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The Farmsteads of Antietam Tour
October 29, 2019 by jacobrohrbach
The Dunker Church and debris after the battle
For those that remember the PBS series "The Civil War" by Ken Burns, the opening scenes begin with this statement:
"The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men—2 percent of the population—died in it. American homes became headquarters, American churches and schoolhouses sheltered the dying, and huge foraging armies swept across American farms and burned American towns. Americans slaughtered one another wholesale, right here in America in their own cornfields and peach orchards, along familiar roads and by waters with old American names."
Lutheran Church in Sharpsburg after the battle
No where was this more true than here at Sharpsburg. The Battle of Antietam had effected everyone living in and around Sharpsburg. The battle only lasted one day but for the civilians living in the wake of this man-made disaster, the effects of the battle were felt for weeks', months', and even years.
Sharpsburg was the first organized community in the United States to suffer widespread damage from both the combat and the sheer presence of two opposing armies of more than 120,000 Rebel and Yankee soldiers and some 50,000 horses & mules.
The debris of battle
This would led to a tremendous threat of disease from the thousands of dead men and animals rotting in the warm September sun and the thousands of wounded left to be cared for in the field hospitals.
Combat and disease were not the only threats posed by the large battle. Economic devastation loomed as an all-too-real possibility. At Sharpsburg soldiers from both sides raided farms and homes, carrying off valuables, destroying property, and confiscating livestock and crops as provender for the armies.
Joseph Poffenberger Farm
The Antietam National Battlefield is said to be one of the most pristine and well restored Civil War battlefields. When you look across the landscape little has changed since that fateful day of September 17, 1862. The preserved fence lines, fields and woodlots help us understand the ebb and flow of the battle. The details of the Battle of Antietam are well known to students of the Civil War, but as you survey the battlefield, you see scattered across the countryside the proof that battles are not fought in a vacuum. Several farmsteads dot the landscape as well. We tend to forget about the civilians that were caught up in the events swirling around the homes where for generations families lived, worked, played, and died.
Now you can join the Antietam Battlefield Guides for a Specialty Tour of "The Farmsteads of Antietam". Chief Guide, Chris Vincent has formatted a 3-hour guided tour of the historic Farmsteads of Antietam to learn about the families, their history, the farmsteads and how they recovered from the battle.
The tour will take you to each of the eleven farmsteads across the battlefield to discuss:
Who lived on the farmsteads at the time of the battle?
David R. and Margaret Miller
What did the farm look like?
What did the families do during the battle?
Fighting around Roulette Farm
What happened to the families and farms after the battle?
Otho Poffenberger family, c. 1880
For more information about this tour and other Specialty Tours offered by the Antietam battlefield Guides, contact the Antietam Museum Store at 301-432-4329.
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The Antietam Battlefield Guides
August 1, 2019 by jacobrohrbach
The carnage of the battle by the Dunker Church.
September 17, 1862 was the bloodiest day in American history. In twelve hours of horrific combat, soldiers from the North and the South fought the Battle of Antietam that would claim over 23,000 casualties. Some historians believe that the Battle of Antietam was one of the key turning points of the American Civil War. The battle ended Robert E. Lee's first Confederate invasion into the north and it led to President Abraham Lincoln announcing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
The Henry Piper Farm at Antietam National Battlefield
But the Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862 is more than statistics and facts. According to our esteemed local historian, John Schildt, "History is about people and places". Even though Antietam is one of the most pristine battlefields in the United States it is very difficult to understand the ebb and flow of the battle as you're standing at one of the park stops. Looking at the fields, the wood lots and the roads, it can be very confusing and you cannot begin to put yourself into the shoes of the soldiers that stood on the very same ground without the assistance of a licensed Antietam Battlefield Guide.
The Antietam Guides are a group of historians dedicated to providing outstanding interpretive tours of the Antietam Battlefield, as well as other sites related to the Maryland Campaign of 1862. This is a group of incredibly talented and gifted professionals. Many of the guides are published authors and have written articles for renowned Civil War magazines. They are frequent lecturers at Civil War Roundtables and Historical Societies, as well as historical seminars and on forums, sharing their knowledge about Antietam and the American Civil War. When not giving tours, many guides serve as volunteers at Antietam Battlefield. You may find them at the Visitor Center desk, out on the field as Battlefield Ambassadors, on the Battery B, 4th US Artillery, (Antietam's living history interpreters), or behind the scenes helping out with park maintenance during the off season. The Guides also support the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, the local organization that works to promote the preservation and restoration of the scenic area in and around the Antietam Battlefield. Guides are frequently out helping clearing brush or restoring a fence line during their work days.
The First Guide and the start of the guide service
O.T. Reilley, the first battlefield guide.
The Antietam Battlefield Guides trace their start back to the first battlefield guide at Antietam, Oliver T. Reilly. O.T. Reilly was just five years old at the time of the battle and is said to have witnessed it from a hill near Keedysville where he lived. When he was just 15, O.T. began giving tours of the battlefield. In 1890, he moved to Sharpsburg, where he opened a store on Main Street, selling novelties, battlefield guide books, postcards and Civil War relics. Reilly served as a battlefield guide for seven decades, often taking veterans on tours of the field. The current guide service was founded in 2005 by Stephen Recker in partnership with the Western Maryland Interpretive Association, a non-profit organization at Antietam. In the fall of 2011, Jim Rosebrock became the new Chief of the Antietam Battlefield Guides. Under Jim's leadership the program envolved and expanded to include other areas associated with the Maryland Campaign. Now visitors can experience the whole Maryland Campaign by visiting Harpers Ferry, the South Mountain Battlefields and Antietam National Battlefield. At the beginning of 2019, Chris Vincent was honored to be selected to succeed Jim as the Chief Guide. Chris looks forward to leading the guides into the next decade with their new parent association Eastern National, which is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit cooperating association that manages the museum bookstore at the battlefield.
Becoming a Guide
Guides candidates out on the field as Battlefield Ambassadors
Becoming an Antietam Battlefield Guide requires enthusiasm, a desire to learn and much preparation. The standards are high but the rewards are worth the effort. After successfully passing a written exam, guide candidates are paired with a certified guide-mentor to begin preparing for their 3-hour field test. During this phase, candidates become participants in the Battlefield's Volunteers in the Parks (VIP) program. The experiences of volunteering provides the opportunity to interact with park visitors and get to know the rangers and other volunteers, many of whom are guides. It also affords the opportunity to spend time on the field and to sharpen interpretation skills. Once candidates have completed all their requirements of the Mentoring Phase and feel they are ready, they take a 3-hour oral field test that consists of a 3-hour tour with a National Park Service ranger and the Chief Guide. Upon successful completion of the field test, candidates become NPS Certified Battlefield Guides!
Guides walking the field
Antietam Battlefield Guides are constantly researching and studying the Maryland Campaign. During the off-season, guides conduct professional development training by exploring seldom visited parts of the field and reviewing other aspects of the battle. Guides can customize your tour to focus on a particular part of the battlefield or a specific unit. If you had an ancestor who fought at Antietam your guide can tailor a part of the tour to those particular areas on the field where your ancestor's unit fought.
Booking a battlefield tour
The Antietam Guides are booked through the Antietam National Battlefield Museum Store. The guide will drive your vehicle so you can focus on the field areas that the guide is talking about and what they are describing to you. There are currently five basic tours you can take and the cost is based on the number of people in your group.
Highlight Tour (2 hours): This tour is designed for those with young children or people on a tight schedule, and will cover the Cornfield, Sunken Road and Burnside Bridge overlook.
Standard Tour (3 hours): This is the standard tour and includes an introduction to the Maryland Campaign at the Visitors Center as well as stops at the Cornfield, Sunken Road and Burnside Bridge. It is designed for individuals or groups seeking general knowledge of the battle and the battlefield.
Extended Tour (4 hours): This tour is designed for those visitors interested in exploring the battlefield in greater depth. It includes all parts of the Standard Tour however time is built in for additional stops or extended time at the 3 Standard Tour stops.
Antietam Plus Tour (6 hours): This 6 hour tour includes a Standard Tour of Antietam and a trip to one other battlefield, of the visitor's choice, associated with the Maryland Campaign (either Harpers Ferry or South Mountain). All Antietam Plus tours originate at the Antietam Battlefield Visitors Center.
Campaign Tour (8 hours): The Campaign Tour covers all three battlefields of the Maryland Campaign (Antietam, South Mountain & Harpers Ferry). This tour originates at Antietam and travels to South Mountain and Harpers Ferry to explore the battles that preceded America's bloodiest day. After touring South Mountain & Harpers Ferry you return to Antietam for the 3 hour Standard Tour.
Walk-in service is available for the 2 hour and 3 hour tours, however with walk-in service a guide cannot be guaranteed. To guarantee a guide, make a reservation in advance of your visit to Antietam.
To book your Battlefield tour, call the Antietam Museum Store at (301) 432-4329. Check the guide biographies on the website. If there is a particular guide you are interested in securing, let the bookstore associate know who you would like to lead your tour.
If you have other questions and inquiries, you can email the guides at AntietamTours@easternnational.org. Follow along on the Antietam Battlefield Guide Facebook page for updates about the programs, what the guides are up to, and information about Antietam National Battlefield.
If your staying at the Inn take advantage of our Civil War Tour Specials and we'll book one of these outstanding tours with the Antietam Battlefield Guide for you. We hope to see you soon!
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"Antietam in Their Own Words: Letters from the veterans describe the Battle" – Dr. Tom Clemens
June 7, 2019 by jacobrohrbach
Dr. Tom Clemens
Dr. Tom Clemens holds a Doctorate in College Education-History from George Mason University, Professor Emeritus from Hagerstown Community College. He is a Tour guide for the Maryland Campaign for the past 30 years. Tom is the Editor of Ezra Carman's Maryland Campaign of September 1862, 3 Vols. 2010, 2012, 2016. Author of numerous essays and Magazine articles, appeared in several documentary films as on-screen historian, including the orientation film in the NPS Visitor Center.
On Wednesday, July 3rd, Dr. Clemens will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "Antietam in Their Own Words: Letters from the veterans describe the Battle". Tom's talk will focus on excerpts from both Union and Confederate veterans who served at Sharpsburg in the bloodiest single battle in US history, in their letters to Ezra Carman and John Gould in the 1890's.
Come join leading historians and Antietam Battlefield Guides as they discuss intriguing topics of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and the Civil War during our Civil War Summer Lecture Series.
These outdoors programs will be held at the Jacob Rohrbach Inn on Wednesday evenings at 7:oo p.m. To ensure adequate seating, please bring a chair. In case of inclement weather, lectures will be held at the Sharpsburg Christ Reformed Church of Christ. Parking is available on Main and Hall Streets. For updates and a full schedule of presenters & topics check our Facebook page.
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"Following footprints and memory: Reexamining assumptions about the fight for the West Woods" – Jim Buchanan
Jim Buchanan
James Buchanan is a graduate of the University of Maryland, (College Park) with a M.A. History and Antioch University, with a M.A. Teaching. Jim was a Program Director, National Institute for Citizen Education in the Law and recently retired as a Sr. Education Specialist, Federal Judicial Center (U.S. Courts). Jim is a volunteer at the C&O Canal at Great Falls and has been volunteering at Antietam National Battlefield since 2007. Jim is a Licensed Battlefield Guide and is our resident expert on the West Woods (his blog: www.Walkingthewestwoods.blogspot.com).
On Wednesday, July 17th, Jim will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "Following footprints and memory: Reexamining assumptions about the fight for the West Woods". At just after 9 a.m. on September 17, 1862, the 15th Massachusetts Volunteers, 606 men of all ranks, met and engaged troops of the Confederate brigades of Paul Semmes, Jubal Early and William Barksdale in the West Woods. An hour later, less than half of the 15th Massachusetts would be left standing. Other regiments, both north and south, fared little better. When the West Woods struggle ended, four thousand casualties lay in the meadows, ridges and ravines of those woods. This presentation will use contemporary letters and diaries and post-battle reminiscences from both sides to better understand what happened in the woods that day. Drawing on an emerging body of new research this presentation will reexamine old assumptions about the battle for the West Woods.
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"John Pope at Antietam: His influence on the Maryland Campaign and the Final Attack at Antietam" – Steve Stotelmyer
Steve Stotelmyer
Steven R. Stotelmyer, a lifetime student of the Maryland Campaign, is a native of Hagerstown, Maryland. After a stint in the U.S. Navy he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Frostburg State College and a Master of Arts from Hood College. Mr. Stotelmyer currently serves as a volunteer and tour guide at the Antietam National Battlefield. From time to time Mr. Stotelmyer has also served as a part-time volunteer and historical consultant for the South Mountain State Battlefield. In 1992 he published The Bivouacs of the Dead: The Story of Those Who Died at Antietam and South Mountain, Toomey Press, Baltimore, MD. With the recent publication of Too Useful To Sacrifice: Reconsidering George B. McClellan's Generalship in the Maryland Campaign from South Mountain to Antietam, Savas Beatie LLC, New York, NY, Steven R. Stotelmyer provides a fresh examination and debunking of the negative stereotypes surrounding this capable commander during one of most crucial phases of the Civil War.
On Wednesday, July 31st, Steve will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "John Pope at Antietam: His influence on the Maryland Campaign and the Final Attack at Antietam". The Maryland Campaign and the Battle of Antietam did not occur in a vacuum. The campaign began within days, and Antietam less than 3 weeks after the disastrous Union defeat of Second Manassas on August 30, 1862. The Union commander of that battle, Maj. Gen. John Pope cast a large shadow over the events of early September 1862. This talk will explore some of the unknown and overlooked influences of John Pope at work from the beginning of the campaign to close of battle at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862.
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"Confederate artillery commanders at Antietam" – Jim Rosebrock
Jim Rosebrock
Jim Rosebrock is the former Chief of the Antietam Battlefield Guides. Jim currently serves as a volunteer and tour guide at the Antietam National Battlefield. Jim is a retired army officer and currently works for the Department of Justice. He is currently conducting research for a book that will tell the story of the regular artillery companies during the Civil War. Jim also discusses interesting topics about the Maryland Campaign on his blog South From the North Woods.
On Wednesday, July 24th, Jim will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "Confederate artillery commanders at Antietam". Stonewall Jackson, James Longstreet, John Bell Hood and A.P. Hill are well known names in the story of the Battle of Sharpsburg. However lesser known men are men like James Walton, Bushrod Frobel, Lindsay Shumaker and William Pogue. These are the gunners who commanded the Confederate artillery at Sharpsburg. They played a decisive role in preventing George McClellan's Army of the Potomac from overwhelming the rebels and permitting Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to live to fight another night. Learn about Lee's artillerymen and the crucial role they played at the Battle of Sharpsburg.
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Ethnics in the Confederacy and at Sharpsburg
June 11, 2018 by jacobrohrbach
Ted Alexander
Civil War Summer Lecture Series
Ethnics in the Confederacy and at Sharpsburg – although the Civil War is traditionally viewed as a struggle between white Anglo Saxon Protestants, a variety of ethnic groups fought in the armies of both sides. This talk will focus on the ethnics who served with the Confederacy. Our speaker will discuss Hispanics, American Indians, Asians, Jews and other groups who wore the gray. This includes Confederates at the battle of Sharpsburg. Our speaker is the co author of National Park Service publications on both Hispanics and Asians in the Civil War.
Our Speaker – Ted Alexander is the Historian (retired) of Antietam National Battlefield where he served for more than 30 years. Mr. Alexander is the author or co author of 10 books on the Civil War, including ANTIETAM: THE BLOODIEST DAY. He is also the author of more than 200 articles and book reviews for numerous publications such as Blue and Gray Magazine, Civil War Times and The Washington Times. Mr. Alexander is a veteran of two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Marine Corps, where he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V for valor.
On Wednesday, July 11th, Ted will talk about the different ethnic groups who served with the Confederacy and fought at the Battle of Antietam, during his Summer Lecture Series talk – Ethnics in the Confederacy and at Sharpsburg.
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Antietam Shadows: Mystery, Myth & Machination
Dennis Frye
Dennis Frye has been studying Antietam and the 1st invasion of the North for nearly 50 years. From his earliest days as a NPS volunteer at the Dunker Church (Dennis is a Dunker), and as a native of the Antietam area, Dennis has immersed himself into the Civil War. Known for his challenges to conventional history, Dennis' newest book is assured to stimulate provocation and debate as he explores uncertainties and unknowns in Antietam Shadows.
On Wednesday, July 4th, Dennis will discuss his book "Antietam Shadows: Mystery, Myth & Machination" during his Summer Lecture Series talk.
Dennis E. Frye is the Chief Historian at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Writer, lecturer, guide, and preservationist, Dennis is a prominent Civil War historian. Dennis has numerous appearances on PBS, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, C-SPAN, Fox News, A&E, and Voice of America as a guest historian. He helped produce Emmy award-winning television features on the Battle of Antietam, abolitionist John Brown, and Maryland during the Civil War. Dennis is one of the nation's leading Civil War battlefield preservationists. He is co-founder and first president of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation, and he is co-founder and a former president of today's Civil War Trust, from whom he received the Trust's highest honor – the Shelby Foote Award. Dennis also earned the prestigious Nevins-Freeman Award for his lifetime achievements in the Civil War community. Dennis is a tour guide in demand, leading tours for organizations such as the Smithsonian, National Geographic, numerous colleges and universities, and Civil War Round Tables. Dennis also is a well-known author, with 99 articles and ten books. His most recent book is Antietam Shadows: Mystery, Myth & Machination. His book Harpers Ferry Under Fire received the national book of the year award from the Association of Partners for Public Lands; and September Suspense: Lincoln's Union in Peril, was awarded the 2012 Laney Book Prize for distinguished scholarship and writing on the military and political history of the war. Dennis has written for prestigious Civil War magazines such as Civil War Times Illustrated, America's Civil War, Blue & Gray Magazine, North and South Magazine, and Hallowed Ground, and as a guest contributor to the Washington Post. Dennis resides near the Antietam Battlefield in Maryland, and he and his wife Sylvia have restored the home that was used by General Burnside as his post-Antietam headquarters.
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Antietam Hospitals – John Schildt
May 10, 2018 by jacobrohrbach
Rev. John Schildt (photo credit: fredericknewspost.com)
John Schildt hardly needs an introduction. He is well known for his many books relating the various aspects of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 and local history. Reverend Schildt graduated from Shepherd College, Wesley Theological Seminary and has studied at Western Maryland College, Gettysburg Seminary and West Virginia University.
Rev. Schildt was introduced to Civil War history by his great-grandmother who fed Union troops on the way to Gettysburg when she was a little girl. John has been a lecturer and guide for the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, Bud Robertson's "Campaigning with Lee", the Chicago Civil War Round Table, and many other groups. He was the main speaker at the 125th anniversary of Antietam. Outside of Civil War history, John has led three educational excursions to Normandy and took part in the American and French commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the D-day landing in 1994. While leading explorations, he likes to make history come alive by sharing human interest stories about people and places. Having been a lifelong student of Antietam, John has written many books on the subject, including "September Echoes," "Drums along the Antietam," "Roads to Antietam," and several others.
On Wednesday, June 27th, John will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "Antietam Hospitals"
The Battle of Antietam, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign. It was the first field army-level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil and is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing. The wounded soldiers were treated in various field hospitals set up in the areas of the battle – in the homes and barns of the locals. John will tell this story and talk about the places they were cared for like the Smoketown Hospital, Poffenberger's Farm – where Clara Barton worked, the Rohrbach's Barn, Jacob Miller Hospital, Samuel Pry's Mill, Hoffman Hospital, Crystal or Locust Spring Hospital, and the German Reformed Church.
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Images from BG James Ricketts' 1st Corps Division – Joe Stahl
Joe Stahl
Joseph Stahl retired from the Institute for Defense Analyses where he authored or coauthored more than 50 reports on defense issues. Since his retirement he has become a volunteer and Licensed Battlefield Guide at Antietam. He grew up in St. Louis, where he earned an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Company of Military Historians, SHAF, the Hagerstown Civil War Roundtable and is co-author of the first book on ID discs Identification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War. He has spoken to various Civil War groups including the Northern Virginia Relic Hunters, South Mountain Coin and Relic Club, Rappahannock, York and Hagerstown Round Tables, Chambersburg Civil War Tours, Save Historic Antietam Foundation and the NPS Antietam. In addition Joe has authored more than two dozen articles about items in his collections for the Gettysburg Magazine, the Washington Times Civil War Page, Manuscripts, America's Civil War, Military Collector & Historian the Journal of the Company of Military Historians, the Civil War Historian and the Skirmish Line of the North-South Skirmish Association. Displays of items from of his collection have won awards at several Civil War shows.
He has been a member of the North-South Skirmish Association for more than 20 years and has shot civil war type muskets, carbines and revolvers in both individual and team competitions.
On Wednesday, June 20th, Joe will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "Images from MG James Ricketts' Division"
BG Ricketts Division was reported to consist of 3037 officers and men in 12 veteran infantry regiments. The division would report losses of 172 killed, 946 wounded and 86 missing for a total of 1204 including two artillery batteries assigned attached to the division. During Joe's presentation he will shown the faces and history of 10 soldiers, one from 10 of the 12 regiments in General Ricketts' Division. He will also shown images of the Division and Brigade commanders. Each of these soldiers has a story and Joe will tell you a little of that story.
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"Gunners in the Corn – Federal and Confederate Artillery in the Cornfield" – Jim Rosebrock
Jim Rosebrock is the Chief of the Antietam Battlefield Guides. Jim is a retired army officer and currently works for the Department of Justice. He is currently conducting research for a book that will tell the story of the regular artillery companies during the Civil War. Jim also discusses interesting topics about the Maryland Campaign on his blog South From the North Woods.
On Wednesday, June 13th, Jim will present his Summer Lecture Series talk – "Gunners in the Corn – Federal and Confederate Artillery in the Cornfield"
As the sun rose over the fields and woodlots north of the Dunker Church on the morning of September 17th 1862 thousands of infantrymen of Joseph Hooker's First Corps supported by the Twelfth Corps of Joseph Mansfield crashed into Jackson's wing of the Army of Northern Virginia reinforced by D.H. Hills division. The key role played by the artillerymen of the Federal and Confederate armies in the fields and woodlots north of the Dunker Church on the morning of September 17th 1862 is not often as well told. While the story of Battery B of the Fourth Artillery is well known, the fact is that in the early hours of the battle the Confederate guns actually outnumbered the Federals. This is the story of that early morning gunfight.
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The Farmsteads of Antietam – Joseph Parks Farm
April 16, 2018 by jacobrohrbach
Joseph Parks Farmstead
While traveling on the roads running through the battlefield you can see most of the farmsteads at Antietam except for one – the Joseph Parks farm. In order to see this farm, visitors have to walk out the Three Farms Trail from the Newcomer House. Although the land had been cultivated for more than 100 years before the battle, in 1862 the house and farm were fairly new. Originally part of James Smith's property and patented "Smiths Hills", this 160 acres is known today as the Joseph Parks Farm.
Plat map of Smiths Hills and surrounding region.
In 1739, James Smith, a planter from Prince George's County received a patent of 208 acres. It's believed that Smith lived in the area, as he was surveying lands in the future Frederick and Washington counties and was an attorney for the Frederick courts. Over the next fifteen years, Smith continued to add land to his holdings. In 1754, Smith surveyed 12 acres of Porto Santo, another nearby patent. In 1756, a "Resurvey of Smiths Hills" was done adding 302 acres for a total of 510 acres and a Resurvey of Porto Santo was done to correct several errors which increased its size to 23 acres. During the resurvey it was found that the Porto Santo "included 'improvements' of one acre of cleared land, 400 fence rails and a log house". Smith's holding of these two patents would become the properties of what we know today as the Newcomer and Park Farmsteads.
Knowing that colonial interest and the French and Indian War led to more permanent inroads into the backcountry, Smith petitioned Frederick County in 1755 for the building of both a ford across the Antietam Creek and a new road, because he intended to build a mill along the creek on his land. Smith also knew that an improved roadway through his property would not only increase the value of his land but that of the surrounding area. Although Smith did not build a mill, "he had set the groundwork for the future development of the milling industry on the property" and a new road would eventually be built from Red Hill to Swearingen's Ferry on the Potomac at Shepherdstown.
As the French and Indian War was ending, Christian Orndorff, a millwright from Lancaster County, arrived in the area in 1762. Now that the region was safe and open for settlement, Orndorff was looking for a suitable site to build a grist mill, and he found it along the Antietam Creek. Christian Orndorff purchased 503 acres of Resurvey on Smiths Hills and 11 acres of the Porto Santo.
Over the next thirty years the Orndorff family turned the property into a substantial industrial complex. In addition to a large house and barn, there was a grist mill, a saw mill and a workshop near the Antietam Creek. The mills were powered by water diverted from the creek through a mill race that Orndorff built. They also farmed crops of wheat and corn and later established a plaster mill, a cooper shop and other tooling shops.
In 1796, the Orndorff's sold 324 1/4 acres for £5500 to Jacob Mumma. This purchase included portions of several patents, but 303 acres were part of the Resurvey of Smiths Hills. The Mummas had arrived in Philadelphia in 1732 and settled in Lancaster County. Like other Germans settling in the area, the Mumma family traveled down the Wagon Road to Sharpsburg. They were accompanied by Joseph Sherrick, Sr. and his family. Sherrick would also purchase property along the Antietam from the Orndorff's.
Photograph taken on Sept. 22, 1862, by Alexander Gardner's assistant, James F. Gibson. The Parks Farmstead can be seen in the upper right hand corner. (LOC)
Jacob Mumma and his sons continued to run the mill and farming operations. Over the next several years Mumma would acquire "two-thirds of the large land tract amassed by the Orndorff family decades earlier". This area incorporated what is known today as the Mumma Farm, Newcomer Farm and the Parks Farm. In 1831, Jacob Mumma and his wife Elizabeth transferred ownership of the mill property to their son John. Around this time, it is believed that a house and barn were constructed just north of the mill along the creek for John's eldest son – Elias Mumma. This became known as the "lower farm", the future Parks farmstead. Business at the Mumma mill was booming, but John Mumma died suddenly in 1835 and without a will. His father, Jacob purchased the property back from John's estate and resold the mill and farm to his younger son, Samuel in 1837.
Main House (vinyl siding covering original wood siding)
Cooking Fireplace
Parks Farm layout in 1862
Samuel and his wife had been living at the house on the Mumma Farmstead, but they moved back to the mill complex and continued the operations of the mill and farm. Samuel sold 151 acres of the mill complex portion of the property to Jacob and John Emmert in 1841 to pay off debts, but he retained 190 acres of the "lower farm". By 1843, Samuel was forced to put the "lower farm" into a Deed of Trust to pay off other creditors.
The "lower farm" that Phillip Pry named Bunker Hill Farm. The red line shows the property line.
In 1850, the property was returned to Samuel Mumma by the trustees and it believed that Samuel's son, Jacob H. Mumma was living on the farm as a tenant at this time. According to the 1860 census, Jacob had moved to Boonsboro and the farm was tenanted by a Jacob Myers (Meyer). In 1861, Samuel Mumma sold the "lower farm" for $10,500 to Phillip Pry who renamed the 166 acre property the "Bunker Hill Farm". Phillip and his brother Samuel already owned a large amount of land north of the Bunker Hill Farm along the Antietam Creek, including a large grist mill. Phillip and his family continued to live at his farm just across the Antietam but rented the Bunker Hill Farm to a tenant named Joseph Parks and his family.
Parks had owned a house in Porterstown which was just on the other side of the creek. According to the 1850 census he lived there with his wife, Mary and their young children Rosean, Elizabeth, Mary and Martha. His wife Mary would pass away in 1855 and shortly after that Joseph married Aletha Ann Harmon and they would have six more children together.
On the morning of September 15, 1862, as they withdrew from the Battle of South Mountain, Confederate soldiers marched along the turnpike and across the Antietam toward Sharpsburg. General Robert E. Lee had decided to make a stand along the Antietam Creek to consolidate his divided army. Later that day as the Union army advanced to the east side of the Antietam Creek, the Bunker Hill Farm and the Parks family stood between the two warring parties.
Daybreak map of the Battle of Antietam.
The next morning, three companies of Federal troops crossed the bridge and deployed across the Newcomer property, securing the bridge as a future crossing point for the next day's battle. Throughout the day the Bunker Hill Farm was in the center of a cannonade between the Union artillery on the east side of the Antietam and the Confederate guns along the ridge east of Sharpsburg. It is not known where the Parks went during the battle, but most certainly they departed like their neighbors, to the safety of friends or relatives in the area.
1030 am map of the Battle of Antietam as Union forces begin to move across the Parks farm.
The next morning on September 17, as the battle raged to the north of Sharpsburg, more Union forces were sent across the Pry Mill ford just north of the Parks farm. Two divisions of the Second Army Corps moved west toward the East Woods and then pushed into the West Woods and southward across the Mumma and Roulette farms. About an hour later Major General Israel Richardson's division crossed the creek just below Phillip Pry's house and marched toward the Neikirk and Kennedy Farms before turning toward the fighting in the Sunken Road. Brig. Gen. John Caldwell's brigade marched in a line of battle across the upper fields of the Parks farm before shifting to the right to support Gen. Meagher's Irish Brigade.
1:00 pm map of the Battle of Antietam with Union artillery positioned on the Parks Farm.
Once the Confederates were driven out of the Sunken Road, Union artillery arrived to help hold the line along the high ground of the Parks farm and the Newcomer fields.
This enlarged 1862 Gibson photo shows five buildings and the fence surrounding the main house.
Although no specific source has identified the Parks farm as a field hospital, it seems likely that the 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment of Caldwell's brigade would have used it as a temporary one. Col. Edward Cross, the commander of the 5th New Hampshire reported the situation of his surgeon, Dr. William Child and described the conditions of the battlefield hospitals, "The barns and sheds in all this region were occupied as hospitals by the Union army, and many Confederate wounded were retained here, and I believe were as well cared for as the Union Men. The barns were filled with flies, and wounds were sure to gather maggots about the dressings and even within the raw surfaces. To avoid this disgusting evil Assistant Surgeon Child personally gathered a few scores of shelter tents left on the battle-field, brought them to a suitable location, and with them built very comfortable hospital quarters and into them moved all the wounded of the Fifth, where they remained until able to be sent to Frederick city or were sent to Antietam hospital, which was finally established upon the western borders of the battle-field. Child was detailed for service in this Antietam field hospital, where he remained until about December 10…"
In this magnified photograph, soldiers can be seen walking along a road leading to the Parks farm.
Through the trees on the right the Observation Tower can be seen just beyond the Parks barnyard.
There are no known damage claims submitted by Joseph Parks, but several were submitted by Phillip Pry starting in 1865 and another in 1872. It is believed that the Quartermaster claim was for his home farm only and not the "lower farm' or Bunker Hill Farm.
Union artillery and infantry units go into position on the evening of Sept. 17, 1862 across the Park farm
Although Phillip Pry received some payment, his claims became bogged down in legal proceedings and in 1874 he sold the remainder of his property and moved his family to Tennessee. During the investigation into Pry's claim it was uncovered by Agent Sallade about Pry's Bunker Hill farm and he reported, "Mr Pry owned two farms, one the ["Home"] farm containing 170 acres, and one the "Bunker Hill" farm of 166 acres separated by the Antietam Creek, and 1/2 mile apart… all his fencing was burned, his corn and wheat fed, together with a large quantity of hay… His wheat I find was cut in 1862, and put in 4 large stacks, some was in the barn. These stacks contained not less than 800 bushels this quantity was arrived at by the number of loads – 40 – averaging 20 bushels per load, placed in the stacks. Messrs Joseph Parks, Henry Gettmacher and Wm. Lantz who cut, hauled, and put up this wheat fully confirm this fact. The Affidants of other parties, neighbors and ex-soldiers also confirm this, and also that a portion of the wheat in the barn was used. Mr. Pry lost about 150 bushels on the farm across the Antietam Creek. Mr. Pry fully sets this forth in his affidavit".
Joseph and Aletha Parks grave at Rose Hill
According to records, a few years after the battle Joseph Parks had "to mortgage his household furniture and personal belongings against a debt that he owed to Phillip Pry" most likely for the tenancy. Joseph Parks had moved several miles north of Sharpsburg, probably to Fairplay or Hagerstown, and became a full time shoemaker. He died in 1891 and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown along with his second wife Aletha.
The 1877 Illustrated Atlas of Washington County, Maryland, District 1, Sharpsburg. The red dot shows the J. F. Miller properties
In 1867 Bunker Hill Farm was sold to Jacob F. Miller. Jacob Miller's son, Otho H. Miller was living at the farm according to the 1870 census. During this time "a gabled dormer was added to the forebay of the barn most likely to accommodate improved threshing machines" and a second story was added to the north section of the main house.
In 1884, Jacob Miller sold the Bunker Hill farm to Henry and Laura Rohrer. The Rohrer family would operate the farm for the next 76 years. According to the 1910 census, their son-in-law Harry O. Clipp, his wife Stella and their two daughters, Ruth and Edna were living at the farm. Harry Clipp's occupation was listed as a "House Carpenter" and he may have been the one who made improvements on the farm. During the Rohrer's time at the farm a tenant house is built around 1905 and a corn crib / wagon shed was added onto the barn along with some other out buildings. In 1914, Henry Rohrer died leaving the farm to his wife Laura, who died in 1919. The farm was then transferred to her daughter and son-in-law.
Foundation of the tenant house.
The Clipp's continued to make improvements to the farm, shifting their operation to dairy farming with a
concrete milking area added. Ruth Clipp and Edna (Clipp) Dorsey who inherited the farm from their parents, sold the farm to William Cunningham in 1960. In 1988, Cunningham sold the farm to the National Park Service with a life estate for himself.
After the death of Mr. Cunningham in 2000, the Park Service removed post-war out buildings including the tenant house, repaired the log out-kitchen, restored the barn, stabilized the farm house and recently replaced the roof on the house. A new recreational trail, the Three Farms Trail was created in 2006 that connects the Parks Farmstead to the Roulette Farmstead and the Newcomer Farmstead.
The Parks Farmstead is a another eyewitness to the history of the battle and the families that lived in the Antietam Valley.
Find A Grave, Joseph Parks and family, Retrieved from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49395745/joseph-parks
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division; Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, Antietam, Md. Another view of Antietam bridge. Washington, D.C. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/resource/cwpb.01133/
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division; W.S. Long and Washington A. Roebling/Battle of the Antietam fought September 16 & 17, 1862/Washington, D.C./ Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3844a.cw0246000
Maryland Historical Trust, Cunningham Farm, WA-II-331, Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form, 1978, 24 March 2018
U.S. National Park Service, Joseph Parks Barn, Antietam National Battlefield, Historic Structures Report Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2008.
U.S. National Park Service, Parks Farmstead Cultural Landscape Inventory, Antietam National Battlefield, Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2011.
U.S. National Park Service, Newcomer Barn, Antietam National Battlefield, Historic Structures Report Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2004.
Walker, Kevin M and K. C. Kirkman, Antietam Farmsteads: A Guide to the Battlefield Landscape. Sharpsburg: Western Maryland Interpretive Association, 2010.
Western Maryland Regional Library, The Illustrated Atlas of Washington County, Maryland was published in 1877. Lake, Griffing & Stevenson of Philadelphia, 1877. Retrieved from http://whilbr.org/Image.aspx?photo=wcia053s.jpg&idEntry=3497&title=Sharpsburg+-+District+No.+1
U.S. War Department, Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared under the direction of the Antietam Battlefield Board, lieut. col. Geo. W. Davis, U.S.A., president, gen. E.A. Carman, U.S.V., gen. H Heth, C.S.A. Surveyed by lieut. col. E.B. Cope, engineer, H.W. Mattern, assistant engineer, of the Gettysburg National Park. Drawn by Charles H. Ourand, 1899. Position of troops by gen. E. A. Carman. Published by authority of the Secretary of War, under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1908." Washington, Government Printing Office, 1908. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3842am.gcw0248000/?sp=5.
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Pl. XXVIII: Antietam, Suffolk, Gettysburg, Franklin. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701sm.gcw0099000/?sp=53
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 * For the moment we assume that all security programming is done by the
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{
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	 * The Base FVP has a TrustZone address space controller, the Foundation
	 * FVP does not. Trying to program the device on the foundation FVP will
	 * cause an abort.
	 *
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	/* Disable all filters before programming. */
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	/*
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	/* Region 1 set to cover the Non-Secure DRAM */
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	tzc_set_action(TZC_ACTION_ERR);

	/* Enable filters. */
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Noura Bint Mohammad Al Kaabi, Minister for Culture and Knowledge Development and President of Zayed University, received Dr. Hamad Bin Muhammad Al Sheikh, Saudi Minister for Education and the accompanying delegation to Zayed University's Dubai campus.
The meeting was attended by Eng. Abdulrahman Al Hammadi, MOE Undersecretary for Supervision and Support Services, Dr. Behjat Al Yousuf, Vice President of Zayed University, and Dr. Ammar Bin Nasser Al Mualla, Director of Educational Organisations and External Relations at the Ministry of Education.
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There is something special about the body. Without a well-defined body, it is difficult to actualize a self in humans. Even for non-human animals, we cannot help but anthropomorphize their endless forms most beautiful into arms and legs and heads – another living self. One of the most horrifying things about sea star wasting disease (SSWD) is the utter distintegration of an individual, and being able to watch another organism's body tear itself apart. It may sound the stuff of science-fiction, but this is a stark reality for a common sea creature. Though we think pulses of SSWD have washed over sea stars throughout history, this latest outbreak trades headlines with ongoing epidemics of clade killers like white nose syndrome, colony collapse disorder, and Chytridiomycosis. Like these other plagues, SSWD infects and decimates a clade of particularly recognizable animals – one of the eponymous stars of tide pool field trips, aquariums, and snorkeling vacations worldwide.
For constant beach-goers, sea stars may seem just as alien as they are ubiquitous. Surprisingly, as members of the phylum Echinodermata (sea stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, among others marine groups), they are our – and "our" here is in the loosest, hey-we're-vertebrates-sense – closest invertebrate relatives, by virtue of shared developmental pathways. This may come as a shock when you realize just how different echinoderms are from our vertebrate cohort on the tree of life. Unlike us, they are not symmetrical down the center of their body, but in a radial fashion, like a sphere. Unlike us, they generally have body plans in multiples of five, and not the nice, even numbers that define so many other more recognizable animals. Unlike us, they can regenerate lost tissue with seemingly supernatural efficiency. Many echinoderms propel themselves across ocean floors with a complex system of pumps that they also use to literally disembowel themselves for disintegrating hapless prey from the outside-in. Sea stars, in particular, are ubiquitous in marine habitats around the world, are surprisingly vicious and efficient predators, and are often considered integral species in tide pools and other intertidal regions across the globe's oceans.
A diver with a sea star regenerating limbs.
At first glance, sea stars appear to be all arms, with only a small disc for the rest of their body. It is in this anthropomorphized mindset that watching SSWD progress is particularly brutal imagery. Picture, if you will, your limbs as selves of their own, each with an inexplicable need to leave the rest of the body behind. They may be invertebrates, but it is impossible to not cringe as you watch sea literally pull apart and disintegrate, with no regeneration or recovery. In 2013, US biologists began to notice rapid die-offs of sea stars with these symptoms, among others, along both coasts. Was it something in the water? How can a bizarre behavior like this spread so rapidly across such a wide geographic distance? How can we stop it? To make matters worse, biologists began making connections to previous die-offs of sea stars in years past. Was this the same thing, or an altogether new horror?
We may not know all those answers yet, but one fact is slowly crystallizing. Our most likely culprit is a densovirus, a group of viruses known to infect many other invertebrates like insects or crustaceans. The uncreatively titled sea star-associated densovirus (SSaDV) has been linked to both mass mortalities in the field, and causes SSWD-like symptoms in the lab, according to a recently-published study by Hewson et al. SSaDV seems to indiscrimately target sea stars and even echinoderms of all different types, and may be implicated in earlier outbreaks of SSWD based on well-preserved sea stars in museums and biological collections. Yet as with many scientific discoveries with far-reaching implications, one discovery leads to more questions. How does SSaDV spread? Why is it causing mass SSWD now? How can we stop it? How did previous epidemics stop?
We can only hope that, like with the other clade killers, scientists will answer these questions soon. What is clear, however, are the implications of mass sea star mortality, as SSWD continues to ravage natural populations. We have long known that many sea stars are top predators and carnivores in their local communities, holding an apex position in often-delicate webs of interconnected ecological interactions. As such, they are often held up as examples of the keystone species concept, where one species – the keystone in the natural architectural marvel that is an ecological community – is disproportionately more integral to proper function than all others. Imagine post-SSWD tide pools bereft of their characteristic biodiversity, or overrun by monocultures of one or two organisms. SSWD could drastically lower marine biodiversity, considering the rich ecosystems present in intertidal regios. Even more distressing is the mounting evidence that SSaDV and its spread may be buoyed by rising oceanic temperatures. We hardly need another horror story associated with global climate change, yet SSWD may be a particularly gruesome reminder of another species that disproportionately affects ecosystems worldwide: ourselves. Only time and continued research will be able to definitely answer the many questions surrounding SSWD, and help us understand how to stop its spread from sending tidal ecosystems over the brink.
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Maynard, J. et al. 2015. Projections of climate conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen abundance and virulence. Nature Climate Change, in press.
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Rhode Island has just three dispensaries, but some of them are nearer to medical cannabis patients in Massachusetts than any in their home state.
Typically, medical marijuana patients can purchase cannabis only from dispensaries in the state in which they're registered. In other words, patients can't travel across state lines and expect their medical marijuana recommendation to be valid. Breaking the norm, however, is Rhode Island. Last month, lawmakers passed a small piece of legislation that opens up dispensary sales to out-of-state medical marijuana patients. So if you have a medical marijuana card from anywhere in the country, now you can make purchases at any dispensary in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island Hopes Out-of-State Cannabis Buyers Will Boost MMJ Program
Rhode Island has just three medical marijuana dispensaries. Of course, the state is only 37 miles wide and 48 miles tall, so three dispensaries can serve a lot of patients. And according to the most recent total available, Rhode Island has just over 19,000 registered medical marijuana patients.
To better serve those patients, Gov. Gina Raimondo proposed bringing the total number of dispensaries up to 15. But lawmakers didn't see a reason to add more dispensaries to the state. House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello said 15 was too many. He worried about making a decision the state would regret down the road.
What state legislators did agree to, however, was a provision to allow out-of-state medical marijuana patients to make purchases at Rhode Island dispensaries.
According to Rhode Island's marijuana regulators, the measure isn't aiming to boost business for dispensaries in the state. Instead, it aims to prevent patients from illegally trafficking cannabis into the state. Or, as the state's chief regulator Norman Birenbaum put it, to keep out-of-state patients from buying cannabis off the black market.
Out-of-State Requirements for Dispensary Purchases in Rhode Island
But business has seen a boost, according to the owners of Rhode Island's three medical cannabis dispensaries. According to its CEO, Greenleaf Compassion Care Center served more than 50 nonresident patients since the measure went into effect on June 22.
The Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center, in Providence, saw similar numbers. While Summit Medical Compassion Center, in Warwick, reported a smaller bump of a dozen or so out-of-state customers. Most are coming from Massachusetts, where weed is legal but dispensaries sparse.
All three dispensaries, however, are taking steps to ensure that customers are lawfully registered MMJ patients in their home states. In addition to their out-of-state medical marijuana cards, patients will have to present a second form of government-issued photo ID.
But its ultimately up to the dispensaries as to how to handle verification. Regulators' guidelines only specify dispensaries have to use "reasonable good faith efforts" to make sure customers are valid, registered patients somewhere.
Nonresident patients will also have to follow all the rules as Rhode Island patients. And that means out-of-state buyers will have to have their info added to a tracking database. Finally, Rhode Island limits purchase amounts to 2.5 ounces of botanical cannabis every 15 days.
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Chase Guttman: Traveler, Drone Photographer & Cinematographer
We met Chase in New York and were intrigued by his expert-level drone photography and cinematography. Learn more about his experience as an award-winning travel photographer, drone videographer, and social media influencer.
Introducing… Chase Guttman!
We recently met Chase at a travel industry event in New York and we were immediately drawn to his specialty of drone photography and cinematography. We don't have any experience with drones, so looking at Chase's work was awesome and inspiring!
Beyond his drone and photography expertise, Chase has some unique travel stories to share, and he has seen more of the USA than most of us can imagine.
Who's Chase Guttman?
Chase Guttman is an award-winning travel photographer, drone videographer, UAV expert, author, writer, lecturer, teacher and social media influencer.
Three-time recipient and the first American to win Young Travel Photographer of the Year, a prestigious international competition judged by museum curators and magazine editors, Guttman was named a World's Top Travel Photographer by Condé Nast Traveler and a Rising Star by Instagram. He won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Storytelling and Exploration, a lifetime achievement level honor.
His book, The Handbook of Drone Photography, was one of the first books written on the topic and received critical acclaim from publications such as Travel + Leisure and The Telegraph and Business Insider.
He has spoken at lectures in various places, from the International Museum of Photography and Film to the National Arts Club. He has taught at The School of the New York Times, New York University and the Rocky Mountain School of Photography.
We had a few questions for Chase, and he expertly answered with a whole bunch of detail.
When did you first learn about drones and how did you choose to become a drone expert?
Photography and travel have always been in my blood. For me, crafting a lasting image in a society incredibly over-saturated by visual stimuli comes down to a matter of perspective. Altering your viewpoint can reveal undiscovered tableaus capable of enchanting imaginations and bring dynamic order to otherwise unstructured scenes.
Similar to how the iPhone has democratized photography, drones have democratized perspective, making UAVs a phenomenally powerful storytelling tool. I've forever been drawn to the idea of flight and being a bit of a technology nerd helped as well.
Which types of scenery have been the best for drone photography and what are some favorites?
Lines, patterns and geometry exist throughout our natural and man-made world and are some of the most significant compositional tools in the arsenal of a drone photographer. In addition, the interplay of light and dark, and shadows in particular, really help create a feeling of depth from high above.
We heard you've been to all 50 states. When did you complete this achievement, and which states stick out in your mind as the most unique?
Just shy of my 18th birthday, I crossed into my 50th and final U.S. state – Iowa.
I love the United States and discovering the unique cultures and scenery that exists within its regions, states, cities and even neighborhoods. Each year, one of my favorite things to do is share a cross-country road trip with one of my best friends.
I'm most enamored with the gorgeous range of landscapes that the Pacific Northwest has to offer, from the snowy peaks of the Cascades to the gorges of the Columbia River, all the way down to the pristine beaches on the edge of the largest ocean in the world.
I also have a particular affinity with the American Southwest, its extraterrestrial landscapes stretching from Roswell to Area 51, symbols of classic Americana dotting Route 66 and vast deserts of red interrupted by surprisingly ginormous rock formations.
Most recently, I traced the music trail of the American Southeast, from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to the rural blues-rocking juke joints of the Mississippi Delta, and ending in the Cajun-infused world of New Orleans jazz.
In your opinion, how have drones changed photography, and especially, how have drones changed photography for you?
Drones are an artist's dream medium. They allow us to explore a scene while discovering the unseen.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a magical technological force because they dominate that distinct airspace just beyond the reach of the selfie stick and below the landing skids of a helicopter. They go where no other technology can. That is truly game-changing in a world where 400 million photographs are uploaded every day just to Facebook alone.
What have drones allowed you to see that staying on the ground cannot?
Drones are such an exciting visual frontier because they allow humans to experience and see things that few have previously imagined, all while contextualizing our vast and gorgeous environments. The photographs and videos that we create are no longer constricted by human limitations. This is what originally drew me to the medium and ultimately motivated me to write a book on the topic.
With my drone, I've discovered faces, like a grassy lawn rigorously etched in Beethoven's image, words, such as the hacking motif over Facebook's headquarters, shapes, hovering above the playful outline of a lollipop among Wildwood's Doo-wop era boardwalk, and geography, overseeing one of the largest atolls in the world in Rangiroa.
We saw you've been to more than 75 countries. What have been the most rewarding experiences and where did they take place?
Photography has always been my vessel for exploration. I've been extremely lucky to go ostrich riding, shark cage diving, ice sailing, heli-hiking, soaring and jaguar tracking, sleeping on swamp platforms and in ice hotels along the way.
Of course, like every traveler, I've had my fair share of hysterical mishaps and near-death experiences; however, one of my most memorable travel experiences actually involves a drink.
This special drink is served in the late hours of the evening at a bar in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada – an old gold-mining town at the edge of one of the loneliest roads in the world.
The Sourtoe cocktail is a drink that features a severed human toe that's preserved in salt and placed in a glass of Yukon Jack. There's a "toe master" that oversees the drink's consumption, telling customers, "you can drink it fast, you can drink it slow – but the lips have gotta touch the toe," and giving certificates to anyone willing to take on the challenge.
I had that drink, with a certificate to prove it, and to this date, it's one of my strangest travel experiences.
What are your plans for the near future - any trips coming up?
Later this month, I will be leading a trip to Charleston with Photo Workshop Adventures. During the summer, I'll be conducting a drone training in El Salvador, shooting a documentary in Brazil, producing in Ecuador and hopefully covering the solar eclipse in Argentina.
To end the year, I hope to finally explore Australia and New Zealand – two dream destinations of mine.
For someone who wants to start with drone photography or cinematography, what are some top things to consider, and what's an easy way to begin?
If you're just getting started in drone photography, the most important thing that you can do is learn how to pilot your craft effectively. With lots of practice, the mechanics of your aerial system can become an afterthought, allowing you to focus on what's most important — capturing stunning imagery.
I recommend starting out with a trainer drone, or an inexpensive UAV with which you can learn to fly, before investing in a pricier piece of hardware. Even if you already own a sophisticated camera drone, companies like DJI allow consumers to hone their flying skills on virtual flight simulators.
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Water is a daily challenge in this Tanzanian village.
Stella Chirua stands in a shallow well with a bowl of water. Mtumbatu is a rural village of approximately 7,000 people in the central Tanzanian highlands, straddling the tarmac road between Morogoro and Dodoma. Most of its residents are farmers, cultivating sweet potatoes, maize and beans. Some make a modest living selling produce alongside the road, purchased from more remote villages and sold to passing trucks and vehicles. As do their crops, the people of Mtumbatu depend upon the rains for water. There are no working boreholes in the village. Water is fetched from hand-dug wells in a sandy riverbed that winds through the northern part of the village or from southern hillside streams several kilometers away. Access is scarce for at least several months each year, typically August through October. Those who can afford it purchase water for 500 shillings (~30 cents) per 20 liter jerrycan. That price can rise to 1000 shillings (~60 cents) during periods of shortage, a significant financial burden for most people here. There was hope that Mtumbatu's problems with water access would be addressed by a sophisticated system of pipes and machinery completed in 2008 with funding from the World Bank. Poor construction and planning doomed the project from the start. It functioned for no more than ten days and now sits silent behind its fencing, the connecting pipes dug up and repurposed long ago. According the Tanzanian government's water point data, Mtumbatu and its ward, Mamboya, have the worst access to water in the district, and yet it was not chosen as one of the initial ten villages for the WSDP.


Interesting title- considering discussions about apocalyptic end times obsessiveness in some parts of the Christian world. A timely reminder of how we can get snarled up in religion at the expense of hope for the future this beautiful planet.
Consume less, he says. Be sceptical about new technology. Slow down. And do not fall for the modern political class's post-Blair belief that history is bunk, and to draw on the past is to be a hopeless throwback: it is only a comparative blink since the second world war found millions of people reshaping their lives in the cause of a common endeavour, and the same thing could yet happen again.
And then there is the fetish of growth, or rather growth-ism. As Simms points out, the idea that economies necessarily have their limits was being voiced when capitalism was still young: in 1848, John Stuart Mill argued that "a stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement". A century and a half later, Adair Turner, a former director of the CBI, told Simms that if anyone thinks "the most important objective of public policy is to get growth from 1.9 per cent to 2 per cent and even better 2.1 per cent", they're worshipping a "false god", and "extra growth does not automatically translate into extra human welfare and happiness".
These are pretty ordinary thoughts, but ones that the dull noise coming from Westminster renders almost exotic – and essential.
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Seems to be exactly what we've discussed on previous posts… except from a secular viewpoint.
I guess a pile of poop looks like poop from any angle!


Eat Your City: Homemade Spinach Pasta - easy peasy recipe for making pasta from scratch!
I've been graciously asked to do a fun little post on making pasta. Up until last month, I thought making home made pasta was only for professionals, until I got a Kitchenaid mixer and found all the fun "attachments" that can go with it. One of which one is the pasta maker attachment. This was my first time making spinach spaghetti, and it's actually easy and quite the experience! Pics done by the talented folks at Kaio Photography!
First, you have to drain frozen spinach and then blend it. This part was a bit tricky because I didn't have a food processor or grinder, and the blender doesn't blend small amounts of food that well. I added the 4 eggs and it did the trick!
Sadida uses a KitchenAid mixer (KitchenAid Artisan 5-Quart Stand Mixer ) which has neat attachments you can add on that becomes really important later on (and they fit on the KitchenAid Pro 600 Stand Mixer too!)... Mix with flour, 2 minutes with the beater, then switch to the dough hook.
That should help make it more like a lump of dough. Quite dry, but will stick together when pressed. Don't worry, it will become more pliable once the dough goes through the rollers.
Attach the pasta attachment onto the mixer (KitchenAid® Pasta Roller Attachment ) Divide into small pieces and run it through the pasta roller. Run it through a few times and in different settings until you reach your desired thickness. As you can see, it is quite easy for one person to do all of this.
Switch to your desired cutter attachment (in my box I had the fettuccine and spaghetti attachment), I chose the spaghetti attachment, and run your flattened strips of dough through the roller. EASY! My 2 1/2 year old daughter calls this as "Mommy playing with play-doh"!!
You can dry your pasta by hanging it on a pasta dryer, or if you don't own one, a metal coat racks with plastic wrap around works well too.
Or bunch it up into small circular nests.
My favourite way of storing it is freezing instead of drying. Drying takes up a lot of space, while freezing the small nests in large ziplock bags is quick and keeps the pasta tasting fresh. You don't need to defrost, just throw it into hot water for around 3-5 minutes, depending on how you like your pasta, and your pasta is ready!
Load it up with some ham, onion, and red pepper alfredo sauce and we have a yummy meal! Or "green grass!" as my toddler would call it. This is a wonderful way to get your greens in, I used an entire package of frozen spinach and my family gobbled it up!
You can make all sorts of shapes and pastas using the full Kitchenaid Pasta Attachment set!
1. Place spinach in a towel and wring out all the water until spinach feels very dry. Finely chop spinach using a food grinder attachment, food processor or blender.
2. Place chopped spinach, water, eggs, and flour in mixer bowl. Attach bowl and flat beater. Turn to Speed 2 and mix 30 seconds.
3. Exchange flat beater for dough hook. Turn to Speed 2 and knead 2 minutes.
4. Remove dough from bowl and hand knead for 1 to 2 minutes.
5. Divide dough into eight pieces before processing with Pasta Sheet Roller attachment.
1. Add 2 teaspoons salt and 1 tablespoon oil (optional) to 6 quarts boiling water.
3. Drain in a colander.
Thanks Sophia! Glad you're enjoying :) I have been on a hiatus since Sept 2015 as its been super crazy busy with work, family and travelling... but I will endeavor to make some time to post new posts on recipes and travels soon!


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Bonhams Hong Kong Announces Wine and Whisky Highlights for August
A single-owner collection of wine, led by six bottles of 2002 La Romanée Domaine Comte du Liger-Belair in original wooden case, will feature at Bonhams Fine and Rare Wine and Whisky Sale in Hong Kong on 19 August 2022.
2002 La Romanée, Domaine Comte du Liger-Belair
With impeccable provenance, the highlights include:
- 2002 La Romanée, Domaine Comte du Liger-Belair. Estimate: HK$270,000-360,000 (6 bottles, OWC)
- 2006 La Tâche, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Estimate: HK$252,000-310,000 (6 bottles banded, OWC)
- 2005 Richebourg, Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. Estimate: HK$105,000-145,000 (3 bottles banded, OWC)
- 2013 Corton-Charlemagne, Grand Cru, Domaine Coche-Dury. Estimate: HK$37,000-50,000 (1 bottle)
- 1998 Château Trotanoy, Pomerol. Estimate: HK$36,000-48,000 (12 bottles, OWC)
- 2010 Bâtard-Montrachet, Grand Cru, Domaine Leflaive. Estimate: HK$24,000-33,000 (3 bottles, OWC)
2013 Corton-Charlemagne, Grand Cru, Domaine Coche-Dury
1998 Château Trotanoy, Pomerol
Hugo Spencer, Bonhams Senior Specialist of Wine commented: "We are delighted to be offering a single-owner collection of fine wines in our August sale. The collector has assembled these through highly reputable merchants in the UK over the past two decades and they all come with impeccable provenance. Some of the highlights, such as the six-bottle OWC 2002 La Romanée, are in pristine, virtually untouched condition, still packed in their original tissues and straw casings. We expect a lot of interests in such rare finds as these."
The sale also offers a strong selection of Japanese and Scotch whiskies. Among the highlights are old vintages including:
Glenfiddich-50 year old. Estimate: HK$200,000-260,000.
(Bottled in 1991, it is one of the oldest productions of the family-owned distillery, and the liquor can date back to the 1930s)
Hanyu Ichiro's Malt-The Game-1st Edition. Estimate: HK$80,000-110,000.
(The first release of the Game series, a playful collaboration between Japanese liquor retailer Shinanoya and Ichiro Akuto, the owner of the Chichibu Distillery)
Karuizawa-1984-30 year old-#3032-Noh. Estimate: HK$80,000-110,000.
(A rare edition of Karuizawa Noh series bottled specifically for the Japanese Market)
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It's still early days after becoming an #SBS winner, but we've already seen a huge influx in social media communications. Traffic to our website has also increased by 200% in the 24-hours that followed the announcement.
Little Red Door Ltd. are a specialist mobile app development company based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We specialise in the design and development of functional, feature-rich and data-driven applications for the iOS and Android platforms. We have vast experience with working closely with businesses all over the world to develop innovative mobile solutions that can automate work-based processes. We also work hand-in-hand with those who have an idea for the App or Play Stores and need a specialist development company to take that idea forward. In our three years since incorporation we have grown from being a single developer working from a home office to having a team of in-house developers and designers working with some amazing clients around the world on some exciting products. From our offices in Newcastle-upon-Tyne we work daily on growing our business as well as keeping our repeat clients happy. People have often asked us "What makes Little Red Door different from other app companies"? We mulled this over for a while and although we believe we are amongst the best at what we do, the best and simplest answer we could come up with is "Because we care". We genuinely sweat every individual detail on every project. We build apps that we would be proud to put our name on.
Our professional ethos, and one that has always served us well, is to be entirely transparent with clients. Bumps in the road inevitably occur when dealing with software development. Problems arise. Deadlines change. Be honest and transparent at all times. It's also vitally important to know your industry, know your products and services and be a fountain of knowledge about your profession. Clients may need what you are offering but this doesn't necessarily mean that they understand it. Always be prepared to share your knowledge with those who hire you and help grow your company - after all, your profession should be your passion. Finally, one vital lesson we have learned is to stay hungry and stay foolish (Thank you Mr. Steve Jobs). We started Little Red Door as a means of escaping working for big faceless organisations who didn't value our expertise. Feeling undervalue and unappreciated is definitely a morale killer. Stay passionate about what you do. Stay hungry, but most of all, say foolish.


Over 40 Million Monthly Unique Users Nominated Best Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in North America and Around the World.
Atlanta, GA, USA, January 17, 2017 – SPPI (SPPI) of Atlanta, GA has won "Best Of Houzz 2017" on Houzz®, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The 33-year-old painting service company was chosen by the more than 40 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than one million active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals. This is the second time that SPPI has won in Houzz, the first was last year as Best of Houzz 2016.
SPPI is a painting contractor serving the metro Atlanta area for 31 years. They provide Residential and Commercial painting services for all types of structures, including residential homes and commercial buildings. They make every effort to provide OUTSTANDING customer service, from calling and being available to schedule an estimate to actually completing the painting project. Collaboration is required in their business from the Scanning Specialist to the Project Coordinator to the Painter, they consider their team like a seasoned orchestra and they are its veteran conductor.


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Miami Beach arts fest: $120,000 'art banana' installation eaten by performance artist
Miami Herald December 7, 2019
Performance artist eats the art at Miami Beach's Art Basel. Social media video via Miami Herald
[Ed. – If you've seen the viral image of the banana duct-taped to the wall – that's the one.]
By now you have probably heard of the now world-famous banana duct-taped to Emmanuel Perrotin's outer gallery wall at Art Basel Miami Beach. The piece that sold to an art collector for $120,000.
The $120,000 banana — a real, rather ripe and edible one — is the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and titled "Comedian." The work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, and owners are told that they can replace the banana, as needed. …
New York-based performance artist David Datuna ate the banana at around 1:45 p.m. in front of a convention center full of art lovers, according to gallery representatives.
While the banana was indeed consumed, apparently that doesn't diminish the integrity of the six-figure art work, said Lucien Terras, director of museum relations for Galerie Perrotin.
"He did not destroy the art work. The banana is the idea," Terras said.
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Kites fly high, but manja injures 12 birds
Rajesh Kumar, BBMP wildlife rescuer, disclosed a case where a black kite was entangled in manja.
A black kite caught in Chinese manja
By Iffath Fathima
BENGALURU: A day of celebration proved harmful for several birds in the city. Even after the ban on Chinese manja, it is still being used. On the day of Makara Sankranti, 12 birds were rescued in the city.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike rescued seven birds entangled in manja in places like Magadi Road, Vidyaranyapura, Kumaraswamy Layout, Shantinagar, Race Course Road. While some were injured, others were rescued successfully without any injury. Meanwhile, the Avian and Reptile Rehabilitation Centre (ARRC) rescued about four birds.
Rajesh Kumar, BBMP wildlife rescuer, disclosed a case where a black kite was entangled in manja. "Around 4 pm in the evening, I got a call from a resident of Vidyaranyapura, who said that they noticed a bird stuck and immediately informed the BBMP control room. I rushed to the spot and saw the bird stuck on a 30-feet tree. On a closer look, we noticed the bird stuck in manja. We rescued it but the kite had a deep cut on its wing and we immediately took it to the Wildlife Hospital," he said.
Jayanathi Kallam, Co-founder and Executive Director of ARRC revealed that so far this month, the ARRC has had 42 cases of birds trapped in manja.
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Initially, the ADA prohibits employers from engaging in discriminatory acts such as segregating workers, using discriminatory standards, or excluding qualified workers who have a disability. These are fairly straight-forward standards, and employer compliance is typically high. However, employment experts will explain it is when making reasonable accommodations for a disabled worker is balanced against an exception contained in the ADA that the issue becomes murky.
An employer may permissibly not make reasonable accommodations if doing so causes it to suffer undue hardship to its business. For purposes of the ADA, undue hardship means significant difficulty or expense, but those terms clearly can mean different things depending on the size of the business, type of business and the exact nature of the necessary accommodation. Other issues have arisen in various court cases over what precisely is the definition of a disability and which party is to determine what type of accommodation is required.
Even where well-intentioned individuals are involved, there can be reasonable differences over what is required by the law. Employment discrimination and equality in the workplace are important rights that can best be protected by an employment law attorney.


Microsoft has announced the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build (18317, if you're curious) to members of its beta program, and it includes a major change to the taskbar. The company has separated its Cortana smart assistant from the search bar.
Whereas typing in the search bar would previously bring up a Cortana window asking "How can I help?" and prompting you to do things with Microsoft's voice assistant, typing in the search bar will now bring up a search-specific window, and a separate button will launch Cortana.
In a new blog post, Windows Insider chief Dona Sarkar and Senior Program Manager Brandon LeBlanc noted that separating the two will "enable each experience to innovate independently to best serve their target audience and use cases." "Other available Search and Cortana settings have also now been split between the two," the post also notes.
This decoupling doesn't mean Cortana is going away, but it should significantly reduce the voice assistant's presence for most users. Even voice junkies may not mourn the loss, since you can now use Alexa on Windows 10 computers.
Build 18317 also includes a new font-installation interface, a more reliable start-up experience and a number of bug fixes.