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RIP SMITH
According to Smith, especially violent or troublesome Trans-Allegheny Luna-
tic Asylum patients could be placed in "seclusion rooms."
All aboutApple butter'. Every Columbus Day weekend since 1974, Berke-
ley Springs has put homemade apple butter front and center, and this year's
free Apple Butter Festival likely will again draw thousands of visitors. The fun
starts with a kickoff parade at 10 a.m. Saturday and continues with live mu-
sic, an art and crafts show, food vendors, sidewalk sales, special restaurant
deals, plus old-fashioned contests in hog calling, egg tossing and more. The
fun continues through 5 p.m. Sunday. For more details, go online to www.
berkeleysprings.com/apple or find Apple Butter Festival, VVV on Facebook.
Game time:Antelope pastrami, wild boar
goulash, roasted rabbit, searedpheasant,
elk, venison and other unusual fare all are
part of the Wild Game Festival, a Bavarian
Inn tradition that dates back three decades.
To see the full menu and get other details on
Shepherdstown's famed inn, go to the Ba-
varian's website, www.bavarianinnwv.com or
connect with the Bavarian on Facebook.
Photos from 250th. Images from a new,
limited-edition book highlighting Shep-
herdstown's 250th birthday celebra-
tion will go on display at 5:30 p.m. Sat-
urday at the opening reception at The
Bridge Gallery at 8566 Shepherdstown
Pike: Copies of the book also will be for
sale. Shepherd University professor Ben-
ita Keller,directed the project, which in-
cludes photographs by Krista Healy, Deb-
orah Westphal, Heidi Geraci, Stephen
Schaefer, Kristian Thacker, Carl Schultz,
Amanda Hamlin and Sue Silver. Satur-
day's reception ends at 7:30 p.m., but the
exhibit runs through Oct. 28. For details
on the Jefferson County Photography
Project, go toFacebook, jeffersoncounty-
photographyproject.com or contact Benita
Keller at benitakellerphoto2000@yahoo.
com. For more on the exhibition, co'ntact
Kathryn Burns at gallery (304-866-2300
or bridgegalleryandframing.com).
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J-xsylumin Montgomery County, Md.
FROM PAGE B12 "You see peeling paint and
other interesting textures.
Panhandle after visiting Me- Because usually there's no
Dowell County near the Ken- electricity in these buildings,
tucky border to explore a pho- what you see you see by so
tography project on population the light coming in through
loss in southern West Virginia. windows. Visually, there's
"I saw this sign on 1-79 for just a lot for a photographer
historic asylum tours," Smith to work with."
said. "I'd read about this place, On Saturday, Smith will
but once I saw this absolute- be at the gallery at 108 N.
ly huge building - four stories George St. in Charles Town
tall, so wide, close to a quar- from 6 to 8 p.m. for an open-
ter-mile long - I knew I had ing reception and book sign-
to make a project out of it. I ing that's free and open to the
ended up taking the tour and public.
getting some images I liked "Asylum" also may be
enough that I postponed my viewed during the gallery's
McDowell County project and regular hours, noon to 5 p.m.
came back four more times to Wednesdays through Sun-
take photographs and conduct days. Visitors also can check
interviews." out Smith's companion book,
Another of Smith's recent which includes more than 40
projects found beauty in long- images from Weston plus in-
abandoned homesteads in formation from his interviews
North Dakota. Like with those as well as details on the hos-
structures, the emptiness of the pital's history.
Weston hospital makes for an For more on the exhibition,
arresting subject, go to the Washington Street
"Like a lot of photographers, Fallery at www.wstreet-
I'm fascinated by abandoned gallery.com, contact Smith
places, old places," explains (304-596-0873 or sterlingim-
Smith, who grew up in D.C. ageswv@gmail.com) or visit
and settled in Martinsburg in Smith's website, www.ster-
2002 after decades of living lingimages.com.
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Memorial Hospital Medical Staff. Dr. Duany will be practicing and Sports Medicine
at University Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. 201 East Fifth Avenue, Suite 2
Ranson, WV 25438
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