Southern Maryland This is Living - On-line Edition

Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 2003 The articles presented here are a sample of what is available in the hardcopy magazine. Magazines are on-sale now at your local news stands and supermarkets. You can also subscribe or renew on-line. Select articles from previous editions can be found in our on-line Archive.		Lean over ever so slightly and dip your hand in the water. Let your fingertips drag through the water, leaving ripples that expand and spread into infinity. Watch an amazingly orchestrated event as a dragonfly lands, floats on the water surface and takes flight again. Catch a glimpse of a great blue heron, so elegant and poised, as it perches on a half-submerged tree. ( more...)
		Nothing beats the crunch of a juicy, just-picked apple. With thoughts of pies and other goodies, Southern Marylanders are stocking up on apples. Why not grow your own? After just two years, your tree will start producing apples. A five-year-old tree can produce twenty pounds of apples during its month-long harvest season. ( more...)
		In 1983, Mrs. Jefferson Patterson gave her riverside St Leonard property to the state of Maryland. Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum is the largest historic property ever given to the state. The facilities include archeological sites, walking trails and serene beaches, as well as working farmland, preserved and restored farm and museum exhibits, and educational programs for individuals, groups, and the area public school systems. ( more...)
		"The early Maryland experience was so much more promising than anywhere else on the Eastern Seaboard. Lord Baltimore's people, who came to Maryland, had the enormous advantage over the first people at Jamestown of understanding that a settlement meant hard work and that you got success a lot more quickly if you were allied with Native Peoples, instead of treating them as pagan enemies." ( more...)
		Exploring new exercise options in Southern Maryland can turn into a scavenger hunt in health clubs these days. If you are looking for something new and different to keep your body free-flowing, mobile and in shape, I recommend Pilates. ( more...)
		Habre de Venture, the colonial home of Thomas Stone, reflects in its architecture the life of a man dually dedicated to family and country. Stone, one of the four Maryland signers of the Declaration of Independence, built Habre de Venture for his wife and family in the early 1770s. ( more...)
		Long before the saplings to start an apple orchard were buried under the fertile soil on George and Barbara Rabbitt's property on Route 231 in Charles County, the seed to undertake the project was planted in George Rabbitt's head. ( more...)