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Remembering Carroll's statuesque and statue sculptor

June 19, 2015

Statues and statuesque in Carroll County

By Kevin E. Dayhoff – Eagle Archives, Carroll Eagle – Baltimore Sun. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-0621-20150619-story.html

Many would be surprised to learn that Blaze Starr, who passed away on June 15, is not the only creative statuesque figure with a Carroll County connection.

Another famous Carroll County artist, William Henry Rinehart, now has his works of sculpture on display at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

Starr was a famous stripper and burlesque performer, another exhibitor of sorts. According to an article in the Sun, "In her day [she] was perhaps Baltimore's best-known figure." She was "a successful businesswoman as owner of the 2 O'Clock Club on East Baltimore Street, [who] was so nonthreatening to local morals that she appeared in an advertising campaign for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co."

A national celebrity, many locales throughout the country claim her, including New Orleans, where she had a torrid affair with the then-governor of Louisiana, Earl Long.

While she began a lifelong relationship with Baltimore in 1950, many may not be aware that for many years she called Eldersburg, in southern Carroll County, her home.

An artist of many talents, she was a striking redhead who was friendly and talkative. She also owned a store at the then-Carrolltowne Center, where she sold her handmade jewelry. That was where this writer interviewed her on several occasions in the 1980s.

The work of Rinehart, meantime, can be "seen … in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Baltimore Museum of Art," according to the Walters Art Museum website.

Rinehart was born into a prosperous farming family in Union Bridge on Sept. 13, 1825 Read more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-0621-20150619-story.html

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Remembering Carroll's statuesque and statue sculptor

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

Many would be surprised to learn that Blaze Starr, who passed away on June 15, is not the only creative statuesque figure with a Carroll County connection.

WESTMINSTER

Shrine in New Windsor honors site where Methodism got its start

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

On June 18, 1937, the Strawbridge Shrine Association was formed just outside of New Windsor, where many historians believe the origins of Methodism in America are located.

WESTMINSTER

Study of schools in Carroll provides an interesting education

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

In researching the history of schools in Carroll County, one comes across many references to early graduations and the "first" beginnings of a system of education in the county.

WESTMINSTER

Memorial Day and memories of native son killed in Vietnam nearly 50 years ago

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM

After a parade through town, a memorial service was held just before noon in the historic Westminster Cemetery. The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster was started in 1868 by Mary Bostwick Shellman.

WESTMINSTER

Westminster band in third century together

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

The March 10 event was not held in a dance hall, but there were quite a few musical numbers played. There were also movies, slides, a history talk and refreshments to the delight of approximately 125 attendees inside the large hall at Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster.

WESTMINSTER

Carroll County pays last respects to emergency responder [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Friends, family, colleagues and law enforcement officers from throughout the central-Maryland region filled Legacy Hall at the Sykesville Freedom District Volunteer Fire Department recently to pay their last respects to fellow firefighter and EMS provider Robin Flater Chenoweth.

WESTMINSTER

Efforts in Carroll County to build harmony from diversity honored [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Steve Guthrie, superintendent of Carroll County public schools, and veteran community leaders Jean and John Lewis were recently recognized by the county's Human Relations Commission for their contributions to the community.

WESTMINSTER

Carroll County's connection to Cuba began with sugar in 1800s

KEVIN DAYHOFF

Powder, serving with the U.S. Army's 6th Cavalry, was waiting to be deployed to Cuba when he wrote to his sister, "Mrs. Wm. Stansbury," from Tampa, Florida: "Dear Sister. I and our troops are still here.

WESTMINSTER

Carroll County's connection to Greece [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN. E. DAYHOFF

Several weeks ago, Westminster was the focal point of a distinguished assembly of Greek families as folks from all over the country came to town to celebrate the life of Zoe Amprazis Sirinakis, 85, who died on Dec. 29.

WESTMINSTER

Volunteer fire companies truly a valued asset in the county

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

The first mention of a fire department in what we now know as Carroll County was in 1808 when the Maryland General Assembly "passed an act authorizing the raising of money by lottery to pay for a fire engine?"

WESTMINSTER

Sergeant major's appointment brings attention of Annapolis to Carroll County

KEVIN. E. DAYHOFF

On Jan. 21, the adjutant general of Maryland, Brig. Gen. Linda Singh, announced that she had appointed Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Beyard, of Westminster, to be the senior enlisted leader of the Maryland National Guard, its top enlisted position.

WESTMINSTER

Underlining surveyors' contribution to Carroll County's history [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

For this year's event, which was scheduled for Jan. 17, the topic was the history of the county's northern border, the storied, celebrated and, at times, vilified Mason Dixon Line.

WESTMINSTER

New year begins with familiar faces missing from county leadership [Column]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

On April 24, Carroll County's chief of staff, Steve Powell, retired from county government. He started worked for the county in October 1985 as a budget officer.

WESTMINSTER

Fire department dinner meeting an annual tradition in Westminster [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

The annual event is a time-honored tradition that goes back to the beginning of the current fire company in Westminster, which was incorporated on Jan. 29, 1879, in the midst of enormous contention after a series of disastrous fires between 1857 and 1879, when there was no fire company in town.

WESTMINSTER

Center hosts annual event to celebrate farming in Carroll County [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Recently, about 100 hardy souls braved temperatures in the upper 20s and the final remnants of a freezing rain to attend the annual Carroll County Agriculture Center's dinner meeting.

WESTMINSTER

Carroll County's new leaders share more than priority of public safety [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN. E. DAYHOFF

Just days after the sheriff's office made that announcement, the office announced the appointment of an additional investigator to the county's drug task force to address the community's growing alarm regarding the abuse of prescription drugs and heroin.

WESTMINSTER

A love story that began on New Year's Eve, 1945 [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Much of the time, history can be the dry stuff of names and facts or memorized dates found in textbooks. Nothing can bring history alive more than our own memories or growing up listening to the recollections of our parents or grandparents.

WESTMINSTER

Celebrating Grace Lutheran Church's growth and history in Westminster

KEVIN DAYHOFF

... church's commitment to Westminster — and was, in part, initiated by the husband and wife team of Pastors Martha and Kevin Clementson, who have led the congregation since December 2007. The rededication service on Sept. 14 will be officiated by ...

WESTMINSTER

Pond a source of respite for Westminster visitors and residents

KEVIN DAYHOFF

More than 60 years ago, the Route 140 "Roadside Picnic Area and Community Fish Pond" was dedicated with great fanfare by then-Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin during a Saturday program that began at 2 p.m. and lasted all afternoon.

WESTMINSTER

Westminster mayor remembered [Eagle Archives]

KEVIN E. DAYHOFF

Many historians would agree with state Sen. Joe Getty, a local historian, who wrote, "Researching local business histories is difficult and challenging. Sources for such information are generally scarce and incomplete?"

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Also see related: Love Reconciled with Death

July 7, 2007 by Kevin Dayhoff

Updated August 16, 2009

While we were in Union Bridge for dinner on July 5, 2007, we had the opportunity to study and admire the sculpture at the corner of North Main Street and East Broadway, which is a reproduction of “Love Reconciled with Death” by Union Bridge native William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874.)

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See also: “The Dinners at the Buttersburg Inn” July 5, 2007

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Reproduction of “Love Reconciled with Death” by Union Bridge native William Henry Rinehart. Corner of North Main Street and East Broadway Kevin E. Dayhoff July 5, 2007

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“Love Reconciled with Death” by William Henry Rinehart in Union Bridge

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Reproduction of “Love Reconciled with Death” by Union Bridge native William Henry Rinehart Corner of North Main Street and East Broadway Kevin Dayhoff July 5, 2007

According to an undated brochure, “Union Bridge Walking Tour,” which I retrieved in June 2009:

“‘Love Reconciled with Death’ was sculpted by Union Bridge native William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874) as a memorial to the wife of Baltimore art connoisseur and philanthropist, William T. Walters.

“The original sculpture is located in Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore. The memorial was selected by the Town of Union Bridge to be reproduced and installed in 2007 as a tribute to the sculptor.

“Rinehart was born into a farming family near Union Bridge and became known as one of

America

's most-skilled nineteenth-century sculptors. One of his best-known works is the relief known as The History of Justice on the bronze doors of the United States Senate Chamber in Washington.”

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William Rinehart's artwork can be seen at the Historical Society of Carroll Co.

June 22, 2015

Historical Society of Carroll County recently wrote, “A recent Baltimore Sun article [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-0621-20150619-story.html – “Remembering Carroll's statuesque and statue sculptor,” by Kevin E. Dayhoff – Eagle Archives] notes that ‘the work of Rinehart, meantime, can be seen in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.’

An earlier form of Rinehart's sensitive bust of his mother was the first evidence of the young artist's talent. After his mother's death in 1868, he sent home for the work and for one of her caps. The artist prepared several plaster-casts of the new bust for presentation to his brothers and a marble one for himself. This example was probably given to his older brother Evan Thomas who gave it to his daughter, the donor.

A recent Baltimore Sun article notes that "the work of Rinehart, meantime, can be "see in the collections of the...
Posted by Historical Society of Carroll County on Monday, June 22, 2015

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