The Blizzard of 1932 Richard D. L. Fulton On March 7, 1932, Frederick County residents awakened to assess the damage inflicted upon their respective communities by a severe overnight blizzard that had beset the region. Instead of continuing to seek encouragement from the newspapers as to any signs of relief from the economic oppression of…

“Farm Boy to Combat Engineer” by Priscilla Rall Robert “Bob” Clifford Mount, the son of Clifford and Violet Mount, grew up milking cows by hand and plowing with a team of horses, named Dick and Queeny. He lived in a home without electricity, phone, or plumbing. Bob was a farm boy, born in 1931 in…

The reason for the name “Cunningham” being chosen as the name of the Catoctin Area’s local waterfalls, located west of Thurmont on Route 77, has become slightly clearer recently when following a reference from a May 2018 issue of The Frederick News-Post to an article from 1968. Historically, the falls had been called Herman’s Falls…