Janice Gantz – 95 years Growing Up in Boonsboro
We interviewed Janice Gantz in 2018 at age 95 in her kitchen at 202 Potomac Street. Her neice, Karen (Snyder) Cunningham who calls her by her nickname “Peck”, sat with us during the interview, helping to prompt memories. Janice Gantz, born in 1923 at her...Have you HEARD?
Pass it On has begun to launch our audio from the oral history interviews we’ve been gathering over the last few months. Take a listen to Darce Easton, daughter of the Washington Monument State Park’s first superintendent, from Jim Bowers who recalls his...Pass It On – Eleanor Lakin Retired Architect
Eleanor Virginia Lakin was born in July 3, 1937 in Boonsboro. She grew up at 331 S. Main Street. Her Lakin ancestors came to this region in the 17th century, settling in Jefferson, Maryland. Her great-grandfather, Abraham Lakin, owned a dental practice in the 1850s at...Early cars of Boonsboro
Main Street is busy with cars today, but at one time cars were a novelty in town. Here’s a photo, submitted by Doug Bast through our Pass It On program, of an early model car getting a start in front of 20 S. Main Street. See more submitted photos.Washington Monument Memories
Darce Easton, born April 30, 1930, moved with her family at the age of 6 to live at the Washington Monument State Park in Boonsboro. Her father, Robert Palmer, had been named the first superintendent of the park and job meant moving to live in the ranger’s...Pass It On To Launch First Phase
We’ve been busy gathering photos, images and recorded memories over the past few months and are starting to publish them for everyone to enjoy. Lots more in progress.Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s Christmas Past
Leisure time for the approximately 860 citizens of Boonsboro was practically nonexistent in 1879, but Christmas was celebrated with gift-giving, extravagant dinners and Christmas “exercises” at the town’s houses of worship. The Civil War, understandably, intensified...Boonsboro Reflections: Short Hill Cemetery
Many of Boonsboro’s buildings and landmarks of the Civil War era have vanished with the relentless pressure of time, weather and human action. For example, the community that arose around the Roxbury distillery is gone, but for a few walls of the old hotel that are...Boonsboro Reflections: The Wizard of Zittlestown
The exploration and colonization of the Americas occurred during the early modern period in history, a time when scientific understanding of the natural world was in its infancy. Settlers of the New World naturally brought family traditions and folklore with them as...Find Us on Facebook
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