Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-10-06
WHAT IS MARYLAND ANYWAY
The County Of Anne Arundel:
The Heart Of Maryland.
By ALLAN BOWIE HOWARD
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It's you may have the gold and
fame, and all the jewels, too.
And all the ships. If they were
mine, I'd gladly give to you;
Id give them all right gladly,
with their gold and fame en-
tire,
If you would set me down within
the Port o. Hearts Desire.
DUT | am going far afield. for my
~ theme was not to be Maryland, |
but Anne Arundel county. And what |
is Anne Arundel county? The heart
of Maryland. pulsating with the con-
seriousness of her own power and
coming bigness and sending out to
her sisters the warm blood OF affec-
ton and cooperation; whose men and
women have ever won the red badge
of courage and who have not failed
VIXEN the hour struck; that incircles
and holds dear the charming and his
toric little capital city. Annapolis.
Annapolis. with its memory-laden
years. with the scent OF the roses OF
the olden time, that though the vase
be long broken and shattered, hangs
round it still. Annapolis, with it's
satisfied present but with the horizon
of its future looming with the promise
OF accomplishment, yet for the most
part obscured by its self-satisfaction.
Annapolis, that for well on to 800
years has huged the shores of the
beautiful Severn. slumbered by its
side and been kissed by its murmur-
ing waves. Whose ancient glory de-
parted, yet through the beautiful
workings of the law of compensation
has many times more than made up
/ all that it has lost of the glamour of
the past and still retains charm that
is all its own. To what shall | liken
ii so much as to jewel that is old in
setting that is new? Ii the jewel
dwarfs the setting. it is because the
old jewel must always excel in beauty
any setting that is new.
o
NOV, am some part afraid that if
~ ! told the whole truth about
Anne Arundel county | might not be
permitted to live in it. But | shall, in
part, at least; conceal the truth, not
withstanding that half truth is a
whole lie, for half is enough to be told
and the other half not necessary to
my purposes. So in this conciliatory
spirit | hope and feel that as | was
born here SO shall be permitted not
only to- live, but to die here, whereof
| know no more delightful and COM
Portable place for the performance Of
either of these highly important and
necessary functions But | so dearly
love to live here that | am in no I'M
seemly haste TO die here, for with all
its faults love it still, and the longer
live in it the more | love it, and low
ing it the more | should the more re-
greet to die even in it. but the more
willing be to die for it.
But now this is the county of Anne
Arundel in lighter vein. Let us come
to what Anne Arundel is in more seri-
Gus vein. Anne Arundel county holds
geographically the center of the stage
in Maryland. and actually the center
of population of the State has here
been fixed by the United States Cen
sus Bureau. The third to come into
the little family circle of %. Anne
Arundel was created into a county
by Governor Stone in 1850 and given
its name in honor of Lady Anne Arun-
gel, daughter of Lord Arundel of War
dour and wife of the Second Lord
Baltimore. Originally the largest
county in the State, with a magnifi-
cent domain stretching almost a cres-
cent, from the Calvert county line on
the south to Frederick on the north
il embraced within its bounds almost
every variety of soil. from the light
sands of the south section TO the lime
stone country. on the north and a soil
now capable of the most varied pro-
duction to meet mans needs
Its bay coast for its entire length
is serrated by great rivers and beau
tiful creeks and coves, with beautiful
names, winding and twisting and cir
cling and curving between sculptured
shores and banks in graceful and fam
tastic shapes and scenery ever shift
ing. Here in the silent, dreamy
places the world forgetting by the
world forgot 'twere easy to watch
life's little span drift by Here it
must be that the Lotus Eaters sought
tnchantment, for
Here are cool MOSES deep.
And through the moss the ivies
creep
And in the stream the long-leayed
flowers weep
And from the craggy ledge the