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The First Congregational Church of Wiscasset was founded 250 years ago on Aug. 6, 1773. As part of the 250th celebration, the church is offering weekly historical snippets about the church and its early years. The celebration will culminate in a...
MARTINSBURG — Martinsburg-Berkeley County Parks & Recreation announced Tuesday its nature-based playground equipment arrived at Poor House Farm Park.
In the days when touring circuses such as Clara ‘Ma’ Copley’s would pitch their marquees at Chapel Fields, the entertainment, it is said, would include a ‘question time’ segment consisting of conundrums for the audience. One such conundrum was posed, as Cathal O’Byrne tells us: “Why is Donegall Street like a spendthrift? Because it begins with a bank and ends with the Poor House.” It’s true that it was, at one time, bookended by Belfast Commercial Bank at the lower end and by the Belfast Charitable Society’s Poor House at the other. Despite being referred to, perhaps unfair...
There's lots of music this weekend with the Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival and the Wayback Festival in Kitchener, plus a multicultural festival in Cambridge, medieval faire in Fergus and a star party at Conestogo Lake.
A volunteer researcher wants to launch a project to remember an estimated 26,000 people buried at a 19th-century mass burial ground that is today’s Harmon Field and The Citadel’s football stadium on Charleston’s West Side.