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City Carillonneur John Widmann

by whom the bells are tolled

BEYOND LISBON: A boulder-strewn village, screeching seabirds and sheep: Taking Portugal’s roads less traveleds PAGE 10

WARM AND FUZZY: Picture-

book illustration exhibit will delight readers of all ages PAGE 9

FAMILIAR FICTION: Harpers Ferry writer pens short story collection ‘The Spirit in my Shoes’ PAGE 17

INSIDE THIS WEEK

UnCapped................................................. 4 Signature Dish........................................ 5 Music............................................................6 Theater.......................................................8 Family..........................................................9 Getaways.................................................10 Art ..............................................................12 Cover story..............................................14 Film ............................................................16 Books........................................................17 Classifieds ............................................... 18 Calendar .................................................. 20

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PUBLISHER Geordie Wilson EDITOR Lauren LaRocca llarocca@newspost.com REVENUE DIRECTOR Connie Hastings CALENDAR EDITOR Sue Guynn sguynn@newspost.com On the cover: John Widmann is the carillonneur at the Joesph D. Baker Tower in Baker Park.

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ICYMI: “LAST NIGHT AT TERRACE LANES” IS STREAMING ON APPLE TV

The comedy horror flick “Last Night at Terrace Lanes” premiered at Warehouse Cinemas on Jan. 14 to a sold-out theater. The film was shot at Terrace Lanes bowling alley in Frederick after it closed and is directed by Frederick-based Jamie Nash, with Ed Sanchez serving as executive producer. If you missed it on the big screen, catch it on the little one; the film is available to stream on Apple TV beginning this week.

ANIME IN ALL WAYS

It’s an anime explosion up in Westminster with the Carroll County Arts Council exhibition “Arigato” and the Arigato Film Fest, which celebrate anime through visual art, film and music. The exhibition will remain on display through Feb. 24, and the two-day film fest will be on Jan. 27 and 28, complete with lots of special activities like an Artists Alley, a Pokémon Tournament and artistic vendors selling artwork onsite.

MOUNTAINFILM ON TOUR

‘Tis the season for film. Mountainfilm on Tour will return to Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater for one night only on Jan. 19. The program showcases stories about environmental, cultural, climbing, political and social justice issues.

This year’s event includes two hours of documentary shorts on farming and sustainability, highlining, activism, surfing, climbing, ecology, conservation and polar bears.

FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES: “CHILDHOOD FAVORITES”

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown is showing a unique exhibition through March 17 titled “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustrations,” featuring original drawings and illustrations from some of our most beloved children’s books. Artists include Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Mo Willems and David Wisiniewksi, among others. Organizers were delighted to see not just children but adults inspired by the show, which opened in November. Stop by to take it in, create some artwork of your own inside the gallery space, or catch one of the upcoming special programs that coincides with the show.

ISO LEAP DAY BABIES!

Dear readers, we are looking for the Leap Day babies among you for a special feature this year. If you or someone you know is interested in being interviewed about this very unique birthday, please email llarocca@newspost.com.

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UNCAPPED UNCAPPED

Joyhound Brewing in Baltimore In this episode of the UnCapped podcast, host Chris Sands talks with Jamie and Alfred Rotimi, co-founders of Joyhound Brewing Co., about Alfred’s path to wanting to open a brewery, the history of the Joyhound brand, what the future holds and their dedication to accessibility and inclusion and their crowd funding campaign on Mainvest. Here is an excerpt of their talk.

UnCapped: Let’s give a rundown of who you are and what Joyhound is.

Alfred Rotimi: Joyhound is a premium craft beer brand based out of Baltimore. I am the founder and founded this with the support and help of my family. Currently my recipes get produced under contract. I’ve been a home brewer for about 10 years now. We distribute throughout Maryland and D.C. UnCapped: Your family is pretty involved in the Joyhound brand in some aspect, even just as a cheerleader for you, right?

Rotimi: Yes, definitely on the back side, the operations side, my family is really heavily involved. Whenever we have a new project coming up or some major decision to make, that’s done as a team. The day-to-day basis is really me as a one-man show. I do the logistics, marketing, selling and delivery by myself, but it’s definitely a family company.

UnCapped: And you’re dedicated to Joyhound full-time, correct?

Rotimi: Yes. UnCapped: How did you get into home brewing?

Rotimi: When I was a senior in college, I saw one of my friends doing a Mr. Beer porter kit, and it was just the coolest thing in the world to me, being able to combine science, technology, creativity, a little bit of culinary expression — all that. And then you get beer at the end. Who wouldn’t be excited about that?

It was just a natural fit for me, because my background is in science. I studied biochemistry, neuroscience and psychology, and I already had a huge culinary streak to me. I’ve been cooking my whole life.

I think it’s the way I express myself artistically the best. Combining those desires with the fact that I really wanted to be my own boss and start my own company, that’s how I got into brewing and then to starting 4 | Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 | 72 HOURS

this is supposed to be fun. It’s not supposed to be super serious.

UnCapped: How has the business been going? What has changed for you since we last JOYHOUND talked?

Rotimi: joyhoundbeercompany.com Reception has been great. We’ve increased our footprint — we’re in Total Wine now.

UnCapped: That’s awesome.

That’s a big deal. Are you in all locations?

Rotimi: We’re in both locations in Maryland.

UnCapped: Are you still in Maryland exclusively?

Rotimi: You’ll also see our stuff in D.C. from time to time. It’s a lot to manage as one person right now.

UnCapped: Until you have a taproom, that’s really the main way you can introduce your brand to people. How often are you out in the market doing tastings?

Rotimi: I’m doing tastings every Friday and Saturday.

UnCapped: So a lot.

Rotimi: Yeah.

UnCapped: That’s gotta keep you pretty busy. Do you have a warehouse somewhere, or is it all warehoused by your contract brewer?

Rotimi: We have our own location.

We pick up our stuff, take it to our Chris Sands spot, and self-distribute it from there.

UnCapped: How many different to take a different path in life. beers are you offering now?

UnCapped: So, passion.

Rotimi: We have three products Rotimi: Yes. available. The Tailwagger Golden Ale UnCapped: I think that’s good, — super crisp, super refreshing, cool because I think there’s a very clear fermented to help it be more easy difference between breweries that drinking. have been founded by people who We’ve also got Foggy just thought it was a way to make Chesapeake. That’s our best-seller, money, as opposed to being really Joyhound Beer Company. with the snow goose flying over the passionate about brewing beer and UnCapped: What made you Bay Bridge. It’s got tangerine, lime, building a community around the decide to go into the beer world lemon, little bit of Indian coriander, brewery. instead of the lucrative fields that you very citrusy, juicy, and very smooth, Rotimi: I believe that also. Beer studied in college? especially for a double IPA. has to be fun, and when someone is Rotimi: When you get out into Our newest beer is Plum Power having fun brewing and presenting the world, it’s different than when Sour, a sour ale fermented with plum new beers — that reaction they get you’re studying a college subject. puree — very tart, very bright, with a when someone tastes it and tells After a few years of doing research nice, gentle plum flavor. them, “This is great,” and it makes science, my respect for people who This excerpt has been edited them feel all warm and fuzzy inside do that has increased tremendously. for space and clarity. Listen to the — that’s what I get. That’s one of the But it just wasn’t the lifestyle for me. It reasons why we picked the name full podcast at fnppodcasts.com/ wasn’t fulfilling the things I thought it Joyhound. It’s light and playful. uncapped. Got UnCapped news? was going to. I just figured I needed We hope everyone remembers Email csands@newspost.com.

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Juliet’s Italian Market & Cafe

ore than 15 years ago, Juliet Kaufman was a regular customer at the small Italian market on Church Street in downtown Frederick.

The previous owner’s wife was ill, Kaufman recalled, and he wasn’t able to work as much as he had hoped to when he’d opened the Frederick store a short time before. He used to joke with Kaufman that she should buy the place.

“I’m like, ‘Dude, I’m not Italian — what are you talking about?’”

Kaufman, who is from the Philippines, remembers saying.

“He said, ‘This is America. You can be anything you want.’”

The owner persisted. At first, Kaufman laughed it off. But eventually, she made an offer.

“He said, ‘Yeah, it’s yours,’” she recalled.

Flash forward nearly 17 years, and Juliet’s Italian Market and Cafe is a beloved spot for sandwiches, salads, pantry items, Italian treats and more.

Kaufman had worked in restaurants before purchasing the market, and she loved to cook, but she very wasn’t familiar with Italian cuisine. She said she taught herself over the years and developed her own menu. She relied on YouTube to learn how to make homemade mozzarella, which she still whips up every day.

“The first few times it was terrible,” she said. “After a week, then I got it right.”

Kaufman also sells homemade lasagna and tiramisu. It’s a regular stop for many longtime customers, she said.

“We have the same customers every day,” she said.

“As soon as they walk in the door, we know what they want.”

— Jillian Atelsek

Staff photos by Katina Zentz

ABOVE: The interior space of Juliet’s Italian Market in Frederick.

BELOW: The muffaleta, a sandwich with cured meats, olive salad and homemade mozzarella, is displayed at Juliet’s Italian Market in Frederick.

JULIET’S ITALIAN MARKET & CAFE 9 E. Church St., Frederick 301-620-0077 julietsitalianmarketandcafe.com Facebook: facebook.com/JulietsMarketandCafe Instagram: @julietsitalianmarket Price: Sandwiches and salads range from $10 to $12.

Owner Juliet Kaufman recommends: The muffuletta, a sandwich made with mortadella, ham, capicola, salami and provolone, plus mozzarella cheese and a marinated olive salad, both made in-house. The olive salad includes olives, celery, pickled vegetables, olive oil, vinegar and capers.

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WINTER SONGS

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Classic rock favorites to celebrate the dark season

inter is upon us once again, and 12. “SNOWBOUND” unlike my friends to the south, Genesis I love it — the chill of the air and Lovely ballad about (somehow!) a the heat of the fireplace. peaceful death out in the cold.

I suspect many of you feel the same.

“Lay your body down upon the midTo me, real winter begins right after the night snow, feel the cold of winter in your holidays. I don’t even consider December to be part of winter. hair, here in a world of your own, in a casOn Jan. 2, family get-togethers, all the ing that’s grown.” anticipation, celebrations and sparkle of the holiday sea13. “MY DECEMBER” son are gone. We Linkin Park are left with two full Sad story about missing home. months (or more) “This is my December, these are my of persevering and snow-covered dreams, this is me pretendseeing what we are ing this is all I need.” made of.

And it’s absolute14. “WINTERTIME LOVE” ly invaluable.

Gordon Lightfoot The Doors There’s someCourtesy photo A plea for love and warmth in the cold thing about winter season. that toughens us GARY BENNETT and opens our eyes take notice of one more love that’s failed?”

“Wintertime winds blow cold to seaJohnny Mercer lyrics contemplating to myriad possibilities. We buckle down. son, fallin’ in love, I’m hopin’ to be. Wind the pain of growing old and of reliving We work hard. We don’t worry about va- 3. “CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’” is so cold, is that the reason? Keeping you lost love. cations. Days are short. Time is of the eswarm, your hands touching me.”

“I should be over it now, I know. It The Mamas & the Papas sence. When we accomplish something, doesn’t matter much how old I grow, I Longing for the warmth of LA during a particularly outdoors, we feel good about 15. “SNOWBIRD” hate to see October go.” cold winter in New York City. ourselves. We feel like we can’t be deAnne Murray “All the leaves are brown and the sky terred.

8. “WINTERLONG” Peppy song about yearning for youth is gray. I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s But there can be a melancholy about in the twilight of life. day.”

Neil Young winter, too. There’s an overabundance of “Beneath this snowy mantle, cold and Waiting and yearning for your love for darkness. The other three seasons seem clean, the unborn grass lies waiting for its a very long time. long ago and far away. Unfortunately, Sea- 4. “A WINTER’S TALE” “I waited for you winterlong. You seem coat to turn to green. The snowbird sings Queen sonal Affective Disorder (SAD) can rear its the song he always sings.”

Not the same tune as the Moody Blues to be where I belong. It’s all illusion anyugly head with some folks, causing mental way.” song above, but Freddie Mercury singand physical ailments.

16. “WINTER” Still, if you can, try to embrace the sea- ing gorgeously of life and beauty as both 9. “WINTER” son. Embrace the cold. Embrace the mel- wind down.

The Rolling Stones “It’s winter-fall, red skies are gleaming, ancholy. Spring will come in fits and starts, U2 Bemoans the realities of the season seagulls are flyin’ over, swans are floatin’ and everything will be renewed again.

Describes a person’s crisis of faith. and hopes for spring love.

Here are my top 17 classic rock songs by, smoking chimney-tops.”

“Rhymes they sprang in me, summer “And it’s sure been a cold, cold winter, about winter (or set in the winter) to help sang in me, but summer sings in me no and the wind ain’t been blowin’ from the get you through, nee, celebrate, the sea- 5. “A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER” more.” south. It’s sure been a cold, cold winter, son. and a lotta love is all burned out.”

Simon and Garfunkel 10. “WINTER SONG” Quintessential pop tune contemplat1. “SONG FOR A WINTER’S 17. “WINTER SONG” ing the passing of the seasons with a foChris Rea cus on winter.

A heartwarming song trying to explain NIGHT” Bruce Springsteen “But look around: Leaves are brown the rapture of true love when it’s cold outSlow, moody “acquired-taste” song Gordon Lightfoot now, and the sky is a hazy shade of winter.” side. that drips with sexual innuendo cloaked in Warm, caring loner holed up in his “If I put my arms around you, turn seasonal comparisons. cabin, longing for an absent love.

6. “COLD” you in from the storm, from your au“Summer’s sweet, and she brings me “The lamp is burnin’ low upon my tatumn through winter, darling I’ll keep you water, but give me winter, that old, icy Annie Lennox ble top, the snow is softly falling, the air is warm.”

Song explores longing, isolation and whore. Summer lies meek and follows orstill in the silence of my room, I hear your heartbreak — the cold realities of life. voice softly calling.” ders. Winter cries, “Me!” — and pulls you 11. “ASPENGLOW” “Cold is the color of crystal, the snow through the door.” light, that falls from the heavenly skies.

2. “A WINTER’S TALE” Gary Bennett is a longtime Frederick John Denver Catch me and let me dive under, for I want The wonder of glowing, snowy moun- resident who spends his time hiking, bikThe Moody Blues to swim in the pools of your eyes.” ing, volunteering and providing childcare taintops at dawn and dusk.

Sweet, poignant song about losing a “As the winter days unfold, hearts grow for grandchildren. He is married and relove but taking it well.

7. “WHEN OCTOBER GOES” warmer with the cold. Peace of mind is all tired from his career as a nonprofit market“It was only a winter’s tale, just another winter’s tale, and why should the world Barry Manilow ing executive. you know, winter’s gold, Aspenglow.”

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Anime art exhibit and film festival features work inspired by Japanese pop culture Celebrate anime in all its forms this winter with the Carroll County Arts Council exhibition “Arigato,” on display in the Tevis Gallery through Feb. 24.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the arts council will host the Arigato Film Fest Weekend at the Carroll Arts Center on Jan. 27 and 28, featuring films, vendors and special activities.

The stunning collection of anime artwork featured in “Arigato” is inspired by various animated Japanese television shows, movies and comic books. This signature animation style has grown to have enormous popularity across the globe.

Created by both established and emerging local artists, the pieces in the show span various mediums, including traditional paintings, digital illustrations and cosplay costumes.

Inspiration is taken from anime works such as the classic TV series “Pokémon,” Hayao Miyazaki’s film “Spirited Away” and manga series “Sailor Moon.”

The Arigato Film Fest Weekend will be a jam-packed, two-day festival featuring films, vendors, a concert, a Pokémon Tournament and more.

On Jan. 27, Tables and Towers will host an all-ages tournament beginning at 11 a.m. Play for up to $150 worth of prizes. Participants receive one free ticket to one of the weekend’s films. Registration is $5 and will be done onsite.

The Brendan Brady Quartet will perform the music of “Cowboy Bebop,” the award-winning late’90s space Western anime series, at 3 p.m. With a lineup led by Baltimore drummer, educator and composer Brendan Brady, the band leads audiences through the rhythmic, angular twists and turns of the jazz-based “Cowboy Bebop” soundtrack. Originally composed

by Yoko Kanno, Brady reimagines iconic songs through the language of jazz, interpreting, transforming and performing a musical conversation with one of the most beloved anime soundtracks of all time.

The “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu” (rated PG) screening will begin at 5 p.m.

Courtesy photo

“Weathering With You” will screen during Arigato Film Fest Weekend in Westminster.

On Jan. 28, a Build-A-Shield Workshop will begin at 2 p.m. Learn how to create a small foam shield with cosplay artist Candice Berger. Preregistration is required via the CCAC website for $20.

The “Weathering with You” screening will begin at 5 p.m.

Both days will also feature an Artists Alley from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Community Gallery featuring artisans with anime and pop culture-themed wares for sale. The Blowfish Poke & Grill food truck will also be parked in front of the Arts Center both days from noon to 6 p.m.

Tickets to the film screenings are $8 for adults and $6 for seniors age 60 and up and students age 25 and under. The “Arigato” exhibition is free.

The Carroll Arts Center is t 91 W. Main St., Westminster. Learn more at carrollcountyartscouncil.org, or call 410-848-7272.

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THEATER

Way Off Broadway kicks off 30th anniversary season with Agatha Christie’s ‘A Murder is Announced’ The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre will begin its 30th anniversary season with a classic murder mystery from the Queen of Mysteries, Agatha Christie. The season will kick off with “A Murder is Announced” on Jan. 19.

The whodunnit will continue its run in Frederick through March 2.

In the play, an announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s home in the English village of Chipping Cleghorn. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns.

Fortunately, Miss Marple is on

hand to provide the solution — at some risk to herself — in a dramatic final confrontation.

“A Murder is Announced” was first published in 1950 and was the fourth novel featuring the amateur sleuth Jane Marple. In 1956, NBC’s Goodyear Playhouse presented a TV adaption starring Gracie Fields as Miss Marple, Roger Moore as Patrick Simmons, and Jessica Tandy as Letitia Blacklock.

Another TV adaptation came in 1984 as part of the popular BBC series Miss Marple, starring Joan Hickson as Marple.

The stage version of “A Murder is Announced” premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, in 1977 before transferring to the Vaudeville

Theatre in London later that year.

Way Off Broadway’s production of “A Murder is Announced” brings together a cast who, in large part, appeared together in the theater’s production of another Christie mystery in 2022, “Murder on the Orient Express.”

The cast includes Jessica Billones as Letitia Blacklock, Betsey Whitmore Brannen as Bunny, Amy Cajigas as Mitzi, Brian D. Kaider as Inspector Craddock, Bill Kiska as Sergeant Mellors, Pam Neely as Mrs. Swettenham, Laura Hepp Saunders as Phillipa, Wil Spaeth as Edmund, Randy Stull as Patrick and Megan Elizabeth West as Julia. Taking on the role of the iconic amateur detective is Hannah Pecoraro as Miss Marple.

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“A Murder is Announced” is based on Agatha Christie’s novel of the same name and was adapted for the stage by Leslie Darbon. Justin M. Kiska, one of the theater’s owners and a mystery writer himself, directs the production.

“A Murder is Announced” runs Jan. 19 through March 2, with performances are every Friday and Saturday evening, and matinees on the first, third and fifth Sunday of each month. Tickets on Friday evenings are $56, Saturday evenings are $60, and Sunday afternoons are $59 per person.

Tickets may be purchased by calling 301-662-6600. A performance calendar can be found at wayoffbroadway.com.

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Picture-book illustration exhibit will delight readers of all ages

Special to The News-Post

It was an unusual scene for an art museum. Against the backdrop of a large treehouse mural, under leafy twinkle lights and seated on a carpet of faux grass, adult visitors sat reading beloved classic children’s books.

Earlier that day, the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown had hosted an official storytime for children in celebration of the opening of their new exhibition, “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustrations.” When Sarah Wolfe, manager of exhibitions and collections, returned later, she found that the whimsical corner of the exhibit had attracted not children but adults.

“There were all of these adults sitting on the floor, with no children around, reading these books that had meant so much to them when they were children,” Wolfe recalled. “That was really wonderful to not only engage children but to engage people of all ages, to reignite their imagination.”

The “Childhood Favorites” exhibition, which runs through March 17, consists of 140 illustrations taken from 62 illustrators beginning in 1915. Prior to that, the picture book as a genre was just taking shape. As the exhibition notes, the earliest children’s books were more instructive and intended to bring moral or religious instruction to children.

“It wasn’t really until ‘Alice in Wonderland’ came out in the 1860s that a book for [children] — just to spring their imagination — was created, and that started to move forward,” Wolfe said.

By the early 1900s, children’s literature shifted to become more imaginative storytelling and illustrations.

The exhibition not only chronicles the evolution of picture book illustrations over the 20th century but includes a breadth of art forms, every one original in some way. Among the works represented are signed crayon drawings from Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter characters printed from the original printing blocks Potter used in 1902, and the digitally created art of Mo Willems.

Some of the most extraordinary in the collection were created by David Wisniewski, who worked in an unusual medium: elaborate collages made with cut paper. “He actually had a career in circuses and making backgrounds for puppets, and so when he left that field, he took that art and changed it over into

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“CHILDHOOD FAVORITES: 100 YEARS OF CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS” When: Through March 17 Where: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown Tickets: Free Info: 301-739-5727, wcmfa.org ••• UPCOMING PROGRAMMING • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 20 — Children‘s Interfaith Day. Hagerstown Area Religious Council will bring a day of hands-on art making, storyboard writing and gallery activities for kids with inspiration from “Childhood Favorites.”

• 6 p.m. Feb. 15 — Let’s Talk Art about Childhood Favorites, via Zoom. Free. Register in advance. al connections with artists Maurice Sendak, Jerry Pinkne and Garth Williams, who were able to provide original proofs.

This sort of publication material, Wolfe said, is often thrown out by publishers afCourtesy of WCMFA ter publication, but the collectors were set to preserve all they could. Cohen and “Mrs. Jenkins’ Class,” by Rosemary Wells.

Sarkisian’s collection grew over the years, illustration and a prompt to “create your containing representation and characown character.” Wolfe noted that the ters from some of the most beloved chilspace has facilitated collaboration bedren’s books of the past century. tween generations. Rather than an activiThe collectors spotted value in an ofty to entertain the children, while parents ten previously overlooked niche in the take in the show, “the parents are actually art word. sitting with them and doing illustrations “Illustration has not always been and talking about what they want to do viewed as a serious or more legitimate and illustrate with their kids.” art form,” Wolfe said.

While the interactive elements and Not only has the “Childhood Favorseveral other educational features were ites” show honored illustrations as an art created by WCMFA staff and unique to form, but it has managed to create a conthis exhibition, the collection is a part of a traveling show with Landau Traveling Ex- nection that spans generations.

Courtesy of WCMFA Visitors will find that as they peruse hibitions. Collectors Lee Cohen and Lois the show, it is a childhood reunion of old Sarkisian, who are also husband and wife, “Off For A Run,” by Felicia Bond, from “If You friends that have lived in the imagination curated the collection.

They are quoted Give a Mouse a Cookie.” and on the pages of beloved children’s in the exhibition describing the origins childhood books,” Wolfe said. “That can of their picture book art collecting: “One books.

Erin Jones is a freelance writer, former show our younger visitors that it’s not al- night while reading a book to our son, humanities teacher and owner of Galways your traditional mediums that you we realized that we were not only entervanize & Grow Copywriting. She holds can use.” taining our child, we were reconnecting a BA in English from Hood College, Exhibition organizers created spaces with one of our first loves: the narrative within the show for visitors to read some art of children’s books. We began to real- and and MA in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, through which of these cherished books, as well as cre- ize that … it starts with the picture … the she studied literature at Middlebury ate illustrations of their own. Tucked in art of literature is the primal experience one corner is a coffee table spread with to us all. It’s what starts us on our lifetime College and Oxford University. Learn more at erinjoneswriter.com, or follow paper and colored pencils. A sign on the of reading experiences.” her on Instagram @ErinJonesWriter. table provides instruction about the art of Cohen and Sarkisian had person72 HOURS | Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024 | 9

GETAWAYS

Taking Portugal’s roads less traveled

BY KRISTEN DE GROOT

the road, observed only by an orange cat, and entered Óbidos literally through the back door. Were we doing As we steered our rented something wrong? Would our car hatchback up the narrow gravel road get towed? The answer was no, and behind the walled city of Óbidos, we no. What did happen was we found had the sinking feeling that Google ourselves at the top of the walled city, Maps’ idea of the best route to the near a few raptor handlers sitting with popular tourist destination wasn’t the their owls, hawks and falcons under a standard way there, and certainly not wooden structure, and remarkably few the most direct. other tourists.

The dusty, tan path was wending The goal for our very first trip to past apple, pear and sour cherry Portugal was to find smaller cities, orchards, which then transformed into mountain villages and activities that vineyards, then back again to orchards wouldn’t mean standing in long as we climbed. The gap-toothed lines with other tourists. Our digital ramparts loomed in the distance to navigator led us down ancient Roman our right and ahead, a stereotype of a roads, footpaths, and narrow cobbled castle that a child would draw: vertical city streets as we explored a more or rectangle, horizontal line, vertical less scalene triangle-shaped portion rectangle, horizontal line. A dog of Portugal this fall, traveling from barked from somewhere down the hillside, and as we reached the walls of Lisbon to Porto to Monsanto to Evora and back to Lisbon. the old city, our car wheels started to spin out.

FAMOUS BRANDY “Well, you wanted to get off the Choosing to stay inland before beaten path,” my husband said. heading to the island of Berlenga “You’re here.” led us to Lourinhã, where we stayed We parked the car on the side of Associated Press

in a converted ancient windmill and discovered the region’s famous brandy. As the only visitors to the facility that day, we were treated to a private tour of Adega Cooperativa da Lourinhã, one of only three demarcated brandy regions in Europe, the others being Armagnac and Cognac. The English-language guide and her school-age son gave us a spin around the aging barrels, and the women in the packaging department let us dip bottles of what they call aguardente into red wax to seal them.

We next ventured via ferry to the island of Berlenga, about 10 km (6.2 miles) off the fishing village of Peniche. It’s a pink chunk of granite jutting out of the turquoise-toemerald-green waters of the Atlantic, home to a vast array of seabirds.

Most visitors come in the morning and leave in the early evening, but we decided to overnight there. The handful of rooms available offer exquisite views of the water, with schools of fish visible even from high above — a dreamy sunset viewing spot.

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After swimming in the bracing water at the main beach, where a snorkeler showed an octopus to a group of screeching 20-something Dutch men, we enjoyed a sparkling sangria and Sagres beer, soaking in the views and waiting for our fellow tourists to leave for the day.

Then, the island was transformed.

Only a small group of local fishermen and the occupants of two other rooms at the inn could be found. As we settled into bed, night birds were just revving up. When the proprietor told us we would hear some birdsong in the night, I imagined they would sound like the adorable coqui in Puerto Rico. Instead, it was somewhat like a toddler screaming “Ow, ow, ow, ow, owowowowowowowow!” while standing by our bedside, all night long.

Being awake at the crack of dawn after a night of screeching birds had its benefits, though. We spent the morning hiking to the 17th century fort at the opposite side of the island, down a path lined with tiny succulents and bright yellow flowers.

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Leaving Monsanto for Evora, we made a quick stop in Idanhaa-Velha, one of the oldest towns in Portugal, once prosperous and bustling with a long Roman history but now home to a population of a few dozen. It boasts a ruin of a Knights Templar tower, Roman city gate and walls, and a ghost town vibe.

We then descended into the Alentejo region, passing vineyard after vineyard. Cork trees dotted the vast grassland, and cows and sheep took in the shade beneath them.

We stopped in Arraiolos, known for its hand-knitted rugs, and nodded at the women sitting and knitting outside their whitewashed homes.

In Evora, we opted for the sittingand-eating type of tourism rather than the walking-around-exploring brand. We did take a journey up to the Temple of Diana and stood in line for the (somewhat creepy) chapel containing the bones of an estimated 5,000 people, including A VILLAGE BUILT Franciscan monks, that were AMONG BOULDERS plucked from cemeteries.

We arrived in the late afternoon But overall, we just enjoyed the at our Airbnb just below Monsanto, a vibrant city’s vibes, and had the magical mountaintop village where best meal of the trip at Restaurante residents built their abodes in and Fialho. Under dark, wood-beamed around massive boulders. The rain ceilings, we had a lunch of presunto paused and we decided to hike the ham, grilled octopus, medallions Roman road behind our inn up to the of the famous local black pork and village. The rain didn’t stay away long, baked dog fish, served by bow-tiehowever, and the walk back in the sporting waiters. near dark was slippery on the ancient Driving in the rain to catch stones. our flight home, we talked about The caretaker of the inn suggested how we felt we had seen much of we explore the nearby village of Pehna Portugal, but how in reality it was Garcia, where there is a castle, ancient such a small slice of the country, water mills and fossils to discover.

Kristen de Groot via AP and a tiny taste of each place we Our main objective, though, was the spent time in.

A man with a cane walks down a steep, narrow street in the boulder-strewn mountaintop village of swimming hole nestled beneath the “It’s like I was served the most steep rocky hillside. Yet again, Google Monsanto, Portugal on Sept. 18, 2023. delicious sandwich of my life, and I maps led us to what it deemed a road took one bite and I’m having to just we were free to park in front of his red- Ponsul River. We ate a few bites of but was more of a gravel walkway get up and leave the restaurant,” my our picnic lunch before plunging into tiled-roof stone home. The donkeys flanked by donkeys under olive trees. husband said. We agreed that we’ll the cold water and splashing under a A kind man emerged and told us in were happy to see us as we made have to come back again to finish perfect, British-accented English that our way to the natural pool fed by the waterfall, the only visitors there. the meal.

After a few days back in the tourist crowds in Porto, we took the long way to Monsanto, near the Spanish border, choosing a route through the Parque Nacional da Serra da Estrela. It was our first rainy day on the trip, and winding switchbacks met terrifying wet dirt roads that hovered over sheep down the foggy mountainside. We passed by ski resorts and, during one break in the rain, found ourselves high above a rainbow.

Stopping at the hilltop village of Belmonte, we discovered a 12th century castle, a historic Jewish population and some of the best cheese of our trip. What we thought would be a basic lunch at a nondescript taverna ended up being a great meal at a shop that sold wheels of Serra sheep cheese made by the owner’s cousin, and wine made by the owner himself. It was an afternoon stop that could easily have merited a few days’ exploration.

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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.

“Alleys and Artifacts” — through Feb. 23 at Shepherd University’s Phaze 2 GalCourtesy photo lery, 98 W. Campus Drive, Shepherdstown, W.Va. Solo exhibition by Joan “Arigato” runs Jan. 16 to Feb. 24 at the Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., Westminster, featuring a Bontempo featuring clay and mixed media-pieces that draw from apprecia- collection of artwork inspired by Japanese anime, created by local artists. The exhibition coincides tion of archetypes and mythologies, col- with the Arigato Film Fest Weekend, also at the CAC, on Jan. 27 and 28, featuring films, vendors or and movement, all inspired by the and special activities. Shown here, “No Face,” by Amber Politowicz-Bromwell. arts of the ancients as well as in contemporary markings that shout “We were here.” An artist talk will be held at 4 p.m. or frederickartscouncil.org.

5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.

Jan. 22 with Bontempo, followed by a ”Picasso on Paper: The Artist as Print- to 4 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. reception at 5 p.m. shepherd.edu/art/ maker 1923-72” — through March 3, 301-739-5727 or wcmfa.org. phaze-2-gallery.

Washington County Museum of Fine ”Sewn Sown” — Jan. 22 through Feb. ”Dreamscapes Unveiled” — through Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown.

16, Hodson Gallery, Tatem Arts CenFebruary, FAC Hurwitz Gallery, 1 N. This is the first exhibition at the museter, Hood College, 401 Rosemont Ave., Market St., Frederick. Artworks by FAC um in over 50 years of the work of PabFrederick. The work explores the necesstudio artists explore the multifacetlo Picasso (1881-1973), one of the most sity of balance, rhythm and vacillation ed aspects of the dreamworld, inviting influential masters of the 20th centubetween the assuaging of similarity at viewers to contemplate the mysterious ry. Often considered the most innovathe center of things and the disturbance and enigmatic landscapes of the mind. tive printmaker since Rembrandt, Picas- of the Other on the fringes of things.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday Artist talk and opening reception 4 p.m. through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. First so ultimately created more than 2,400 Jan. 27. 301-606-9061, coreysfrey.com.

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“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.

“Arigato” — Jan. 16 to Feb. 24 at the Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., Westminster. A stunning collection of artwork inspired by Japanese anime. Created by both established and emerging local artists, the featured pieces span different mediums, including traditional paintings, digital illustrations and cosplay.

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“50 Shades of … Everything” — Jan. 31 to Feb. 25 at DISTRICT Arts, 15 N. Market St., Frederick. Mark Johnson can be found roaming the streets of downtown Frederick every month or so with his Nikon, searching for new faces of Frederick. While he loves his “Faces” project, this solo exhibition is all about color — the full spectrum, from monochromatic grays to deep magentas and everything in between. Opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 10. districtarts. com/mark-johnson.

“Winter Wonder” — Jan. 20 to March 9 at Gribs Gallery, 208 Main St., New Windsor. The show includes work by more than 10 local artists and features a variety of mediums: oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylic and photography. Hours are 4 to 6 p.m. Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, or make an appointment by calling 443-536-9198. A reception will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Jan. 20.

“Winter to Spring” — through May 3 at Crestwood Gallery, Frederick Health Crestwood 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, frederickhealth.org/crestwoodart.

Shepherd University’s Phaze 2 Gallery opens Joan Bontempo exhibition “Alleys and Artifacts,” a solo exhibition featuring work by Joan Bontempo, is on view through Feb. 23 at Shepherd University’s Phaze 2 Gallery.

Bontempo will present an artist talk at 4 p.m. Jan. 22, followed by a reception at 5 p.m. in the gallery at 98 W. Campus Drive in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Eclectic in theme, Bontempo’s clay and mixed-media pieces draw from appreciation of archetypes and mythologies, color and movement, inspired by the arts of the ancients as well as contemporary markings that shout, “We were here.”

This show presents figurative works referencing icons of defenders or prophets; traditional vessel forms rendered with colorful, textured casual twists; and a series of abstract works integrating surface, time and place in canvases and mixed-media constructions.

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id you hear them strike at midnight as you rang in the new year? Maybe you heard them sing during the Kris Kringle Procession or ring out during the Candlelight Tour of Historic Houses of Worship. Perhaps you’ve listened to them, the bells of Frederick’s Carillon, while strolling through Baker Park on any given Sunday, unexpectedly pleased as their chime kindled a recognition of an old familiar tune you didn’t notice right away.

It could have happened, as it does for many, that the bells stirred a melancholy longing, bringing to mind a faded memory or a forgotten poem.

Maybe you feel like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow felt when he visited the carillonspeckled lowlands of the Netherlands and Belgium and observed that he “strolled through the fine old streets and felt myself a hundred years old. The chimes seemed to be ringing incessantly; and the air of repose and antiquity was delightful.

Oh, those chimes, those chimes! How deliciously they lull one to sleep! The little bells, with their clear liquid notes, like the voices of boys in a choir, and the solemn bass of the great bell tolling in, like the voice of a friar!”

Or perhaps when you heard them, they might have served as a reminder to glance down at your watch to corroborate with incredulity the number of gongs proclaiming an hour that says, “It’s later than you think!”

One thing is certain. These are thoughts experienced only by those lucky enough to be in a community with a carillon. There aren’t many of them to go around, not in the United States anyway, where fewer than 200 carillons are scattered thin from coast to coast. Of those, only three are in Maryland, making The Joseph Dill Baker Carillon in Baker Park not quite one in a million but certainly a rare gem with an outsized influence, much like its sound, on the character of Frederick.

BY WHOM THE BELLS ARE TOLLED Staff photo by Ric Dugan

John Widmann is the city carillonneur, shown here at the Joseph D. Baker Tower in Baker Park in late 2023.

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It may also be that you’ve wondered who it was, there in the carillon tower, playing the soundtrack to your Sunday

afternoon in the park. And for the past 32 years, the answer to that question has been resident bell-master John Widmann, Frederick’s City Carillonneur.

Like a music box, the Westminster Chime that marks each quarter hour, and the deep and resonant gong of the 3,400-pound bourdon (that’s a carillon’s largest and lowest-sounding bell) announcing the arrival of the top of each hour are automated, but any other music one might hear ringing from the top of the 70-foot stone tower is played live and in person by Widmann.

Widmann came to be City Carillonneur in 1992 without the city knowing about it. Not at first, anyway.

Having had a little exposure to carillons in Pennsylvania, it was upon moving to Frederick to be a music teacher for Frederick County Public Schools that he met Dr. Galen Brooks, the City Carillonneur at the time.

“I introduced myself to him, and he let me try the carillon. It was a 23-bell carillon then, much smaller than it is now, and he was happy with my playing and said, well, he might need some help someday,” Widmann said.

He didn’t hear from Brooks until a year later, when Widmann played for him again, and Brooks expressed once more his potential need for help in keeping the schedule of both weekly and special occasion performances staffed.

And again, Widmann never heard back.

Until … “one day, I got home to our condominium we lived in at that point, and there was an envelope with my name misspelled on it, and there was a key in it. No note. I had no idea what this key was,” he said.

It wasn’t until the Widmanns listened to their answering machine with a message from Brooks that they pieced the clues together. “He said, ‘Well I’m moving away from Frederick. I’m going to take a residency in Baltimore, and I just can’t be doing this anymore. The job’s yours,’” Widmann recalled.

Only in his flight, Brooks seemed to have forgotten to inform the city officials of his departure or of his replacement carillonneur.

“He told me what he got paid and that I should bill that,” Widmann said, “and then the city goes, ‘Who are you? We have a carillonneur, and you’re not him,’”

Staff photo by Ric Dugan

John Widmann plays the bells inside the Joseph D. Baker Tower in Baker Park.

Widmann said.

Brooks cleared things up with the city by saying, according to Widmann, “He’s your guy now. You don’t have any other choice. He’s the only one for miles around that knows how to do this.”

“And that’s how I became the City Carillonneur,” Widmann said with a chuckle.

Since then, Widmann has served with dogged commitment to craft and performance, pouring his passion into his calling. He did take one extended leave of absence, however.

“I retired in June of 2021 and fulfilled my life’s dream. I enrolled in carillon school,” he said. Not just any school.

Widmann and his wife traveled to the thrumming heart of the carillon world, Mechelen, Belgium, where he lived for a year to study at the The Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn,” the world’s oldest and

largest carillon school.

That Frederick’s own City Carillonneur is a graduate of the Jef Denyn school is a real feather in the cap that sets Frederick apart as a serious carillon town. Widmann has climbed countless steps (not countless to him, however, as he often recalled individual carillons by the number of steps in their towers) in belfrys all over the world to play in carillon recitals. In this way, he represents not just his own impressive bona fides but Frederick and the Baker Carillon, too.

Many of America’s carillons, however, date to the period of time between the world wars, when a certain upstate New York government official by the name of William Gorham Rice developed such a passion for the fabled instrument that he began to chronicle his thoughts and observations about them in travel guides, books and articles.

Rice’s singular obsession helped fuel an interest in carillon proliferation in North America, thanks especially to deeppocketed friends like John D. Rockefeller, who had a particular interest in funding A JEWEL IN FREDERICK’S CROWN notable carillons, including the world’s two heaviest in New York and Chicago Carillons are old-world instruments, with respectively. the earliest ones dating back to the early About 25% of all the carillons in the 1500s and functioning, then and now, as world are in North America now, largely performance instruments for public music, thanks to Rice and his romanticized as well as city clocks, audibly signaling the passage of time.

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Mountainfilm on Tour, an annual showcase of films from the 2023 Mountainfilm festival, is set to return to Gettysburg College’s Majestic Theater for one night at 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 19.

“Big Green World,” the playlist of culturally rich, adventurepacked and incredibly inspiring documentary films, was curated from the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado.

Mountainfilm on Tour made its Gettysburg debut in January 2020.

The 2023 tour program includes two hours of documentary short films on topics including farming and sustainability, highlining, activism, surfing, climbing, ecology, conservation and polar bears.

Introductions and context for the films will be provided by the evening’s emcee, a Gettysburg College student. The films are rated PG-13 for language and themes.

Mountainfilm is a documentary film festival that showcases stories about environmental, cultural, climbing, political and social justice issues. Mountainfilm is held every Memorial Day weekend in

Telluride. Along with exceptional documentaries, the festival goes beyond the film medium by bringing together world-class athletes, change makers and visionary artists for a multi-dimensional celebration of indomitable spirit.

Mountainfilm’s mission is to use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world.

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Tickets for Mountainfilm on Tour are $15 in advance, or $20 on the evening of the show, and are available now at the Majestic Theater Box Office, 25 Carlisle St., Gettysburg, by calling 717-337-8200 or online at gettysburgmajestic. org. Free parking and roundtrip shuttle service for the performance is available from Gettysburg College’s Constitution Parking Lot. Shuttle starts one hour before the performance and is ADA accessible.

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BOOKS

Harpers Ferry’s John Michael Cummings pens short story collection ‘The Spirit in my Shoes’ in a lot of different professions before becoming a published writer. How did your break into John Michael Cummings is a sixthpublishing come about? generation native of Harpers Ferry, West I was terrified of moving to Virginia, who has authored three novels, Manhattan, but I was thinking I needed two novellas and over 100 short stories. to get my first book published, and His 2008 debut novel, I was getting nowhere “The Night I Freed John in Minneapolis. I went Brown,” won the Paterson to New York City in the Prize for Books for Young middle of winter; I guess people. In November, he it was the year 2000. I published 23 of his short knew nobody. I was on a stories in a collection Peter Pan Bus overnight called “The Spirit in my with a 70-pound duffle Shoes” (Cornerstone bag. I was 36 years old, Press/University of I think. What a jackknife Wisconsin). that was. I get quivers Cummings recently thinking about it even spoke with 72 Hours about now. It was like running his fiction, much of which into what I was so afraid is based in his hometown. of doing.

I see the settings I worked at an of your stories in “The agency in New York Spirit in my Shoes” tend and eventually got Courtesy photo close enough to an to occupy the wide range of places where editor at Penguin and “The Spirit in my Shoes,” by you have traveled or got published, but it John Michael Cummings. lived. Is that a clue that wouldn’t have happened Cover photograph by Rob your stories are a little if I hadn’t taken that Snyder. autobiographical? awful ride on that Peter Pan Bus. I actually They’re something like go through existential crises in the autobiographical but thinly disguised grocery story when I see Peter Pan as fiction, but not so thinly. It’s not at Peanut Butter. I have flashbacks. It was all non-fiction or any kind of factual so unsafe of me to do that. account. All the tropes of fiction, Can you tell us a little bit about dramatizing and shaping scenes for one of your stories set in Jefferson effect, is wide open to me.

County?

Some are first-person point of view, I guess “Vineyards in a Far Off some are third. Some are about couples, Land” might be the easiest to access. and some are about loners. One is It’s fairly short, and it’s written from a about an older woman who’s a loner young boy’s point of view. He’s 12, I and the other’s about an older man think. He’s a local fellow to the town, who’s a loner, and another’s about a child. There are grandparents as well, so and he’s befriended an artist who’s from Tuscany, and the artist is older. it’s not just one generation.

He’s in Harpers Ferry working on his A good number of them are about art. He’s a painter. And so the boy has Jefferson County, growing up here.

There’s a few that I’ve set in Minneapolis, that wonder and admiration of this man from far away, with his accent and and one is in Rhode Island. One is in his ability to create images on canvas.

Florida, and a couple are in New York.

In the story, the boy and his There are different settings, but there’s mother are driving to Charles Town a lot of tie to West Virginia in all the from Harpers Ferry, and our younger stories.

You could say the stories came about narrator sees this artist who is walking on the highway with a canvas. The boy as a result of me living in those places, begs the mother to pick him up. She sure, because they’re based on firsthand observation and experience. So if does, but she’s wary of him. He looks I hadn’t been there, I probably wouldn’t different. He’s got an accent. There’s a far-off kind of mystique to him. have written about them with such a So they chat, and the boy is just in vigor. admiration of seeing the mother chat You’d mentioned you’d worked

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‌‌John Michael Cummings with his special artist friend, and it all breaks down to a really localized story, even for the artist, who is from far away. He says to the mother, “Jefferson County looks a lot like where I grew up in Tuscany.” That kind of floors the conversation.

It sees the boy breaking away with one eye on an exciting traveler, an artist, and another eye on his mother.

Do you see any repeating themes emerge in your work, regardless of whether you set them locally?

One of the great things about writing is that dramatic irony where the reader is a little bit ahead of everybody. That’s one example. If I’m lucky enough to be able to achieve it, I’ll use it. It just brings the level of awareness, makes it so evident in a scene that is, as we read it, taking place in one moment, and yet there are several levels or takes on what is reality. A reality check for each person might be a little different in that scene,

but the audience should be pretty closely together on it — so certain they’re not argumentative. It’s sort of like when someone new comes into the office, and everyone around that new person knows more.

Can you give an example of how that type of irony works in one of your stories?

In one story, a childless couple, about 30 or so, buys a houseplant. In purchasing the plant, we, the reader, see in this third-person story they become elevated with a sense of a kind of parenthood by the time the plant is selected. When they get it home, they’re doting on it. They’re not so aware of it, but the reader is.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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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New Market Grange No. 362 14 South Alley New Market, MD 21774 Advance Orders by Saturday, January 20, 2024 Pick Up - Sat., Jan. 27, 2024 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Soups - By the Quart $9.00 ea Vegetable Beef, Chicken Corn, Bean Sloppy Joe (Hot Beef) - By the Quart $14.00 Country Ham Sandwich - $5.00 Place orders by email at newmarketgrangemd@ gmail.com or call Vicki at 301-799-9168 Please indicate quantity, name, and phone number.

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Very rare 100+ gem-mint cond. President Obama newspapers collection, combination of Obama Makes History Victory Campaign, Obama Inauguration newspapers, Washington Post, Washington Times, USA Today, Frederick News-Post and 30 election magazines, Time, People, and more. Asking $3,500.00. Call Gil at 301-928-6124.

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Thursday Jan. 18

Duplicate Bridge Games — noon to 4 p.m. at Church of the Transconfiguration, 6909 Maryland Ave., Frederick. Hone your skills and make new, like-minded friends. All are welcome, no membership requirements.

If you need a partner or more information, email Leslie Futrell at lffutrello@yahoo.com. $7. 301-676-5656. sdobran69@gmail.com. bridgewebs.com/frederick.

Fox Haven director JoAnn Coates Hunter.

Unite the realms of poetry reading and food-sharing. Guests are welcome to share a self-penned piece or a cherished favorite.

240-490-5484. alecks@foxhavenfarm.org. foxhavenfarm.org/events/free-poetrypotluck-at-fox-haven-farm/.

FAMILY

Memory Lab — 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick. Use our equipment to convert CLASSES your photos and analog home videos to Frederick Collage Collective — 6 p.m. to digital formats you can share and enjoy 8:30 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second today! Formats accepted: photographs (up St., Frederick. Drop-in group for all levels. to 8.5 x 11.7 inches), slides, and negatives, Materials provided. Facilitated by Black Cat VHS, VHS-C and mini-DV cassettes, and Studios audio cassettes. Bring a flash drive or other $5 donation. 301-662-4190. artcenter@ storage device to save your files. To reserve frederickartscouncil.org. an appointment, call the Brunswick Branch frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ Library. calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

301-600-7250. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/teen-3dEating for Longevity: How to Cook the Blue Zones Way [Five-Week Series] — 11:30 printing-cookie-cutters-106603. p.m. to 12:45 p.m. at The Common Market Homeschooling 101: Educational Field Co-op, 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Want to Trips — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Brunswick live to 100? Certain communities around the Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., world, dubbed Blue Zones by Dan Buettner Brunswick. Need ideas for field trips that at National Geographic, may have the key. are educational and fun? Want to learn In this 5-week cooking demonstration series, more about homeschooling from veteran led by culinary coach Alison Wexler, you will homeschoolers? Come and join this informal learn about a different Blue Zone each week Q&A session focused on educational field and how to cook plant-based dishes from trips. that region.

301-600-7250. $30-$60. 301-663-3416 . amandaluciaart@ frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/teen-3dgmail.com. printing-cookie-cutters-106603. commonmarket.coop/classes-events/eatingfor-longevity-how-to-cook-the-blue-zonesMUSIC & ARTS way/.

Live Jazz at the Cocktail Lab — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Tenth Ward Distilling Co., 55 E. Patrick ETCETERA St., Frederick. Get swanky with us every Senior Cafe: The Place to Come for Coffee, Thursday night for live jazz and your favorite Conversation, Friendship and Fun Events! craft cocktails. 21 and older.

Learn Mahjong — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at 301-233-4817. monica@tenthwarddistilling.

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Walkersville. Ever want to learn a new game? www.tenthwarddistilling.com/events.

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301-600-8200.

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Frederick County Civil War Roundtable Free Expungement Clinic with Maryland and Presentation — 7:10 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Legal Aid — 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Walkersville National Museum of Civil War Medicine, 48 E. Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville.

Patrick St., Frederick. Eric Buckland presents Need help expunging your record from a “Mosby’s Rangers vs. Cole’s Cavalry.” This past conviction? Meet with an attorney from presentation will discuss the three fights, Five Maryland Legal Aid to discuss your options Points, Loudoun Heights and Blakely’s Grove and begin the process. This is a free service!

Schoolhouse, all between Mosby’s Rangers 18 and older. and Cole’s Cavalry in early 1864. Eric has at 301-600-8200. least seven books published about Mosby www.fcpl.org. and his men, and will have books available for sale at our meeting.

Poetry & Potluck — 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Fox Haven Farm, Retreat & Learning Center, 3630 free for members, $5 suggested fee for nonmembers. gldyson@comcast.net.

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Friday Jan. 19 CLASSES

Brain Boost: Why You Need a Mission Statement — noon to 1 p.m. at Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Many freelancers and micro-biz owners don’t have a mission statement. For this January Brain Boost, learn why you need a mission statement and how to write one. A lunchtime collaborative learning experience designed to build expertise and ensure equitable access to a wealth of knowledge. Bring your lunch and learn. ainsley@coworkfrederickfoundation.org. coworkfrederickfoundation.org/brain-boostmission-statement/.

ETCETERA Teen Job Fair — 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. Teen Connect is a time to engage with friends, peer mentors, and teen-oriented community resources. Meet with representatives from local businesses to explore and apply for teen job opportunities.

301-600-8200. fcpl.org.

FAMILY Memory Lab — 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 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/event/teen-3dprinting-cookie-cutters-106603.

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 & ARTS

Morgan’s Coffeehouse — 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Morgan Chapel United Methodist Church, 6750 Woodbine Road, Woodbine.

Americana music in the Hall on third Fridays of each month. On Jan. 19, join us as we welcome The First Fruits Bluegrass and Gospel Band. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and music begins at 7 p.m. Food, snacks, desserts, coffee, tea and sodas available for purchase.

Donations encouraged. Family friendly.

410-970-2485. coffeehouse@morganchapel. church. morganchapel.church/coffeehouse.html.

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.

RECREATION

Monster Jam — 7 p.m. at CFG Bank Arena, 201 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore. World champion athletes and their 12,000-pound monster trucks tear up the dirt in wideopen competitions of speed and skill. Truck lineup to include Grave Digger, El Toro Loco, Dragon, Megalodon, Wild Side, Raminator, Rammunition. Also events at 1 and 7 p.m.

Jan. 20, and 1 p.m. Jan. 21. Details on pricing, tickets at ticketmaster.com monsterjam.com.

THEATER

“A Murder Is Announced” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Oh, Crit! A D&D Improv Crew at MET Comedy Night — 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Maryland Ensemble Theatre, 31 W. Patrick St., Frederick. Improv comedy fused with Dungeons & Dragons! Join us as we embark on an adventure of twists and turns, bizarre characters, and occasional epic failure … All with the help from YOU and the whim of an unforgiving 20-sided die! $15. 301-694-4744. zcallis@ marylandensemble.org. marylandensemble.org/comedynight/.

Saturday Jan. 20 CLASSES

Garden Pruning — 10 a.m. to noon at University of Maryland Extension Office, 330 Montevue Lane, Frederick. Learn what to prune in the winter and early spring and how to prune to get the most out of your plants.

301-600-1596. strice@umd.edu. bit.ly/FCMG2024Pruning.

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.

Children’s Interfaith Day — 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown. Hagerstown Area Religious Council brings a day of hands-on art making, storyboard writing and gallery activities for kids with inspiration from “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children‘s Book Illustration.” Oftentimes, the “moral of the story” emphasizes themes shared by faiths from around the world. Register in advance.

301-739-5727. cschelle@wcmfa.org. wcmfa.org.

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.

THEATER

“A Murder Is Announced” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the Introduction to Breathwork — 1 p.m. to local paper states the time and place when 2:30 p.m. at The Common Market Co-op, a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Join Sheldon Victorian house. What follows is a classic James Breath for a group workshoLearn how Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed to implement proper breathing patterns identities, a second death and a determined and habits, understand the benefits of inspector grimly following the case’s twists breathwork and witness the health and vitality and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on that breathwork will bring to your life. hand to provide the solution in a dramatic $20-$40. 301-663-3416. aharmon@ final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and commonmarket.coop.

Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, commonmarket.coop/classes-events/ with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 introduction-to-breathwork-3/. and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, ETCETERA $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Marriage at the Mansion — noon to 4 p.m. at Kentlands Mansion, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. Experience the elegance and charm of this historic venue, while meeting Sunday Jan. 21 one-on-one with wedding vendors who ETCETERA can help make your special day a dream come true. Visit with photographers, event “What’s in a Percentage” Chocolate planners, musicians, and more.

Tasting with The Perfect Truffle — 1 p.m. $5 advance, $10 at the door. 301-258-6425. to 2:15 p.m. at Walkersville Branch LIbrary, Kentlands@gaithersburgmd.gov.

2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. Want to learn www.gaithersburgmd.gov. about chocolate? Join Cody Marwine from

FAMILY

Memory Lab — 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 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/event/teen-3dprinting-cookie-cutters-106603.

Perfect Truffle for a chocolate tasting. Learn how chocolate is made, what the different percentages mean, and why every bar tastes different. 18 and older.

301-600-8200. www.fcpl.org.

FAMILY Memory Lab — 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 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

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

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

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.

Firefighting in Frederick County: A Living History — 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick.

Join us for a living history performance about the early days of firefighting in Frederick County, Maryland, by author and retired firefighter Chip Jewell.

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

THEATER

“A Murder Is Announced” — 12:30 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Monday Jan. 22 Duplicate Bridge Games — noon to 4 p.m. at Church of the Transconfiguration, 6909 Maryland Ave., Frederick. Hone your skills and make new, like-minded friends. All are welcome, no membership requirements.

If you need a partner or more information, email Leslie Futrell at lffutrello@yahoo.com. $7. 301-676-5656. sdobran69@gmail.com. bridgewebs.com/frederick.

CLASSES

Meditative Dance Movement — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. Transformative Arts Project. $10 donation. 301-662-4190. artcenter@ frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

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Tuesday Jan. 23

Healthy Meals Made Easy — 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Looking for a way to make dinner time easier, healthy and still tasty? Come learn more about meal prepping options and menus, and try some samples too.

301-600-7000. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/healthymeals-made-easy-118209.

FAMILY

Storytime with Mr. Jeff — 11 a.m. to noon at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown. Visit “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustration” and enjoy a story with Jeff Ridgeway, head of Youth Services at Washington County Free Library, in the “treehouse” reading area.

301-739-5727. cschelle@wcmfa.org. wcmfa.org.

FILM

Bijou Film Screening — 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E 2nd St., Frederick.

Second, third and fourth Tuesdays of the month. A streamlined curation of films presented by Falling Squares.

301-662-4190. artcenter@ frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

Wednesday Jan. 24 ETCETERA

Sensory Program for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Bingo — 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Walkersville Branch Library, 2 S. Glade Road, Walkersville. Come play bingo for an hour of fun! This program is designed for adults with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. 18 and older.

301-600-8200. www.fcpl.org.

FESTIVALS

Not Quite Burns Night — 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Smoketown Brewing Station, 223 W. Potomac St., Brunswick. A slightly Scottish celebration of Robert Burns’ work and life. Festivities will include Scottish trivia, verse reading, bagpiping, and general gaiety on a cold winter night. Silent auction in the two weeks leading up to the event, with auction items displayed at the event. Proceeds benefit the Brunswick Public Library.

FOLBrunswick@gmail.com. facebook.com/NQBN2024.

Thursday Jan. 25 Duplicate Bridge Games — noon to 4 p.m. at Church of the Transconfiguration, 6909 Maryland Ave., Frederick. Hone your skills and make new, like-minded friends. All are welcome, no membership requirements.

If you need a partner or more information, email Leslie Futrell at lffutrello@yahoo.com. $7. 301-676-5656. sdobran69@gmail.com.

bridgewebs.com/frederick.

CLASSES

Family History Lecture: Maryland Land Records Part 2 — 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.. A virtual tutorial class to learn how to navigate the active indexes within the Maryland Land Records to locate recorded documents related to an individual within a specified period. Review how to locate a recorded plat within the Maryland Archives.

240-818-1938. wrsparks54@hotmail.com.

ETCETERA

Recycle-Rama Trivia Night — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at C. Burr Artz Library, 110 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Compete for prizes in a trivia battle of wits, using your knowledge of pop culture and recycling to win! Hosted in partnership with Frederick County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling.

301-600-1630. pmccarty@ frederickcountymd.gov. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/recyclerama-trivia-night-test-your-knowledge-aboutrecycling-and-pop-culture-113916.

Civil War Meeting and Talk: “Perspectives on the Artillery Battle at Antietam” — 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Homewood Suites, 1650 Pullman Lane, Hagerstown. The Hagerstown Civil War Round Table will feature a talk by Jim Rosebrock entitled “Perspectives on the Artillery Battle at Antietam.” Dinner at 6:30 p.m., open to non-members as well as members, is $31 (reservations required by Jan. 18) and the talk at 7:30 p.m. is $5 for non-members, both payable at the meeting. $5 for non-members. Payable at the talk..

240-625-4216. hagerstowncwrt1956@gmail. com. sites.google.com/view/hagerstowncwrt/ home.

MUSIC & ARTS

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. www.tenthwarddistilling.com/events.

Friday Jan. 26 CLASSES

Pilates: Open-Level Class — 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Common Market Co-op, 927 W. Seventh St., Frederick. Open-level class, suitable for beginners and experienced Pilates students.

Our classical Pilates class will teach you the art of control, leaving you feeling rejuvenated and energized. $15-$30. 301-663-3416. aharmon@ commonmarket.coop. www.commonmarket.coop/classes-events/ pilates-open-level-class/.

See What Sticks — 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick.

Performance artists, musicians, poets, actors — meet Frederick’s newest performance workshop and open stage. Artists are welcome to workshop emerging projects in the space and see what sticks. Stay after the performances for a brief discussion and

debrief as participating artists continue to fine-tune their work. Artists can set up at 7 p.m. Performances start at 8 p.m.

301-662-4190. artcenter@ frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

ETCETERA

Mahjong — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at C. Burr Artz library Community Room, 110 E. Patrick St., Frederick. Recurring mahjong and game event hosted by the Asian American Center of Frederick. Players of all levels are welcomed! frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/ mahjong-aacf-113685.

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 & ARTS

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.

THEATER

“A Murder Is Announced” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Saturday Jan. 27 CLASSES

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.

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.

FAMILY

THEATER

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.

THEATER “A Murder Is Announced” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Sunday Jan. 28 CLASSES

Growing Herbs: From Seed to Tea with Lacey Walker — 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Fox Haven Farm, Retreat & Learning Center, 3630 Poffenberger Road, Jefferson. Growing herbs from seed to tea is a rewarding and educational journey. In this workshop, delve into the fundamentals of starting herbs from seed. As we sip on tea from last year’s harvest, you’ll have the opportunity to begin planning your herb garden with guidance from Fox Haven farmer Lacey Walker.

35. 240-490-5484. alecks@foxhavenfarm.org. foxhavenfarm.org/events/growing-herbsfrom-seed-to-tea-with-lacey-walker.

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.

“A Murder Is Announced” — 12:30 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Monday Jan. 29 Duplicate Bridge Games — noon to 4 p.m. at Church of the Transconfiguration, 6909 Maryland Ave., Frederick. Hone your skills and make new, like-minded friends. All are welcome, no membership requirements.

If you need a partner or more information, email Leslie Futrell at lffutrello@yahoo.com. $7. 301-676-5656. sdobran69@gmail.com. bridgewebs.com/frederick.

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. www.fcpl.org.

Meditative Dance Movement — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. Transformative Arts Project. $10 donation. 301-662-4190. artcenter@ frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

FILM Mobilize Frederick Presents “The Wisdom to Survive” — 6 p.m. at Hood College, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick. Part of the Climate Film Series, this film examines the challenges that climate change poses and discusses meaningful action that can be taken by individuals and communities.

240-938-7461. kgrogan@kandge.com. mobilizefrederick.org.

Tuesday Jan. 30 CLASSES

Creative Writing Workshop — 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. The Writers’ Block are a

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local community of writers, committed to connecting, critiquing and producing writing in a workshop setting. This group is open to writers of any genre living in the Frederick area who are interested in growing as writers and engaging in meaningful discourse about their craft. Recommended for 18+. Every last Tuesday of the month. No reservation required.

301-662-4190. artcenter@ frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

ETCETERA ASD Social Night with Connect, Live, and Learn — 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Urbana Regional Library, 9020 Amelung St., Frederick. Join us for fun, creative monthly social activities specifically geared toward older teens and adults on the spectrum.

Learn ways to express yourself through theater, dance, art and more.

301-600-7000. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/asdsocial-night-connect-live-and-learn-118919.

FILM Bijou Film Screening — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E 2nd St., Frederick.

Curated films presented by Falling Squares.

Meets the second, third and fourth Tuesdays of the month.

301-662-4190. info@frederickartscouncil.org.

Bijou Film Screening — 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E 2nd St., Frederick.

Second, third and fourth Tuesdays of the month. A streamlined curation of films presented by Falling Squares.

301-662-4190. artcenter@ frederickartscouncil.org. frederickartscouncil.org/news-events/ calendar-grid/#!calendar/r.

Wednesday Jan. 31 HEALTH

Meet the Expert: Succeeding with Bariatric Surgery — 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Frederick Health Crestwood, 7211 Bank Court, Conference Center, second floor, Frederick. A safe, friendly environment to engage with clinical experts and discuss your surgical options. Includes educational demonstrations and a question and answer session with experts, followed by a tour of the ProMotion Fitness facility at Crestwood.

Space is limited and registration is required.

Heavy hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served.

240-566-3785. gegonzalez@frederick.health. frederickhealth.org/about/meet-the-expert/.

Thursday Feb. 1 Duplicate Bridge Games — noon to 4 p.m. at Church of the Transconfiguration, 6909 Maryland Ave., Frederick. Hone your skills and make new, like-minded friends. All are welcome, no membership requirements.

If you need a partner or more information,

email Leslie Futrell at lffutrello@yahoo.com. $7. 301-676-5656. sdobran69@gmail.com. bridgewebs.com/frederick.

FAMILY Totally Teen Time: Flipbook Animation — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Brunswick Branch Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick. Learn some animation basics, then use what you’ve learned to make a flipbook! This program is recommended for teens in grades 6 through 12.

301-600-7250. frederick.librarycalendar.com/event/totallyteen-time-flipbook-animation-113122.

Join us for one or both days. Keynote presentations by state and local officials, panel discussions on green investment, agriculture and climate change, data centers and climate goals, green schools, and building efficiency and electrification.

Registration required.

240-344-2961. karen.cannon@ mobilizefrederick.org. mobilizefrederick.org/summit-2024.

FAMILY

Friday Feb. 2

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.

Mobilize Frederick Climate Summit at Hood College — 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Hood College Whitaker Campus Center & Rosenstock Hall, 400 Ferndale Ave., Frederick . This year’s theme is Reason for Hope: Progress & Solutions to Climate Change.

Movie Knight: Local Filmmaker Screening — 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at FAC Art Center, 5 E. Second St., Frederick. Local filmmaker nights presented and curated by Falling Squares every first Friday of the month.

301-662-4190. artcenter@

MUSIC & ARTS 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.

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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.

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THEATER

“A Murder Is Announced” — 6 p.m. at Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, 5 Willowdale Drive, Frederick . An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock’s Victorian house.

What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death and a determined inspector grimly following the case’s twists and turns. Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to provide the solution in a dramatic final confrontation. Shows are on Friday and Saturday evenings from Jan. 19 to March 2, with Sunday matinees on Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 and 18. $56 Friday evening, $60 Saturday evening, $59 Sunday matinee. 301-662-6600. wayoffbroadway.com.

Saturday Feb. 3 CLASSES

Mobilize Frederick Climate Summit at Hood College — 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hood College Whitaker Campus Center & Rosenstock Hall, 400 Ferndale Ave., Frederick . This year’s theme is Reason for Hope: Progress & Solutions to Climate Change. Join us for one or both days.

Keynote presentations by state and local officials, panel discussions on green investment, agriculture and climate change, data centers and climate goals, green schools, and building efficiency and electrification. Registration required.

240-344-2961. karen.cannon@ mobilizefrederick.org. mobilizefrederick.org/summit-2024.

Mobilize Frederick Climate Summit at Hood College — 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Hood College Whitaker Campus Center & Rosenstock Hall, 400 Ferndale Ave., Frederick . This year’s theme is Reason for Hope: Progress & Solutions to Climate Change. Join us for one or both days.

Keynote presentations by state and local officials, panel discussions on green investment, agriculture and climate change, data centers and climate goals, green schools, and building efficiency and electrification. Registration required.

240-344-2961. karen.cannon@ mobilizefrederick.org. mobilizefrederick.org/summit-2024.

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.

ETCETERA

Candlemas Festival — 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 106 W. Church St., Frederick. All Saints’ Church will celebrate the ancient feast of Candlemas with uniquely Frederick style. An ice sculpture of the church spire will be in front of the church all day. Hot foods plus baked goods available for purchase. Labyrinth in the Parish Hall, Blessing of Candles throughout the day. Service begins at 5 p.m. with candlelit procession.

301-371-0811. hmarkg@mindspring.com. allsaintsmd.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

Printmaking Expo with Penn’s Woods Printmakers — 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown. To complement our exhibition of Picasso’s prints, we have invited some of the region’s best-known printmakers to discuss and demonstrate a variety of printmaking techniques and tools in our atrium. Stop by and try printmaking yourself.

301-739-5727. cschelle@wcmfa.org. wcmfa.org.

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 100% of funds going to one of seven charities.

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

First Saturday at The Delaplaine Arts Center — 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Delaplaine Arts Center, 40 S. Carroll St., Frederick. Art Matters Artist Talk at 2 p.m. Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association artists and solo exhibition artist Frank Cole describe their experience in art making and the work in their exhibitions. Meet the artists during opening receptions from 3 to 5 p.m. Creative Outlet will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. when kids and adults are invited to drop-in and get creative together on art activities at family tables. Each session features a themed activity. Explore

monotype printmaking to create original prints and Valentine’s Day cards. $2 per participant.

301-698-0656. jclark@delaplaine.org. delaplaine.org.

Frederick Artists Night: Karen Peacock and Mary Weiss-Waldhorn. — 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Cowork Frederick, 122 E. Patrick St., Frederick. See this local art exhibit at Cowork Frederick. All work is for sale. All sale proceeds go to the artist. Karen Peacock describes herself as “allergic to minimalism” and her lives by the motto “more is more.”

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HEALTH Mini Seasonal Retreat: art and movement — 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Give Rise Studio, 125 S. Carroll St., 101, Frederick. We’ve combined movement, brunch and creativity to bring you a mini, four-hour, retreat that is aimed to both relax and inspire you in community within a small group. $75. giverisestudio@gmail.com. giverisestudio.com/event-details/seasonalretreat-the-way-of-water.

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for ways to describe how the carillon’s sound is a sort of confusing but wonderful dichotomy of both noise and crusade in promoting the public instrument. Frederick’s carillon came into emotion. The music of the bells has a existence near the end of that campaign tendency to adapt to or confirm one’s in 1941 — a precipitous year, considering mood and disposition. The lingering the larger stage of world events and the thrum that keeps the sound of a bell role foundries would soon take in the war vibrating, like a damper pedal does for effort. As Widmann tells it, the original 14 piano keys, is a characteristic not to avoid but to celebrate as a defining feature. To bells for Frederick’s carillon marked the cut short a bell’s ring is to make the music end of an era. sound “crunchy” and staccato. This is not “They were the last set of bells that desirable for carillon music.

Meneely in Watervliet cast before they Robert Louis Stevenson in “The Oise were conscripted into making arms,” Widmann said, “because people who can in Flood” wrote of one bell ringer’s abilities, “there was something very make bells can also make barrels, and they’re made from similar methods — you sweet and taking in the air he played and we thought we had never heard know, castings. After the war, Meneely only made a few single bells. This was the bells speak so intelligently or sing so melodiously as these.” Only to call to last set of bells.” that dichotomy moments later, writing The Baker Carillon was erected “there is so often a threatening note, in honor of “Frederick’s First Citizen,” something blatant and metallic in the Joseph Dill Baker, who secured the voice of bells that I believe we have land for the park where the carillon fully more pain than pleasure in hearing now stands. “He was truly a great man,” Widmann said. “He got the land, had the them; these as they sounded abroad, now high, now low, now with a plaintive park built, and the board of aldermen cadence, were always moderate and disappointed him greatly when they tunable and seemed to fall into the spirit accepted the park and decided that it of the still rustic places like noise of a was a great place for Frederick’s white waterfall.” citizens to hang out.”

The waterfall-like dance between As Widmann tells it, segregation pain and pleasure, loud and sweet, wasn’t Baker’s idea. stirring or peaceful, melancholy and “He was a very forward-thinking cheerful, is the very thing that bewitches man, and he had not intended it to be segregated. That’s why we have Mullinix so many poets looking for the words to convey the feeling of that split-identity Park; Baker donated that one to for of sound. What is it that causes these the Black citizens. He couldn’t change dichotomies and stirs so much heartthe city’s mind, but he could give more swell? The answer, at least in part, is money,” Widmann said. “Truly a great overtones. man.”

All instruments have overtones, those Today, Frederick’s carillon has 49 bells vibrating sounds that float above the housed in a tower made of Baltimore played note, Widmann explained. Not granite, 26 of which were added in all overtones are heard, but for carillons, 1995 in celebration of the city’s 250th they’re a key feature for the unique way anniversary, making it the largest (by one they present to the human ear, which is bell!) of the three carillons in Maryland. to say, the overtones in a bell vibrate at the minor third above the bell’s primary THE SOUND AND THE FURY note, casting a darker pall of sound over Carillons are measured and the music played on the carillon. This, compared by number of bells, the too, is a celebrated characteristic unique weight of those bells and, relationally, to the instrument. the height of the tower housing “Minor music is the happy music of the those bells. No matter the metric of carillon,” Widmann said. “Minor music is comparison, a carillon is arguably the the sad music of other instruments, and it world’s largest type of instrument. sounds great on the carillon. So we often Likewise, the sound of a carillon has play a lot of minor stuff.” an audible girth of its own, as its From Rice’s book “The Carillon in clamor and chime insists itself upon Literature,” Rice includes an excerpt from the vast area about it. Its music can be a literary criticism by a Dr. Chattertonheard from blocks away, joyful noise Hill praising the Belgian poet Georges showering down onto the wide expanse Rodenbach that his works have “helped beneath it. us not only to hear, but to be penetrated In Longfellow’s poem “The Belfry by, the infinitely sad and wonderfully of Bruges,” he describes the music of sweet music which vibrates in the air … carillons as having a “deep sonorous We hear this music as it sings and weeps clangor, calmly answering their sweet alternatively in the bells that merrily peal anger,” and in a later stanza describes on festival and market days, or that softly the chimes as being in “sweet collision.” chime in the fading light of evening. We feel it palpitating in our hearts.”

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People climbed the 50 steps to watch John Widmann press the keys on the carillon at the Joseph D. Baker Tower in Frederick’s Baker Park. bell tower. Frederick is unique in that it resembles Europe, with a civic-owned There is yet another dichotomy carillon and a bell-master that is paid by unique to the carillon and carillonneurs, the city. which is the inherently public nature “I’m one of the few City Carillonneurs of the carillon’s music juxtaposed with in the U.S.; that’s the normal title in the isolation and anonymity of the bellBelgium,” Widmann said. master. As the carillonneur sits high in With thousands of pounds of cast the belfry, pounding away at the wooden bronze dangling in high towers above batons, he is, in a sense, performing in the ground, carillons are monumental a venue as big as the neighborhood, structures. And it’s these “singing without ever the hope for applause or towers,” as Rice describes them, that interaction with the audience. are the perfect companion to herald or It makes the playing of the carillon mark “the stirring events in history” we more than a discipline of performance collectively experience — the moments but a personal, almost solitary devotion of occasion, the memorializing of shared to the bell tower’s communal purpose, remembrances, the collective expression like the old Trumpeter of Kraków playing of pride and a communal sense of unity the Hejnal from high in the church tower — which is why it’s most often played at to warn of invasion. And while the music events where the community gathers of the carillon isn’t a call of warning, together, like Frederick’s Fourth of July it is rooted in the idea of communal celebration. expression and unity.

“If you’re in the park, you’re going After visiting the carillons of the to hear it,” Widmann said. “It’s really Netherlands, the 19th-century Italian the wealthy’s gift to the masses, writer Edmondo De Amicis observed, because they’re exceedingly expensive “Thus in Holland the passing hour instruments … built for a venue that you sings, as if to distract the mind from sad can’t possibly charge admission for.” thoughts of flying time, and its song is Inspired by a concert by that famed of country, faith, and love, floating in Belgian carillonneur, Jef Denyn, William harmony above the sordid noises of the Gorham Rice took to the pen and wrote: earth.”

“Indeed, the tower seemed a living being, In his carillon-inspired travel and opening its lips in the mysterious night to writings, William Rice noted that carillons pour out a great and noble message of in Europe were resolutely the realm of song to all mankind.” the civic identity, and that while church For Frederick to have its own carillon, belfries may have had some bells, they one of just 450 in the entire world were subordinate to the prized carillon (according to the Guild of Carillonneurs that belonged to all. in North America), Widmann said, “We’re “In North America, that’s not typical,” really fortunate.”

Widmann said, explaining that in the Joseph Peterson can usually be United States especially, carillons found reading the weathered plaques are almost exclusively the territory of of obscure monuments he sees while churches and institutions of higher wandering the city. He counts public learning, with churchyards, cathedrals libraries, public lands and places where local community is fostered among his and college campuses among the favorite kinds of places. likeliest places to hear the chime of a

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