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Tpb 04-18.Indd The Park Bulletin The Community Newsletter for Sudbrook Park, Pikesville, Maryland • www.SudbrookPark.org April, 2018 Flower& Bake Sale Saturday, May 12 9 am to 1 pm (rain or shine) Sudbrook Lane / Cliveden Road triangle Hanging baskets, annuals for sun or shade, yummy homemade edibles! New this year: perennials for pollinators. Find the perfect gift for Mom right in the neighborhood. Pick up a copy of Olmsted’s Sudbrook and a beautiful Sudbrook Park mug. Meet the neighbors-free coffee and conversation! All proceeds support community improvements and programs. Donations of baked goods are most welcome. Contact Carolyn Hartloff at [email protected] or 410-580-0183 or drop off your goodies at the sale. See you there! Dumpster Day When: Saturday, April 28, 8:30 to noon Where: Westover and Greenwood Roads Dumpsters provided by the County to help in your spring cleaning! Typically one Inside the Bulletin dumpster is for metal, one for non-recyclable yard waste, and two for general trash. Western Railway ...........2 Items that are typically put out on recycling days - i.e leaves, grass, branches, paper, cardboard, bottles - should not be brought to the dumpsters, which go to landfill. Annual Meeting ...........3 Butterfly bush ..............3 Not allowed: paint, flammable materials, chemicals, drums and tanks, large stumps, asphalt, blacktop and concrete. Board responsibilities ...4 We will have a small, separate trailer with limited capacity for electronics such Save the date ................4 as televisions, computers, printers, monitors. Dumpster Day is held rain or shine. Monarch Waystation ...5 Volunteers are welcome. Election Day .................5 Contact Mark Plogman at [email protected]. Meetings .......................5 Membership form ........6 The Park Bulletin is published four times a year (April, June, September and November) by Sudbrook Park, Inc. to provide information about upcoming events, newsworthy items, community activities, and historical information, and to foster a greater sense of community among residents of Sudbrook Park. The Park Bulletin April, 2018 pg. 2 Western Maryland Railway What draws a boy to a railroad? Perhaps the sound late at night of a train whistle while you lie awake in bed. I wasn’t inclined to roll out of bed in the dark and stumble through the darkness to the tracks. Instead, I waited until daylight and went straight down Upland Rd., which ended at the Western Maryland Railway tracks. There was a trail which provided ready access to the tracks. A boy had two choices: take a right toward Milford Mill Rd (now Old Milford Mill Rd.) or turn left and head toward the bridge and beyond to Owings Mills. Speaking of Milford Mill Rd., it took a different course before the light rail line was built. If you were headed to Reisterstown Rd. it used to take a downhill turn (at the present intersection of Greenwood Rd. and Milford Mill Rd.) to the right, passing Gehlfuss (Guilfuss?) Bus, which was a combination bus depot and auto graveyard. I used to attend St. Charles Borromeo school and the school, it seems, had a contract with Gehlfuss to transport the students who lived in distant neighborhoods such as Brighton, which is adjacent to Patterson Ave. I’d be sitting in a classroom facing Sudbrook Lane and into the parking lot would limp a Gehlfuss bus. The kids from Brighton would come into the school and tell us of their adventures when their bus broke down and a second bus had to be dispatched to pick them up. After you passed Gehlfuss Bus you came to the railroad crossing, which had red blinking lights and arms that descended across the road to bar traffic. Next to the tracks was a grocery store I called the Little Green Store, though I’m told it was also known as Burns’ Grocery. A husband and wife ran the store, which was a simple grocery store with the basic staples. The husband, who was tall and lean and wore a white apron, worked behind the meat counter while his wife worked the cash register. Upon entering the store there was a red Coca Cola cooler on the left. You’d lift the lid and reach down for a cold Coke or Sprite. You’d remove the bottle cap on the bottle opener on the front of the cooler. The Little Green Store was where your mother might send you if she needed something for dinner. The store did a modest amount of business, though I remember a time in the mid sixties when the local groceries (A & P, Giant, Acme) were closed by a strike. Without anywhere to shop it seemed everyone descended on the Little Green Store. During that strike, which lasted a week or two, that store probably did more business that it did the remainder of the year. The shelves were bare, unless you were looking for a jar of olives. If you kept walking on the tracks you’d eventually come to Patterson Ave. and The Seton Institute, which was hidden behind tall stone walls (some of which remain today). I was told as a boy that the Seton Institute was where retired nuns from the Sisters of Charity resided. Those tall walls were where I usually did a U-turn and headed home. If I was lucky a train coming out of the city or from the hills of West Virginia would come into view. The trains, which were more frequent in the sixties, often carried coal, some of which fell off the trains and mixed with the rock ballast. Of course as kids we were always happy to find a loose spike or somesuch to carry home. A neighbor tells me he was walking on the tracks back then and found an oversized hammer that a railroad work crew had left behind. The hammer has a hammer head as big as a baby’s head. You didn’t often see work crews but a special delight was the occasional sighting of a hi-rail, which was a pickup truck outfitted with rubber tires and flanged steel wheels, which dropped from the undercarriage of the truck and allowed it to ride the rails. The hi-rail was used for track inspection, among other things. When I saw a hi-rail coming down the tracks I fell back in amazement and marveled that men were paid to do such work. If a train were approaching we boys would fish in our pockets for pennies to put on the track. After the train passed we’d search furiously for our souvenir - a flattened penny the size of a quarter on which Abe Lincoln’s head had been flattened into unrecognizable shapes. Those too were taken home to be put in a drawer, usually the same drawer in which we kept our baseball cards. Speaking of the Sudbrook Lane bridge, I recall attending a meeting in the early 2000’s when an engineer from the county public works department explained to the crowd that in order to build a new bridge the old bridge would have to come down, after which it would take up to a year to erect a new bridge. Someone in the crowd, a wiseacre, put this question to the engineer: “As a boy I learned to smoke by crawling under the bridge with other boys where we’d coughingly smoke a cigarette a boy had stolen from home. If you take the bridge down, where will today’s boys learn to smoke?” After the laughter died down, the engineer said, “I guess they’ll just have to walk along the tracks.” Thanks to Gene Wimert for his contributions The Park Bulletin April, 2018 pg. 3 Annual Meeting, June 16 Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 16 at 7 pm for Sudbrook’s annual meeting. This year’s presentation will be given by Teri Rising from Baltimore County Historic Preservation on Baltimore County Historic Districts, the background of the program, history of each district and fun facts about their creation. A brief business meeting and election of next year’s Board will precede the presentation. The meeting will be at 507 Sudbrook Lane, partly so we can also provide refreshments and wine and beer, and have no curfew! Please come, have a voice, meet your neighbors! Nominating Committee Each June we elect officers for the following 12 months. The nominating committee must submit at least one candidate name for each board officer position: President, Vice President-Civic, Vice President-Social, Secretary and Treasurer. Any member of the Sudbrook Park Community Association may submit his or her name for one of these offices by May 1, 2018. If you are interested in submitting your name in nomination, please contact one of the following nominating committee members: Carolyn Hartloff [email protected] (410-580-0183), Roy Lappalainen roy_lappalainen@ yahoo.com (410-653-6087), or Deana Karras [email protected] (410-653-5010). If you are interested in serving on the Board as a Director-at-Large or attending a monthly meeting, please contact any Board member. Deane Rundell, President [email protected] Mark Plogman, Vice President-Civic [email protected] Craig Falk, Vice President-Social [email protected] Izzy Patoka, Treasurer [email protected] Deana Karras, Secretary [email protected] Darragh Brady, Immediate Past President [email protected] Stuart Abarbanel, Director-at-Large [email protected] Richard Gruberg, Director-at-Large [email protected] Carolyn Hartloff, Director-at-Large [email protected] Roy Lappalainen, Director-at-Large [email protected] Michelle LaPerriere, Director-at-Large [email protected] Linda Rundell, Director-at-Large [email protected] Consider the Butterfly Bush With all the focus on native plants and supporting our native beneficial insects, the butterfly bush (buddleia davidii) has come under fire.
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