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Western Maryland Goes to War festivities this weekend

September 28th, 2019 by WCBC Radio

As part of Western Maryland Goes to War, a four-day timeline event honoring local soldiers from World War I to Desert Storm, the Downtown Cumberland Business Association is sponsoring a USO-style event Sept. 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the McCoury Family Stage on Baltimore Street.  As part of the event, a popular President Franklin D. Roosevelt impersonator will make a special appearance from noon to 2:30 p.m. 

Saturday, Sept. 28:
Downtown Cumberland – WW2 USO with music from the 30s-50s and donuts from M&M Bakery
Allegany Museum – Military Display
Gordon-Roberts House- Military Display
Washington Street Library – History in Your Attic – bring you military memorabilia and have it scanned and added to the Western Maryland Historic Library website. You can get a copy of the scan via email, disc or flash drive.

Sunday, Sept. 29:
Cumberland Airport – EAA Breakfast and Fly-In and Car Show
Allegany Museum – Roundtable discussions from military veterans – WW2 – Desert Storm
Gordon-Roberts House- Military Display
Evergreen Museum – Open House with WW1 and WW2 military uniforms on display and how farmers supported the war effort.

2 Responses to “Western Maryland Goes to War festivities this weekend”

  1. September 28, 2019 at 9:10 am, Jim Kirchner Jr said:

    Are we forgetting a couple of wars that happened in the 2003 to the present. I think people need to know what was happening during these wars and remember the fallen.

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  2. September 28, 2019 at 3:12 pm, Brian said:

    This was a great weekend for the Board of Education to cut down the trees in the Memorial Park for all the men who graduated Fort Hill High School who died in World War II without any public input I wonder how the families of these men feel

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