Dundalk's 4th of July Fireworks 2011

Photography by David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}

And here is a link to my video of the last sixteen minutes of the 2011 Fourth of July Fireworks in Dundalk, Maryland:

http://youtu.be/ILQql-y3Vvw

Links To Websites Of Dundalk Heritage Fair 2011 Entertainers

Here are links to websites with good info on entertainers who are scheduled to perform at the 2011 Dundalk Heritage Fair:

Stage #1 Shipway

Friday July 1

3:00PM - Sons of Pirates (Jimmy Buffet/Beach Music)

6:00PM - Opening Ceremony

7:30PM - The Mahoney Brothers (The Beatles Tribute)


Saturday July 2

2:00PM - Invasion (British Rock)

4:00PM - Faded Image (Rock & Pop)

8:00PM - The Guess Who


Sunday July 3

2:00PM - Gene Vincent & The Cadillac Cruisers (Classic Rock)

4:00PM - Dean Crawford & The Dunn’s River Band

8:00PM - Eddie Money



Stage #2 Dunmanway

Friday July 1

3:00PM - Blue Streak (Blues and Zydeco)

5:00PM - Trinidad and Tobago Steel Band

7:30PM - Jericho Bridge (Bluegrass)


Saturday July 2

12:30PM - Shirley Darling Dancers

2:00PM - P.T. Waggs & Django, The Monkey (Children & Adults)

3:00PM - Sons of Riley (Acoustic & Classic Rock)

5:00PM - Doug Lester and Friends (Country & Pop)

7:30PM - Ronnie Dove


Sunday July 3

1:00PM - Norm & Carlos (Variety)

3:00PM - TKO (Polka)

5:00PM - Four X Four (Classic Country)

7:30PM - Appaloosa (Classic Rock & Variety)

If anyone can provide a good link to any website that has info on either Four X Four, Doug Lester and Friends, or Trinidad and Tobago Steel Band, I will post that link. I have done some intensive web searching for those unknown links, and if I can't locate any Internet published info on those performers there probably isn't any. But you may know of a good link for one of those three bands. My Email Address is:

ursusdave at yahoo dot com

Photos Of Bands And Musicians Mostly Performing In Dundalk And Southeastern Baltimore City

This is the link to a photo set of bands and musicians mostly performing in Dundalk and in Southeastern Baltimore City.

You'll see photographs taken at the Dundalk Heritage Fair, the Village Coffee & Tea Company, Earth Day Festival 2010, Frank Zappa Day - Zappa Plays Zappa - in Highlandtown, and more.

And here is a slideshow of those photographs:


Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a ursusdave

The Super Moon Seen Over Dundalk, Md. USA

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a ursusdave

The Supermoon of March 19. 2011, as seen from Dundalk, Maryland. The slideshow begins with a short video of the moon slowly rising.Then there come a-half-a-dozen still photographs, which were taken as the moon rose and changed from a fantastical, deep orangish yellow to a very intense white. It were some kind'a awesome, I gotta say.

The 2011 St. Patrick's Day Parade In Dundalk, Maryland

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a. ursusdave

Dundalk, Md. held it's annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 12, 2011. The parade is a celebration of the town’s Irish heritage. In 1856, Dundalk was named by local bell foundry owner Henry McShane, in honor of the town he was born in, Dundalk, Ireland. The name Dundalk is the English speaking version of the Gaelic phrase “Dun Dealgan,” which means “Dalgan’s stronghold.”

Fall Colors In Dundalk, Maryland

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a ursusdave

The photographs were taken during the Autumn of 2010, in central Dundalk, Md. USA. And if you click on that button in the bottom right corner of the slideshow, the button with four arrows on it, you'll enjoy a nice time watching the show in full screen mode.

The Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society Christmas Train Garden, Christmas Celebration, And Dundalk's Christmas Parade

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a. ursusdave

The Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society Museum Christmas Train Garden is still up and running in the museum. The museum is located in Dundalk Village Shopping Center at 4 Center Place - across from the front entrance to the Dundalk Post Office. The train garden is open through January 9, 2011. Hours are: 12 noon - 8:00 p.m. daily; ADMISSION: FREE

Here it is April 9, over three months since I posted that train garden slideshow. Dang-me, I just realized that I haven't posted anything on this blog about my web published photographs of the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society Museum Christmas Celebration nor the Dundalk Christmas Parade. Here 'tis:

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a. ursusdave

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a. ursusdave

A Slideshow Of Dundalk, Md. Homes with Christmas Lights

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a. ursusdave

The photographs in this slideshow were are taken during December 2010 - in Dundalk, Maryland. They are sized to best fit a computer monitor screen, so that you may use them as a desktop background photo or for a screensaver. ENJOY!

The 2010 Fourth of July Weekend in Dundalk, Maryland USA

America's biggest and best three day 4th of July Independence Day Celebration will be held on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2010, in the Baltimore, Maryland suburb of Dundalk, in Baltimore County.

Every year, world famous music artists play great concerts in Dundalk Heritage Park, at the Dundalk Heritage Fair, during the Fourth of July Independence Day Celebration weekend. There's also lots of enjoyable music played by other - foot-tappin'-good-get-up-and-dance - music artists, there are plenty of fun and interesting activities for children and adults to get into, the fair's crafts area is well stocked and very nicely presented, there are local history booths - including school alumni associations, and the food is tummy terrific.

The 2010 Dundalk Heritage Fair will be held on July 2nd, 3rd and 4th in beautifully tree shaded and grass carpeted Dundalk Heritage Park. The park is located behind quaint, historic Dundalk Village Shopping Center, which is at Dundalk Avenue and Center Place. Fair hours are 12pm to 10pm. Children under 12 get into the Heritage Fair for free, adults pay $5.00.

On Friday, July 2nd, The Mahoney Brothers Long Live The Beatles show will begin at 7:30pm on the main stage. Someone once told me that Ringo Starr was asked - on the Howard Stern Show - how he felt about Beatles tribute bands, and Ringo replied, "I don't mind as long as they're good, like The Mahoney Brothers." The Official Site of THE MAHONEY BROTHERS

On Saturday, July 3rd, Bowzer's Rock 'n' Roll Party will begin at 8pm on the main stage. You can see the kinds of old time Rock and Roll greats he brings to his shows at:
Welcome to Bowzer's Rock 'N Roll Party!

On Sunday, July 4th, The Turtles concert - featuring Flo and Eddie - will begin at 8pm on the main stage. They're a band of great musicians who have professional histories of performing and recording with all kinds of other famous Rock and Roll stars: including Todd Rundgren, Hot Tuna, Alan Parsons, Meat Loaf, Edgar Winter, The Cars, Lou Christie, and Paul McCartney; and they have been on many TV shows, worked on Broadway and on films, have been in videos and featured in music industry magazines, and on and on; and Flo and Eddie have great music histories too, which includes singing with Baltimore born Frank Zappa on four Mothers of Invention albums and a movie. There is no telling which fantastic Rock 'n' Roll tunes they will play, because they sure are some hard core, long time Rock and Rollers. Check out their impressive music bios at:
The Turtles Now

Here is the link to the entire Heritage Fair schedule:
Heritage Fair - Entertainment

Deborah Rudacille, author of the book - Roots of Steel Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town - will be having a book reading/signing event at the Dundalk Heritage Fair, in Heritage Park's gazebo. Times are July 3rd, 1:30 to 3:30, 5:30 to 7:30, July 4th, 5:30 to 7:30.

The official Dundalk Heritage Fair web site's "About Us" page has been updated with excellent writing about the Heritage Association of Dundalk volunteers who make the fair happen every year. Heritage Fair - About Us

Come and check out the Facebook page:
We Enjoy the Dundalk Heritage Fair

The Dundalk Heritage Independence 6K run will be held on Saturday morning, July 3rd, at 7am. All race info is available at: Charm City Run

The 76th annual Dundalk 4th of July Parade will be held on Saturday, July 3rd, 2010, beginning at 8:15am. The route is the same as always. And sections of it are no more than a block away from the Heritage Fair.

The Dundalk Fourth of July Fireworks display will be held at approximately 9:15pm on Saturday evening July 3, 2010, by the North Point Government Center at Merritt Boulevard and Wise Avenue. If you can see the top of the North Point Police Station radio tower, you can see most of the fireworks.

It's gonna be a hard Rockin', weekend long, Fourth of July Independence Day Celebration in Dundalk, Maryland!

A set of photographs of last year's Dundalk Heritage Fair, a set of last year's parade photos and sets of photos that include fireworks photos and great shots of the Dundalk area, can be viewed at: ursusdave's photosets on Flickr, or on this blog, if you scroll down and keep on checkin' it out.

My Year 2009 Dundalk Heritage Fair Photos

Photography by David Robert Crews

Welcome to my year 2009 Dundalk Heritage Fair photography blog postings.

The photography assignment -- which I had given to myself -- was to completely and clearly reveal that: the Dundalk Heritage Fair is held in comfortable, convenient, big-strong-beautiful-shade-tree endowed, and grass carpeted Dundalk Heritage Park; the Fair is well attended by some mighty fine, completely relaxed, friendly and fun loving folks; everything about the fair is usually a good experience; and dedicated, hard working, selfless volunteers from the community of Dundalk, Maryland make the Heritage Fair the outstanding success that it has been every year for the past 34 years.

This set of photographs is also all about natural photographic talent. Because, due to an unfortunate set of long standing circumstances, I could not photograph the 2009 Dundalk Heritage Fair with professional camera gear but had to photograph it all with an old Cannon Sure Shot "point and shoot" film camera that I borrowed. Manually operated pro gear allots me tons of creative control, which the all automatic Sure Shot does not.

And there no longer is an old fashioned photo lab at Dundalk Community College for me to do custom enlarging in. If you would care to view a substantial selection of my previous work done in that photo lab, along with much of my entire photography portfolio, check it all out at this link.

Also, I did the job at my own, personal expense, and I can't afford to have the negatives scanned as raw files, then fully enhanced, before they were turned into JPEGs -- with the limitations in sharpness and other photographic qualities that JPEGs are known for. But JPEGs load up onto a web page much faster.

Those losses of creative control really hurt me, but if I hadn't just told ya' you'd never know it's so when you're having a good time viewing my Heritage Fair photographic work.

I am a low income, disabled US Army Veteran, who has spent the past decade earnestly working and fighting to recover from substantial, devastating personal and financial losses, so it was rough on me -- in several ways -- to do this photography job. But the results are outstanding.

All things considered, including an inner drive to work as long and hard everyday as is possible, I love doing as much photography as I can.

There are 26 more Heritage Fair photography blog posts on this web site. Scroll down this page and 8 more posts roll out nicely below this one; then you hit the Older Posts button at the bottom of the blog posts to see 9 more posts about the Fair -- including great shots of Micky Dolenz signing autographs after he played a Rock 'n Roll concert at the Fair. If you explore this web sight past the Heritage Fair photos you will hit on posts for the 75th Annual Dundalk 4th of July Parade and then it is Dundalk Art Show photos from 2009; then it's lots more great photos of, and true words about, the best of Dundalk, Maryland USA.

Enjoy.

Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society at The Heritage Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

The Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society has a nifty little museum in Dundalk Village Shopping Center. Check it out sometime.

Bob Staab wrote a locally popular book titled "Growing Up In Dundalk" Precious Memories. And in the photo just above, at the left, Bob is the suntanned, former-lifeguard-looking type of a guy standing there showing the two ladies and dark shirted man a copy of that book. Mr. Staab was my 5th and 6th grade physical education teacher -- called a gym teacher in those olden, 1961 era, days -- at Merritt Elementary School. I also knew Mr. Staab as a lifeguard down at Dundalk Bathing Beach/Merritt Beach, which was about a half a block down the street from the home where I grew up. As a kid, I spent plenty of time "down The Beach" myself, where I learned a lot by taking Red Cross swimming lessons there while also learning a bunch of good stuff about meeting pretty girls and havin' great times with guy and gal friends and buddies.

Normally, as a professional photographer, I would have cropped that Bob Staab photo up a little closer to Bob's and the one lady's waist level -- where 'twould make it a much tighter photograph. But I simply could not resist including those "hairy-bone socks"* and little ol' low cut loafer style shoes that Bob has on; because it proves the he most definitely still is one of them lifeguard types to this very day; even though he never could have afforded to own such an expensive, nice and comfortable looking pair of shoes back during his early days of living a whole lotta time on beaches. But they were great times, now precious times, I assure you.

(*"hairy-bone socks" is a comical expression that 1960s era Dundalk teens used for a guy wearing shoes without socks on, and is a take-off on the word Herringbone, which is a pattern used in fabrics -- now that's some Dundalk history youz would never learn anywheres else!)

Dundalk Renaissance Corporationand Team Dundalk at The Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

Dundalk Renaissance Corporation and Team Dundalk, at the Heritage Fair, promoting the full and complete revitalization of Dundalk.

Local High School Alumni Maintained Booths at The Dundalk Heritage Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

Local high school alumni associations maintained booths at the Dundalk Heritage Fair. The Patapsco High School and Center For The Arts alumni booth is pictured above, with stacks of PHS yearbooks on the table. And there was also a booth each for Dundalk High and Sparrows Point High alumni.

Crafts Vendors Were Aplenty at The Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

There was a long, easy row of well stocked crafts tents set up on a soft grassy lane with plenty of wide, healthy shade trees above, at the 2009 Dundalk Heritage Fair. I bought that crab shell with a moose on it for display in my home. Because for many, many, many moons I have hoped to someday have crab meat and moose meat at the same meal together. All totaled, during my 59 years so far on planet Earth, I have eaten bushels of crabs while living in Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay and the Bay's eastern, Baltimore area, backwaters. Unfortunately, in my entire life -- including times as a hunting guide up in the North Woods of Maine -- I have only been alloted the pure pleasure of consuming one moose steak; that steak was humongous and decidedly delicious.

The Petting Zoo and The Pig Races

The Petting Zoo has been a favorite at the Dundalk Heritage Fair for years. I like the zoo's turtles best of all the critters.

The shot below is only one that I managed to grab of the 2009 Heritage Fair pig races. I kept forgetting to get over there before the races began, and it was so popular that once the show started the crowd watching it was so thick that I couldn't get into a good position to take photographs from. But that's good for the Fair. And I like that, because the Fair is a community volunteer effort that I am a small part of.

Photography by David Robert Crews

This photo is more a historical documentation of year 2009 women's hair styles in Dundalk than anything else.

Monkeying Around

Photography by David Robert Crews

Phineas T. Waggs giving his monkey pal Django a few sips of Pepsi. Phineas and Django entertained folks at the Dundalk Heritage Fair for hours.

Boy Scouts of America Troop 343 at The Dundalk Heritage Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

Pictured above is just a small part of the good experience that the Boy Scouts of America Troop 343 created at the Dundalk Heritage Fair.

They shared their area at the fair with Venture Crew 343. We all know what the Boy Scouts are all about, but the Venture Crew is new to me. According to their web site: the venture crew is a coed group of youths who are at least age 14 or have completed the 8th grade. The crew has an activity once a month and also a week long activity sometime during June, July or August. They meet the last Thursday of each month, except on holidays. This is a youth run organization. We have a good variety of people who all get along and work well with each other. We carry out a variety of activities including things like GPS courses, bridge building, canoing, caving, white water rafting, sailing, biking, hiking and much much more. Each youth has a say in what the crew does or would like to do. If you are an outdoors person or want to become one this is the perfect group for you.

If you have any question, or if you wish to join, then send a e-mail to Crew343 at hotmail dot com

The Climbing Wall at The Heritage Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

This climbing wall was a pretty-neat addition to the free offerings at the 2009 Dundalk Heritage Fair.

The Carnival Portion of The Heritage Fair Juts Out From The Main Body of The Fair Into Open, Breezy Sports Fields

Photography by David Robert Crews

I composed this photo as a very wide shot in order to show you that the carnival portion of The Dundalk Heritage Fair juts out from the main body of the Fair into open, breezy, well maintained sports fields that are behind Dundalk Elementary School. The main body of the Fair is on the other side of the school in beautiful, tree shaded Dundalk Heritage Park. And though you can only, easily, see the largest rides on the carnival midway, I assure you that there is a nice selection of kiddies rides there and plenty of carnival games and also booths selling carnival food and drink there.

I took this shot of the carnival section of the Dundalk Heritage Fair before the fair opened; hence, there are no riders on the rides yet. But the carnival ride operators sure got a good workout when the Fair was open.

My Goodness! There Sho' 'Nuf Was Plenty Of Great Food at The Fair!

Photography by David Robert Crews

There most certainly was plenty of fresh, protein packed, vitamin rich, yummy-yummy food for lunch, dinner and supper at the Dundalk Heritage Fair that I ate my fair share of.

There were also a decent number of sturdy and clean picnic tables placed throughout the fairgrounds.