Plans In the Works for County Veterans’ Museum
James Rada, Jr. While the stories of war are usually told from the perspective of the big picture—the generals, the strategies, the armies—Frederick County may soon have a museum dedicated to telling the stories of the Veterans who are seen only as numbers in the big picture. “I think there will be a lot of…
Looking Back
The Year is…1918 by James Rada, Jr. The Pandemic to End All Pandemics — Part 3 Spanish Flu rampaged through Frederick County and the world in the fall of 1918. During October 1918, the State of Maryland shut down public venues and businesses, and those places that could still open had trouble finding healthy workers.…
Veteran Spotlight
Don’t Take Any Wooden Bullets! by Priscilla Rall No doubt you have heard of wooden nickels, but have you ever heard of wooden bullets? Well, Lawrence C. “Abner” Myers learned about them the hard way. He was one of five children, born in 1920 in Unionville to Lewis and Evelyn Wetzel Myers. The family soon…
