Did you take my "Frederick History 101" course? If so, you will certainly be primed and ready to take one of my walking classes (tours) in Mount Olivet Cemetery. I offer two versions of a "Frederick History 101" based tour in which participants discover, and visit, the grave sites of a collection of men and women talked about in the classroom lecture course. One version takes place solely in Mount Olivet's historic area and centers on personalities from the 1700s and 1800s. The other version naturally involves later residents who made their mark in the 1900s up through the present. Again, this is the perfect follow-up to our "in-class, multi-media lecture presentation" and serves somewhat as a lab practical, so to speak as Mount Olivet, itself, has been described as a "museum without walls."
Scheduled for 2 hours, the route will be about 1.3 miles in length, mostly on macadam roadways with occasional walking on grass to access gravesites. People of all ages are welcome to attend. Restrooms and snacks will be available at the tour's intermission period midway through the walk. Dress appropriately including footwear, and feel free to bring a drink and a flashlight if the tour encompasses night-time. Parking info will be given later.
In summary, these are not simply walking history tours, I like to call them "Walking History Classes." And where else can you learn about our locality's colorful characters from the past while burning calories?
Back to the Future
There are plans to present "Frederick History 201" an upper-level course which will allow further inspection and dialogue regarding the people, places and events that helped form the Frederick, Maryland we know today. This will allow varying voices from my Frederick Town documentary and special guests to help give commentary and analysis on the news and newsmakers of "Frederick Past."
As stated earlier, the context for much of the material found in the "Frederick History 101" series comes from my Frederick Town history documentary, a 10-hour chronicling of Frederick's history produced in 1995. In addition, I have 34 years+ of work in public history with Frederick Cablevision's Cable 10 Television channel, the Tourism Council of Frederick County, and Mount Olivet's Preservation and Enhancement Fund, where I serve as fund director and cemetery historian and research and write for MountOlivetHistory.com. and Friends of Mount Olivet membership group.
I have continued offering sessions of the introductory "Frederick History 101" lecture course. The corresponding "101 Walking Class/Tour" has been offered after each session. Other classroom lecture classes have featured Frederick's geology, prehistory, and African-American history and a special cemetery nighttime tour where we visit the graves of decedents who met with unsettling events that would prove fatal. Future classes are being developed to cover Frederick in the Civil War and also Revolutionary War, Thurmont, Maryland, and a special cemetery nighttime tour (October 2023) where we will visit the graves of some truly unfortunate Fredericktonians.
As I've said many times, I'm so grateful that I've had the unique opportunity to immerse myself in Frederick, Maryland history for the majority of my professional and personal life. I've made documentaries, presented hundreds of lectures and programs, built interpretive history exhibits, organized special commemorative events, and conducted walking and motor coach tours and other field trips. All the while, I continue to research, write and publish articles and blogs on Frederick people, places and events through my work with Mount Olivet Cemetery and the "Stories in Stone" blog. You can even find my early blog (History Shark Blog) and institutional histories of the United Way and Frederick County Association of Realtors on this website.
Scheduled for 2 hours, the route will be about 1.3 miles in length, mostly on macadam roadways with occasional walking on grass to access gravesites. People of all ages are welcome to attend. Restrooms and snacks will be available at the tour's intermission period midway through the walk. Dress appropriately including footwear, and feel free to bring a drink and a flashlight if the tour encompasses night-time. Parking info will be given later.
In summary, these are not simply walking history tours, I like to call them "Walking History Classes." And where else can you learn about our locality's colorful characters from the past while burning calories?
Back to the Future
There are plans to present "Frederick History 201" an upper-level course which will allow further inspection and dialogue regarding the people, places and events that helped form the Frederick, Maryland we know today. This will allow varying voices from my Frederick Town documentary and special guests to help give commentary and analysis on the news and newsmakers of "Frederick Past."
As stated earlier, the context for much of the material found in the "Frederick History 101" series comes from my Frederick Town history documentary, a 10-hour chronicling of Frederick's history produced in 1995. In addition, I have 34 years+ of work in public history with Frederick Cablevision's Cable 10 Television channel, the Tourism Council of Frederick County, and Mount Olivet's Preservation and Enhancement Fund, where I serve as fund director and cemetery historian and research and write for MountOlivetHistory.com. and Friends of Mount Olivet membership group.
I have continued offering sessions of the introductory "Frederick History 101" lecture course. The corresponding "101 Walking Class/Tour" has been offered after each session. Other classroom lecture classes have featured Frederick's geology, prehistory, and African-American history and a special cemetery nighttime tour where we visit the graves of decedents who met with unsettling events that would prove fatal. Future classes are being developed to cover Frederick in the Civil War and also Revolutionary War, Thurmont, Maryland, and a special cemetery nighttime tour (October 2023) where we will visit the graves of some truly unfortunate Fredericktonians.
As I've said many times, I'm so grateful that I've had the unique opportunity to immerse myself in Frederick, Maryland history for the majority of my professional and personal life. I've made documentaries, presented hundreds of lectures and programs, built interpretive history exhibits, organized special commemorative events, and conducted walking and motor coach tours and other field trips. All the while, I continue to research, write and publish articles and blogs on Frederick people, places and events through my work with Mount Olivet Cemetery and the "Stories in Stone" blog. You can even find my early blog (History Shark Blog) and institutional histories of the United Way and Frederick County Association of Realtors on this website.
Photograph of the re-interment ceremony of Barbara Fritchie in May, 1913
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Mount Olivet's Gazebo/"Never Forget Garden" and WWI Memorial
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