#Catoctin

[gatorsportsfan]

No. 2 Mountain Ridge pulls away from No. 7 Catoctin, 37-17, in state quarters

Nov. 18—FROSTBURG — Mountain Ridge has executed when it’s needed to late in games all season — the Miners did it again on Friday to hold off a furious Catoctin rally. The Cougars scored 14 points in 15 seconds to claw within 23-17 entering the fourth quarter, but Mountain Ridge buckled down, forcing a pair of turnovers and scoring a pair of long touchdowns by way of Will Patterson and Austin…

[mikekuster]

Mountain Monsters of Maryland

Mike Kuster is celebrating Halloween and his home, Frederick County, Maryland’s 275th Anniversary, with five original Halloween songs in an EP album, Mountain Monsters of Maryland. Mike has been releasing songs over the past month leading to the full EP release this week. The final two songs will drop to all digital streaming platforms on Friday, September 27, 2023 as part of the EP release.…

[istandonsnowpiles]

Sky and Leaves

[sabistarphotos]

May 21, 2022

Cunningham Falls State Park and Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland

[lost-boy-into-the-upper-heavenly]

Catoctin Mountains from Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland 🇺🇸

[archivist-crow]

Odds and Ends:

SKY DRAGONS AND SERPENTS

In June 1873, a monstrous sky serpent, in a cloud, glided over Bonham, Texas, terrifying farmers. The Bonham Enterprise carried eyewitness accounts of the snake, which was "as long as a telegraph pole" and had bright yellow stripes. It was seen coiling itself up, twisting, writhing, and then striking out at some unseen target. It was traveling eastward. Shortly after, a "sky serpent" was seen over Fort Scott, Kansas, at sunrise, encircling the sun as it rose above the horizon. The display lasted several minutes and was witnessed by both civilians and the U.S. Calvary stationed there.

Sightings of aerial snakes and dragons date back through antiquity. From AD 774, Huntington (England)'s archdeacon wrote "red signs appeared in the sky after sunset, and horrid serpents were seen in Sudsexe." In 793, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a year-by-year narrative compiled in British monasteries, records an account of people seeing fiery dragons during an extreme lightning storm in AD 793.

Other documented sightings include:

* In 1388 and 1762, a flying dragon was seen over Britain and a "twisting serpent" illuminated the sky for six minutes over Devonshire.

* In Nebraska in 1857, "a flying serpent... hovered over a Missouri River steamboat slowing for a landing. In the late dusk it was like a great undulating serpent, in and out of the lowering clouds, breathing fire, it seemed, with lighted streaks along the sides."

* In 1883, in Maryland, "R. B." witnessed a "monstrous dragon with glaring eye-balls, and mouth wide open displaying a tongue, which hung like a flame of fire from its jaws, reared and plunged" over Catoctin Mountain at 6:30 a.m.

* In 1888, a hissing sky snake was spotted over South Carolina.

* In 1897, in Michigan, at 4 a.m., John Rosa, a newspaper delivery boy, and the policeman he was with, both saw a hissing, silvery serpent, three blocks long, shooting through the air, 1,000 feet overhead.

* In 1935 a shimmering serpent moved vertically through Scandinavian skies.

* In 1935 and 1937 sky serpents appeared over Cruz Alta, Brazil.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[have-you-been-here]

Catoctin Iron Furnace.

Thurmont, Maryland USA

[strigops]

i love being from maryland and completely suspending my disbelief while watching the x files. yeah this very obviously pacific northwest forest is indeed skyline drive or catoctin mountain. yeah there’s totally a volcano there too btw.

[therangersrespite]

I forget to post stuff here, so enjoy whisk(e)y pics and quick thoughts

Catoctin Creek x Crooked Run Black Friday Stout Barrel Finished Barrel Select Rye Whiskey; a Beautiful dram I wish I had bought a second bottle of. Cocoa, coffee, aniseed fennel and cracked black pepper, and salted caramel.

Undisclosed rye whiskey from a secret distillery: I cannot wait for this to be available, I will be singing it's praises as soon as I can talk more about it. Caramelized buttered rye bread, caraway seed, aniseed, fennel, vanilla, oak bitter, and greenery.

[teapot-tulip-mouse]

Spring ephemerals: The prize for hiking in blustery April winds! Taken April 14 in Catoctin Mountain Park

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

27 September 2003

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference with US President George W. Bush September 27, 2003 in Camp David, Maryland. Putin arrived September 26 after attending official meetings at the United Nations in New York. Bush hosted a two-day summit with Putin at the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, where the leaders deepened their cooperation to deal with the shared challenges of the 21st century. The talks with George W. Bush continued at Camp David and focused on counterterrorism, the Middle East, Iran, and the Korean Peninsula, with a major focus on non-proliferation. Vladimir Putin said that Russia and the United States “act not only as strategic partners, we are allies” in the war on terrorism.

[mikekuster]

Watch for the "Snallygaster"

Watch the skies for the “Snallygaster” as Mike Kuster releases the first song from his original Halloween EP to digital streaming platforms on September 22, 2023. You can pre-save at https://mikekuster.net/snallygaster. “The Snallygaster has haunted Catoctin and South Mountains in my neck of the woods for centuries. We have all been watching the skies for this beast since we were children,” Mike…

[istandonsnowpiles]

Owens Creek Campground

[ausetkmt]

NPR: DNA links nearly 42,000 present-day relatives to Black people enslaved in 1800s

[itsstillsweetiebythealtar]

I wanna visit the Catoctin Furnace up in Maryland soooo bad, I recently found out I matched to the DNA of those enslaved there and I just have to see it in person at least one time ❤️

[sabistarphotos]

May 22, 2022

Catoctin Mountain Park, MD