Recreation News – Federal News Network

Fun stuff: celebrate the land of the free

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:32:01 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

exercise your freedom and pick your spot to watch the fireworks over our nation’s capital on the evening of the Fourth of July.

Fun stuff: the grass is a little bluer back home

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:38:34 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

check out the solid lineup of bluegrass and roots rock acts (think Grateful Dead tribute bands) at the free Back Home Festival (June 24-25, in New Martinsville, West Virginia).

Fun stuff: bail out on Father’s Day weekend

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:05:35 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

Dad and the kids can learn how parachutes work at the Family Fun Day (today, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., at the Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum at Martin State Airport in Middle River, Maryland).

Fun stuff: let’s go Dutch

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:11:24 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

gain insight into the traditions of the Pennsylvania Dutch and their way of life at the Kutztown Folklife Festival (July 2-10).

Fun stuff: blues de Grace

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 10:12:22 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

let the riffs and rhythms slay you at the Havre de Grace Jazz and Blues Festival (today and tomorrow).

Fun stuff: they weren’t drinking tea at this tea party

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 28 May 2022 09:33:10 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

everyone knows about Boston, but did you know Maryland hade its own act of resistance to King Georg’es tax on colonial America? Learn more at the Chestertown Tea Party Festival (today and tomorrow).

Fun stuff: hamming it up in the hamlet of ham

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 21 May 2022 11:07:54 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

head to the town made famous by ham and check out the other kind of ham showing their stuff in the “visual, performing, literary and culinary arts” at the Smithfield Arts Festival (today, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., in Smithfield, Virginia).

Fun stuff: Caribbean scene

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 14 May 2022 11:40:28 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

you might even spy some painted jeans at the Fest of Spring, where you can enjoy the food and music of the Caribbean — and wines made in Maryland (today 12:00-8:00 p.m., at the fairgrounds in Frederick).

Fun stuff: for those who used to rock

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 07 May 2022 10:42:55 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

the M3 Rock Festival salutes the generation that grew up on ‘80s arena rock with performances by a line-up of actual bands from that period (this weekend at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland).

Fun stuff: it’s not just Canada or Vermont

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:44:03 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

the Keystone State has enough trees to tap that it has its own Pennsylvania Maple Festival, complete with a pancakes and sausage dinner hosted by the Lions Club (this weekend and next, in Meyersdale).

Fun stuff: oh, yeah, they were cooking back then too

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:12:25 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

see the way Americans cooked and ate 300 years ago, at a cooking demonstration using a wood-burning hearth at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum, the historical homestead of a free African American man who lived in the Patapsco Valley in the 1700s (today, 12:00-3:00 p.m., in Catonsville, Maryland).

Fun stuff: how you can get your groove back

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:03:59 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

find your favorite style of music at Boscov’s Berks Jazz Festival, featuring dozens of artists in multiple venues (through April 10, in Reading, Pennsylvania.).

Fun stuff: the art of sea glass

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:09:53 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

head over to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for the annual Sea Glass Festival, which features “coastal” jewelry as well as live music (today, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and tomorrow 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.).

Fun stuff: walk like a midshipman

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:34:20 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

catch your last chance to take a guided walking tour of historic Annapolis, the Maryland State House, and the U.S. Naval Academy (tomorrow at 1:30 p.m.).

Fun stuff: Saturday night’s all right for bragh-ling

Andrew Mitchell — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:01:42 +0000

The Federal News Network speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital. This week:

St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone but the celebrating continues with the Celtic Festival, which features an evening of Irish music (at the Millburn Stone Theatre in Morth East, Maryland, tonight at 7:00 p.m.).