A Thurmont Family’s Dangerous Ride on the National Road On June 1, 1915, the Brenamans drove their Ford along the National Road, which had passed its first century of service a few years before. The road had improved a lot since the days of it being a graded dirt path, but it was still a…

Well-thrown Lasso Saves Boy from Icy Death by James Rada, Jr. Charlie Jones, a twelve-year-old Thurmont youth, spent one December afternoon in 1915 walking through the forests around Thurmont, gathering pine boughs and other greens to use to make Christmas decorations. With his bag full of greenery, he headed home. Though young, Charles was the…