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Time For Some Ice Art

The fifth annual Winter Fest will take place in downtown Oakland Feb. 17-19. Bill Sandusky and his ice carving company, Frozen Assets, will arrive in town next week to begin the artistic work, that of creating a wide array of ice sculptures to be displayed throughout town, and lit at night for as long as they remain frozen. A great number of activities and events are slated for Saturday, Feb. 18, downtown, such as wine tasting, snowman building, s’mores making, and, if the weather allows, snowmobile races. More activities will take place Sunday, which will end with Sandusky’s carving of his own tribute to the festival. There is a “toddler photo” contest that will begin next week at Marvin’s (see separate story) as well, with the winners to be announced Saturday. Sandusky and his staff will carve ice for audiences to watch. There will be ice-bowling and sliding, and kids can sit on a giant throne of ice. For a complete schedule of events, persons may go to www.oaklandwinterfest.com. There will be “something for everyone” at this celebration of winter. Photo (at last year’s event) by John McEwen.

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Number 1 Moved To New Home


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Sep. 1, 2011

With appropriate pomp and circumstance, the noble Number 1 fire truck of the Oakland Volunteer Fire Department, a 1930 American LaFrance pumper, was on Tuesday officially housed in its new home, the soon-to-be-opened Garrett County Museum of Transportation. The museum, a project of the Garrett County Historical Society and funded significantly by the Naylor Family Trust, is set to be officially launched later this month, although the doors were opened for the firefighters and many residents who attended the evening ceremony. While some were saddened at the thought of Number 1 no longer being driven, officials explained that the engine can indeed still be used in parades and other events, as it now has a special gas tank that can be quickly attached or removed as needed. (The vehicles in the museum cannot have any gasoline in them, for fire safety.) Photo by John McEwen.

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>Transportation Museum moving along

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I snapped a few photos of the new Garrett County Transportation Museum in downtown Oakland. Construction is apprently moving right along 🙂 Also, I found an article from Mountain Discoveries with more photos & details. It should be opening this summer, so stay tuned!

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>It's Winter Fest Time! – The Republican News

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The streets of Oakland soon will be decorated with a variety of ice sculptures, as the fourth annual Winter Fest will get under way tomorrow, Feb. 18, and run through Sunday evening. The sculptures will be lighted, and a drive through the town in the evening can be particularly engaging for sightseers. The weather could possibly hamper the festival a little bit, as after months of bitter cold, the area is to experience a warm spell. However, Saturday’s high is to be just 37, so the sculptures should remain intact. Many will be placed and lighted Friday night, and more will be carved “live” throughout the day on Saturday by returning artist Bill Sandusky of Frozen Assets. There will be “ice bowling,” a campfire with s’mores, other food, and music. Brochures with maps and activity listings will be available. Photo by Deb Swiger.

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Looking Back: Embarrassed wife has Oakland’s first doctor executed


Quite an interesting story about historical Oakland:

JAMES RADA
Cumberland Times-News

— OAKLAND — It’s been said that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Such fury cost Oakland its first doctor.

When Dr. John Conn stepped off the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train in 1851, he was a pioneer. Oakland hadn’t yet been incorporated as a town and the region was still frontier for Maryland. The town only had a few hundred citizens and they needed a doctor. The next-closest doctor was Dr. John H. Patterson in Grantsville. To get there and back to Oakland would have taken a full day.

Conn set up his office at Second and Oak streets where it quickly flourished.

“In the days before the convenience of a well-stocked pharmacy, it was said that the ‘young doctor’ either had on hand the correct medication, or could prescribe a suitable home remedy for any attack of ague or vapors, vague ailments which were popular at in that period,” according to the Garrett County Historical Society book, “Strange and Unusual True Stories of Garrett County.”

Besides the fact that Conn had a monopoly on the medical needs of the community, part of the reason that his practice was successful was because he was young, attractive and people liked him.

Sometimes too much.

Ann Johnson was a woman who believed that she deserved more from life than to work in a general store owned by her older husband, Cornelius, and live in a backwoods town. The general store was on Railroad Street, just 300 feet away from where Dr. Conn had set up his office.

Ann could watch him leave and enter the building from either the general store or her apartment. Sometimes the young doctor would even come into the store for items.

Ann began to think that Conn might be her way out of Oakland. He was younger than her husband and he could take her to a city where she could live the life she wanted. She began to find reasons to visit the doctor for treatments for various ailments that either she or her infant daughter, Ida Lucy Florence Jeanette Genevieve Jenny Lind Johnson, supposedly had. She would engage the doctor in conversation to show her sophistication and smile at the single man.

“As time passed, and the visits continued, Mrs. Johnson was convinced that her personality and charm were making an impression on Dr. Conn,” according to the historical society book.

And she was making an impression. Conn thought she was being quite out of line. He told one person that he thought Ann was a “butterfly fool.” When word of this got back to Ann, her dreams collapsed around her. How could this man call her foolish? He could not find a better woman in this town!

Ann stewed on the issue and her affection for the doctor turned to hate. She said something to Cornelius, most likely accusing Dr. Conn of doing something inappropriate to her during one of her visits.

Then one evening in the spring of 1854, Cornelius left the general store shortly before 7 p.m. and climbed the stairs to his apartment. There he loaded his muzzleloader and took up position at his window. He watched the doctor approach his office and raised the muzzleloader to his shoulder.

As Cornelius took aim at the doctor’s back, Marquis Perry approached the doctor to talk about something.

Cornelius waited for his target.

“The doctor crumbled at the step. The bullet passed through his head and lodged in the office door,” according to the historical society book.

Marquis was so frightened at being next to a murdered man that he ran off. He was found later hiding in his closet. Others, alerted by the shot, came outside and saw the doctor on the ground. They carried him to Thayer’s saloon on Railroad Street where Constable Thomas Arnold pronounced Conn dead.

Suspicion quickly fell on Cornelius and Arnold arrested him. However, the only witnesses against him were Marquis and Ann. Marquis said he was too shaken to know what happened and Ann wouldn’t testify against her husband.

The jury failed to convict Cornelius.

He left Oakland and his wife shortly thereafter.

Ann, surprisingly, stayed on longer taking care of her daughter. Then one day, she left the young girl in the care of a neighbor, saying that she needed to run some errands. Instead, she boarded a train and never returned to Oakland.

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