The Deep Creek Lake Lions Club recently unveiled “Mary’s Glades,” the newest piece in the art installation of the Meshach Browning History Center located at the McHenry Community Park on Bumble Bee Road.
The Lions commissioned this artwork by Annie Simcoe, a local mixed-media artist, as part of their effort to tell the often-neglected stories of women on the frontier. Mary, the wife of famed frontier hunter Meshach Browning, was often alone growing food and maintaining the household while her husband was away on his famed hunting expeditions. Her strength and struggles must have been as great as Meshach’s but the reader of Browning’s 1859 memoir is left to infer or take her role for granted.
For more information on the Meshach Browning, History Center visit meshach.org. For more information on the Deep Creek Lake Lions Club or its community service programs, or the next meeting location please go to https://deepcreeklions.org/ or call Mike Tumbarello, director of the marketing committee at 410.707.7725 or tumbarellomike@gmail.com.