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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Beachtree Properties Debuts New Property in Oakland, Maryland
MILLERSVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - July 19, 2010) - Beachtree Properties, a resort group comprised of boutique hotels, announces renovation completion and opening of its newly-acquired property in Oakland, Maryland.
Inn at Deep Creek, formerly known as Alpine Village Inn, a 29-unit lakeside hotel, has undergone extensive renovations after Beachtree Properties took ownership in May. The detailed project incorporated a complete makeover from the inside-out, including a new roof, kitchens, bathrooms, furniture, flooring and carpeting. To make guests’ stay more comfortable, new pillow top beds, contemporary fabrics and fixtures with sheer and blackout curtains in each suite have been added. In addition, each suite is complete with flat screen TVs, iPod docking stations, and complimentary Wi-Fi.
Inn at Deep Creek is an all-suite hotel situated on the largest freshwater lake in Maryland. The resort’s suites feature brand-new warm elegant décor with kitchens and some suites feature fireplaces. Onsite amenities include a large heated outdoor pool, a landscaped poolside grilling area complete with picnic tables, a private beach with a day-use boat dock, and a second-floor balcony to provide guests with views of the lake.
Deep Creek Lake is situated in Garrett County, Maryland, and known for its approximate 76,000 acres of lakes, parks, caves and forests. It encompasses 3,900 acres and is at a mountain elevation almost half a mile high. Popular for its freshwater man-made lake with twenty-six different species of fish, the lake is perfect for fishing, whether it be fly fishing or ice fishing. Exciting activities at the lake include kayaking, canoeing, rafting, camping, hiking, mountain biking and in the winter, skiing at nearby Wisp Ski Resort.
The hotel opened Fourth of July weekend and is open year-round. For information or to make reservations, call Inn at Deep Creek at 877.853.6932 or visit http://www.innatdeepcreek.com/
Beachtree Properties specializes in distinctive boutique hotels in exciting vacation destinations. Formed in 2006, Beachtree Properties manages twelve independent resorts across North America, providing a home away from home with all the services expected from a large hotel chain. Beachtree Properties values and recognizes the character and individuality of each property, offering well-appointed accommodations and world-class service.
Spies on acid - Obscure CIA & Deep Creek Lake reference
Beginning after World War II and escalating through the early 1950s, the U.S. government launched a multimillion-dollar series of experiments in mind control and behavior modification.
It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that Americans learned of such programs, which went by the names of Bluebird, ARTICHOKE and, most notably, MK/ULTRA. That’s when a commission led by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and a subsequent Senate investigation revealed what our government had been up to.....
..."Almost everything that I wrote about,” he responds, but the words are specifically a quote from Olson. “He came home from the Deep Creek Lake meeting where he was dosed with LSD nine days before his murder, and his wife knew something was wrong, and the only thing he would say to her was that he had made a terrible mistake and he said he’d speak to her later about it… The event at Deep Creek Lake was really his interrogation using drugs and probably LSD to find out with why he was talking about Pont-St.-Esprit and other experiments. He had decided to leave the CIA and the Army and re-school himself as a dentist, but Olson was an arrogant, outspoken sort of guy, and the last two or three months before his departure he started talking about what he had done over the past three years under contract with the CIA, and that was just a no-no.”
Read the full article here.
Confluence artist takes art to another dimension - Garrett County Native
Friday, July 9, 2010 10:45 PM EDT
(Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles that feature artists in the Turkeyfoot Highlands.)
By RICK KAZMER
Connie Stark is taking her art to another dimension — sort of.
She dabbles in painting, but the two-dimensional art hasn’t drawn her complete attention. Stark’s artistic passion is knit bears, and she has made them by the thousand.
“It is kind of a different way to go because it is three dimensional,” she said of the unique mole-hair creations.
The Confluence resident draws on a lifetime of artistic interest to complete each intricate cuddler. She is a native of Michigan where she went to school for graphic art. Stark and her family lived in Garrett County, Md. before moving to the Turkeyfoot Highlands in 2005. The bears have been in the making for decades.
Read the rest here.
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A mother and three of her “kids” showed up in the yard of Mike and Melanie Cooper and basically made themselves at home at their Youghiogheny Mountain Resort residence. The mama bear and three cubs stopped by several mornings, and on this particular visit the sow ventured up the front-porch steps to smell the hanging baskets of petunias. Meanwhile, two of the cubs had fun playing “tether ball” with an empty bird feeder.
In many locales, the skies above Garrett County were filled with fireworks over the July 4th holiday weekend, to the delight of thousands of residents and visitors, and pictured above is a “behind the scenes” look at what is involved in presenting such a display. Milton Proudfoot, Oakland, who has been a fireworks shooter for over 40 years, is shown preparing some of mortars that sent 597 individual shots of fireworks into the sky above Broadford Lake on Saturday. Proudfoot noted that the largest supply of fireworks in the world was destroyed in a massive explosion in Hong Kong a few years ago, causing a huge shortage at that time. But he said that today there is a surplus of fireworks because of the faltering economy and resulting cancellation of many displays. Photo courtesy of Erin White.
Interesting comparison between flight and the experience of riding a personal watercraft (PWC) on Deep Creek Lake. From the article:
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Riding a PWC this week on Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, I found the craft being sucked into the wake of boats when riding parallel to the wake, as we do when flying in formation. The result was a rolling motion that seemed to take control of the PWC, making me feel as if I were along for the ride. Turning to cross the wake at 90 degrees led to a more thrilling, jolting ride, but one where I felt more in control…
Author, artist at Deep Creek event - Art in the Park
Cumberland Times-News
DEEP CREEK LAKE — Award-winning children’s book author Melinda Chambers of Romney, W.Va., will attend Art in the Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Deep Creek Lake State Park’s Discovery Center. She will be autographing her books, audio books and T-shirts.
Ashley Teets of Terra Alta, W.Va., an award-winning children’s book illustrator and artist, will be painting children’s faces in Chambers’ tent near the Discovery Center.
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Candy Thomson - Baltimore Sun - Outdoors Girl Blog
So, I read her piece on the Maryland Park Quest yesterday, blogged about it and then had an idea - what if I could meet her while she was in Garrett County? Well, I sent her a quick email, she liked the idea and we just finished meeting at the Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center. Candy Thomson, the ‘Outdoors Girl’, is in Garrett County for the Maryland Park Quest ‘marathon’ of 24 state parks in 7 days. She’s done with 3 and on her way to New Germany State Park next, hoping to finish up the day at Rocky Gap.
She camped last night at Swallow Falls and hit the Garrett County park trail at 7am. Next, off to Herrington Manor and then...Deep Creek Lake State Park. It worked out perfectly to meet her at the Deep Creek Lake Discovery Center - where she was greeted to a hero’s welcome by the staff and Patty Manown Mash. You could tell they were all following her quest (and they are all readers of the ‘I Love Deep Creek’ blog, too, apparently - thanks for the great comments!)
She promised to be up again for the black bear hunt in October, and I agreed to attend, as well! She says she loves it up here and loves coming back!
Without wanting to hold her up from the rest of her Quest, she smiled for a quick photo in front of the lake, and was off to New Germany...good luck, Candy!
Maryland Park Quest becomes an outdoors marathon - Balt. Sun Blog
Be on the look out for Candus Thomson, the popular ‘outdoors girl’ blogger from the Baltimore Sun. She is embarking on Maryland Park Service’s Park Quest, starting Wednesday at Swalllow Falls. (from the blog):
The premise, as sketched on a grease-infused paper plate, is fairly simple. Complete the Maryland Park Service’s Park Quest—a free popular summer-long activity that has attracted 750 families this year—in one week. That’s 24 parks, stretching from Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland to Assateague Island on the Atlantic Coast, in seven days.
I’ll blog about it at the end of each day.
Park Quest is part-hike, part-scavenger hunt, part-geocache, with a little history and geography lesson sprinkled on top for good measure.
The theme for this year’s event is, Where a Family Becomes a Team. Teams must include at least one adult and one child 16 years of age or younger, but can be as large as 10 people to include extended family. Teams must complete at least 10 Quests by Sept. 6 to be eligible for the Park Quest Finale on Sept. 11 at the Hammerman Area of Gunpowder Falls State Park, where they could win camping gear, kayaks and vacation packages.
Spontaneous style defines watercolor artist’s work
Great article about Robert Yonke, Garrett County painter:
It took a mixture of music and technology to jump-start Robert Yonke’s art career, and the better part of a lifetime for him to develop the water color creations that are now his trademark.
“I have always been in the game,” Yonke, a Garrett County Md. and Pittsburgh resident, said of painting.
He was painting in the late 1960s while in the advertising business. He put brush to paper in the 1990s around the time he was in construction. Now the art form is his focus.
A few years ago Yonke’s daughter, Becky Sciullo, started posting her father’s paintings on a website with bluegrass music. Soon after a Nashville, Tenn., music association asked him to paint images of bands for promotion.
and passing through Garrett County last Friday on his way from California to Atlantic City, N.J., was Abe Clark, a 24-year-old resident of Wisconsin. Clark is hoping to arrive in Atlantic City next Wednesday, completing a distance of nearly 3,000 miles and an estimated 4,000,000 steps. He also pushes a three-wheeled cart that carries various supplies. His effort to date has raised over $76,000 which will be given to Living Water International, a non-profit foundation that helps supply fresh water to people in Third World nations, with a current focus on Haiti following that nation’s devastating earthquake. Clark, who was a high school and collegiate runner, said that it was “a sense of adventure, a love of distance running, and a desire to help others” that motivated him to do this. While he has managed to make the excursion without injury, other than a few blisters, he nearly lost his life in New Mexico during a major snowstorm in February. He survived by building a snow cave and spending some 16 hours in it until the storm subsided. His 136-day run was also interrupted by the death of his grandfather, which took him off his course and back to Wisconsin for about three days. Persons who would like to make a donation to his cause can do so online by logging on to http://www.runningwater.cc. “I hope my actions will encourage others to join me in the race for clean water. I believe most people take fresh water for granted and are unaware of the shortages around the world,” Clark said. Abe’s father Mike, a cross country coach, was with him during his overnight stop in Oakland.
Gary L. Hardesty, Oakland, received four awards during last week’s Invention & New Product Exposition (INPEX show) at the Monroeville Convention Center in Monroeville, Pa. INPEX is billed as America’s largest inventor trade show, where new inventions and product ideas from around the world come to be judged by an international panel of experts.
Hardesty is owner of Garrett Innovations, a new product development company that represented one of his latest patent-pending tools, the Mat Lite, a hands-free work light that illuminates the entire bottom of a car on an auto lift.
At an awards dinner and ceremony Friday night, Hardesty was awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the 2010 INPEX Inventors University, two Awards of Excellence from the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, and the Gold Medal for Innovation Excellence in Automotive Tools from INPEX.
Thirty-five products in the automotive categories competed for gold and Bosch awards, with the top three earning awards. Inventors from across the United States and 14 countries – including Germany, Korea, China, and Taiwan – traveled to Pennsylvania to compete, according to event organizers.
Three popular local bands will kick off the 14th annual Little Yough Summer Music Festival Series tomorrow, Friday, June 18, at 7 p.m. at the Mountain Fresh Pavilion in Oakland. Scheduled to perform are the Lake Effect, Sugar Foot Stompers, and Double Shot.
The Lake Effect comprises twins Elliot (vocals/guitar) and Darryl Glotfelty (guitar/vocals), their older brother Rob (bass), and David Valenta (drums).
All of the members are Garrett County natives and have played extensively in western Maryland. The members also have a large following in the Baltimore area, where they have played at many of the premier venues the city has to offer.
The Sugar Foot Stompers band was formed in 2007 to play traditional New Orleans style jazz. It made its debut opening for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in a Garrett Lakes Arts Festival performance.
By now, I am sure you have seen them prowling the streets of Garrett County & Deep Creek Lake...I’ll be honest, I had no idea that they were even coming, but my crack reporter, Larry Smith of Railey Realty, gave me the scoop on Tuesday: The East Coast Posse of Prowlers is at Deep Creek Lake. The official website is here, and the official invitation is here. They are here to pay tribute to the Native Americans who once inhabited Western Maryland, which is great reason to come up to visit. They are guests of Railey Mountain Lake Vacations, staying at the Silver Tree Suites & the Lodges at Sunset Village. If you see them, make sure to offer a friendly Garrett County welcome!
After dinner last night, I took my family to the grand opening of DQ in Oakland. Greg Mortimer did a great job in building it, and the ice cream was great!!
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It took a mixture of music and technology to jump-start Robert Yonke’s art career, and the better part of a lifetime for him to develop the water color creations that are now his trademark.
