Posted by The SlackWater Center on April 12, 2016 · 2 Comments
By the 1960s, the military had come to define Lexington Park. The new boom town became the center of new consumerism in St. Mary’s County.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Jack Daugherty, Jack Gelrud, Jack Rue, Julia A. King, Julia King, Larry Millison, Lewie Aldridge Sr., oral history, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center
From The Slackwater Center’s 2009 archives: Local residents recall Patuxent River Naval Air Station’s role in the early years of the Space Race.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Alan Shepard, Andrea Hammer, John Paradis, Julia King, Mercury Seven, oral history, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Space Race, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center, theslackwatercenter
A photography project, Water Memories, will focus on people near the water and be displayed using water. Call 240-462-6573.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, art project, Gabriela Bulisova, Julia King, Mark Isaac, oral history, photography project, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's photography project, The Slackwater Center
It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Catherine "Kitty" Barnes, Ford Dean, Jack Witten, Julia King, kitty barnes, Senator Paul Bailey, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Steuart Petroleum, The Slackwater Center
Posted by The SlackWater Center on January 13, 2016 · 5 Comments
It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.
When the town was full of bars and slot machines and drunken sailors … Lexington Park was the belly of a noble beast, says Charlie Hewitt.
Category Art at the Bottom, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Art Park, Charlie Hewitt, Julia A. King, Julia King, oral history, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Art Park, The Slackwater Center, Tom Watts
Posted by The SlackWater Center on October 26, 2015 · 6 Comments
Hilda Mowery arrived in St. Mary’s Co., MD, in 1953, left her philandering husband, decided to open a bar and nightclub and to support her children.
Math Circle is a STEM program designed to give students children a leg up in mathematics.
Category Leader Exclusives, Pax River News · Tags Bonnie Green, David Kung, math circle, Patuxent Partnership, Pax partnership, RED Inc, St. Mary's College of Maryland, STEM, The Patuxent Partnership, TPP
Posted by Publisher on September 21, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The Impacts, a ‘tight’ musical group from Lexington Park, played at military bases and headlined at a Woodstock in St. Mary’s County.
When Harold Herndon arrived in 1960, the Carver High School Band didn’t have a single instrument.