Spirited soiree to feature specters
Spirited soiree to benefit Historic Ellicott City SOIREE, From page 1 October release by Gravitas Ventures.
“He said he had planted the legend of Blink Man under a pseudonym and that he thought I might be angry with him,” said Wygant, an advertising copywriter and marketing executive. “I told him I thought it was genius.”
Myers, who grew up in Columbia but now lives in Parkville, said his 91-minute film is a faux documentary inside a faux documentary inside another faux documentary.
“It’s very meta,” said Myers, who will show his movie trailer at the event and will bring along some cast members — as well as DVDs to sell, of course. “The title is a reference to eyelash kisses [on your face] and how they can drive you mad.”
Myers invited Wygant to a screening of his movie, where she met Megan Morgan, a Baltimore resident whose science fiction book, “The Altered Wake,” had been published by Clickworks Press in September.
Morgan will bring books to the “Dead of Winter” event.
Michael Maloney, author of “Mile Marker Ten,” was eventually pulled into the book-signing lineup as well. The Oella Mill resident, who lived in Ellicott City for 30 years, used articles from The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers to build the plot for his historical fiction novel about a 1908 murder mystery in Ellicott City.
Maloney’s book, which the independent software developer self-published in July, revolves around a series of crimes and focuses on William Hatwood, whom a local reporter believes has been falsely accused of assaulting a Clarksville farmer.
“It’s surprising how polarized the area was at that time and the implicit racism that existed,” he said. “The threat of a lynching was very real.”
Ellicott City artist Wiley Purkey, who is the illustrator for “The Legend of the Zombie Snowmen of Ellicott City,” will also attend. The humorous book, written by Jerry Lee Harlowe, is being sold online.
Linda Schisler, a graphic artist, will exhibit and sell her photographs of “creepy, spooky views” of Ellicott City, and Rebecca Weber, former owner of the now-closed Still Life Gallery on Main Street, will sell art, accessories and vintage finds, Wygant said.
While the Facebook page for the event requests people “come in fun, funky, vintage, spooky-fabulous pajamas, nightgowns or robes,” Wygant said pajamas are optional, but would “add to the fun.”
Wygant, who also authored the 2010 book, “Images of America: Howard County,” said, “I believe in ghosts enough not to mess with them, and I believe there is an existence beyond this one.
“Old Ellicott City is relatively untouched and uncommercialized,” she said. “You can feel the past there and sense long-dead people and their connections to the town through the ages.” janeneholzberg76@gmail.com
“He said he had planted the legend of Blink Man under a pseudonym and that he thought I might be angry with him,” said Wygant, an advertising copywriter and marketing executive. “I told him I thought it was genius.”
Myers, who grew up in Columbia but now lives in Parkville, said his 91-minute film is a faux documentary inside a faux documentary inside another faux documentary.
“It’s very meta,” said Myers, who will show his movie trailer at the event and will bring along some cast members — as well as DVDs to sell, of course. “The title is a reference to eyelash kisses [on your face] and how they can drive you mad.”
Myers invited Wygant to a screening of his movie, where she met Megan Morgan, a Baltimore resident whose science fiction book, “The Altered Wake,” had been published by Clickworks Press in September.
Morgan will bring books to the “Dead of Winter” event.
Michael Maloney, author of “Mile Marker Ten,” was eventually pulled into the book-signing lineup as well. The Oella Mill resident, who lived in Ellicott City for 30 years, used articles from The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers to build the plot for his historical fiction novel about a 1908 murder mystery in Ellicott City.
Maloney’s book, which the independent software developer self-published in July, revolves around a series of crimes and focuses on William Hatwood, whom a local reporter believes has been falsely accused of assaulting a Clarksville farmer.
“It’s surprising how polarized the area was at that time and the implicit racism that existed,” he said. “The threat of a lynching was very real.”
Ellicott City artist Wiley Purkey, who is the illustrator for “The Legend of the Zombie Snowmen of Ellicott City,” will also attend. The humorous book, written by Jerry Lee Harlowe, is being sold online.
Linda Schisler, a graphic artist, will exhibit and sell her photographs of “creepy, spooky views” of Ellicott City, and Rebecca Weber, former owner of the now-closed Still Life Gallery on Main Street, will sell art, accessories and vintage finds, Wygant said.
While the Facebook page for the event requests people “come in fun, funky, vintage, spooky-fabulous pajamas, nightgowns or robes,” Wygant said pajamas are optional, but would “add to the fun.”
Wygant, who also authored the 2010 book, “Images of America: Howard County,” said, “I believe in ghosts enough not to mess with them, and I believe there is an existence beyond this one.
“Old Ellicott City is relatively untouched and uncommercialized,” she said. “You can feel the past there and sense long-dead people and their connections to the town through the ages.” janeneholzberg76@gmail.com
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