Jack White

1937 fire damage - Main Street Sykesville - looking north

Volume 1 — The Town that Refused to Die

The town of Sykesville today is nothing like the Sykesville of 25 years ago. Go back with us now through fire, flood, decline, and murder to a time when Sykesville was all but left for dead.

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The Angel of Sykesville in a Dusting of Snow

It doesn’t take much, just a dusting of white really, to make Sykesville beautful. Here’s the angel watching over the dead and the living. And a snowbound train abandoned by its passengers. The world’s loneliest […]

Eldersburg's Buzz Lightyear, Ross Dangel, with his namesake

To Infinity and Beyond – A Trail Story

We promised an in-depth story on the Freedom Trail that will connect Sykesville to Eldersburg and points beyond.

Well, here it is. […]

Gaither Man Freezes Getting Mail

This poor fellow on Gaither Road went out to get the mail in the early stages of Saturday’s snowfall. It seems his nose fell off and he froze in place. Notice the terror in his […]