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The woven history of Hook’s Mill Farm

by Lisa Schauer Since 1793, Leslie Mills’ two-story farmhouse on Hook’s Mill Farm has stood beside a hook in the Potomac River where it meets the Great Tonoloway Creek. The dam broke in the great flood of 1936, and the mill was lost in the flood of 1985, Mills, 82,[Read More…]

Mountain Musings: Christmas music magic

Christmas music magic It never fails each year that listening to Christmas songs from the past and present guides me to a place of treasured holiday memories and a renewed love for the season. We all know the feeling of dread that can accompany Christmas and New Year’s — decorations[Read More…]

BlackCat to host free Christmas Revels caroling event

BlackCat Music Cooperative and The Hancock Arts Council presents a “Christmas Revels and Community Carol Sing” on Friday, December 16 at 7 p.m. at the Hancock Performing Arts Center, 126 West High Street. The entire BlackCat Music Cooperative family with some community guests, will play and sing many of your[Read More…]

Christmas tree ready for Saturday

Hancock Public Works set up the tree for this Saturday’s tree lighting, which is part of the Miracle on Main Street event co-sponsored by Hancock in Motion and Main Street Hancock. Miracle on Main Street begins at 3:30 p.m. with the tree lighting at 6:30 p.m. Both wind up at[Read More…]

Valley Art Assoc. to host holiday exhibit, musical event

The Valley Art Association, which promotes arts and artists in the tri-state Cumberland Valley, will host December events at their headquarters at The Mansion House Art Center & Gallery in Hagerstown City Park. Members of the Valley Art Association will exhibit their works in the “Winter Nights, Winter Lights” installation.[Read More…]