"1957 March of Dimes Popularity Contest" Carroll County Times article for 2 April 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal Two weeks ago I asked for assistance in identifying a group of young women who posed with Mrs. Gladys Wimert in the living room of her Westminster home. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wardenfelt of Westminster were the first [...]
"The Women Who Did" Carroll County Times article for 26 March 1917 by Jay A. Graybeal This coming Thursday evening the Historical Society will sponsor "Quilt Voices" a dramatic program about the lives of middle-class women in the nineteenth century. Using theatre to teach history is a relatively new concept for museums but the idea has [...]
"Women's History Month Photo Essay" Carroll County Times Article for 19 March 1995 By Jay A. Graybeal The Historical Society's photograph collection contains numerous images of local women taken from the 1840s to the present. Due to the constrains of costly equipment and relatively long exposures most of the 19th century examples are studio portraits taken [...]
"Carroll County Business Women of the 1890s" Carroll County Times article for 12 March 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal A century ago local women had few choices when it came to careers. The vast majority received an elementary school education, married and became mothers. Their home, family, church and community were the focal points of their [...]
" The Pageant of Shawls" Carroll County Times Article for 10 March 1995 By Jay A. Graybeal Providing the clothing and other household textiles for the family was traditionally a task of women. Not surprisingly, women preserved important items of dress and passed them down through female decedents. For this reason, nearly all of the textile [...]
"Quilt Voices Program" Carroll County Times article for 5 March 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal In observance of Women's History Month, the Historical Society of Carroll County will present a theatrical program "Quilt Voices" which explores the lives of mid-19th-century middle-class women. The program will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 30th at the [...]
"Evans Store Robbery and Shootout" Carroll County Times Article for 26 February 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal Imagine an armed gang breaks into a store and takes a shot at the owner. Later a posse discovers the desperados in a vacant house and a shootout ensues. One of the robbers is wounded and captured but two [...]
" The Death of James Hope" Carroll County Times Article for 19 February 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal. In last week's column, I wrote about James Hope, a Westminster barber who once worked as Edwin Booth's valet. Hope died suddenly on May 10, 1900 and newspaper and estate records provide some details about his life and [...]
"James Hope, Edwin Booth's Valet" Carroll County Times article for 12 February 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal For more than a quarter-century, James Hope operated a barbershop in the City Hotel on the corner of Court and E. Main streets in Westminster. Prior to opening his shop, he had once been the valet of the actor [...]
"Early Carroll News Newspapers Discovered" Carroll County Times article for 5 February 1995 by Jay A. Graybeal People frequently contact the Historical Society to ask about an old manuscript, photograph or other item they have discovered. Sometimes the item turns out to be quite interesting. Such was case when I received a call from Mrs. Marian Dyer regarding [...]