This past week my good friend Pat Woodburn referred me to an article about Old Timey Stores from the World Atlas folks. Through the course of the week, several other folks did likewise. Then just yesterday, I had two visitors in the Buzzy’s, both County residents, who stopped in because they had seen the article and wanted to check Buzzy’s out. My thanks to Pat and everyone else for telling me about Buzzy’s new found notoriety.

Here is what they had to say about Buzzy’s:

Another local store on the list was Cecil’s Country Store in Great MIlls:

To read the entire article (click here.)

The Preakness no longer has an official song (click here for story as to how “Maryland, My Maryland” was 86’d. (Hope it’s still ok to say 86’d.)) While listening to the Southern Rock channel on the radio yesterday, I heard the Black Crowes do this live version of this tune and tracked it down. Great tune. Maybe they should make this the new Preakness song.

This performance was in 2013 at the Lockn’ Festival held in Arrington, Virginia. The Festival featured several jam bands and ran until COVID-19 took it out. There is a Lockn’ Forum that talks about the history of the event and has some recollections and photos of it.