The View From Ft. Howard Veterans Hospital Grounds

Photography by David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}

A ship passing Craig Hill Upper Channel Light, seen from the Fort Howard VAMC property.

You may already be aware of the ongoing efforts to save the Fort Howard Veterans Affairs Medical Center property - the old Ft. Howard VA Hospital - for veterans only. The situation is rapidly heating up, and I shall continue working on it partly through a series of blog posts on this web site. The VA and commercial property developers are intent on building 1400 living units, several retail outlets and some commercial office spaces on the Ft. Howard VA grounds. They will have to have a VA medical clinic there, and a small clinic is all there is in use there today. The local community knows, many veterans (including myself) know that 400 living units plus more VA health care facilities is the best way to redevelop that property.

For everyone to understand what the Ft. Howard VA has that is extremely valuable to the veterans community, and the local Ft. Howard/Millers Island/Edgemere/Dundalk community, all must see what the view is like from that VAMC property. On Flickr, I have uploaded a set of videos and photos of that Patapsco River/Chesapeake Bay waterfront property view for you:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ursusdave/sets/72157627769536063/

The Road To And From The Ft. Howard VAMC

Photography by David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}

Looking up Old North Point Road, from here at the gate for the Fort Howard VAMC - the old VA hospital - you can see the entrance to/exit from Baltimore County's Ft. Howard Park there on the right side just outside the VAMC gate.

You may have already ready been aware of the ongoing efforts to save the Fort Howard Veterans Affairs Medical Center property for veterans only. The VA and commercial property developers are intent on building 1400 living units, several retail outlets and some commercial office spaces on the Ft. Howard VA grounds. They will have to have a VA medical clinic there, and a small clinic is all there is in use there today. The local community knows, many veterans (including myself) know, that more VA health care facilities, plus a maximum of 400 living units, is the best way to redevelop that property.

Old North Point Road is the main road going into and coming out of the Fort Howard Veterans Affairs Medical Center. For nearly four miles, that road is the only way out of, or into, the VA property - which is located down in way out on the North Point Peninsula. Every side road - connected to that four-mile section of Old N. Point Rd. - is a short ride to waterfront property.

For those of you who have never been to Ft. Howard to be able to understand what the proposed development of the Ft. Howard VA will mean to the adjacent communities, in terms of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, I have created a set of photos and videos of the main road to and from Ft. Howard. That road cannot handle an increase in traffic from the proposed over-development of the Ft. Howard VAMC property. The full set of photos and videos is at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ursusdave/sets/72157627998713755/

A Cormorant Pops Up by Ft. Howard Park in Baltimore County, Maryland

Videography by David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}

Shallow Creek - next to Fort Howard Park in Baltimore County, Md..

Photography by David Robert Crews {a.k.a. ursusdave}

Photos Of Bands And Musicians Mostly Performing In Dundalk And Southeastern Baltimore City

This is the link to a photo set of bands and musicians mostly performing in Dundalk and in Southeastern Baltimore City.

You'll see photographs taken at the Dundalk Heritage Fair, the Village Coffee & Tea Company, Earth Day Festival 2010, Frank Zappa Day - Zappa Plays Zappa - in Highlandtown, and more.

And here is a slideshow of those photographs:


Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a ursusdave

Baltimore, Md.'s Fireworks Grand Finale On New Years Eve 2010 - 2011

Here is the final 55 seconds of Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor fireworks display held on New Year's Eve 2010 - 2011. I shot the video at about 4 miles from the barges the fireworks were shot off from. I was just inside southeastern Balto. City, about 200 yards from the western edge of Dundalk, Md..

Photography by David Robert Crews
a.k.a. ursusdave