2/3/2010-2/13/2010:   Double Reed Day at Shepherd University on February 13th
Double Reed Day at Shepherd University

Shepherdstown, WV—The Shepherd University Department of Music will host its annual DOUBLE REED DAY on Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM at the Frank Arts Center on the Shepherd Campus. The event is for “people who play” and “people who teach people to play” double reed instruments. The free one-day seminar is open to high school double reed players (grades 9-12), college students and instrumental music teachers and directors who have an interest in double reeds.

The day will be led by oboist Gregory Shook, Applied Professor of Oboe at Shepherd University, and bassoonist Richard Polonchak, Applied Professor of Bassoon at Shepherd University. Together with Anne Munro, Applied Professor of Flute at Shepherd University, both perform regularly with Shepherd University’s new faculty wind trio, Shepherd Three.

Mr. Shook has performed extensively in the tri-state and D.C. metropolitan areas, performing with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Opera, the Washington Bach Consort and the Harrisburg Symphony, in addition to pit orchestras at the National and Warner Theaters. In addition to his numerous performances as a solo and chamber music recitalist, Mr. Shook is co-founder and Music Director for Hagerstown Choral Arts, an auditioned choral group of 100 singers. He is a frequent workshop clinician and guest conductor in the area. Mr. Polonchak was the former Principal Bassoonist of The United States Marine Band—“The President’s Own” and of the White House Orchestra in Washington, D.C. His articles have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Woodwind World, The School Musician, The Double Reed and Bandworld Magazine. He is the author of Primary Handbook for Bassoon, the bassoon audio/text for Embou-sure, published by Western International Band Clinic, and is a contributing author to the upcoming Woodwind Players Cookbook.

The seminars will be devoted exclusively to working with oboe and bassoon performance techniques, the audition process and purchasing new and used instruments. The event will end with a Mass Double Reed Performance Ensemble open to all the participants who wish to play.

The seminar is free but registration is required. For more information and/or a brochure and registration form, call Lisa Oswald at (304) 876-5555 or email at loswald@shepherd.edu.

2/6/2010-2/20/2010:   LOCAL AUDUBON CAMP NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS
LOCAL AUDUBON CAMP NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS

The Audubon Discovery Camp, a nature-oriented summer day camp for children in the Eastern Panhandle and nearby Maryland, is now registering campers for its 2010 season.

The camp, which is entering its eighth year, is sponsored by the Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS).

Registration was opened to PVAS members on February 1. The general public may register their children starting February 15.

Those who wish to register are encouraged to do so early—last year's camp was fully booked by the end of March.

This year's camp will span nine weeks between May 26 and July 23.

The first two weeks will be devoted to sessions for preschool-age children and an accompanying adult. The third week will be devoted to a session for children entering Kindergarten. The remaining six weeks will include a variety of sessions for children entering grades 1-6 and another set of sessions for children entering grades 5-7.

This year's camp will also include a special Junior Counselor-In- Training program for teens age 13 and older with leadership skills, to be held the week of June 28-July 2. Those who successfully complete this program will be able to participate in one additional week of camp at no charge by assisting as Junior Counselors.

Most of the camp sessions will be held at the Society's Yankauer Nature Preserve on Whiting's Neck, in the northeast corner of Berkeley County.

This year, for the first time PVAS will also be offering two weeks of camp sessions at CraftWorks at Cool Spring Farm, on Lloyd Road in southern Jefferson County. These sessions will be held the weeks of June 21-25 and June 28-July 2.

All of the camp's sessions are aimed at helping children gain a better understanding and appreciation of the natural world. All of them offer hands-on experiential learning led and supervised by experienced instructors.

Session sizes are kept very small to ensure an excellent instructor/ child ratio of 1:10.

The camp director is Ellen Murphy, PVAS's Director of Youth Education, who has many years of experience in developing, directing, and delivering educational programs for children.

The preschool camp sessions will be led by Suzi Taylor, a former PVAS camp director who also has extensive environmental education experience.

The fee for most camp sessions will be $125 per week. The fee for the preschool sessions will be $50 per week.

Full details about the camp's sessions can be found on the PVAS website at www.potomacaudubon.org, and easy online registration is also available there. A valid credit card is required for registration. For more information or questions about camp sessions, call 304-676-8739.

The Potomac Valley Audubon Society is a United Way of the Eastern Panhandle partner agency and a member of the Combined Federal Campaign.

For further info contact: Peter Smith at 304-876-1139 or pvsmith@frontiernet.net

2/9/2010:   Developing a Jefferson County GeoHistory network
On February 9th at 7 p.m., Dr. Bill Theriault will present a free public lecture in the auditorium of Shepherd University's Byrd Center for Legislative Studies about his latest efforts to develop a Jefferson County GeoHistory network. Dr. Theriault, a former Jefferson County resident now living in Hagerstown, earned his Ph.D. in American literature at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Between 1989 and 2002 he served as Chairman of the Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission. He founded the Peter Burr Living History Farm and continues to be involved with the farm, baking artisan bread in a reproduction brick oven, teaching classes, and developing interpretative programs. He has written numerous books and articles on West

Virginia history, including:

• How and Where To Look It Up: A guide to researching Jefferson County History

• History of Eastern Jefferson County

• West Virginia Wordcrafter: The Biography of Julia Davis

• History of Shannondale Springs

• Explorer: the West Virginia History Database

The Jefferson County GeoHistory Project seeks to integrate GIS into the study of local history and to provide research tools to academics, other professionals, students, and the general public. Although Jefferson County, WV, will be the geographic focus of this endeavor, the project will be structured so that it can be expanded to include others areas if the interest and resources develop. The project will span the time period from approximately 1700 to 1900. It will be designed so that information falling outside this time frame can be incorporated as needed. Researchers and software developers have been striving for more than a decade to document, display, and analyze geographic changes over time. Simultaneously, other groups have made important strides to digitize and study other potential sources of historical information. These sources include:

* Graphic images (photographs, maps, and facsimiles of primary and secondary sources)

* Relational databases containing census information and other data generated at the federal, state, and local level

* Full text databases and other textual sources containing various material of interest to historians

In November, Dr. Theriault made an initial presentation on the project at the Shepherdstown Men’s Club which generated a great deal of interest in the community. Since then the project has developed of working group of more than a dozen volunteers and has become affiliated with five participating institutions. Work has begun on several short-term mapping projects which he will describe. His working group meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 pm at the Charles Town Visitors' Center. Meetings are open to the public.

For additional information contact Bill Theriault at _wmtheriault@myactv.net_ (mailto:wmtheriault@myactv.net)

2/10/2010:   “The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action“
On Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 7:00 pm, author Ned Tillman will present “The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action“ in the Byrd Auditorium at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, WV. This talk is co-sponsored by the Potomac Valley Audubon Society.

The Chesapeake Watershed helps CREATE a Sense of Place in the reader and offers them a Call to Action to help save the Bay and our planet from a range of human impacts, including global warming. It is a timely book. Blending natural history and personal narrative, the author takes the reader into the murky shallows of the Bay to chase crabs, onto the Eastern Shore to hunt quail, and into the Piedmont to paddle through white water. At the end of each chapter, there are suggestions the reader can pursue to become a better steward of the watershed and our planet. Ned Tillman is a lifelong resident of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and an active sportsman and environmentalist. He’s enjoyed a career in the environmental industry, and now advises organizations on how to become more sustainable. Ned has served as chair of the County Environmental Sustainability Board, the Howard County Conservancy, and the Maryland Geothermal Energy Commission. He received a BA from Franklin and Marshall College and a MS from Syracuse University in earth and environmental sciences. He has been on the staff of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland and president of Target Environmental, Columbia Technologies, and Growth Adventures.

The talk is free and open to the public. The NCTC is located at 698 Conservation Way along Shepherd Grade Rd. in Shepherdstown, WV 25443 approximately 70 miles west of Washington and Baltimore. No tickets or reservations are required. For more information on the series please visit: http://training.fws.gov/history/publiclectures.html or contact Mark Madison (Mark_Madison@fws.gov; 304 876-7276).

2/12/2010:   “Daughters of the Dust”(1991) by Julie Dash
The Shepherdstown Film Society announces its spring 2010 season, in partnership with Shepherd University’s
Scarborough Society. The movies listed below will be screened on Fridays at 7 PM in Shepherd University’s
Reynolds Hall. Foreign language films are in the original language with English subtitles and all films are
followed by a post-film discussion. Admission is FREE!! MOVIE SCHEDULE

•February 12 “Daughters of the Dust”(1991) by Julie Dash; 112 min. Presented in conjunction with Shepherd University’s Black History Month program and co-sponsored with Multicultural Student Affairs.

•February 26 “The Garden”(2008) by Scott Hamilton Kennedy; 80 min. Presented in conjunction with the Shepherd University Common Reading’s One Book, One Community program.

•March 12 “Abre los ojos”(1997) by Alejandro Amenabar; Spain, 117 min

. •April 30 “Regarding Henry”(1991) by Mike Nichols; 108 min.

The Shepherdstown Film Society is a coalition of interested individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing more quality films to Shepherdstown. The spring film series is made possible through a partnership with Shepherd University’s Scarborough Society and is also supported by Friends of the Shepherdstown Library (FOSL). For further information on these and other films or to volunteer, please visit our website at www.shepherdstownfilmsociety.org or contact Lisa Welch (304-876-1837, lmwelch@frontiernet.net) or Mina Goodrich (304-876-2159, LarryMina@aol.com).

2/12/2010-2/14/2010:   Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a musical
Shepherdstown, WV—Winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and nominated for 10 NAACP Theatre Awards, Big River comes to the Frank Arts Center Theater!

Don’t miss Shepherd University’s production of Big River on Friday and Saturday, February 5, 6, 12 & 13 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 7 & 14 at 3:00 p.m.

Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with a book by William Hauptman and music and lyrics by “King of the Road” country music icon Roger Miller, based on Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel Adventures of Hucklebery Finn. A TonyAward-winner for Best Original score, it features a jubilant score of cajun, gospel,folk, country and blues to accompany the irrepressible Huck Finn on a musicaljourney as he helps his friend Jim, a slave, escape to freedom. Big River is a hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming celebration of pure Americana.

William Hauptman won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Big River. His plays include Heat, Domino Courts (Obie Award) and Gillette (LA Drama-Logue Award). His fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthology, The Atlantic Monthly and Southwest Review. Mr. Hauptman has also written screenplays forfilm and television, garnering an Emmy nomination and an NAACP Freedom Foundation Award, and was a guest professor at the Texas Center for Writers, a program of the University of Texas in Austin. William Hauptman was born in Texas and attended the University of Texas and the Yale School of Drama.

Admission and seating for Big River is on a first come-first serve basis and advance sales or reservations are not available. The box office will open one hour prior to each performance. General admission is $15, $10 for faculty, staff and students 18 and under, and free for Shepherd students with Rambler ID and Friends of Music Gold and Silver MAC Cardholders. For more information call 304-876-5555 or visit www.shepherd.edu/musicweb.

2/13/2010:   AUDUBON SOCIETY SETS BIRDING TRIP TO EASTERN SHORE
AUDUBON SOCIETY SETS BIRDING TRIP TO EASTERN SHORE

The Potomac Valley Audubon Society invites its members and interested members of the public to participate in a birding trip to the Eastern Shore on February 13.

There is no fee and anyone with an interest is welcome to participate

The trip is being cosponsored by the Baltimore Bird Club. It will cover the area from Cape Henlopen, Delaware, to Ocean City, Maryland, and focus on wintering waterfowl.

It will offer opportunities to see loons, gannets, sea ducks, great cormorants and purple sandpipers. Razorbills, red-breasted and brown- headed nuthatches are possible.

Participants will meet at 9:30 a.m. at the Lewes-Cape May Ferry passenger parking lot in Lewes, Delaware, and leave from there.

This trip can be brutally cold and windy. Participants should be prepared to bundle up, and should bring binoculars and scopes if they have them.

The trip may be extended one or two days, with overnights in the area, if participants want.

For more information contact Nancy Kirschbaum at 304-876-6881 or nancyk500@comcast.net

The Potomac Valley Audubon Society is a United Way of the Eastern Panhandle partner agency and a member of the Combined Federal Campaign.

2/13/2010:   PANCAKE BREAKFAST/BRUNCH FUNDRAISER
PANCAKE BREAKFAST/BRUNCH FUNDRAISER ON Saturday, February 13, 2010 there will be Pancakes & More! This will be held the last Saturday before the beginning of Lent.

Where: New Street United Methodist Church, Corner of New & Church Streets, in Shepherdstown. The breakfast will be held in the Dining Hall on the Lower Level.

Serving Times: 8 am to 1 pm.

Menu: Pancakes, Sausage Gravy, Bacon, Sausage, Applesauce, Beverage;

Cost: Adults, $6.00; Children 3-12, $3.00

All You Can Eat !!! Carry Out is Available.

For more information, please contact Tom White at topwhite@frontiernet.net

2/13/2010:   Celebrate Valentine's Day Like Never Before!
Celebrate Valentine's Day Like Never Before! An evening you will love

4-course Dinner, Live Middle Eastern Music & Belly dancing

Saturday, February 13th

at Shaharazade's in Shephersdtown, WV

Join TarabRaqs' Jensuya, Bob, Farid, Cam, Dakota, Lhasa for an evening of delectable food, music, storytelling, and dancing.

Live Middle Eastern Music & Belly dancing

The Evening's Magic begins at 7:00 pm Show at 8:30 pm

Spectacular 4-Course Dinner Special BYOB

Reserve Your Seats NOW! 304-876-1000

Shaharazade's Restaurant & Tea Room Shepherdstown, WV

Shaharazades.com

P.S. See VIDEOS from the November show at http://tarabraqs.com/

Find us on

http://robert-peak.com/

2/26/2010:   “The Garden”(2008) by Scott Hamilton Kennedy
The Shepherdstown Film Society announces its spring 2010 season, in partnership with Shepherd University’s
Scarborough Society. The movies listed below will be screened on Fridays at 7 PM in Shepherd University’s
Reynolds Hall. Foreign language films are in the original language with English subtitles and all films are
followed by a post-film discussion. Admission is FREE!! MOVIE SCHEDULE

•February 12 “Daughters of the Dust”(1991) by Julie Dash; 112 min. Presented in conjunction with Shepherd University’s Black History Month program and co-sponsored with Multicultural Student Affairs.

•February 26 “The Garden”(2008) by Scott Hamilton Kennedy; 80 min. Presented in conjunction with the Shepherd University Common Reading’s One Book, One Community program.

•March 12 “Abre los ojos”(1997) by Alejandro Amenabar; Spain, 117 min

. •April 30 “Regarding Henry”(1991) by Mike Nichols; 108 min.

The Shepherdstown Film Society is a coalition of interested individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing more quality films to Shepherdstown. The spring film series is made possible through a partnership with Shepherd University’s Scarborough Society and is also supported by Friends of the Shepherdstown Library (FOSL). For further information on these and other films or to volunteer, please visit our website at www.shepherdstownfilmsociety.org or contact Lisa Welch (304-876-1837, lmwelch@frontiernet.net) or Mina Goodrich (304-876-2159, LarryMina@aol.com).

2/26/2010:   Film Society film showing – “The Garden.”
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Events 2009-2010

Shepherd University will be celebrating the Common Reading, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, during the entire 2009-2010 academic year. There are many fun, exciting and educational experiences planned. Events will be added to this page as they are finalized. All of our events are open to the public and the community is encouraged to attend. For more information, call Judi McIntyre, 876-5396.

Friday, 2/26/10 - Shepherdstown Film Society film showing – “The Garden.” in Reynolds Hall. Liz Wheeler will introduce the film and moderate the discussion afterwards. Event begins at 7 p.m.

2/27/2010:   Jazz Festival Concert
Jazz Festival Concert. February 27, 2010 8:00 p.m.

The Shepherd University Jazz Ensemble with special guest artist Chris Vadala, welcomes you to a scintillating evening of incredible music! The Jazz Ensemble has performed throughout the East Coast and Europe and is in great demand as a feature band in Jazz Festivals around the globe.

The Friends of Music brings top-notch talent from around the world to the Frank Arts Center Theater. You can purchase tickets online to any events or sponsor a concert. If you become a FOM member, guest passes to the entire concert series are included in many of the levels of membership.

To buy tickets online: http://www.sufom.org/tickets.html

For more information, please contact: (304) 876-5765 or friends@sufom.org

3/6/2010:   Trombone Day at Shepherd University
Trombone Day at Shepherd University

The Shepherd University Music Department will present a day of trombone playing, clinics, masterclasses and performances on Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the Frank Arts Center on the campus of Shepherd University. The event is free and open to the public, however pre-registration is required. The performances and instructional clinics are geared toward trombonists of all ages, including students, teachers, and enthusiasts.

Sponsored by the Shepherd University Department of Music, the Trombone Day will include performances by the Shepherd Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Brett Lemley, a clinic on blues and jazz trombone by Shepherd University music technology professor Cam Millar, and a recital by Dr. James Ryon, professor of trombone at Shepherd. A performance of the trombone section of the U.S. Army Field Band will also be featured in a concert of works from the standard repertoire as well as compositions and arrangements written specifically for the group.

The day will also include an open reading session, in which all members of the audience can participate. Trombone chorales, quartets, and octets will be read through and rehearsed. All are invited and are encouraged to bring their instrument with them to the event.

Dr. James Ryon, coordinator of the event, has served as Trombone Professor at Shepherd for two years and holds similar posts at Gettysburg College and McDaniel College. Dr. Ryon received his Music Education degree from East Carolina University, his master of Music degree in Trombone Performance from Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Catholic University of America, where he studied with John Marcellus. He completed additional studies at Indiana University and the University of Louisville. Dr. Ryon played in the 324th US Army Band, and was an instrumental music teacher for Carroll County (MD) public schools for 31 years. As a professional trombonist, Ryon has worked with such names as Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, James Brown, Barry Manilow Englebert Humperdink, Glenn Campbell, the Ringling Brothers Circus Band and others. In 1977, he co-founded the Chesapeake Brass Quintet, one of the first groups of it kind to exist in the Baltimore area. Dr. Ryon has served as principal trombonist with the Harrisburg (PA) Symphony, and has also performed with the Lancaster Symphony, the Maryland Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony. He currently is principal trombonist for the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, and also performs with the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra and the Shippensburg Summer Festival Orchestra.

For further information or to register, contact Lisa Oswald at 304-876-5555 or loswald@shepherd.edu. Dr. Ryon can also be reached at jryon@shepherd.edu.

3/8/2010:   The Jefferson County History Series
The Jefferson County History Series

The Shepherdstown Men’s Club and The Jefferson County Historical Society Partner in a Series of History-Related Presentations

Beginning this September and continuing through May of 2010, the Shepherdstown Men’s Club, along with the Jefferson County Historical Society, will host a series of public presentations on the second Monday of each month in relation to the history of Jefferson County.

The presentations will be preceded by a social hour for members of the Men’s Club and the Jefferson County Historical Society commencing at 6:00 pm. Each public Presentation, will begin at 7:00 pm at the Men’s Club, 102 E. German Street, in Shepherdstown, WV.

A local historian, author, or educator will be presenting.

• September 14 John Allen
Early Residential Architecture of Jefferson County.

• October 12 Dennis Frye
A comparison of the events celebrating the 50th and 150th Anniversary of the John Brown Raid.

• November 9 Bill Theriault
Development of a web-based historical database of Jefferson County Land Records.

• December 8 Doug Perks
All Quiet Along the Potomac--The Impacts of the War Between the States on Jefferson County.

• January 11 Keith Alexander
18th century waterfront commerce near Shepherdstown

• February 8 Jim Taylor
Black History of Jefferson County

• March 8 Walter Washington and Betsy Wells
The Washington Family in Jefferson County

• April 12 Doug Estep
The Mine Wars’ Impacts on Jefferson County

• May 10 To be announced

For more information, please call Curt Mason at: 304.724.7008 or email cmasonwhf@aol.com

3/12/2010:   “Abre los ojos”(1997) by Alejandro Amenabar
The Shepherdstown Film Society announces its spring 2010 season, in partnership with Shepherd University’s Scarborough Society. The movies listed below will be screened on Fridays at 7 PM in Shepherd University’s Reynolds Hall. Foreign language films are in the original language with English subtitles and all films are followed by a post-film discussion. Admission is FREE!! MOVIE SCHEDULE

•February 12 “Daughters of the Dust”(1991) by Julie Dash; 112 min. Presented in conjunction with Shepherd University’s Black History Month program and co-sponsored with Multicultural Student Affairs.

•February 26 “The Garden”(2008) by Scott Hamilton Kennedy; 80 min. Presented in conjunction with the Shepherd University Common Reading’s One Book, One Community program.

•March 12 “Abre los ojos”(1997) by Alejandro Amenabar; Spain, 117 min

. •April 30 “Regarding Henry”(1991) by Mike Nichols; 108 min.

The Shepherdstown Film Society is a coalition of interested individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing more quality films to Shepherdstown. The spring film series is made possible through a partnership with Shepherd University’s Scarborough Society and is also supported by Friends of the Shepherdstown Library (FOSL). For further information on these and other films or to volunteer, please visit our website at www.shepherdstownfilmsociety.org or contact Lisa Welch (304-876-1837, lmwelch@frontiernet.net) or Mina Goodrich (304-876-2159, LarryMina@aol.com).

3/13/2010:   Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra
Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra March 13, 2010 8:00 p.m

•Shostakovich – Festive Overture, Op. 96

•Mozart – Concerto for Clarinet in A

•Marquez – Conga del Fuego

•Beethoven – Symphony No.7 in A, Op. 92

The Friends of Music brings top-notch talent from around the world to the Frank Arts Center Theater. You can purchase tickets online to any events or sponsor a concert. If you become a FOM member, guest passes to the entire concert series are included in many of the levels of membership.

To buy tickets online: http://www.sufom.org/tickets.html

For more information, please contact: (304) 876-5765 or friends@sufom.org

3/26/2010:   Chopin Concert
Chopin Concert March 26, 2010 8:00 p.m.

Commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin with Shepherd’s own Dr. Scott Beard. Dr. Beard is a nationally recognized pianist, teacher, clinician, author and recording artist. He was named 2006 West Virginia Music Teacher of the Year. Concerts as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist have taken Dr. Beard throughout the United States and also to Canada and France.

The Friends of Music brings top-notch talent from around the world to the Frank Arts Center Theater. You can purchase tickets online to any events or sponsor a concert. If you become a FOM member, guest passes to the entire concert series are included in many of the levels of membership.

To buy tickets online: http://www.sufom.org/tickets.html

For more information, please contact: (304) 876-5765 or friends@sufom.org

3/31/2010:   REBEL Baroque Music Group
REBEL Baroque Music Group. March 31, 2010 8:00 p.m.

This New York-based Baroque ensemble REBEL (pronounced Re-BEL) has earned an impressive international reputation, enchanting diverse audiences by their unique style and their virtuosic, highly expressive and provocative approach to the Baroque and Classical repertoire. The core formation of two violins, recorder/traverso, cello/viola da gamba and harpsichord/organ expands with additional strings, winds, theorbo and vocalists, performing on period instruments. REBEL is currently in residence at historic Trinity Church, Wall Street in New York City, collaborating with Trinity Choir in works ranging from the cantatas of Bach to the major oratories of Handel, Bach, Mozart and Haydn.

The Friends of Music brings top-notch talent from around the world to the Frank Arts Center Theater. You can purchase tickets online to any events or sponsor a concert. If you become a FOM member, guest passes to the entire concert series are included in many of the levels of membership.

To buy tickets online: http://www.sufom.org/tickets.html

For more information, please contact: (304) 876-5765 or friends@sufom.org

4/12/2010:   The Jefferson County History Series
The Jefferson County History Series

The Shepherdstown Men’s Club and The Jefferson County Historical Society Partner in a Series of History-Related Presentations

Beginning this September and continuing through May of 2010, the Shepherdstown Men’s Club, along with the Jefferson County Historical Society, will host a series of public presentations on the second Monday of each month in relation to the history of Jefferson County.

The presentations will be preceded by a social hour for members of the Men’s Club and the Jefferson County Historical Society commencing at 6:00 pm. Each public Presentation, will begin at 7:00 pm at the Men’s Club, 102 E. German Street, in Shepherdstown, WV.

A local historian, author, or educator will be presenting.

• September 14 John Allen
Early Residential Architecture of Jefferson County.

• October 12 Dennis Frye
A comparison of the events celebrating the 50th and 150th Anniversary of the John Brown Raid.

• November 9 Bill Theriault
Development of a web-based historical database of Jefferson County Land Records.

• December 8 Doug Perks
All Quiet Along the Potomac--The Impacts of the War Between the States on Jefferson County.

• January 11 Keith Alexander
18th century waterfront commerce near Shepherdstown

• February 8 Jim Taylor
Black History of Jefferson County

• March 8 Walter Washington and Betsy Wells
The Washington Family in Jefferson County

• April 12 Doug Estep
The Mine Wars’ Impacts on Jefferson County

• May 10 To be announced

For more information, please call Curt Mason at: 304.724.7008 or email cmasonwhf@aol.com

4/24/2010:   2nd Annual Panhandle Earth Day Celebration
2nd Annual Panhandle Earth Day Celebration

April 24, 2010

12PM - 9PM at Morgans Grove Park
Rt. 480 Shepherdstown, WV

Free Event! Enjoy all day music, crafts, environmentalist, kid’s activities and more.

No pets please!

For more information about the Earth Day Celebration, contact Stephanie Unger: stephanie@earthvibeproductions.com

For more information or for a vendor application contact: www.earthvibeproductions.com

4/30/2010:   “Regarding Henry”(1991) by Mike Nichols
The Shepherdstown Film Society announces its spring 2010 season, in partnership with Shepherd University’s Scarborough Society. The movies listed below will be screened on Fridays at 7 PM in Shepherd University’s Reynolds Hall. Foreign language films are in the original language with English subtitles and all films are followed by a post-film discussion. Admission is FREE!! MOVIE SCHEDULE

•February 12 “Daughters of the Dust”(1991) by Julie Dash; 112 min. Presented in conjunction with Shepherd University’s Black History Month program and co-sponsored with Multicultural Student Affairs.

•February 26 “The Garden”(2008) by Scott Hamilton Kennedy; 80 min. Presented in conjunction with the Shepherd University Common Reading’s One Book, One Community program.

•March 12 “Abre los ojos”(1997) by Alejandro Amenabar; Spain, 117 min

. •April 30 “Regarding Henry”(1991) by Mike Nichols; 108 min.

The Shepherdstown Film Society is a coalition of interested individuals and organizations dedicated to bringing more quality films to Shepherdstown. The spring film series is made possible through a partnership with Shepherd University’s Scarborough Society and is also supported by Friends of the Shepherdstown Library (FOSL). For further information on these and other films or to volunteer, please visit our website at www.shepherdstownfilmsociety.org or contact Lisa Welch (304-876-1837, lmwelch@frontiernet.net) or Mina Goodrich (304-876-2159, LarryMina@aol.com).

5/1/2010-5/2/2010:   masterworks Chorale, Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
masterworks Chorale, Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem. May 1, 2010 8:00 p.m. | May 2, 2010 7:00 p.m.

Brahms’s mother died in February, 1865, a loss that painfully grieved him and that may well have inspired Ein deutsches Requiem. The title (A German Requiem) refers primarily to the language rather than the intended audience. Brahms told Karl Martin Reinthaler, director of music at the Bremen cathedral, that he would have gladly called the work A Human Requiem.

The Friends of Music brings top-notch talent from around the world to the Frank Arts Center Theater. You can purchase tickets online to any events or sponsor a concert. If you become a FOM member, guest passes to the entire concert series are included in many of the levels of membership.

To buy tickets online: http://www.sufom.org/tickets.html

For more information, please contact: (304) 876-5765 or friends@sufom.org

5/10/2010:   The Jefferson County History Series
The Jefferson County History Series

The Shepherdstown Men’s Club and The Jefferson County Historical Society Partner in a Series of History-Related Presentations

Beginning this September and continuing through May of 2010, the Shepherdstown Men’s Club, along with the Jefferson County Historical Society, will host a series of public presentations on the second Monday of each month in relation to the history of Jefferson County.

The presentations will be preceded by a social hour for members of the Men’s Club and the Jefferson County Historical Society commencing at 6:00 pm. Each public Presentation, will begin at 7:00 pm at the Men’s Club, 102 E. German Street, in Shepherdstown, WV.

A local historian, author, or educator will be presenting.

• September 14 John Allen
Early Residential Architecture of Jefferson County.

• October 12 Dennis Frye
A comparison of the events celebrating the 50th and 150th Anniversary of the John Brown Raid.

• November 9 Bill Theriault
Development of a web-based historical database of Jefferson County Land Records.

• December 8 Doug Perks
All Quiet Along the Potomac--The Impacts of the War Between the States on Jefferson County.

• January 11 Keith Alexander
18th century waterfront commerce near Shepherdstown

• February 8 Jim Taylor
Black History of Jefferson County

• March 8 Walter Washington and Betsy Wells
The Washington Family in Jefferson County

• April 12 Doug Estep
The Mine Wars’ Impacts on Jefferson County

• May 10 To be announced

For more information, please call Curt Mason at: 304.724.7008 or email cmasonwhf@aol.com

5/22/2010-5/23/2010:   Back Alley Garden Tour and Tea
Back Alley Garden Tour and Tea

Historic Shepherdstown, WV

May 22 and 23, 2010

Event sponsored by Shepherdstown Men's Club.

Proceeds benefit Morgan's Grove Park and the War Memorial Building.

Please look for more exciting information to follow!

7/19/2010-7/25/2010:   The Second Annual 2010 Polymer Clay Collaborative & Mixed Media Retreat
Registrations for the The Second Annual 2010 Polymer Clay Collaborative & Mixed Media Retreat are in full swing now that the holidays are past and we look forward to our upcoming artistic year! www.pccmmretreat.com

Meredith Arnold, Anne Bowers, Debbie Jackson, Ellen Marshall, Marie Segal, Meta Strick

Come spend a week with these amazing artists!

Sign up NOW for the workshops of your choice!

http://www.pccmmretreat.com/workshopsdescriptions.html

Classes are beginning to fill up with a tremendous line-up of workshops! We thank our workshop instructors for offering you a wide variety of interesting mixed media techniques at incredibly affordable prices! SIGN UP NOW FOR THE WORKSHOPS OF YOUR CHOICE while space is available. Workshops filled up quickly last year and were enjoyed by all!

Attend this retreat with your clay friends, or bring one of your beading, paper, doll making, fiber, journaling or other media friends and enjoy the week away from your daily demands! Single rooms are still available, as well as plenty of doubles.

Thanks to The Polymer Clay Superstore and to Jacquard, the distributors of PearlEx and Cernit for their contributions to the goodie bags / silent auction items for the 2010 Polymer Clay Collaborative & Mixed Media Retreat. Their items have just arrived, and much more is on the way!

Hope to see you in July in Shepherdstown!

Mona Kissel www.pccmmretreat.com www.monakissel.com

Mona Kissel

www.monakissel.com

www.pccmmretreat.com