December 11, 2014: Winchester embraced opportunity by Dean
Minnich
William Winchester founded Westminster 250 years ago, and
the city celebrated by bringing him back to life.
Well, sort of.
Dean Camlin, architect, portrays Winchester in an ongoing
series of public appearances during this observance, and the most recent
sighting was at a tea hosted Sunday at the Westminster Library by the
Historical Society, Genealogical Society, and others.
Camlin showed up in the clothing of 1764…
[…]
The website, with a lot of input by Kevin Dayhoff, and other
writings by Catherine Baty, Anne and George Horvath, Mary Ann Ashcroft and
others give us a glimpse of how Westminster's story – and William Winchester's
– is one of a people separating themselves from one culture and recreating
themselves and the world in which they would live.
Dean Minnich was a Navy photojournalist during the Viet Nam war and has worked as a reporter, photographer, feature writer, and manager in news operations for daily and weekly newspapers in Maryland and Pennsylvania. His columns have earned multiple awards from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association and others. http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/columnists/cct-dean-minnich-20140603,0,2860695,bio.columnist
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