the brewery and their new location. Here is an excerpt of their talk.

UnCapped: Today, I am in one of my least favorite places in the world, but the beautiful, new Checkerspot Brewery in Baltimore is a really nice place.

Judy Neff: We love Baltimore.

UnCapped: It’s in my blood, being from Pittsburgh. I don’t think I’m legally allowed to like Baltimore.

Rob Neff: We’ll allow it.

UnCapped: This place is awesome!

Rob: Thank you. Welcome.

UnCapped: You opened in September, right?

Judy: Yep, Sept. 1.

UnCapped: And when was it originally opened?

Judy: June of 2018.

UnCapped: That’s a long time for a business ...

Rob: To barely survive.

UnCapped: Well, I think that’s just the nature of craft breweries, right?

Judy: But you get to drink beer at the end of the day.

UnCapped: You do have that going for you. I know it’s been quite some time since you’ve been on here, so let’s give a little recap of the history of Checkerspot and how it came to be. Where did the name come from?

Rob: The Maryland state butterfly is the Baltimore Checkerspot UnCapped: Is there anything Maryland doesn’t have a state something of? I feel like they just sit around and name official state everything.

Rob: That sounds fun, actually.

Yeah, it took us six months to come up with a name. We had several that didn’t stick, and this one, once we came up with it, it was pretty much immediate.

UnCapped: What were you doing before you decided to open Checkerspot?

Judy: I was home brewing but as a hobbie. I got my PhD from Hopkins and did my post-doc at NIH doing vaccine research, and then I actually got a job working for a hospital disinfection company, a startup. I sort of set up their lab.

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CHECKERSPOT BREWING 1421 Ridgely St., Baltimore checkerspotbrewing.com 443-388-9198 and they were just not able to sell it.

It was just my boss and myself left, sort of a shell of a company, so I had to go into work and physically sit there, but we didn’t have money to run experiments. They at least had money to pay me, so that was good.

I had my computer, my office, and nothing else to do, so it really gave me the opportunity to research what it takes to open a brewery, the whole business permit side of everything, run all the numbers, look at it and say, “Can we actually survive doing this?”

UnCapped: Were both of you into home brewing?

Rob: I’ve always loved craft beer but haven’t had the urge to brew.

UnCapped: So you let Judy do all the work and just reaped the benefits?

Rob: Yeah. I’m just a helper.

Judy: When I’d make my beer, first I started with 5 gallons, and then I moved up to 10 gallons, so then you’d have 10 gallons of beer downstairs. I’d make notes of what I wanted to do differently next time, and then I’d be like, “Alright, I wanna make the next one!”

UnCapped: Whose idea was it to open a brewery?

Judy: I wanted to do that. One of the things that made that possible was when the laws changed in 2013 Chris Sands to allow you to run a taproom. That changed the whole dynamic, which Rob and Judy Neff, owners of Checkerspot Brewing Co. in Baltimore. is why you’ve seen all these craft can tell you, you do not need a PhD breweries opening. And being able in microbiology. to self-distribute. That was a game UnCapped: Brewing beer doesn’t changer, and that was what got me require a PhD? thinking that this could be a real Judy: Well, people do have PhDs thing. I asked Rob if he wanted to do but usually in brewing science or it, and … fermentation, something like that.

Rob: I said yes before her But the science background helped sentence was done. me, even with home brewing.

I was doing home brewing for This excerpt has been edited UnCapped: So that’s quite a about 13 years before we opened. for space and clarity. Listen to the different career path.

Was that a hard UnCapped: You could’ve saved full podcast at fnppodcasts.com/ decision, to give that up? a lot of money if you would’ve just Judy: The company I was working uncapped. Got UnCapped news? gone from home brewing to this.

Judy: I know, I know [laughs]. I Email csands@newspost.com. for had a product in development

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Carlos Leyva Serafin, chef at Isabella’s Taverna and Tapas Bar on N. Market St. in downtown Frederick.

Isabella’s offers Spanish flavors on Market Street

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sabella’s website bills itself as “a slice of Spain in historic downtown Frederick.”

Since 2001, the restaurant on North Market Street has served tapas dishes to diners looking for a taste of the old world.

Some of their more popular dishes include pankobreaded asparagus fries and Gambas al Pil Pil, plates of sizzling shrimp, spicy garlic oil and caramelized onions, said general manager Bill Chapman.

But the menu covers an expanse almost as wide as Spain itself, ranging from soups and salads to various types of cheeses, cured meats and varieties of paella.

The restaurant offers brunches on weekends and happy hours from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.

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Isabella’s Paella dish.

44 N. Market St., Frederick Phone: 301-698-8922 Twitter: @IsabellasTavern Facebook: facebook.com/IsabellasFrederick Hours: Closed Monday, 11:30 a.m.- to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday Prices: Items range from $12 to a dish of bacon-wrapped scallops stuffed with crab for $37.

Chef Carlos Leyva Serafin recommends: The seafood paella. Although it’s a regular item on the menu, the dish’s specific makeup can vary depending on what type of seafood is in season, Leyva Serafin said. They can include shrimp, scallops, mussels, clams, and other items. They use Callasparra rice from Spain, and Spanish saffron and other spices.

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MUSIC

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Ayanna Gallant, right, leads a West African drumming class at Aya Cultural Arts Studio in Urbana.

Feel the beat of West African drumming in Urbana

BY CRYSTAL SCHELLE Special to The News-Post

Ayanna Gallant is on a mission to bring West African drumming to Frederick County.

In June, Gallant opened Aya Cultural Arts Studio in Urbana. It offers a collection of kids’ musical classes, to sound bathing and drum circles — and one of her most popular classes, West African drumming.

Gallant, 40, of Clarksburg, wanted to combine her two biggest passions: teaching and music. The result was Aya Cultural Arts Studio.

Like many musicians, she was introduced to music at home.

“My father always played drums, so I’ve always played drums with him, not in any kind of formal setting, just a cultural thing,” she said. “We just always had percussion around.”

By the time she was 9, Gallant had taught herself the keyboard. In seventh grade, she started playing the flute.

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“I just kept learning new instruments from there,” she said.

As she surrounded herself with music, Gallant decided by the time she was a sophomore or junior in high school, she wanted to be a teacher. Gallant attended the University of New Hampshire to earn her music education degree, focusing on low brass and jazz voice.

She said the program was intense, with students immediately teaching breakout sessions with music students, then eventually private lessons with them. She eventually earned her Master of Education in curriculum and instruction, with a focus on arts integration.

“I’ve been teaching lessons to kids since I was 18,” she said, “After undergrad, I got a job, so I’ve been teaching in public schools since I was 22.”

Wanting a space to teach a variety of ages while offering several types of classes, she opened Aya Cultural Arts Studio.

According to the studio’s website, the name is taken from a shorten version of her name and the Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Aya that represents “endurance, perseverance and resourcefulness.”

Her biggest and most popular class is West African drumming. She said she offers classes from kindergarten through age 5, as well as for adults and teens. It’s one of the first classes she offered.

“We opened on a Saturday and started the classes that Monday,” she said.

People in the community know or at least have heard of a drum circle, of which Gallant has been certified in by Village Music Circles as a facilitator. But it is different from West African drumming.

“A drum circle is a way for anyone to come together and express themselves through rhythm and sound,” she explained. “And it’s sometimes facilitated by a facilitator, which means they can start a rhythm and basically get the group into a flow and then get out of the way, so that the group can really connect

with each other in this beautiful musical way.”

African drumming, she said, is “completely different in that it is the serious student of djembe drumming, so that is very specific drumming.”

A djembe is a West African drum shaped like a goblet, rope-tuned, and skin-covered. It is meant to be played with bare hands. And with West African drumming, there is a repertoire of songs that goes with dances.

Gallant emphasized that West African drumming is open to anyone. She supplies drums to the class to use.

“This is very important — it’s not just for African American people,” she said.

Gallant said her classes are made up of all types of cultures and races, and she’s looking forward to the day when the local African and Black communities embrace her classes more.

She said many people haven’t been exposed to West African drumming, which is more common in places like Washington, D.C., down to the

AYA CULTURAL ARTS STUDIO 3504 Urbana Pike, Frederick For classes, hours and more go to https:// www.ayaarts.com.

Follow the studio on Facebook. costuming and singing.

Another difference is that with a drum circle, she said, a person can “use anything that makes beautiful sounds.

If you get two branches together, two bones together, anything that can come together,” she said. “With West African drumming, it’s an ensemble. It’s like going into a jam session with your friends around the campfire versus an orchestra.”

At the core, she wants to break down the color barrier and encourage all races to take part in West African drumming.

“One thing that’s been hard about the studio is that it says it’s a Cultural Art Studio, but a lot of the neighbors were like, ‘Oh, I just didn’t want to come in because I’m white,’” she said. “I’m like, alright, for one, my husband’s white and he works here. That’s not what Cultural Arts means.

“Cultural Arts is for cultures. If you are interested in culture, and interested in sharing your own culture, and learning about other people’s culture.”

She said she tells her students that she was taught by Mahiri Fadjimba KeitaEdwards, whose father was the late Mamady Keita, who she said “was the Bruce Lee of djembe drumming.”

Keita-Edwards and others, she said, “are able to bring this art to everyone in the world.”

Gallant paraphrases Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who discusses the danger of a single story. “(Adichie) basically said if all we know of Africans is this one story — that they all live in huts, they all wear grass skirts, they all don’t wear shirts and the women have their breasts out and things like that, then that’s all people will know. If that’s the only story told, that’s the only story people will know,” Gallant said.

She said African drumming is more than just the performances seen in D.C. She said it can “really help kids with social emotional learning, public speaking, geography, singing, cooperation, waiting your turn [and] how to create form.”

But, she said, she’s teaching about culture and using her education to help her students learn beyond the music.

West African drumming “is for all people.

We use it as a tool. We use it as, you Staff photo by Ric Dugan know, a way for people to appreciate and love the culture.”

Ayanna Gallant teaches West African drumming classes at Aya Cultural Arts Studio in Urbana.

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Heather Aubrey Lloyd brings Janis-meets-Joni vocals to New Spire Arts

Singer-songwriter Heather Aubrey Lloyd will take the New Spire Arts stage at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 6.

Trading one beat for another, this former Baltimore journalist and co-frontwoman of the band ilyAIMY has emerged as a dynamic solo artist, enchanting listeners with her unique vocals.

For over two decades, Lloyd has crisscrossed the nation, playing a diverse array of venues — from bait shops to clothing-optional resorts — as part of the critically acclaimed ilyAIMY. However, her latest venture into solo work has garnered widespread praise, culminating in her debut studio album, “A Message in the Mess.”

Lloyd’s passionate, “sing-me-the-phonebook” alto, accompanied by folk-inspired fingerpicked guitar and infused with the influence of Baltimore’s slam poetry scene, has created a sound that defies easy categorization, though it’s been described by The Montgomery Caller as “Janis Joplin ... and Joni Mitchell blended together.”

“A Message in the Mess” received the Director’s Award for Album of the Year from the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest, marking the beginning of a slew of accolades, including being a 2018 No Depression Magazine Songwriting Award Finalist, 2018 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival MOST WANTED Artist, 2018 National Women’s Music Festival Emerging Artist, and a 2017 Telluride Troubadour Top 4. In 2019, she secured the Grand Prize for the prestigious Bernard Ebb Songwriting Award.

Lloyd’s multifaceted talents have earned her recognition beyond her solo career, with previous

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Heather Aubrey Lloyd will be at New Spire Arts on Jan. 6. accolades including being a Lilith Fair Talent Search Finalist and ilyAIMY’s repeat wins as Best Contemporary Folk Group/Duo in the Washington Area Music Awards.

Tickets are $25 and are available at weinbergcenter.org, by calling the box office at 301600-2828, or in person at 20 W. Patrick St., Frederick.

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Frederick business owner to headline Hub City Vinyl show

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Blues guitarist and coowner of The Logo Shack, Michael Tash will headline the newly opened Live at Hub City Vinyl venue in Hagerstown on Jan. 5. Tash, known for his performances with the Bad Influence band, will treat audiences to an evening of blues music.

Aside from his role overseeing sales and marketing at The Logo Shack, Tash is an accomplished musician, dedicating more than 100 nights a year to performing.

Tash’s contributions to the music industry have earned him induction into the Northern Virginia Blues Hall of Fame and nominations for Courtesy photo the Washington Area Music Association’s Best Blues

Instrumentalist award.

Tash founded the Bad Influence Band in 1988, and they’ve continued to perform blues and roots music throughout the region for decades.

Learn more about the band at badinfluenceband.com.

Tash is also president of the Frederick-based Logo Shack, founded in 2010 by him Tash and Jason Thompson.

The company provides silkscreened and embroidered apparel as well as promotional products to businesses, nonprofits, schools, sports teams, musicians and families.

Live at Hub City Vinyl is at 28 E. Baltimore St., Hagerstown.

Call 301-800-9390 or see hubcityvinyl.com for details.

Mount Airy author wins trip to Hollywood after placing in Hubbard contest

BY CRYSTAL SCHELLE Special to The News-Post

When it comes to James Davies and his writing, there is one constant theme: perseverance.

If the Mount Airy author had listened to a few teachers or the fact that it took him nine attempts to place in a writing contest, Davies might have given up on writing a long time ago.

He also would not have the bragging rights of being named a third-place winner in the second quarter of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. The contest is named after the famous sci-fi and sci-fi writer and later Scientology founder. Contestants, like Davies, do not have to be Scientologists to enter.

As a winner of the contest, Davies will go this spring to Hollywood for a weeklong master class workshop and attend an awards event. His winning story, “Ashes to Ashes, Blood to Carbonfiber,” will be published in the anthology “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 40.”

Davies, who originally hails from an area south of London, was 10 years old when he discovered fantasy and science fiction via David Farland’s “The Sum of All Men” while on a vacation in Kenya.

“He got me into fantasy, and I consumed all of his books,” Davies said.

To find out more about his favorite author, Davies signed up for Farland’s newsletter.

“I didn’t realize that his newsletter was actually aimed at writers rather than readers, and rather than saying when his next book was out, it was just a daily email about tips on how to write,” Davies said.

While Davies was practicing Farland’s writing tips from the newsletter, he also read about the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest for which Farland was a judge.

Davies had been a writer on and off, but in his younger days, he was scarred by a few incidents when it came to sharing his writing.

“I remember one time trying to write a story when I was very young, like 7 or 8, and I couldn’t think of one particular word,” he recalled.

“I asked the teacher, and she essentially called me a moron for caring so much about getting this

James Davies one word right.”

It wouldn’t be until Davies was 14 that he gave writing another go — and wrote an entire novel. His English teacher then told him it was good, but when submitted it for his coursework, the novel came back with a C- grade.

“So, again, I thought, ‘Maybe this writing thing isn’t for me,’” he said.

But by the time Davies grew into adulthood, he pursued a degree in engineering. He tried entering the Hubbard contest years ago but didn’t place. Although he continued to read sci-fi and fantasy, he didn’t think about entering again until that newsletter popped into his inbox and reminded him about the contest.

“I don’t know why, but I just decided that I had to win at some point in my life,” he said.

The contest runs every three months, with a winner named every quarter and one grand-prize winner chosen annually. So keeping a promise to himself, Davies started

white knight-ish and whatnot, but it had a little bit of heart,” he said.

“Amazingly, that all disappeared when I tried to put it down on paper because it was kind of selfidolization. Self-conscious dreams are not fully honest.”

To fix the problem, Davies took himself out of the story and created a character. “Ashes to Ashes, Blood to Carbonfiber” follows the story of an engineer who invented a machine where one can put living matter in and print anything else that weighs the same out the other end. But the ultra-rich get ahold of the machine and consume the planet until there is nothing left.

But the engineer, who feels guilty over his machine causing this goal disaster, has a plan for people to escape the ultra-rich.

“I consider myself a fantasy writer, but when I write shorter stuff, somehow it ends up coming out as sci-fi,” he said. “This story that won this contest was sci-fi, which is odd because I don’t really read sci-fi.”

The contest limit was 17,000 words, and Davies’ story comes in around 7,000.

“Last year, I volunteered to beta read that volume of stories, and I studied the heck out of them,” he Courtesy photo said. “I made a spreadsheet and everything, and I found that the vast majority are like 5,000 to 7,000 words, so that’s the sweet spot.”

Understanding what the judges IF YOU GO wanted helped him with his writing and also was a humbling experience.

“L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the “When I started, I definitely Future Volume 40” in which Davies’ story thought more of myself. I thought will appear is available at writersofthefuture.

I was pretty much perfect, and the com. For more about James Davies and his only thing missing was publication,” writing, visit his website at jd-writes.com. he admitted.

For the contest, writers who are in the top 10% will receive an entering every three months.

“Sometimes, I’d be writing a story honorable mention. He said he got “an outright rejection” with his just because I wanted to write, and first entry. The next one, he studied then if it were done in time, I’d enter writing more, revised the story and it,” he said. “And then other quarters, received an honorable mention, I’d have to do something up and get which was encouraging. something [written] specifically for “Since then, I’ve studied the the contest. This story happened to craft so much but also specifically be one of them.” for the contest, and I realized how He placed third in the quarter much I didn’t know,” he said. “I ending March 31, 2023, and was think with any good skill, the more announced in July. you learn, the more you realize that The inspiration for his winning you basically know nothing. I have piece, “Ashes to Ashes, Blood to improved greatly, but I know I have Carbonfiber,” came from a dream. far more improvement left to do.”

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HISTORY

Learn about women soldiers in the Civil War

BY ERIK ANDERSON

Special to The News-Post

The mental image that comes to most minds when asked to picture a Civil War solider is that of a young man in a blue or gray uniform. Indeed, the vast majority of 19th-century fighting forces fit that description. But a growing body of scholarship assembled over the past 30 years reveals a different type of solider who donned the wool uniforms and took up arms.

On Jan. 6, The National Museum of Civil War Medicine will offer a presentation about the hundreds of female solider who disguised themselves as men to fight on both sides of the war.

One of the presenters, Tracey McIntire, is the museum’s director of communications. She became interested in the topic of women soldiers because of her own efforts to participate in Civil War re-enacting dressed in an authentic soldier’s uniform. Having grown up in Massachusetts, she had an early interest in Revolutionary War re-enacting but found women were not welcome to participate as soldiers.

“I moved south of the Mason-Dixon Line and went to an artillery demonstration at the Monocacy National Battlefield and noticed some of the folks on the cannon were women,” she said. “They said I could join the unit.”

However, not willing to let go of historical authenticity, she felt the need to find a historically plausible reason for her presence in the unit and eventually discovered the 2002 book “They Fought Like

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Sarah Rosette Wakeman, a female soldier.

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From left, Audrey Scanlan-Teller and Tracey McIntire in their Civil War gear.

Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War,” which broke open the heretofore neglected topic. McIntire even became friends with the book’s authors, DeAnne Blanton and Lauren Cook.

Her interest eventually led her to team up with Audrey Scanlan-Teller, her fellow presenter at this week’s event, who has a doctorate in history. Together they have uncovered even more previously unknown or underreported stories of women combatants, including local examples, and have been presenting their work at public events as it develops.

Scanlan-Teller is also a New Englander whose interest in female Civil War soldiers began with a desire to partici-

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pate in historical re-enactment that took her a long time to fulfill.

“Had I been born male in the 1970s, I would have taken part in re-enacting as soon as I was 16,” she said. “But it was not open to me at the time because of my gender.”

McIntire and Scanlan-Teller said the subject is difficult to research because the women who infiltrated the ranks of men were careful to keep their true identities concealed for fear of both legal and social reprisals. The true number of such women will never be known with certainty.

“The ones who were successful, we never heard about,” McIntire said. “They just did their thing and went home afterward. The ones we

hear about are the ones that were discovered or the ones that wrote about their experiences afterwards.”

However, McIntire said Mary Livermore, a Christian abolitionist who served as a nurse during the war, estimated there were about 400 to 1,000 women soldiers on the Union side, and McIntire and Scanlan-Teller operate under the assumption that the numbers were similar on the Confederate side.

Of those probable hundreds, Scanlan-Teller said only four women are known to have written their own accounts of their service, and the authenticity of one of them is questionable. She estimates that another 20 or 30 female Civil War soldiers can be con-

WOMEN SOLDIERS IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR When: 2 to 3 p.m. Jan. 6 Where: The National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 E. Patrick St., Frederick Tickets: $9.50 for adults, $8.50 for ages 65 and up, $7 for students, $8.50 for military, free for children 9 and under.

Info: civilwarmed.org/event/ women-soldiers-2023 firmed from third-person accounts.

Their reasons for wanting to fight in the war varied widely, she said, though she has come to the view that most of them joined for economic reasons.

“There really weren’t that many jobs available to women that paid enough to sustain one woman, let alone a (See CIVIL WAR 18)

GETAWAYS

Why so many flock to Sedona’s vortexes — and what to really expect when you get there

BY DEBORAH NETBURN

seek today. These sites, which are all conveniently accessible via short trails near parking The rock formation known lots, were named in 1980 by as Kachina Woman rises like the psychic channeler Page an obelisk out of a cool green Bryant and popularized by the canyon. At its base, more than California psychic and self-help three dozen women are tucked guru Dick Sutphen. The most into crevices in the rust colored famous are Airport Mesa (great stone, their faces turned toward for sunsets), Bell Rock (shaped the warm Arizona sun. Some sit like a bell), Cathedral Rock with their legs crossed. Others (which glows when the sun hits are curled into a fetal position. it) and Boynton Canyon (home They did not all come together, to caves and ancient dwellings). but they came for the same When Bryant identified purpose: to soak up the energy the vortex locations, she also of one of the most popular labeled each one as electric, vortexes in Sedona. magnetic or electromagnetic.

Surrounded by towering The names were meant to be mesas and spectacular vistas, symbolic. Electric vortexes and located on the ancestral are believed to give off a home of the Yavapai people, the BIG VORTEX ENERGY stimulating and uplifting energy, small town of Sedona has long while magnetic vortexes are Historians trace Sedona’s been a destination for New Age New Age roots to the late 1950s said to offer a more receptive, seekers and the astrologers, when a handful of local women focused and grounding energy. psychics, tarot readers, shamans interested in metaphysics began Electromagnetic vortexes are a and healers who cater to them. hosting meditations in their combination of both. However, For the last 40 years, these homes, but the spiritual history individuals’ experiences of the spiritual pilgrims have been of the land extends much further vortexes are often more varied drawn to the region by tales of back in time. This red rock than that. its mysterious and amorphous country, where massive rock Gail Brown, a grandmother energy vortexes. Definitions formations rise like monuments from Long Island who was vary, but Sedona’s vortexes are from the landscape, is also among the women meditating generally understood to be sacred to the Yavapai people at Kachina Woman in Boynton geographical sites of invisible who were forced to leave in Dreamstime Canyon (electromagnetic and potent spiritual energy, 1875, and who don’t believe in vortex), said she felt peaceful Definitions vary, but Sedona’s vortexes are generally understood to be geousually associated with specific vortexes. and grounded during her time rock formations.

“I call it a tourist trap because graphical sites of invisible and potent spiritual energy, usually associated with there, as if a calming energy was Books on the vortexes — what it’s really overcrowded,” said emanating from the Earth. Her specific rock formations. they are, where to find them and Gertrude Smith, Yavapai culture sister Lynn Debaw, a retired gym the unique energies you might director for the Yavapai-Apache was forced to trek 240 miles “I know for them that’s their teacher celebrating her 80th experience at each one — line Nation. “But for us, it’s a very southwest across rugged terrain belief, that they want to believe birthday, described it as a more the shelves of the town’s many important part of our people, in something,” Smith said. “But to another reservation. Many spiritual feeling of opening and crystal shops and metaphysical and our history. A lot of our these are our sacred sites and elders and babies died on the awakening in her heart. bookstores. Visitors can also creation stories come out of that journey. Before the ceremony, it makes our medicine man LeeAnn Rigau, a retired choose from an array of vortex area.” upset.” members of the community teacher from Virginia, said that tours that might include a jeep Each February, members Yavapai religious practices go up to the site to clear the for her, the ground around the ride, sound healing, guided of the nation hold an annual have little to do with the four, land of the medicine wheels, Bell Rock vortex (electric) felt gathering in the Sedona area to crystals and other talismans that seven or nine vortex locations meditation, yoga or all of the spiked with a powerful current. (depending on what map you pay tribute to what they call “the are inevitably left by New Age above. consult) that spiritual tourists seekers.

(See SEDONA 18) Great Exodus,” when the band But as spiritual tourism in

Los Angeles Times

Sedona continues to grow, the region’s most famous vortexes have become increasingly popular and crowded. Now, as traffic clogs the town’s thruways and trailside parking becomes nearly impossible to find, some longtime vortex guides say a new understanding of Sedona’s vortex energy — and how to tap into it — is needed.

“It feels good when someone can point to a spot and say, ‘This is it,’” said Dennis Andres, a.k.a.

Mr. Sedona, and the author of “What is a Vortex?” and the soon to be released “Experience the Vortex.” “But it’s not a spot.

The energy is everywhere in Sedona.”

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BY JASON VEST

Special to The News-Post

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here’s a notion that there are people who describe themselves based on what they do, and then there are those who describe what they are called to do. Whatever it is they do, if so called, they can’t not do it.

“The grace of that,” Katie Powderly says. It’s a sunny, early December afternoon at a corner table inside the Common Market cafe on West Seventh Street in Frederick, and Frederick-based Powderly — a multifaceted talent with a new album — is deep into a conversation about creativity.

“Years ago, I saw a documentary about Joni Mitchell called ‘Woman of Heart and Mind,’ where she was talking about how she self identifies as a painter, not as a songwriter,” says Powderly, sipping a hot drink and ready for winter in a beige sweater and stocking cap. “She was saying how her life is filled with seasons, and they are cyclical, where she’ll have a huge season of painting, and then be totally uninspired and then go back to songs.

She kind of vacillates and toggles between the two.

“And as soon as I saw that, I had this huge ‘aha!’ Because I could identify with her words and emotions. In that interview, all became clear to me that I also have relationships with seasons of my work.”

Musically, Powderly seems in full bloom these days: Twelve years after the release of her debut album, “Slips of The Tongue,” and a year after its updated reissue, the weeks after this conversation will see Powderly head back to her adopted hometown of Madison, Wisconsin, for the New Year’s release of “Live By the Song, Die By the Song,” a double EP of newly-written and dustedoff studio/studio-live tracks, some of which parse an effervescent summer romance darkly immolated.

Powderly has also been keeping a diverse set of creative muscles toned over the years — guitar with past electric collaborators the Unconditional Lovers, upright bass more recently with bluegrass outfit Dead Horse Revival, graphic design chops brought to bear on art direction for the re-issue and new album.

When we meet, she’s fresh off two Sean Reel recent shows that couldn’t be farther apart — an open mic in Shepherdstown,

“Live by the Song, Die by the Song” centerfold art sh West Virginia, and a gig at New York’s Abilene Bar — and with a placid exterior belies the necessary stresses of rolling out a creative project.

“Pretty much my whole life has been focused on getting all of the associated administrative responsibilities, artistic responsibilities, copyright, design — all that stuff — done,” she says. “Now preparing travel and trying to book shows, and I’m just doing things and managing different aspects.”

But in revisiting the Joni Mitchell

In retrospect, Powderly says, “I think we were all more vulnerable that year to the sway of emotion after so much fear and uncertainty. We were all yearning for connection.”

The upside to relationships gone bust for any musician, of course, is their catalytic potential for creativity, and in this respect, the summer of 2021 served up tasty grist for Powderly’s songwriting mill, with “Tobacco,” “Revolving Door” and “Love Me One More Time Before I Go” unexpectedly coming off the line.

And key to her process for this effort, she says, was a Thursday-night songwriters’ open mic at Knoxville’s Guide House Grill.

It’s like, “I would scrawl the lyrics on the am I pages of my faithful song notebook and then test to my work them in front of the crowd that and to my same night, often purpose? Am before I’d even the I honest? Am I memorized lyrics.” A singer who can’t help showing up in but close her a committed eyes when she sings, this trait way? turned out to be helpful in vetting her works-in-progress. “When I opened my eyes and saw that everyone had stopped talking and drawn closer to the stage where I was singing, I figured those tunes were keepers.”

But there was still studio time booked for a now-86’ed studio project with her fizzled summer love (“a fleeting enchantment”). Luckily, a Dead Horse was able to help. “I had been spending a lot of time with Chance Hurley that spring and summer, as I had just joined Sean Reel Dead Horse Revival, his hard-driving Pennsylvania bluegrass band playing upright bass and singing harmonies for him. Chance plays guitar and mandolin 2021 was, at least for her, particularly and is one of my all-time favorite people vivid. “As a country, we were kind of to play with.” tentatively unfurling after a long period Powderly says she’s particularly proud of contraction and fear,” she says. of how her songs “Tobacco” and “My “Our senses were heightened, and the beauty and miracle of life felt amplified.” Mourning Dove” came out.

“I just feel completely satisfied with Spring slid into summer — a summer, those two,” she says. “I told the truth the Powderly says, she spent “falling in and best way possible, and I delivered it in out of love, or so I thought, swimming the best way possible that I’m capable in the Shenandoah, eating foraged wineberries, and hiking.” Nights of literal of. … I really said exactly what I wanted harmonic convergence over guitars and to say, exactly how I wanted to say it, and campfires until dawn. the recording reflects that.”

“

howing singer-songwriter Katie Powderly. documentary and its impact on her, Powderly relaxes a bit. “It’s like, am I faithful to my work and to my purpose?

Am I honest? Am I showing up in a committed way?”

That doesn’t necessarily mean every day is about writing songs.

“I’ve gone through seasons where I don’t write songs for years,” she says.

“And I’ve had, in the past, identitycrisis moments. Can I go for three years without writing a song and still consider myself a songwriter? Because

I had these expectations about being prolific to a certain extent or something.

“So I go through heavy songwriting seasons, and then I go through a dry spell, but I’ll be very much making a lot of visual artwork, whether that’s painting or graphic design. It’s just like, there’s no place on Earth that is constantly bearing fruit. We need these seasons, in order to regenerate ourselves.”

That’s as good a frame as any for “Live By the Song, Die By the Song.”

As Powderly describes it, the spring of

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Frederick County Art Association — through Jan. 5, Frederick Health Crestwood Medical Building, 7211 Bank Court, Frederick. Original artwork including oil, acrylic, photography, mixed media and wood carvings by Frederick artists. Hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. 240-215-1460, frederickhealth.org/crestwoodart.

“Deck the Walls” — noon to 8 p.m. Jan. 6 at Gallery 322, 322 N. Market St., Frederick. Gallery 322 kicks off the new year with a festive display by local artists, featuring small artwork, including paintings, assemblages and sculpture. Meet the artists on First Saturday. 240-815-7777, gallery322@gmail.com, gallery322.com. ”Landscapes, Again” — weekends in January, Eastside Artists’ Gallery, 313 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Sculptural artwork

by Doug Moulden. Gallery hours 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. eastsideartistsgallery.com. ”Deck the Walls — A Small Works Show” — through Jan. 28, Gallery 322, 322 N. Market St., Frederick. Small paintings, sculpture and assemblages for gifting. Art can be taken home on the day purchased. Fridays 4 to 7 p.m., noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment. 240-815-7777 or gallery322. com.

“Reflections on the Human Condition” — through Feb. 1 at FAC’s Al and Helen Hurwitz Gallery, 1 N. Market St., Frederick. Mixed-media sculpture “Lamentation” and other works by Esperanza Alzona. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with extended hours on First Saturdays to 7 p.m. and during First Sunday Art Walks from 1 to 4 p.m. 301-662-4190, frederickartscouncil.org. ”Dreamscapes Unveiled” — through

Works by Central Pennsylvania artist Anne H. Finucane are on display at the Majestic Theater’s art gallery through the end of February. Shown here, a piece

by Finucane.

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“Deck the Walls” at Gallery 322 kicks off the new year with a festive display by local artists.

Shown here, “Fallen Angel Fragment,” by Homer Yost.

February, FAC Hurwitz Gallery, 1 N. Market St., Frederick. Artworks by FAC studio artists explore the multifaceted aspects of the dreamworld, inviting viewers to contemplate the mysterious and enigmatic landscapes of the mind.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. First Saturdays of each month. 301-662-4190 or frederickartscouncil.org. ”Picasso on Paper: The Artist as Printmaker 1923-72” — through March 3,

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown.

This is the first exhibition at the museum in over 50 years of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), one of the most influential masters of the 20th century. Often considered the most innovative printmaker since Rembrandt, Picasso ultimately created more than 2,400 prints over his long career. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

301-739-5727 or wcmfa.org. ”Sewn Sown” — Jan. 22 through Feb. 16, Hodson Gallery, Tatem Arts Center, Hood College, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick. The work explores the necessity of balance, rhythm and vacillation between the assuaging of similarity at the center of things and the disturbance of the Other on the fringes of things. Artist talk and opening reception 4 p.m. Jan. 27. 301-606-9061 or coreysfrey.com.

“Poetry of the Sky” — Jan. 3 to Feb. 18 at Riverworks Gallery at Locals Farm Market, 19929 Fisher Ave., Poolesville.

This exhibition features winter-themed oil paintings by Claire Howard, featuring expansive, luminous views of a season with its own unique tension of shadow and light. Howard’s show is the 10th “Artist in the House” exhibition featured in the second floor of the historic house.

Her winter skies have a distinct texture and depth, an effect she achieves through the use of a palette knife. The result is a series of paintings that span the many emotions of winter, a time when restlessness is eased by the promise of coming renewal. Meet this Montgomery County artist during an opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Jan. 14. Learn more at riverworksart.org.

Work by Anne H. Finucane in Gettysburg Watercolors and prints by Central Pennsylvania artist Anne H. Finucane are on display at the Majestic Theater’s art gallery through the end of February.

The gallery is open daily during Majestic business hours, and admission is free.

Finucane was gallery director for the Council of the Arts in Chambersburg from 1994 through 2019, in addition to long time work as an organizer, advocate and juror for nonprofit arts organizations throughout the region. She has shown work in juried exhibitions in Baltimore, D.C. and New York.

“My inspiration comes from nature — our landscape and the living things within it — and my mediums have changed from acrylics to watercolors to colored pencil to pastel and printmaking and back to watercolor. Who knows what will be next,” Finucane said.

The watercolor series featured in the Majestic art gallery was launched in 2018 and focuses on people at work. Finucane’s goals with this series were two-fold: to improve her figure drawing and to explore new subjects beyond, yet including, the landscape.

“With my current loves of

watercolor and printmaking, there is a lot of planning required,” Finucane said. “A careful preliminary drawing is needed for both, as the watercolor does not like to be erased, and the prints require drawing with a carving knife! But I like working in a methodical way, and I like the process of working gradually, in steps, toward a goal.”

The Majestic Theater is at 25 Carlisle St., Gettysburg.

Metered parking is available at the Gettysburg Borough Parking Garage in Race Horse Alley, as well as along Carlisle Street.

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“Glen Creek,” by Jan McIntyre-Creager.

‘Resolution’ group exhibition at TAG celebrates the new year

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“Antelope Puppet,” by Rhonda Smith.

res.o.lu.tion: n 1. the act or process of resolving such as a) the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones b) the act of answering c) the act of determining d) the passing of a voice part from a dissonant to a consonant tone e) the separating of a chemical compound or mixture into its constituents 2. the subsidence of a pathological state 3. something that is resolved 4. a formal expression of opinion, will, or intent voted by an official body or assembled group 5. the point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out 6. a) the process or capability of making distinguishable the individual parts of an object, closely adjacent optical images, or sources of light b) a measure of the sharpness of an image or of the fineness with which a device (such as a video display, printer, or scanner) can produce

or record such an image.

TAG/The Artists Gallery will celebrate the new year with the group exhibition “Resolution.” Though resolutions are commonly thought of as opportunities for self-improvement in the coming year, TAG artists were free to choose one of the many definitions for inspiration. Look for paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and more that capture the theme.

Meet the artists and enjoy refreshments from 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 6 during the opening reception.

“Resolution” opens Jan. 5. Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays.

TAG is at 501 N. Market St., Frederick. Learn more at theartistsgalleryfrederick.com, or call 301-228-9860.

MET’s Musical Bingo Cabaret returns for another year Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s newest fundraiser, Musical Bingo Cabaret, will return to Frederick at 8 p.m. Jan. 5 and 6 in The Frank Greene Stage 2 at the MET, located at 31 W. Patrick St., Frederick.

Musical Bingo Cabaret is a creative combination of bingo and performances from some of the MET’s talent including ensemble members Jennifer Pagano, Joseph Waeyaert, Mallorie Stern, Melynda Burdette Wintrol and Shayden Jamison. Genevieve Williams, James Meech, Jessica Edwards, Kecia Deroly, Nicole Halmos, Taylor Rieland and Taylor Whidden round out the cast. Bill Dennison and Kecia Deroly will lead the festivities as hosts.

How does this work? Singers will be called upon as their piece is selected. Bingo players will then mark the singer and song off of their bingo card. With over 45 songs in the hopper, each evening promises to give a varied setlist. Patrons who wish to improve their odds can purchase additional bingo cards and put their or their MET-provided dauber to work while enjoying food and beverages from the concession stand, including candy, chips, beer, wine, hard seltzer, soda and water.

“It’s great to see this event making a comeback based on the enthusiasm and demand from the audiences,” said director Melynda Burdette Wintrol, also MET’s production manager. “With

such a variety of performers and repertoire, each night promises to be original.”

Tickets or tables may be purchased online at marylandensemble.org, by phone at (01-6944744, or in person at the MET. General admission tickets are $40 each and include one show ticket, one bingo card, one bingo dauber and one raffle ticket. Tables for two ($100) and four ($180) include admittance to the event for your party of two or four respectively as well as one bingo card, one dauber, one raffle ticket and one concessions voucher (alcoholic beverages excluded) per person.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the MET, who for over 25 years have been producing theater, family entertainment, artist residency programs for public schools, classes and comedy.

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FILM

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

What to stream this week

NEW MOVIES TO STREAM

— Director J.A. Bayona knows his way around an agonizing survival story. In 2012, he gave audiences a harrowing look at a family’s experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and now he’s back with “Society of the Snow,” about the Uruguayan Air Force Flight that crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. The disaster has been recounted and studied in many books and movies over the years, including Frank Marshall’s 1993 film “Alive.” But Bayona was inspired to take another look after reading Pablo Vierci’s “Society of the Snow.” Bayona has said that he wanted to tell the stories not only of the survivors but of those who didn’t, in a “documentary style.” The Spanish-language film was selected to represent Spain in the Oscars and has been shortlisted for best international film. “Society of the Snow” begins streaming on Netflix on Jan. 4.

Netflix also has Dan Levy’s directorial debut, “Good Grief” coming on Jan. 5. Levy, who also wrote, co-stars alongside Luke Evans, Ruth Negga and Himesh Patel as a widower who has recently lost AP Photo/Ashley Landis his husband and takes his friends to Paris for some Director J. A. Bayona poses for a portrait to promote the film “Society of the Snow” on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, in Los Angeles. soul-searching.

— The Criterion Channel has several treats for January, including a series on cat movies (from “That Darn Cat” to “Inside Llewyn Davis”), an ode to Ava Gardner (including “The Barefoot Contessa” and “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman”) but perhaps the most January of all the collections is James Gray’s New York. The films include his 1994 debut “Little Odessa,” in which Tim Roth plays a hit man who has come back to Brighton Beach and the intoxicating romance “Two Lovers,” with Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow as the beguiling Michelle. And if that wasn’t enough Joaquin for you, they’ll have “The Yards,” “We Own the Night” and “The Immigrant” as well.

— And over on Prime Video are two movies that didn’t get the best reviews, but if you’re intrigued and have an Amazon Prime account they’re there for the sampling. First there is the globetrotting action pic “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” which centers on the charismatic stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback who travel from Brooklyn to Peru. Directed by Steven Caple Jr., it is technically a sequel to “Bumblebee.” There’s also Garth Davis’ “Foe,” a sci-fi psychological thriller with Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal. Both start streaming on Jan. 5.

— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr

NEW SHOWS TO STREAM

Fox is adding some new game shows to its roster in the new year. Rob Lowe executive produces and hosts a new trivia show called “The Floor” beginning Jan. 2 while Anthony Anderson and his mother Doris Bowman co-host the musical “We Are Family” beginning Jan. 3. The latter was originally intended to star Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corinne but the Oscar winner, who experienced an undisclosed medical condition in 2023, will now executive produce.

Both shows will also stream on Hulu.

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AP Photo/Chris Pizzello

Daniel Levy, writer/director of “Good Grief,” as well as a cast member, poses at the premiere of the Netflix film at the Egyptian Theatre, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Los Angeles.

— The acclaimed Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building” comes to broadcast television in early 2024.

The comedy whodunit stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as neighbors in a posh New York apartment building who start their own true crime podcast after another resident is murdered. The first three episodes of season one begin airing on ABC on Tuesday, Jan. 2.

— Season one of NBC’s rebooted “Night Court” ended on a cliffhanger, with the return of original series regular Marsha Warfield in an unexpected spot. Season two, which launches Tuesday and arrives the next day on Peacock, picks up where last season left off. The rebooted show stars series original John Larroquette and Melissa Rauch as the new night court judge.

— Alicia Rancilio

DAVIES (Continued from 9)

repairs medical linear accelerators that fix cancer treatment devices in hospitals. He is also busy being include Tim Powers, author of a husband to his wife, Lizzie, and “On Stranger Tides”; Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert, authors their four daughters, Emma, Aubrey, London and Summer. of the “Dune” prequel series; Davies said his next big project Robert J. Sawyer, author of “The is to get a novel published by a Oppenheimer Alternative”; and traditional publishing house. several others.

“I know that self-publishing is The trip to Hollywood is getting bigger and more successful scheduled for early April. He said and will be more common over time, he’s looking forward to the event, but just as a point of pride — or some especially because the week-long hangover from the days gone by — workshop features well-known sci-fi I just think it’d be awesome to get and fantasy authors. published by one of the Big Five.”

“I just can’t wait to mine their For him, the big prize was having knowledge for everything I can,” he his story published and on a shelf, said. and with the anthology, he’ll do just The win, however, is a little that. And, he said, he’ll continue bittersweet for Davies. He knew writing. winners got the chance to meet his “I’m just gonna keep writing idol, David Farland, but he died in stuff that I enjoy writing, because January 2022. that’s really why I write more than “Part of my determination to anything, because otherwise I’d go win the contest was to meet him nuts.’” in person so that smarts a little,” Crystal Schelle is a journalist Davies said, although he said he did whose work has been published correspond with the author before locally, regionally and nationally. he passed.

She enjoys trivia, cats and streaming When he’s not writing, Davies movies.

Happiest Holidays from the Frederick Arts Council Thank you for supporting the arts in Frederick

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CIVIL WAR hour vortex tour ($200 for the first person, $75 for each additional person) at the trailhead of Courthouse Vista.

It was 8 a.m. and the parking lot was already full.

Dressed in tan pants and tan laceup moccasins with a pale blue shawl wrapped around her shoulders, she walked for a quarter of a mile before stepping off the path. Standing beneath a twisted juniper tree, she spritzed the attendees, including me, with a fragrance she made herself from native plants. She encouraged us to breathe deeply and imagine ourselves rooting into the ground. Then she held a tuning fork over our heads.

The day was beautiful, crisp and bright, but I found it hard to focus.

Whether that’s because of the energy coming from nearby Bell Rock (an electric vortex), the steady stream of other hikers walking by, or the sudden and uncontrollable coughing fit that seized me just then, I leave it to you to decide.

I felt much better after we made our way to another clearing near Courthouse Rock, which is said to be a magnetic vortex. After warning us to be careful not to step on the biodynamic crust that is essential to Sedona’s ecosystem, Sieb spread out blankets on a sandy wash and invited us to lie down for a sound healing.

The sun was warm, but not yet hot, and the ground was more yielding than I expected. Sieb began by hitting a wide flat drum above us that I felt reverberating in my chest. Then she began to gently strike the Tibetan bowls she’d placed around our heads and on our bellies.

As she led us in a meditation, I felt myself relax further and further, maybe more than I ever had. She told us to imagine that the Earth was rising up to meet our bodies just as our bodies were reaching down toward the Earth. That there was iron in the red rock all around us just as there is iron in our blood. That water was moving in pathways beneath the ground where we were lying, just as it moves in pathways through us.

I felt a terrific sense of surrender and merging into the Earth, and a very strong impulse not to move from this spot ever again. Later, I would describe it as “sticky.”

TUNE IN, RELAX I felt this same stickiness that evening, AND SURRENDER watching the sunset at Airport Mesa, Kim Sieb, a former national park and again when I tucked myself into a ranger turned vortex tour guide and crevice at the bottom of Kachina Woman spiritual healer, became the owner of after the other meditators had left. I felt Sedona Mystical Tours in 2020 after it again when I woke up early on my last day in Sedona and watched the sun light the former owner approached her at a trailside parking lot. He had been told by up Cathedral Rock.

Some might say it was the scenery. an astrologer and psychic that she would Some might say I was just tired. Some be his successor. might say it was the vortexes.

On a recent Wednesday she met I say, who knows? three people who signed up for a two-

it to the inspiring greens and reds of the landscape — but he argues that Sedona “I was lying on bare rock, but when I put does not have a monopoly on the phenomenon. my arms down it felt like I was lying on At the weekly vortex talks he gives at six inches of grass because of the energy hotels around town, he teaches visitors shooting up around my arms,” she said.

At the Courthouse vortex (magnetic), not only how to tap into the energy of Sedona’s vortex sites, but also how they Anjuli Mahendra, who teaches yoga can seek that energy closer to their own and massage in the Bay Area, said the homes. “Being inspired by a hillside you energy felt earthy, downward and slow. see or a nature picture can do it,” he “I felt like I was in a womb,” she said.

And then there are people who don’t said. “Pyramidal topography is an upflow vortex. The visual pulls you up.” feel anything at all.

The Hollywood Hills are a vortex, “This isn’t going to work for me,” said Sanders, who grew up in the said a woman from Maryland who San Fernando Valley. So is Griffith declined to give her name, watching Observatory. So are the San Gabriel incredulously as a retreat group Mountains and the Santa Monica engaged in spontaneous movement Mountains. and dance to process the messages “We love having people’s tourist they had received from the vortex at money here,” he said. “But if people Boynton Canyon. “I guess you have to never come to Sedona, they can still be a believer.” have a vortex experience.”

But even as she joked with her While this perspective is not husband about “scrambling the universally accepted among Sedona’s energies” by taking a selfie, she vortex tour guides, many agree that a also marveled at the majesty of the focus on just a handful of sites misses landscape around her — the red rocks the point. carved by the elements over millions Banah Winn, a musician, sound of years, the bright green of the forest healer and vortex guide who moved to below, the expansive blue sky.

Sedona from Los Angeles in May, said “It is beautiful,” she said, the sarcasm draining from her voice. “I’m soaking up there are 60 different vortex sites in Boynton Canyon alone. He’s been to 10. the beauty.”

And while he doesn’t think there are any There are people who will tell you Sedona-level vortexes in L.A., he said the that the energy of Sedona’s vortexes is measurable, that it is amplified by a bed Self-Realization Fellowship’s Lake Shrine of quartz that rests beneath the ground, in the Pacific Palisades comes close.

Andres said that after 18 years of that it can affect your brain waves and leading vortex tours in the area, he has lower your blood pressure, that it is concluded that seeking out a handful of connected to the intersection of ley lines, which are lines of energy that some specific and overly crowded locations believe crisscross the Earth. But an open- will only lead visitors to disappointment.

“They are not going to levitate when minded skeptic might find a different they get there,” he said. take on the vortex easier to swallow.

To get the most out of Sedona, “The word ‘vortex’ is a simplified visitors should expect to take an active one-word label for a place that makes role in the spiritual experience they it easier to do prayer, mind-body hope to have rather than just sitting at healing, meditation, tapping higher the base of a red rock and waiting for a consciousness, or oneness with the miracle, he said. Show up with an open infinite,” said Pete A. Sanders Jr., a founding board member of the Sedona mind; show up with an intention. Do a meditation. Join a retreat.

Metaphysical Spiritual Assn. and author “What’s more interesting to me, of “Scientific Vortex Information.” and what’s happening now, is helping “But it’s easier to say ‘Go to the people connect with this energy,” he vortex,’” he said. said. “Instead of being passive, how can they be intentional?”

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Sanders, who has a trim white beard and a math teacher vibe (he keeps his phone in a case clipped to his belt), has been teaching people to work with vortex energy — what he calls “the vortex effect” — since 1980. But in recent years his perspective on these sites has evolved. He still believes that the conditions in Sedona are among the best in the world for creating the energy that supercharges prayer, meditation and mind-body healing — he attributes

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(Continued from 10) family,” Scanlan-Teller said. “Being a female domestic just didn’t pay very much at all compared to what she could earn taking on the guise of a man and doing a man’s job.”

McIntire said other reasons included escaping abusive family situations, wanting to follow loved-ones into combat, and patriotism.

“They wanted to do something more than sitting at home knitting,” she said.

Guests at their presentations frequently wonder how women were able to disguise themselves as men so effectively as to avoid detection.

They said female soldiers had several factors working in favor of concealing their identities.

For one, the armies didn’t require soldiers to provide identity documents upon enlistment. Most people did not have birth certificates, so demanding formal identification would have been an impractical barrier to recruitment.

Many of the recruits did receive a medical examination, but it was cursory, at best. Doctors did not require soldiers to undress and they mostly checked for three things: good hands, good eyes and steady balance.

McIntire and Scanlan-Teller said the deception of female soldiers was aided the most by 19th-century assumptions about innate gender differences.

They said most men could not fathom that any woman would want to be involved in combat, so they assumed female soldiers were just underdeveloped men.

In describing the service of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a woman who published a book about her time as a Union solider in disguise, her commanding officer wrote, “I readily recall many things which ought to have betrayed her except that no one thought of finding a woman in soldier’s dress.”

Scanlan-Teller said that it’s this type of extraordinary defiance of societal expectations that makes female Civil War Soldiers a worth field of study.

“They defied the social expectations for them in the 19th-century, and they continued to defy them even until women were allowed in combat really recently,” she said. “Although their numbers are small compared to the numbers of men who fought in the Civil War, they’re vastly significant because they were able to do this with all that was set against them.”

Erik Anderson is a freelance writer in Frederick who cares about few things more than the history of his community. Email him at erikanderson07@gmail.com.

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Thursday Jan. 4 CLASSES

Amigurumi Club — noon to 1:30 p.m. at Carroll County Public Library, Mount Airy Branch, 705 Ridge Ave., Mount Airy. For adults. Amigurumi are all the rage. Join us as we talk and crochet our small, or not-sosmall, amigurumi each week. All experience levels are welcome.

410-386-4470. ask@carr.org. ccpl.librarymarket.com.

MUSIC Live Jazz at the Cocktail Lab — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Tenth Ward Distilling Co., 55 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Get swanky with us every Thursday night for live jazz and your favorite craft cocktails. 21 and older.

301-233-4817. monica@tenthwarddistilling.com. tenthwarddistilling.com/events.

Friday Jan. 5 FAMILY

Christmas at the Roundhouse Featuring the Trains of Christmas — noon to 4 p.m. at Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. See the trains of Christmas on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 25. New and revised this year is an N-scale train layout. Three-rail layout on the second floor where kids can conduct and control and trains in O-, N- and HO-scale.

Special train displays include the Midwood Junction layout, Polar Express, and HO layout that features Western Maryland, including a replica of the original Western Maryland Hagerstown Roundhouse. $6 for adults, $1 for ages 4 to 15, free for ages 3 and younger. 301-739-4665. roundhouse.org.

MUSIC Live Music at the Cocktail Lab — 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Tenth Ward Distilling Co., 55 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Every Friday in the Cocktail Lab we’ll be servin’ up our deliciously wild concoctions and some sweet tunes to get your weekend started off right! 21 and older.

301-233-4817. monica@tenthwarddistilling.com. tenthwarddistilling.com/events.

Saturday Jan. 6 CLASSES

Freedom BANG class — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road,

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Walkersville. 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. 21 and older.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

Optimizing Gut Health — 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Common Market Co-op, 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Having a thriving metabolism is key for having healthy and happy digestive functioning. In this course, learn how to empower yourself with several root-cause strategies to support your digestive system and metabolism and their proper functioning. $20-$40. 301-663-3416. aharmon@commonmarket.coop. commonmarket.coop/classes-events/ optimizing-gut-health.

ETCETERA Tour of Reichs Ford Municipal Landfill & Recycling Center — 10 a.m. at Reichs Ford Municipal Landfill, 9031 Reichs Ford Road, Frederick. Learn all about waste — how much we make, how the county manages it, what we can do to decrease it. Meet at the Reichs Ford Municipal Facility and tour the facility, learning how waste is managed, including recycling and composting. Space is limited.

Register at website above.

301-730-3339. kerri.hesley@mdsierra.org. act.sierraclub.org.

FAMILY Christmas at the Roundhouse Featuring the Trains of Christmas — noon to 4 p.m. at Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. See the trains of Christmas on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 25. New and revised this year is an N-scale train layout. Three-rail layout on the second floor where kids can conduct and control and trains in O-, N- and HO-scale.

Special train displays include the Midwood Junction layout, Polar Express, and HO layout that features Western Maryland, including a replica of the original Western Maryland Hagerstown Roundhouse. $6 for adults, $1 for ages 4 to 15, free for ages 3 and younger. 301-739-4665. roundhouse.org.

GALLERY Charitable Art Sale — 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Frederick Arts Council Gallery & Studio Building , Studio #11, Second Floor, 1 N. Market St., Frederick . Paintings, jewelry, photographs and ceramics donated by local artists available for purchase, with funds going to one of seven charities.

2023025179. mjgresalfi@gmail.com. michaelgresalfiart.com.

Sunday Jan. 7 CLASSES

Get Organized for the New Year — 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. If you feel overwhelmed by your clutter and don’t know where to start, this class may be for you!

Carolyn West, professional organizer and owner of Organize Me!, will teach you some basics to get you started on your organizing journey.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

ETCETERA Free Craft Swap at Give Rise Studio — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Give Rise Studio, 125 S. Carroll St., 101, Frederick. You give us your leftover fabric and craft supplies before the event, then anyone can come take free stuff on the day of the event. giverisestudio@gmail.com.

Tea Tasting: Herbs for Winter Wellness — 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at C. Burr Artz library Community Room, 110 E. Patrick St., Frederick.

Alongside herbalists of Fox Haven Farm, learn about building a relationship with herbal teas to support our bodies through the winter season. A tasting of different herbal infusions will be included. frederick.librarycalendar.com.

FAMILY Christmas at the Roundhouse Featuring the Trains of Christmas — noon to 4 p.m. at Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. See the trains of Christmas on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 25. New and revised this year is an N-scale train layout. Three-rail layout on the second floor where kids can conduct and control and trains in O-, N- and HO-scale.

Special train displays include the Midwood Junction layout, Polar Express, and HO layout that features Western Maryland, including a replica of the original Western Maryland Hagerstown Roundhouse. $6 for adults, $1 for ages 4 to 15, free for ages 3 and younger. 301-739-4665. roundhouse.org.

Antietam Station Open House — noon to 4 p.m. at Hagerstown Model RR Museum, Inc. at Antietam Station, 7313 Sharpsburg Pike, Boonsboro. The Hagerstown Model RR Museum Inc. at Antietam Station will open the historic train station in Sharpsburg to the public each Sunday in January featuring several operating train layouts, displays

of railroad history, and wooden trains for kids to play with.

301-964-0469. bblairwilliamson@aol.com. antietamstation.com.

HEALTH

The Healing Circle of Frederick — 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Yogamour Yoga and Healing Arts Center, 1 Wormans Mill Ct., Ste. 11, Frederick. Embark on a transformative journey of healing as our expert practitioners provide session healing practices such as meditation, reiki, reflexology and chair massage.

Free. 301-938-0848. lhwaggy@gmail.com. yogamour.org/workshops.

Monday Jan. 8 CLASSES

Sol Yoga — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville.

Join us for this free yoga class offered by Sol Yoga. Be sure to wear comfortable clothes.

18 and older.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

FAMILY

Memory Lab (by appointment) — at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick. Use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to digital formats you can share and enjoy today! Formats accepted: photographs (up to 8.5 x 11.7 inches), slides, and negatives, VHS, VHS-C and mini-DV cassettes, and audio cassettes. Bring a flash drive or other storage device to save your files. To reserve an appointment, call the Brunswick Branch Library.

301-600-7250. frederick.librarycalendar.com.

Tuesday Jan. 9 CLASSES

Senior Fitness: Chair Yoga — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 South Glade Road, Walkersville. Join Trisha Houston with Sol Yoga as she leads a chair yoga class.

Wear comfortable clothing. Chair and extra mats provided.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

Sticky Resolutions: How to Make Sustainable Change! — 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The Common Market Co-op, 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Do you find yourself making a resolution every year, only to fall short of your

mark? Do you want to break out of bad habits and implement new ways of living? This system will help you achieve your resolution and create a life of possibility.

301-663-3416. aharmon@commonmarket.coop. commonmarket.coop/classes-events/ sticky-resolutions-how-to-make-long-lastingchange.

FAMILY Memory Lab (by appointment) — at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick. Use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to digital formats you can share and enjoy today! Formats accepted: photographs (up to 8.5 x 11.7 inches), slides, and negatives, VHS, VHS-C and mini-DV cassettes, and audio cassettes. Bring a flash drive or other storage device to save your files. To reserve an appointment, call the Brunswick Branch Library.

301-600-7250. frederick.librarycalendar.com.

Wednesday Jan. 10 CLASSES

Harpers Ferry Civil War Round Table program: U.S. Colored Troops in the Shenandoah Valley — 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Camp Hill-Wesley United Methodist Church, 601 W. Washington St., Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The program will feature author-historian Jonathan Noyalas speaking on “By His Aid Was That Flag Preserved: Reflections on U.S. Colored Troops in the Shenandoah Valley.” $20/dinner. 304-433-1260. ccraig@laurellodge.com.

ETCETERA Sensory Program for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Juggling with Theatricks — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 South Glade Road, Walkersville. A juggling presentation from Theatricks. This program is designed for adults with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

Thursday Jan. 11 ETCETERA

Paws to Read with Go Team Therapy Dogs — 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville.

Improve your reading confidence and make a new friend when you read aloud to a Go Team Therapy Dog. All ages.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

FAMILY

other storage device to save your files. To reserve an appointment, call the Brunswick Branch Library.

301-600-7250. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ teen-3d-printing-cookie-cutters-106603.

HEALTH Senior Cafe: The Place to Come for Coffee, Conversation, Friendship and Fun Events! — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville.

Kristin Deely with Frederick Health will talk about signs/symptoms of a heart attack and the importance of seeking care early.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

MUSIC Live Jazz at the Cocktail Lab — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Tenth Ward Distilling Co., 55 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Get swanky with us every Thursday night for live jazz and your favorite craft cocktails. 21 and older.

301-233-4817. monica@tenthwarddistilling.com. tenthwarddistilling.com/events.

Friday Jan. 12 FAMILY

Christmas at the Roundhouse Featuring the Trains of Christmas — noon to 4 p.m. at Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. See the trains of Christmas on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 25. New and revised this year is an N-scale train layout. Three-rail layout on the second floor where kids can conduct and control and trains in O-, N- and HO-scale.

Special train displays include the Midwood Junction layout, Polar Express, and HO layout that features Western Maryland, including a replica of the original Western Maryland Hagerstown Roundhouse. $6 for adults, $1 for ages 4 to 15, free for ages 3 and younger. 301-739-4665. roundhouse.org.

MUSIC Bluegrass Jam — 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Mount Pleasant Ruritan Club, 8101 Crum Road, Walkersville. Open to all levels of acoustic musicians and vocalists. Spectators, families welcome. Sandwiches, snacks and sodas available for purchase. No smoking or swearing. $5 donation at the door requested.

301-788-5570.

Live Music at the Cocktail Lab — 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Tenth Ward Distilling Co., 55 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Every Friday in the Cocktail Lab we’ll be servin’ up our deliciously wild concoctions and some sweet tunes to get your weekend started off right! 21 and older.

301-233-4817. monica@tenthwarddistilling.com. tenthwarddistilling.com/events.

Memory Lab (by appointment) — 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick. Use our equipment to convert your photos and analog home videos to digital formats you can share Saturday Jan. 13 and enjoy today! Formats accepted: photographs (up to 8.5 x 11.7 inches), slides, and CLASSES negatives, VHS, VHS-C and mini-DV cassettes, Invasive Plants — 10 a.m. to noon at Uniand audio cassettes. Bring a flash drive or

versity of Maryland Extension Office, 330 Montevue Lane, Frederick. Find out why non-native plants — especially invasives— are harmful for native birds, butterflies and other pollinators. You will learn to accurately identify and control invasive plants.

301-600-1596. strice@umd.edu. bit.ly/FCMG2024Invasives.

Freedom BANG class — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. 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. 21 and older.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

Baking World Class Sourdough at Home — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at The Common Market Co-op, 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Embark on a culinary journey to master the art of sourdough baking. This comprehensive course will guide you through the intricacies of sourdough starter creation, dough development, shaping techniques and baking methods. $250. 301-663-3416. amandaluciaart@gmail.com. commonmarket.coop/classes-events/ baking-world-class-sourdough-at-home.

Journaling Workshop — 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Discover the power of journaling as a tool for self-discovery, self-expression and personal growth in this immersive workshop brought to you by Fully Bloomed in partnership with the Cowork Frederick Foundation.

Pre-registration required. $45. ainsley@coworkfrederickfoundation.org. coworkfrederickfoundation.org/ journaling-workshop.

ETCETERA

Jigsaw Puzzle and Game Swap — 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Myersville Community Library, 8 Harp Place, Myersville. Bring your gently used puzzles and games to the library to exchange with others! Be sure that all contributions are in good condition and include all pieces.

301-600-8350. rkurtz@frederickcountymd.gov. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ jigsaw-puzzle-and-game-swap-112869.

Christmas at the Roundhouse Featuring the Trains of Christmas — noon to 4 p.m. at Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. See the trains of Christmas on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 25. New and revised this year is an N-scale train layout. Three-rail layout on the second floor where kids can conduct and control and trains in O-, N- and HO-scale.

Special train displays include the Midwood Junction layout, Polar Express, and HO layout that features Western Maryland, including a replica of the original Western Maryland Hagerstown Roundhouse. $6 for adults, $1 for ages 4 to 15, free for ages 3 and younger. 301-739-4665. roundhouse.org.

FILM “Best of Enemies” National Theater Live — 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Shepherdstown Opera House, 131 W. German St., Shepherdstown, W.Va. From the UK’s National Theater Live, filmed live in London’s West End, presented by the Shepherdstown Opera House in collaboration with the Contemporary American Theater Festival. Recommended for adult audiences. $18 standard/$15 seniors/student. 304-8763704. Contact@OperaHouseLive.com. shepherdstownoperahouse.

MUSIC Marie Osmond in Concert with Special Guest David Osmond — 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Maryland Theatre, 21 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown. Marie Osmond has spent over 6 decades entertaining millions around the world through the medium of records, television, Broadway, talk show host, dancer, actor, author, commercial spokesperson, entrepreneur and public speaker. Throughout the years she remains an instantly recognizable and successful figure across the globe. $70, $80, $90, $100, $110, $130 and $155.

301-790-2000. publicist2023@gmail.com. mdtheatre.org.

THEATER

The Potomac Playmakers Presents Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” — 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Potomac Playmaker’s Performing Arts Center, 17303 W. Washington St., Hagerstown.

Three performances Jan. 13, 3-5 p.m. and 8 to10 p.m.; and Jan. 14 at 3-5 p.m. Directed

by Caitlin Cutright. Play follows the misadFAMILY ventures of four young lovers, a group of Children’s Museum at the Library — 10 aspiring actors, and a team of mischievous a.m. to 5 p.m. at Brunswick Branch Library, fairies as they all enter the woods outside 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick. Enjoy the fun Athens, America, in the 1970s, on a summer activities and exhibits of a children’s museum night. The ensuing hilarity and chaos create at the library ... free of charge! an evening filled with love and laughter.

301-600-7250.

This is a family friendly event. Wear your ‘70s frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ vintage to flaunt your vibe. Tickets for all teen-3d-printing-cookie-cutters-106603. performances are $18 (group discounts of 10 or more available).

Learn Circus Skills — 11 a.m. to noon at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., $18. 240-513-6260. potomacplaymakers@gmail.com.

Brunswick. Enjoy a circus show with Theatricks Circus Experience of Frederick, followed potomacplaymakers.org/get-tickets. by hands-on lessons to learn juggling, plate spinning and other circus skills. Designed for all ages.

Sunday Jan. 14 301-600-7250.

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Swap Meet and Vendor Expo — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Steinhardt Brewing Company, 5710 Jefferson Blvd., Frederick. Past brides and artisans will be on hand to clear out inventory and sell wedding-related goods and decor. We’ll also be mixing in some of your favorite vendors for those still in the planning phase.

240-626-6639. info@nevermoreevents.com. nevermoreweddingsandevents.com/ events/something-old-something-new.

MUSIC

Southern Maryland Bluegrass — 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Calvert Elks Lodge #2620, 1015 Dares Beach Road, Prince Frederick.

Bluegrass concert featuring Lonesome River Band. $23. 301-737-3004. jaychelle1@verizon.net. somdbluegrass.com.

Calvary UMC Community Concert Series - Romantic, Impressionist, and Jazz Music for Harp and Piano — 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Pet Therapy Orientation — 1 p.m. to 3 at Calvary United Methodist Church, 131 p.m. at William R. Talley Rec Center, 121 N. Bentz St., Frederick. A local pet therapy W. Second St., Frederick. Award-winning organization provides therapy services to international musicians Dr. Iraida Poberenursing homes, Frederick Health Hospital, zhnaya, harpist, and Dr. Ildar Khannanov, elementary schools and libraries with the pianist, will perform music from the romantic, romantic-contemporary, impressionist, and R.E.A.D. program. Learn how you and jazz eras. your pet can become a team and make a 301-662-1464. office@calvaryumc.org. difference in the lives of others. The orienCalvaryUMC.org/concerts. tation is for people only — no pets. RSVP required due to limited space.

THEATER bonniej409@comcast.net.

The Potomac Playmakers Presents Shakewagsforhope.org. speare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” — 3 Second Sunday Tree Walk with the p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Potomac Playmaker’s Frederick County Forestry Board — 1 Performing Arts Center, 17303 W. Washingp.m. to 3 p.m. at City of Frederick, Rec ton St., Hagerstown. Three performances Center or Pergola, City of Frederick. Guid- Jan. 13, 3-5 p.m. and 8 to10 p.m.; and Jan. ed tour with the Frederick County Forestry 14 at 3-5 p.m. Directed by Caitlin Cutright.

Board. Learn how to identify common Play follows the misadventures of four young local trees and hear fun facts about each lovers, a group of aspiring actors, and a team on a tour with the board’s expert guides. of mischievous fairies as they all enter the Registration required. Free. 301-473woods outside Athens, America, in the 1970s, 8417. on a summer night. The ensuing hilarity sonia@demirayink.com. and chaos create an evening filled with love frederick.forestryboard.org/tree-walk. and laughter. This is a family friendly event.

Wear your ‘70s vintage to flaunt your vibe.

FAMILY Tickets for all performances are $18 (group discounts of 10 or more available).

Christmas at the Roundhouse Featuring $18. 240-513-6260. the Trains of Christmas — noon to 4 p.m. potomacplaymakers@gmail.com. at Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum, 296 potomacplaymakers.org/get-tickets.

S. Burhans Blvd., Hagerstown. See the trains of Christmas on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Feb. 25. New and Monday Jan. 15 revised this year is an N-scale train layout.

Three-rail layout on the second floor where ETCETERA kids can conduct and control and trains in O-, N- and HO-scale. Special train displays Frederick Death Cafe Virtual Meeting — 7 include the Midwood Junction layout, p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Via Zoom, . Can’t make Polar Express, and HO layout that features it in person? Join us via Zoom! We get parWestern Maryland, including a replica of ticipants from all over the country that want the original Western Maryland Hagerstown to talk about a variety of topics surrounding Roundhouse. death - from green burial options to medical $6 for adults, $1 for ages 4 to 15, free for aid in dying. ages 3 and younger. 301-739-4665. frederickdeathcafe@gmail.com. roundhouse.org. facebook.com/FrederickDeathCafe.

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Door & Window

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1 DETAILS OF OFFER: Offer expires 1/27/2024. Not valid with other offers or prior purchases. Buy one (1) window or entry/patio door, get one (1) window or entry/patio door 40% off, and 12 months no money down, no monthly payments, no interest when you purchase four (4) or more windows or entry/patio doors between 1/1/2024 and 1/27/2024. 40% off windows and entry/patio doors are less than or equal to lowest cost window or entry/patio door in the order. Additional $250 off your purchase, minimum purchase of four (4) required, taken after initial discount(s), when you purchase by 1/27/2024. Military discount applies to all active duty, veterans and retired military personnel. Military discount equals $300 off your entire purchase and applies after all other discounts, no minimum purchase required. Subject to credit approval. Interest is billed during the promotional period, but all interest is waived if the purchase amount is paid before the expiration of the promotional period. Financing for GreenSky® consumer loan programs is provided by federally insured, federal and state chartered financial institutions without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, or familial status. Savings comparison based on purchase of a single unit at list price. Available at participating locations and offer applies throughout the service area. See your local Renewal by Andersen location for details. MHIC #121441. VA License #2705155684. DC License #420215000125.

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