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INSIDE THE ISSUE MAY 2019

FEATURES 12 Summer Staycations Experience Loads of Family Fun within a Two-Hour Drive from Towson

16 Moms on a Mission From Mentoring to School Advocacy, These Four Women Are Committed to Making a Difference

24 Mosaic Magic Yulia Hanansen’s Intricate Works Transform Spaces Large and Small

28 Fully Evolved Interior Designer Meghan Friedman

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TRIP 1—ICE CREAM AND CAVERNS: Just outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Turkey Hill Experience offers a hands-on opportunity to learn how ice cream is made. Kids can sit in a milk truck, milk the mechanical cows, make their own ice cream flavor in the taste lab and enjoy plenty of free samples. TurkeyHillExperience.com. Work off all the sugar with a stroll through nearby Indian Echo Caverns (30 minutes by car), which feature gorgeous limestone formations that are millions of years old. IndianEchoCaverns.com

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Don’t miss: Learning from the tea expert at Turkey Hill’s Tea Discovery

TRIP 2—SHARK TEETH HUNTING: If a period of bad weather gives way to fair skies, take the opportunity to make the two-hour drive to Calvert Cliffs State Park in southern Maryland to dig for 5-million-year-old shark teeth in the Miocene deposits. (Best collecting is low tide and after a storm). Then learn more about Maryland’s prehistoric past, natural environment and maritime heritage with a visit to the nearby Calvert Marine Museum. CalvertMarineMuseum.com.

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Check out: The Marsh Walk on Back Creek

TRIP 3—AMERICAN HISTORY: The relatively new Museum of the American Revolution in downtown Philadelphia offers immersive galleries and interactive exhibits that bring to life the nation’s founding era. AmRevMuseum.org. When your stomach starts grumbling, make the 10-minute walk to the historic Reading Terminal Market, where 80 vendors offer a mouthwatering array of food, from roast duck and Philly cheese steaks to apple dumplings and homemade doughnuts. ReadingTerminalMarket.org

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Order: Soft, butter-dipped Amish-style pretzels at Miller’s Twist

TRIP 4—BIKING: Though the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal stretches 184.5 miles long, starting in Washington D.C. and ending in Cumberland, you can tackle a manageable and family-friendly 13-mile stretch on the towpath from Georgetown to Great Falls Park. Enjoy tranquil views of the Potomac River as you pedal and stop to explore restored lock houses along the way. Once at your destination, enjoy a packed picnic at the Great Falls Overlook.

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Snap a Pic: Capture the panoramic view from Great Falls Overlook

TRIP 5—U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY: Head to Annapolis, and take a guided walking tour of the Naval Academy, with tours departing from the Visitor’s Center and lasting one hour and 15 minutes (USNABSD.com/for-visitors/public-tours.) A certified guide will share fascinating tidbits about major campus attractions—including Bancroft Hall (the midshipmen dorm), Herndon Monument and the Crypt of John Paul Jones—and you’ll end at the U.S. Naval Academy Visitor Center, with two floors of exhibits. Before heading back to Baltimore, stop by the legendary Chick and Ruths Delly for a slice of homemade pie or an old-fashioned milkshake. ChickAndRuths.com

Don’t miss: The daily recitation of the Pledge to the Flag at Chick and Ruths Delly

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TRIP 6—HARRIET TUBMAN: Opened in March 2017, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center

in Church Creek, Md., offers a wide selection of thought-provoking exhibits that capture the life and work of the woman who escaped slavery and established a network to lead some 70 friends and family members to freedom.

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Check out: The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a self-guided, scenic driving tour

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TRIP 7—SWEET TOOTH MECCA: Who doesn’t love the sweet taste of chocolate? Roll up your sleeves, and mix up a yummy batch of the confection at the Chocolate Lab of the Hershey Story: The Museum on

Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, Pa. Then pass a few hours exploring the museum’s varied interactive exhibits, which chronicle the journey of Milton Hershey from failed entrepreneur to chocolate king and benefactor.

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Order: Take home some yummy Hershey’s products on sale in the museum shop.

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TRIP 8—SOMETHING FISHY: Get up close and personal with Jade, Spirit and Beau, and other members of the dolphin gang at the National Aquarium in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. In addition to “Dolphin Discovery,” where you

can get a glimpse into the daily lives of the dolphins, the kids can get their fill of snakes (like the emerald tree boa) in the Amazon River Forest exhibit and gaze from a safe distance at sharks, jellyfish and sea nettles. Aqua.org

Don’t Miss: The behind-the-scenes Animal Care Tour (additional fee; for kids 8 and up).

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FROM MENTORING TO SCHOOL ADVOCACY, THESE FOUR WOMEN ARE COMMITTED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE ARTICLE SUE DE PASQUALE | PHOTOGRAPHY JENNA MACE

Jocelyn Gainers TITLE OR OCCUPATION: President and CEO ORGANIZATION: The Family Recovery Program, Inc. HER MISSION : Launched by Jocelyn in 2011 as a nonprofit, the program aims to reunite families by offering specialized programs for parents who are recovering from substance abuse. In September 2016, the Family Recovery Program, Inc. added a residential component: 23 apartments at the Sage Center in East Baltimore where families can live together while parents complete counseling, domestic violence education, relapse prevention, job readiness and more.

“Through intensive case management, we offer a seamless transition—an affordable place where families can stay for the longer term while parents really work toward changing their lives,” Jocelyn says.

WHAT’S MOST FULFILLING: “Seeing the smiles on the children’s faces.”

Many kids come to Sage Center having been in foster care for a year or more, and some are highly traumatized.

“They look frightened. They have no trust,” she says. “We make it a part of our day to extend love and warmth to them and to model good parenting. At first, there are no smiles.

Then one day you look around and the kids are outside running on the playground. They’re smiling. They’re happy. They rush to my office after school to tell me about their day.”

LIFE LESSON FOR HER DAUGHTER: “To accept people for who they are and know that every person has value and deserves to be listened to and cared for. My daughter, Brittany, is 29 now, and she works at Morgan Stanley. But she can talk to anybody about anything. And she’s involved in outreach, too.

You’ll find her under I-83, distributing socks and hats to the people living there who are homeless.”

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When someone comes to you with a problem at their school, and you can show them an avenue toward a solution ... that’s an incredible gift, and I love it.”

Yara Cheikh TITLE OR OCCUPATION: Parent Advocate ORGANIZATION: Baltimore County Public Schools HER MISSION: Over the last 12 years, the mother of four has advocated on behalf of the county’s schoolchildren, teachers, and staff “to ensure they have what they need to be successful.” At the start, Yara focused on addressing overcapacity, successfully lobbying for the new West Towson Elementary and an addition to Hampton Elementary School. Then she took on the aging infrastructure at Dulaney High School, where politicians first looked to renovation as the answer, stirring community ire.

“Using data from state and county reports, we showed that replacing the school with a new building would be the better long-term solution from an economic perspective,” Yara says. “We were able to stop that renovation in 2016 based on facts and a determined community.”

WHAT’S MOST FULFILLING: “Working toward tangible solutions is immensely rewarding. When someone comes to you with a problem at their school, and you can show them an avenue toward a solution—when you can empower them to ask for what they need—that’s an incredible gift, and I love it.”

LIFE LESSON FOR HER KIDS: “Don’t take no for an answer, and be involved in your community. Finding solutions may take time and effort, but most everything worthwhile does.”

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Laura Sinche TITLE OR OCCUPATION: Managing Director ORGANIZATION: Towson University’s FoodShare HER MISSION: Launched in fall 2016, FoodShare is a program for Towson University students, faculty and staff who find themselves in need of food and personal items.

“I had worked with numerous students in my ministry who were experiencing food insecurity, and I knew we had a need on campus,” says Laura, a pastor who heads The Table: a Lutheran Episcopal Ministry at TU. FoodShare first opened in the basement of the Catholic Ministry Center and last August moved on campus to the lower level of the Health and Counseling Center.

“We’ve had more than 300 visits since then—primarily students but also some staff,” she says. “We find students needing toiletries as much as food; toilet paper and laundry detergent are the most requested.”

WHAT’S MOST FULFILLING: “Students come for a range of reasons. Some are supporting their families at home because a parent is out of work. Some live in housing that requires so much money they don’t have anything left over for food. Some students have health issues and need to eat specific foods,” Laura says. “This has been a grassroots effort, and while I manage the day-to-day operations, I work with some wonderful people: the Office of Sustainability, the Office of Civic Engagement, plus student groups and many others. It’s been pretty amazing to watch it all come together.”

LIFE LESSON FOR HER DAUGHTER: “We share so that everybody has enough. That’s part of who we are as Christian people and also who we are as human people who share this Earth together.”

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“We find students needing toiletries as much as food; toilet paper and laundry detergent are the most requested.”

Heather Harvison TITLE OR OCCUPATION: Founder and Executive Director ORGANIZATION: Sisters Circle HER MISSION: Sisters Circle, which began in 2000, provides longterm mentoring to foster meaningful and sustainable change in the lives of young girls living in Baltimore.

“At the time I started Sisters Circle, the national average for mentoring a student was one year,” Heather says. “We knew that to see lasting change and to break the cycle of poverty, we needed to be or have a long-term presence in girls’ lives.”

Volunteer mentors are matched with students in sixth grade, and the relationship continues through middle and high school—and often beyond.

WHAT’S MOST FULFILLING: “We’ve created a space for women and girls of different ages and backgrounds to listen and learn from one another. It’s really powerful to see that exchange take place,” Heather says.

Such mentoring has proven effective: 98 percent of girls mentored through Sisters Circle graduate from high school (the remaining 2 percent earned their GEDs) and 90 percent are in or have graduated from college or an alternative training program.

Heather herself as had two mentees; she notes proudly that one is now a corporate paralegal, and the other works in human resources at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

LIFE LESSON FOR HER SON: “Sometimes there is so much need in this world, and it is so overwhelming that we don’t know what to do or where to start, so we become paralyzed. The important thing is just to start somewhere.”

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MOSAIC MAGIC YULIA HANANSEN’S INTRICATE WORKS TRANSFORM SPACES LARGE AND SMALL

“Return to the Ocean” When creating installations for kitchens, such as the expansive backsplash below, inspired by ancient sea-dwelling ammonites, Yulia starts with a theme and creates a design to scale. Once the client has signed off, she gets to work assembling the mosaic in her studio. It’s a painstaking process that unfolds over many weeks.

“For this piece, like most kitchen and bathroom projects, I used stained glass and grouted the mosaic for easy cleaning. Each piece of glass is individually hand-cut and then hand-placed and attached to the panel,” she explains.

Once the work is complete, she delivers it (or has it shipped) to the client’s home to be installed.

“With ‘Return to the Ocean,’ I wanted to create an underwater scene right there in the kitchen,” Yulia says. “The unwinding spirals of ammonite fossils are so beautiful and have always attracted me.”

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Yulia Hanansen, artist and owner of Mosaic Sphere Studio

FROM HER HOME STUDIO IN CEDARCROFT, MOSAIC ARTIST YULIA HANANSEN CREATES BEAUTIFULLY INTRICATE WORKS FOR BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACES. Her installations for kitchen, bathroom and outdoor spaces adorn homes locally and throughout the United States. She also creates large-scale works—most recently an 8-by-16-foot installation at the public library in Elkridge, Maryland, which depicts an underwater diver who discovers a fanciful world inhabited by sea creatures and a treasure chest filled with books.

"Sedona Garden" Photo by Tracy Browner

“Sedona Garden” When clients living in Arizona began plans to renovate their kitchen, they first turned to Yulia to create two poppy-infused installations.

“Then they completed the renovation based on the colors and design of the mosaics,” she says. “This family wanted scenes [mosaics] to evoke the scene outside the window in their Sedona home—a continuation of the landscape—so they sent me photos of their property.”

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Fully Evolved INTERIOR DESIGNER MEGHAN FRIEDMAN MIXES VINTAGE WITH CONTEMPORARY TO INFUSE A NEW HOME WITH CHARACTER

The kitchen’s focal point, a bluegray trestle table, was custommade and finished locally by Monkton Studios.

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ARTICLE SUE DE PASQUALE PHOTOGRAPHY STEPHANIE LONDON

“It’s so important to me to listen to your story and to really find out how you live so that I can create spaces that truly reflect your style and the way your family functions.”

BEFORE SHE BEGINS ANY NEW WORK, INTERIOR DESIGNER MEGHAN FRIEDMAN, OWNER OF REDHEAD DESIGN, SPENDS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME REALLY GETTING TO KNOW HER CLIENTS. “It’s so important to me to listen to your story and to really find out how you live so that I can create spaces that truly reflect your style and the way your family functions,” she says.

This full home design project in Phoenix, Maryland, was a perfect match for Meghan’s unique design strengths. “The couple was looking for a home with a great layout and design for their family. For them that meant a new home build. But they wanted some farmhouse and coastal character infused into the space.”

Meghan’s strategy for achieving that vision: “I like a home to look like it evolved over time, and I capture that by using vintage or antique elements mixed with new ones. In all of my work, I really like to source locally. This kitchen is a perfect example of how this all comes together.”

Consider the blue pantry door and Dutch door.

“The client wanted an antique door for the pantry, but we were unable to customize the size of the door opening. So instead, we customized the door,” Meghan says. “This is a brand-new door that we had custom faux-finished by Belle Patri in Jarrettsville to look old.”

“And the ceiling beams fool everyone!” she says.

They are new, but they look old, thanks to artfully applied textured color and finish.

The placement of the beams is also carefully considered and executed.

“When it comes to installing faux beams, they have to be installed so they appear to support the ceiling in a way they really would in an old home.”

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living room with details like wire-brushed ceiling boards, sourced locally at Brick + Board in Remington, and a fireplace mantle constructed from a vintage board.

A faceted crystal doorknob completes the vintage look of the pantry door, custom faux-finished by Belle Patri in Jarrettsville.

The powder room features tongue and groove wainscot paneling, an old dresser converted into a Learn more about Redhead Design at Redhead-Design.net.

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Students and faculty present a vast

favorite tulip variety for harvesting

eater, music lover or just a Baltimore

selection

pottery,

and planting at home. Bring your

explorer, this is your kind of festival.

sculpture, jewelry, glass and more!

own tools and containers to take

Visit us Saturday, May 4 and Sunday,

Proceeds benefit the TU Foundation

home bulbs for $.30/bulb. Pre-dug

May 5. Come make a memory at

and contributing artists. May 10 from

bagged bulbs will be available for

the Towsontown Spring Festival!

3–9 p.m. and May 11 from 9 a.m.

purchase. All proceeds will be used

TowsontownFestival.com

to 6 p.m. Events.Towson.edu

to buy and plant bulbs for next

Washington and Baltimore avenues

of

handmade

spring. GuilfordAssociation.org/

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2019 KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE

AN EVENING BENEFITING BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CENTER

American Visionary Arts Museum

A race through Baltimore of wacky,

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sherwood/tulip-dig

The Hippodrome Theatre

30 ANDRÉ WATTS PERFORMS BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR

imaginative, totally human-powered

Baltimore Child Abuse Center invites

works of art, designed to travel on

you to an evening with featured

land, through mud and over deep

speaker Aly Raisman at the sixth

Center for Arts and Technology

Baltimore Inner Harbor waters, con-

annual Be A Hero gala. Tickets

Revered pianist André Watts returns

structed out of used bicycles, gears

include admission to the dessert

to the BSO to perform Beethoven’s

and parts, created by a lunatic genius

and dancing reception following

last piano concerto, the mighty

who tinkers around in the garage or

the program. Guests will enjoy

“Emperor.” Marin Alsop also leads

backyard—do you know this person?

exciting dessert options from local

the Orchestra in Brahms’ most exhil-

KineticBaltimore.com

Baltimore food vendors such as

arating chamber work, his youthful

The Charmery, Flavor Cupcakery,

Piano Quartet in G Minor, with its

Ken’s

thrilling rondo finale, arranged for

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Creative

Kitchen,

Taharka

George Washington Carver

Brothers and Insomnia Cookies and

large

entertainment from Limelight Event

BSOMusic.org

orchestra

by

Schoenberg.

FEET ON THE STREET May 24-September 27 | 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Allegheny Avenue at Towson Circle 5/24: Crushing Day 5/31: Jury 6/7: That’s What She Said 6/14: Crushing Day 6/21: Rite House 6/28: Starcrush Moonbounces | Face Painting | Food Vendors Beer | Wine | Cocktails

VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR THE FULL LINEUP towsonchamber.com | 410.825.1144 | @towsonfeetonthestreet

TU Department of Art + Design, Art Education, Art History

Annual Spring Pottery Sale Fri., May 10 | 3–9 p.m.

Sat., May 11 | 9 a.m.–6 p.m.

TU Center for the Arts, Ceramics Studio CA 3012 Proceeds benefit participating artists and the TU Foundation.

events.towson.edu

+ Art Sale!

Prints, Jewelry, Paintings, Metalwork, & more!

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OUR TOWN

ar t s preview INSPIRING ART AND THEATER EVENTS FOR EVERY TASTE AND BUDGET

ARTICLE KELLY SAGE | PHOTOGRAPHY PROVIDED

Models and Critics by Bobby Adams. Photo by Dan Meyers

AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM: PARENTING: AN ART WITHOUT A MANUAL The American Visionary Art Museum focuses public attention on what might be humanity's most essential performance art: the intuitive, transformative and complex art of parenting. AVAM's exhibition showcases works by 36 artists, created out of every conceivable medium, to best express their own personal life experience of parenting and being parented—be it good, bad, horrific and/or sublime, alongside revelations from the latest scientific research, globally sourced wisdom and fun. Through Sept. 1. AVAM.org

CENTER STAGE: TWISTED MELODIES Center Stage welcomes back this powerful one-man show, based on the life of ’70s soul singer and composer Donny Hathaway. Twisted Melodies is an immersive and crushing play about the brilliant musician’s compelling inner struggle. Torn between the muses that inspire him and the mental illness that torments him, Hathaway evaluates the choices in his life in a gripping performance by Kelvin Roston Jr. May 9–19, CenterStage.org

CHARM CITY PLAYERS: WILLY WONKA THE MUSICAL Twisted Melodies

The delicious adventures experienced by Charlie Bucket on his visit to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory light up the stage in this captivating adaptation of Roald Dahl's fantastical tale. Featuring the enchanting songs

Jeff Baker stars in the title role with Max Eitzmann as Charlie Bucket in Charm City Players' production of Willy Wonka.

from the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder and new songs by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka is a scrumdidilyumptious musical guaranteed to delight everyone's sweet tooth. June 22–July 14, CharmCityPlayers.com

HIPPODROME THEATER: HAMILTON Hamilton is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and Broadway, Hamilton is the story of America then, as told by America now. June 25–July 21, France-MerrickPAC.com 34

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