Merritt Point Park in Dundalk, Maryland

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

Here is a link to some of my photographs of Baltimore County, Md.'s - beautiful, comfortable, tree shaded peninsula - Merritt Point Park - formerly Balto. Co.'s Merritt Point Bathing Beach, formerly Don Might's infamous Dundalk Bathing Beach and before that it was known and enjoyed as "The Old Snakehole" swimmin' hole.

Here is the link to a nice photographic trip to, through and all over - Merritt Point Park - including some superb sunsets.

Slide Show of My Dundalk, Maryland Photography Portfolio

Photography by David Robert Crews

The photographs in this slide show are from my Dundalk, Maryland USA photography portfolio. They accurately portray some of the very best of what it is truly like to live, work, shop and recreate in Dundalk, Md.. Start the slide show, and a button with four arrows on it will appear in the bottom right corner of the black box. That button puts the slide show into FULL SCREEN mode. Enjoy.

Dundalk 4th of July Fireworks

Photography by David Robert Crews

The photographs in the slide show above were taken during several different Dundalk Fourth of July Celebrations. Start the slide show, and a button with four arrows on it will appear in the bottom right corner of the black box. That button puts the slide show into FULL SCREEN mode. In full screen mode, the fireworks photo show looks fantastically stupendous. Enjoy.

Baltimore Art and Music Project's 15 Year Anniversary Celebration Earth Day Festival 2010

Photography by David Robert Crews

The photographs in the slide show above were taken on April 24, in Dundalk Village Shopping Center, at Earth Day Festival 2010. It was the 15 year anniversary celebration for the Baltimore Art and Music Project. Start the slide show, and a button with four arrows on it will appear in the bottom right corner of the black box. That button puts the slide show into FULL SCREEN mode. In full screen mode, the people in the photos will look almost live in your monitor screen. Enjoy.

Bands Who Played At the 2010 Dundalk Heritage Fair

Photography by David Robert Crews

Above is a slide show with bands in it who played at the 2010 Dundalk Heritage Fair. There are other bands from other events in the sideshow too. Start the slide show, and a button with four arrows on it will appear in the bottom right corner of the black box. That button puts the slide show into FULL SCREEN mode. In full screen mode, the people in the photos will look almost live in your monitor screen. 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.