Sizzlin Summer Calendar
Washington County
Sizzlin Summer 2003
Summer's Ready When You Are ... This is the part of the summer we like best: the anticipation.Don't get us wrong--we love the barbec...
A Day at the Races My Adventures at the Living Classroom of Pimlico Racetrack | By Emily Flake
Field Trip A User's Guide to the Mid-Atlantic's Minor-League Baseball Parks | By Mark Fatla
She Stoops to Conquer Hanging Out with the "Painting Lady" of Canton | By Erin Sullivan
High Noon Taking it to the Streets with the 12 O'Clock Boyz | By Tim Hill
Stones in my Pathway For a Backroads Enthusiast, Hunting for Mason-Dixon Markers on the Eastern Shore is a Joyride | By Van Smith
Endless Summer The Uncanny Summertime Empire of Vera's White Sands | By Blake de Pastino
Drunk by Degrees City Paper's Hard-Drinking I-Team Goes in Search of the Coldest Beer in Town
The Tale of the Tape Our Intrepid Correspondent Waxes Dat Azz | By Waris Banks
Led Astray Putting Baltimore Guidebooks to the Test | By Anna Ditkoff
Summer's Ready When You Are ... This is the part of the summer we like best: the anticipation.Don't get us wrong--we love the barbec...
A Day at the Races My Adventures at the Living Classroom of Pimlico Racetrack | By Emily Flake
Field Trip A User's Guide to the Mid-Atlantic's Minor-League Baseball Parks | By Mark Fatla
She Stoops to Conquer Hanging Out with the "Painting Lady" of Canton | By Erin Sullivan
High Noon Taking it to the Streets with the 12 O'Clock Boyz | By Tim Hill
Stones in my Pathway For a Backroads Enthusiast, Hunting for Mason-Dixon Markers on the Eastern Shore is a Joyride | By Van Smith
Endless Summer The Uncanny Summertime Empire of Vera's White Sands | By Blake de Pastino
Drunk by Degrees City Paper's Hard-Drinking I-Team Goes in Search of the Coldest Beer in Town
The Tale of the Tape Our Intrepid Correspondent Waxes Dat Azz | By Waris Banks
Led Astray Putting Baltimore Guidebooks to the Test | By Anna Ditkoff
Posted 5/21/2003
Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitor Bureau, 16 Public Square, Hagerstown, (301) 791-3246, www.marylandmemories.org.
ATTRACTIONS
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, City Park, Hagerstown, (301) 739-5725, www.washcomuseum.org. This free museum located in the pretty City Park specializes in art from the 19th and early 20th centuries and the exhibit Pastels from the Permanent Collection runs all summer long. And catch the atmospheric American Impressionists before the exhibit closes July 6.
EVENTS
Peach Fest, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday Aug. 9-10, Ruritan Community Park, Leitersburg, (301) 797-6387. If August doesn't scream peaches, we don't know what does. At this yearly festival celebrating everyone's favorite furry fruit, you can even sample that combination above all combinations: peach pie and peach ice cream.
Rose Society Rose Show, entries 6:30-9:30 a.m., display open to public 1:30-5 p.m. June 7, Valley Mall, 17301 Valley Mall Road, Hagerstown, (301) 739-9433. Sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday with your mother or lover. Roses go on sale at 5:30 p.m.
SPORTS & RECREATION
Fort Frederick State Park, 11100 Fort Frederick Road, Big Pool, (301) 842-2155. Fort Frederick was built during the French and Indian War to protect English settlers from guess who? And today there are easy hiking trails, camping, a visitors center, and re-enactments.
SHOPPING
Washington County is a gold mine for all you antique freaks:
Antique Crossroads, 20150 National Pike, Hagerstown, 301-739-0858.
Beaver Creek Antique Market, 20202 National Pike, Hagerstown (301) 739-8075.
Hudson House Galleries, 1 S. High St., Funkstown, (301) 733-1632.
Sharpsburg Arsenal, 101 W. Main St., Sharpsburg, (301) 432-7700.
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