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The Playgoer: Twin Beach Players’ Little Women

Be sure to see this lovely production of an American classic

The Family Guy

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan discusses fatherhood, politics and compromise

In Search of My Father

How much — or how little — do we know about the man behind the role?

Sneakers Make Good Science

Goddard Space Center backs up Fowler’s test of Patuxent health

One Stroke at a Time

Swimming the Bay is an endurance act of charity

Cownose Rays in the Summer Bay

This year, the winged swimmers are protected

Riders had their day in the sun at Maryland Therapeutic Riding’s Spring Horse Show. Green pastures and paddocks surround an indoor arena as good as you’d see on the hunter/jumper show circuit. Overflow spectators parked along the lane under shady trees. In arena and show ring, volunteers abounded, helping families settle and riders prepare to mount. Wheelchair ramps led to mounting blocks where riders from teens to middle age met their horses...

Article - People; by Diane Burt; 6/12/14

One Star-Spangled Buoy

See and feel what inspired Francis Scott Key

Every American knows the story of Francis Scott Key watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then penning the Star Spangled Banner as dawn broke to reveal the Stars and Stripes still flying proudly over the fort. He watched the battle from a prime harbor seat: a British war ship on which he was detained. You can be in the same spot Key was 200 years ago and gaze at the flag flying over the fort just as he did. Of course, it’s not the exact same flag,...

Article - News, Things; by Bob Melamud; 6/12/14

From Horseshoe Crabs to Moonbird

June 13’s full moon brings the living dinosaurs to a beach near you

The Atlantic Flyway bird migration route passes over Chesapeake Bay. In the months of May and June, the full moon brings bright light to the sandy shores of the Bay, enticing horseshoe crabs to come and lay their eggs. These eggs mean new generations in more ways than one. Some develop into new crabs; migrating shore birds drop into the café to devour many others. At dawn during May’s full moon, horseshoe crabs made shallow lumps in the surf at Sandy Point Park...

Article - Creature Feature; by Emily Carter Mitchell; 6/12/14

Patrick Garcia, 14, Mayo

In Their Own Words

During my soccer games, my dad yells my name a lot. That makes me play harder. He likes things very neat, and naturally I’m kind of messy. So I’ve learned that being clean is really the better way. If I don’t get good grades, I usually get grounded. It’s happened before. Not good. I don’t like it in the moment when he’s correcting me. But looking back, it’s definitely helped me become a better man. But after I...

Article - People; by Andrew Wildermuth; 6/12/14

Hometown Hero Laces Up for World Stage

Beckerman kicked his way from Crofton to Salt Lake to Brazil

The world’s sport takes the world’s stage next week when World Cup play begins in Brazil. Played every four years, the World Cup is the most-watched and admired sporting event on the planet. This year, Anne Arundel County has a favorite son in the play. Crofton-raised Kyle Beckerman, a 31-year-old defensive midfielder for the United States Men’s National Team and captain of Real Salt Lake, prepares to lace up his cleats and play for all the world to see....

Article - News, People; by Andrew Wildermuth; 6/12/14

Bernie Fowler’s New Clothes

River sneakers step into history

After 27 years, Bernie Fowler got a new suit of clothes for his 2014 Patuxent River Wade In. “It’s a historical day. For 27 years now, I’ve waded in tattered tennis shoes,” the 90-year-old Patuxent River champion and retired Maryland senator told his crowd of followers assembled under a striped marquee on a perfect June Sunday. Then he handed the tattered sneakers to Sherrod Sturrock, deputy director of Calvert Marine Museum. Straw...

Article - News, People; by Sandra Olivetti Martin; 6/12/14

Give Rhododendrons and Mountain Laurels a Head Start

Pluck off wilted flowers

For more abundant flowers on your rhododendrons and mountain laurels next year, deadhead this year’s flowers as soon as they wilt. By preventing the flowers from setting seeds, you’ll stimulate the branches to flush new growth from waiting latent buds. This is especially true if the bushes are growing in full sun. Producing seeds requires considerable energy. Removing wilted florets allows more energy produced by photosynthesis to stimulate the vegetative...

Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin, Gardening; by Dr. Francis Gouin; 6/12/14

The Reason for June’s Rosey Moon

It’s a matter of angles

June’s full Honey, Mead or Rose Moon falls around midnight Thursday. All full moons stand opposite the sun. This time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is at its highest. Conversely, the full moon never climbs more than 20 degrees above the southern horizon. As a result, the moonlight that reaches our eyes cuts through a much thicker swath of earth’s atmosphere than winter’s high moon directly overhead. As it passes through all those clouds...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 6/12/14

The Chummer’s Craft

Sometimes it takes fish to catch fish

Chumming is one of the simplest and most effective methods of getting a limit of rockfish this time of year. The fish have just schooled up and are hungry from spring spawning. Here’s how it worked for me one recent June morning. I try to be careful when I get a bite when chumming, immediately easing the reel clicker off to eliminate any resistance on the line, thumbing the spool lightly as I remove the rod from its holder and letting the fish run off a bit before...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 6/12/14

The Fault in Our Stars

Sometimes you need to sit in a dark room with a bunch of strangers and cry

Hazel Lancaster (Shailene Woodley: Divergent) should be dead by now. A 17-year-old with terminal cancer, she has outlived her life expectancy. Because of a delicate condition that affects her lungs and requires her to wear oxygen, she stays home from school. Fearing depression, Hazel’s mother forces her into a youth cancer support group. The sad stories and over-eager leader drive Hazel to distraction until she meets newcomer Gus (Ansel Elgort: Divergent). Charismatic...

Article - Arts and Culture, Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 6/12/14

The Playgoer: Twin Beach Players’ Little Women

The Family Guy

In Search of My Father

Sneakers Make Good Science

One Stroke at a Time

Cownose Rays in the Summer Bay

Taking the Prize

One Star-Spangled Buoy

From Horseshoe Crabs to Moonbird

Patrick Garcia, 14, Mayo

Hometown Hero Laces Up for World Stage

Bernie Fowler’s New Clothes

Give Rhododendrons and Mountain Laurels a Head Start

The Reason for June’s Rosey Moon

The Chummer’s Craft

The Fault in Our Stars

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