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rts & ntertainment Bring Your Creative Side to Light
Celebrate Spring in the
Village/Art at the Furnace
Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend in the historic village of Catoctin Furnace photography
and experience art, live music, food, and more. All events run Saturday, May
7, 2016—10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Sunday, May 8, 2016—12:00-5:00 p.m.
Admission to the festival is free. Parking and shuttle service are available at
the Cunningham Falls State Park Manor Area.
New this year is a juried art show of vendors from across Maryland on
the furnace grounds and blacksmithing demonstrations under the historic
“Isabella” furnace casting shed. Children’s activities provided by Frederick
County Public Libraries and Rose Hill Manor Children’s Museum will be on
site, along with live Birds of Prey from the Maryland Park Service’s Scales and Baseball season is
Tales program. inally here, and
Featured events include the annual Sarah’s Garden Social presented by Catoctin High School
Harriet Chapel. The Catoctin Furnace Historical Society will have their junior, Michael
historic workers cottages open for public tour, craft vendors, and a wine event Tylicki, is ready
with local winery Springfield Manor. Contact the Catoctin Furnace Historical to throw some
Society for details at www. catoctinfurnace.org. heat and help the
For more information, call 301-271-7574 or 443-463-6437 or visit the Cougars have a
websites: www.catoctinforestalliance.org and www.catoctinfurnace.org. banner season.
“Catoctin Voices” Evening
of Poetry Presents Poet and Photography by CHS
NPS Ranger Bert Barnett junior, Kylie Norwood
Writer, historian, and Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger, Bert
Barnett, will be the featured poet at “Catoctin Voices,” an evening devoted
to poetry, on Friday, April 15, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at The Creeger House,
located at 11 N. Church Street in Thurmont. Poets and the public are invited
to participate in the open mic readings prior to Barnett’s reading. “Catoctin
Voices” meets the third Friday of every month and is devoted to highlighting
poets of the region. poem & poet
As a poet who has tackled many subjects with humor and gusto since
childhood, Barnett is devoted to his original Civil War poetry and has
integrated some of his work into interpretive and campfire programs at
the Gettysburg battlefield. He’s a 1984 graduate of Middle Tennessee State A Lonely Dog
University and holds a B.S. in History, with minors in English literature and
psychology. He has served over thirty years as a ranger with the National Park Written by Jean Sidoli of Fairfield, Pennsylvainia, as a letter to the editor of
Service at a number of Civil War-related sites, and he has an active interest the Gettysburg Times in 1993. Reprinted with permission. (The rack card has
in the language and poetry of the era. Stationed at Gettysburg National The Humane Society of Moore County.)
Military Park since 1993, Barnett has presented a variety of field programs
and written a number of articles. He has also created a number of Civil War Before I die I would like everyone to know how I feel.
poetry-based programs for Civil War Round Tables. I am very old now and I have lived and will die chained in
The writer/historian is presently at work on an “interpretive anthology” my back yard.
of this material, tentatively entitled “Rhyme and Reasons: The Meaning and
Power of Poetry in Civil War America.” It deals with the historical role of
poetry as encountered between 1830 and 1930. It will likely be published by I have suffered the cold of winter and the heat of the
“Estate Press” at an undetermined future date, when the containers holding summer. I have never known the comforts of family life.
this masterwork are discovered by his heirs and assigns. More artistically, Bert I have never been invited inside to enjoy an evening with
has also assembled a collection of his own poetry for a forthcoming collection, my family. I have never been for a walk. I see my family for
“Inkwell.” five minutes each day when they bring me food and water,
For more information, contact Lisa C Cantwell, “Catoctin Voices” Evening never at the same time.
of Poetry host, at [email protected].
I have so much love in my heart to give them and now
that I am at the end of my days, they will never know how
Share Your Creative Side much I loved them. I forgive them for the way they treated
Poetry • Drawing • Photography me, but my heart is heavy with the sadness for all the dogs
who live and die on the chain.
Email to: [email protected] • Fax to: 301-447-2946
rts & ntertainment Bring Your Creative Side to Light
Celebrate Spring in the
Village/Art at the Furnace
Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend in the historic village of Catoctin Furnace photography
and experience art, live music, food, and more. All events run Saturday, May
7, 2016—10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Sunday, May 8, 2016—12:00-5:00 p.m.
Admission to the festival is free. Parking and shuttle service are available at
the Cunningham Falls State Park Manor Area.
New this year is a juried art show of vendors from across Maryland on
the furnace grounds and blacksmithing demonstrations under the historic
“Isabella” furnace casting shed. Children’s activities provided by Frederick
County Public Libraries and Rose Hill Manor Children’s Museum will be on
site, along with live Birds of Prey from the Maryland Park Service’s Scales and Baseball season is
Tales program. inally here, and
Featured events include the annual Sarah’s Garden Social presented by Catoctin High School
Harriet Chapel. The Catoctin Furnace Historical Society will have their junior, Michael
historic workers cottages open for public tour, craft vendors, and a wine event Tylicki, is ready
with local winery Springfield Manor. Contact the Catoctin Furnace Historical to throw some
Society for details at www. catoctinfurnace.org. heat and help the
For more information, call 301-271-7574 or 443-463-6437 or visit the Cougars have a
websites: www.catoctinforestalliance.org and www.catoctinfurnace.org. banner season.
“Catoctin Voices” Evening
of Poetry Presents Poet and Photography by CHS
NPS Ranger Bert Barnett junior, Kylie Norwood
Writer, historian, and Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger, Bert
Barnett, will be the featured poet at “Catoctin Voices,” an evening devoted
to poetry, on Friday, April 15, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. at The Creeger House,
located at 11 N. Church Street in Thurmont. Poets and the public are invited
to participate in the open mic readings prior to Barnett’s reading. “Catoctin
Voices” meets the third Friday of every month and is devoted to highlighting
poets of the region. poem & poet
As a poet who has tackled many subjects with humor and gusto since
childhood, Barnett is devoted to his original Civil War poetry and has
integrated some of his work into interpretive and campfire programs at
the Gettysburg battlefield. He’s a 1984 graduate of Middle Tennessee State A Lonely Dog
University and holds a B.S. in History, with minors in English literature and
psychology. He has served over thirty years as a ranger with the National Park Written by Jean Sidoli of Fairfield, Pennsylvainia, as a letter to the editor of
Service at a number of Civil War-related sites, and he has an active interest the Gettysburg Times in 1993. Reprinted with permission. (The rack card has
in the language and poetry of the era. Stationed at Gettysburg National The Humane Society of Moore County.)
Military Park since 1993, Barnett has presented a variety of field programs
and written a number of articles. He has also created a number of Civil War Before I die I would like everyone to know how I feel.
poetry-based programs for Civil War Round Tables. I am very old now and I have lived and will die chained in
The writer/historian is presently at work on an “interpretive anthology” my back yard.
of this material, tentatively entitled “Rhyme and Reasons: The Meaning and
Power of Poetry in Civil War America.” It deals with the historical role of
poetry as encountered between 1830 and 1930. It will likely be published by I have suffered the cold of winter and the heat of the
“Estate Press” at an undetermined future date, when the containers holding summer. I have never known the comforts of family life.
this masterwork are discovered by his heirs and assigns. More artistically, Bert I have never been invited inside to enjoy an evening with
has also assembled a collection of his own poetry for a forthcoming collection, my family. I have never been for a walk. I see my family for
“Inkwell.” five minutes each day when they bring me food and water,
For more information, contact Lisa C Cantwell, “Catoctin Voices” Evening never at the same time.
of Poetry host, at [email protected].
I have so much love in my heart to give them and now
that I am at the end of my days, they will never know how
Share Your Creative Side much I loved them. I forgive them for the way they treated
Poetry • Drawing • Photography me, but my heart is heavy with the sadness for all the dogs
who live and die on the chain.
Email to: [email protected] • Fax to: 301-447-2946
