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News and Notes NEWS AND NOTES PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY JANUARY 1994 OUR 42ND YEAR VOLUME XXlfNUMBER 1 BOARD OF DIRECTORS - 1994 UPPER MARLB-RO President - Joyce McDonald Editor's Note: Through the courtesy of Mr. J. Vice President - John Mitchell Paul Smith, the following poem was presented to the Secretary - Sarah Bourne Enquirer-Gazette. Mr. Smith stated that the poem Treasurer - John B. Bourne was given him about 35 years ago from papers of the Historian - Frederick S. DeMarr Duvall family. The author's name is unknown, also Editor - Lester H. Sweeting the date it was written. The spelling of "Marlb'ro" would indicate the period as the early 1900's or prior Directors - 1994/1995 thereto. Eugene B. Roberts Julie Bright Sarah Moseley Through a narrow, ravelled valley, wearing down the farmer's soil, The Patuxent flows inconstant, with a hue of clay and oil, From the terraces of mill-dams and the temprate slopes of wheat, Directors- 1993/1994 To the bottoms of tobacco, watched by many a planter's seat. Jane Eagen Wallis Hall Cain There the blackened drying-houses show the hanging shocks of green1 Florence Riedesel Smoking through the lifted shutters, sunning in the nicotine; And around old steamboat-landings loiter mules and overseers. Past Presidents With the hogsheads of tobacco rolled together on the piers. W. C. (Bud) Dutton John Giannetti Inland from the river stranded in a cove between the hills, Lies Old Marb'ro Court and village acclimated to her chills; Paul Lanham And the white mists nightly rising from the swamps that trench her Warren (Dusty) Rhoades round, Seem the sheeted ghosts of memories buried in that ancient ground. IMPORTANT DATES IN FEBRUARY Feb. 5 Board of Directors Annual Planning Session, 10:00 AM, Holden Sweeting House, 4112 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville Feb. 7 Tricentennial Trust Meets, New Carrollton Library, 7:00 PM Feb. 20 Colonial Dance and Colonial Manners, Riversdale Mansion, 3:00 PM Here in the days when still Prince George's of the tradition's brag. province was the queen. That 'twas Barney got the victory though the British got Great old judges ruled the gentry, gathering to the the swag. courthouse green. When the Ogles and the Tayloes matched their Arab But the Capital, rebuilded, counts 'mid towns rebellious steeds to race, this- Judge Diival adjourned the sessions. Luther Martin quit Standing the old slave region 'twixt it and Annapolis; his case. And the cannons their embrasures on the Anacostia forts Here young Roger Tauey lingered, while the horns and Opened tow'rd old ruined Marlb'ro and the dead hounds were loud, Paruxent ports. To behold the pompous Pinckney scattering learning to the crowd; Reprinted from the February 6, 1964 edition of the Enquirer-Gazette. And old men great Wirt remembered, while their minds he strove to win. DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY As a little German urchin drumming at his father's inn. When the ocean barks could moor them in the shadow Riversdale - February 20, 1994, 3:00 PM of the town. Ere the channels filled and mouldered with the rich soil The Society will sponsor an afternoon wafted down— devoted to Colonial Dancing and Manners. Here the Irish trader, Carroll, brought the bride of Daraall Hall, This is a free event and participation by And their Jesuit sou was Bishop of the New World children is encouraged. The Port of over all. Bladensburg Heritage Dancers will be a featured attraction. Lessons in Colonial Here the troopers of Prince George's with their horse- dancing and in Colonial forms of address tail helmets won Praise from valiant Eager Howard and from General between gentle folk and other attributes of Wilkerson; the well bred colonial dame or master will be And (the village doctor seeking from the British to described. We welcome you to this free restore) event. Refreshments will be available. Key, the poet, wrote his anthem in the light of Baltimore. The Port of Bladensburg Heritage Dancers One by one the homes colonial disappear in Time's were formed as part of the planning for the degrees, 250th anniversary of the Town of Though the apple orchards linger and the lanes of Bladensburg. A growing organization, they cherry trees; have achieved status as a member of the fi'en the Woodyard mansion kindles when the chimneybeam consumes, Living History Trust. Membership is free And the tolerant Northern farmer ploughs around old and open to any person, not only couples. Romish tombs. Dancing lessons and sessions are held on the third Wednesday of each month at the By the high white gravelled turnpike trails the sunken, Bladensburg Town Hall. They are quieter copse-grown route Where the troups of Ross and Cockburn marched to than the clog dancers, more staid than the victory, and about square dancers, prettier than most and a ball Halting twice at Upper Marlb'ro, where 'tis still to be with. Ed. Note: The following book review is reprinted in its entirety from the Winter 1993 MEET THE BOARD edition of Maryland Historical Magazine, published quarterly by the Museum and January 1994 brought new faces to the Library of Maryland History of the Board of Directors. Sarah Moseley has Maryland Historical Society. been actively involved in the Society ever since Joyce McDonald recruited her as part Landmarks of Prince George's County. The of the sanding, scraping and painting crew at Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Marietta. Sarah was raised in Brunswick Commission. (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins County, Virginia on property that her family University Press, 1993. Pp 144. Notes, index. began to farm in the late 1700s. She $29.95) attended Connecticut College and graduated from the University of Chicago, where her The purpose of this book is clearly husband, Harvey, was working on his Ph.D. stated by county executive Parris Glendenning in Astrophysics and astronomy. As a portion in a forward: "By celebrating some of Prince of Harvey's graduate work, they spent seven George's County's most, important historic years at Yerkes Observatory in Williams properties, this book anticipates the 1996 Bay, Wisconsin where Sarah conducted tricentennial of the county's founding." And tours of the historic observatory. celebrate them it does: visually beautiful, Coincidently, the scientist who designed the handsomely crafted, it is a tribute to the Johns large telescope at Yerkes was the father of Hopkins University Press and to the unusual Margaret Sherer, the last private owner of partnership that produced it. If you failed to Marietta. secure a copy for Christmas, find a birthday or other occasion—this deserves an honored and When Harvey began working at NASA's featured place in the home or office. This is a Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Prince George's County you may not know the Moseleys moved to University Park and exists—or existed. Sarah volunteered at the elementary school In a modest style that makes it difficult where their son, Samuel, was a student. It to identify the originator of the concept (if was as the coordinator of a time capsule there were a single individual, rather than a project for the 50th anniversary of University fortutious set of circumstances and ready Park that Sarah and Joyce became participants), Robert j. Kapsch, chief of the acquainted and the Society was enriched by National Park Service's Historic American her talents. Sarah is a graphic artist and is Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering responsible for the professional appearance Register, U. S. Department of the Interior, of many of our recent publications. She also explains in an essay that "HABS decided to created the logo for the Tri-Centennial undertake an innovative architectural celebration. documentation project that would rely on photodocumentation and focus on a single We are all delighted to welcome Sarah to the Board of Directors of the Society. geographic entity, ideally a county. The plan was for HABS to work with an existing historic GUEST BOOK REVIEW preservation agency to use its expertise. Such an organization had to be professional and well versed in the history of the county." For convenience, the pilot project was to involve a these treasures (now included in the HABS group within driving range of Washington, collection at the Library of Congress). Lavoie D.C. The criteria were met by Prince and Susan G. Pearl, Prince George's historian George's County and its Historic Preservation at the M-NCPPC, prepared captions for the Commission. The Maryland-National Capital black-and-white photographs. Prefatory Park and Planning Commission were enlisted, essays by key players provide a valuable with Gail C. Rothrockofthe M-NCPPC backdrop and enhance the overall production: (already well known to the HABS for her work Rothrock's "A Heritage to Preserve," Pearl's in upper Montgomery County) a key player "300 Years of County History," Lavoie's and enthusiastic support from county officials "Architecture: From Tidewater to Modern," and agencies and from volunteer groups. and Kapsch's "Documenting a County's Legacy." These are complimented by Born in the New Deal, HABS in 1936 Boucher's commentary on the tools and had a collection of some ninety-seven techniques of his photography, interesting even photographs of historic properties in Prince to the non-specialist. There is a guide to George's (only sixty-five of which still stand). architectural plans and styles to clarify Over the years, some two dozen of these terminology and comparisons, and "Further properties had been acquired by the M- Reading" introduces the new reader to the NCPPC, and, in 1981, a preservation County's history. ordinance had been passed and a historic preservation master pain adopted.
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