Around Crownsville

A Special Time of Year to Look for Special Sightings
This time of year is special for nature lovers because it’s a period of transition.  Not every migratory bird has traveled south nor has every varmint gone into hibernation.   The winter visitors have begun to arrive.

The cormorants are still here.  Almost as soon as you sight [...]

Rockbridge Academy and Indian Creek Meet.  ICS Eagles Capture First-ever Tournament Championship!
Crownsville’s two high school girls varsity basketball teams kicked off the Inter-County Basketball Tournament on Friday, November 13.  Friday night Indian Creek tipped off the Inter-County Basketball Tournament with a victory over Rockbridge Academy. The Eagles got off to a great start and led [...]

Gluten-free pie crust– different and delicious!
Faced with the challenge of perpetuating the family tradition of pumpkin, apple, mince, and apple crumb pie for Thanksgiving and the need to be gluten-free for turkey day, I went in search of information about pie crusts.  With a hint here and there and a kitchen that looked a little [...]

With holiday giving barreling down on us, why not go local with a unique giving opportunity.  You don’t have to leave the comfort of your own home to give a great gift from right here in Crownsville.  Sign your coffee-loving friends up for Cobblestone Coffee’s Coffee of the Month Club.

So you bought a pumpkin to decorate the front of your house for the fall.   Pretty soon it will time to decorate for the next holiday, and you’ll be throwing that pumpkin away.  STOP!  If it’s still firm, it’s food for Thanksgiving. Here’s how you can make it into some delicious treats.

Holly Thomas, artistic director of the Candlelight Concert Society, invites us all to a holiday classic when the Society presents Hansel and Gretel on December 13 at 3:00 p.m. and again at 4:30 p.m.  This Society favorite returns with the well-known classic Brothers Grimm tale set to the music by nineteenth century composer Engelbert Humperdinck [...]

You won’t be able to go to the county library over Thanksgiving because all branches of the Anne Arundel County Public Library (AACPL) and Library Headquarters will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25 and remain closed on Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The 15 County [...]

When Indian Creek School faculty member and drama director Anne Crossman chose The Diary of Anne Frank as the fall drama for performance by the student at Indian Creek’s Upper School, she did so know she had not made an easy choice.  The play would challenge the student actors theatrically and emotionally.
The theatrical challenge keeps [...]

Reminder:  GHCCA meeting Tuesday, 7:30 P.M. at the schoolhouse behind historic Baldwin Hall.
Join your neighbors and be part of keeping our community great.

State Delegate James King , (R) Dist. 33A will bring us up to date on proposed legislation affecting the General’s Highway Corridor.

2. More on the mobile Billboard issue at Generals Highway and Old [...]