Carroll Yesteryears 12 February 2017 Thaddeus Stevens Woman’s Relief Corps Significant to Carroll’s Black History By Mary Ann Ashcraft Although the Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, historians are still uncovering new material in many different repositories from museums to attics. I stumbled across a single page listing African American women who were members [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 22 January 2017 Stroll Past Three Buildings on Main St. Gives Glimpse of “Old” Westminster By Mary Ann Ashcraft The death of former neighbor Harry Kimmey in 1932 inspired Mary Shellman to write a letter reminiscing about the east end of Westminster as she knew it while growing up in the 1850s and 1860s. [...]
Carroll Yesteryears 8 January 2017 Winter Ice Ritual on Mays Farm Paid Dividends Into the Summer By Kenneth Mays It’s the dead of winter, a good time for the reminiscence of nonagenarian Kenneth Mays about filling the ice house on his grandfather’s central Maryland farm in the 1920s. The Mays family had a large, shallow pond [...]