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high and dry said...
IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS TO THE WINCHESTER HOTEL'
IT DESERVES IT.
THE FORMER ESTABLISHMENT DIDN'T REALLY HAVE WHAT IT TOOK TO STAND UP FOR THE GOOD NAME. IT SLOWLY FESTERD INTO A HANGOUT FOR LOW LIFEDRUG DEALERS,
PLEASE EXCUSE THE WORDING AS THERE WERE RESPECTABLE PATRONS AND THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE. THE PROPRIETERS EVENTUALLY FELL TO THE DARKSIDE OF ONE OF THE TOWNS BIGGEST PROBLEMS, ALLOWING LOW LIFE DRUG DEALERS TO HANG AND DISTRIBUTE DRUGS.
PROFIT AT ANY COSTS! GREED AND STUPIDITY GROWS RAMPADE WHEN MONEY IS INVOLVED ESPECIALLY WITH PREVIOUS PROPRIETERS.
KUDOS TO THE BUILDINGS OWNER FOR RECOGNIZING THAT THERE WAS ABOUT TO BE A UGLY SITUATION BREWING.
ANY COMMENTS?
GOOD LUCK TO WHOEVER REOPENS THIS PLACE ' HOPE THEY DO IT JUSTICE
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is this blog dead
DEAD BLOG
not a dead blog,
but an empty restaurant- bar reflects someones choice in tenants
Let hope that the next tenant has high standards
diane stackwick, and christian did an excellent job with that building. we need them back. this town needs a diane , and more l'ike her.. not more nancy's and charlottes. blah.
I'm sure my mother, Diane Stackwick, would appriciate these comments. Unfortunately, Port Deposit didn't support my mother as much as my mother supported Prt Deposit. Where is she and Christian now? Mom is living comfortably in downtown Phoenix, AZ in a lovely home that she and Mike have carefully restored near the Scottsdale area. They also spend time in their Sedona, AZ home that my brother, Christian, former chef and owner of the Winchester Hotel, has been living in as well, since he is now the chef at a 5 star resort in the area. He and his wife just welcomed their first child. As for me, I am in downtown Baltimore doing a social column for the Sobovoice, reviewing bars for my column in Baltimore Eats Magazine, and will now be reviewing bars for a national magazine, Marina Life. The youngest of the brood, Matt, now works for a record label in West Hollywood, CA.
We often talk about our time in Port Deposit, but the fond memories are often bitter-sweet. It was hard to watch my mother pour her heart and soul into a town that seemed to give her nothing but grief in return. She lost a lot, but she, Mike, and the rest of our family managed to leave with our wits and dignity intact. Since those days, we have all prospered and grown, recovered fortunes lost, and managed to put bad memories behind us. Mom and I have visited Port, when she flies into Baltimore, to see very select friends, but we manage to slip in and out of town without recognition. On our last visit, it was sad to see that not much had improved, and that control of the town had slipped back into the same, unsavory hands that held the reigns before she had moved there in the mid-90's. It was also a dissapointment to see that the Conrad's have managed to block any water-views with corrigated boat sheds all along the water, virtually insuring that no saavy real estate investor in their right mind will invest in the town for quite some time.
As a family, we think of those years in Port Deposit as not only a learning experience, but a model for how to conduct ourselves in our every-day lives. What did we take from it? Simple.
You can't change the world, no matter how well-intentioned you may be. You can only change yourself.
--Scooter Holt
Politics is politics...
in that respect small towns have unique dynamics...
The use of the word 'support' is misleading at best.
Reflecting on the past
you skip over a complete section on why some left town.
Had nothing to do with the community, but with choices made in private, that infected fortunes- made to create fortunes-lost.
BTW, I happened to like your mother
She was good for the town while she was here!
but this is not a food column 'unsavory Hands'?
Do all small towns have challenges, ahh yeah, like families we all have our creepy uncles and so on, we are a village of only so many, people must give of themselves and volunteer to get involved.
Again, I refer to the parts that you choose not to expose in your post.
As for high and dry,
Life Dear Scooter,
Is a series of compromises (choices son)
Though it would be nice to eat our cake and not have the high and dry too.
The added benefit it brings to the town, that your family choose to leave, imo, outweighs the negatives of more homes along the shore.
We could have said No
or fought it. You have to look at it in context to the times in was implemented.
A Note:
We are now packed with visitors in the spring summer months...
Have boat races each year.
increased our tax base.
improved the shore line with a jetty and docking for large vessels.
Acquired park land that is now in public use.
A complete chain of events that are actually inter-related
And get this...
Now more people roaming around to enjoy the old Winchester Restaurant , if it were still there.
Christian was an excellent Chef.
myNameisNotNecessary
My son Scott has his own opinions and he is entitled to them. I just want everyone to know what a great Town Port Deposit is. Part of my heart is still there. I will NEVER forget the many great friends and great times we had at the Winchester. Yes I lost money but I still would not trade those times for anything. Do I wish things had turned out differently? You bet. But when it's time to move on, it's time to move on and I understand it all now. I LOVE Port Deposit and always will. My best friend, Maurice Harris and his family are there and I still come visit a few times a year and walk the streets and still envision what it could be. I blame no one for anything there. Everyone had good intentions. We all just had different opinions about how to get there. I love you all and wish the Town well. Best of luck to the new owners.
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