The Deep Creek Blog

Garrett County Chamber Holds Viewing Party for "Getting Away Together"

The Garrett County Chamber of Commerce is holding a viewing party of the Deep Creek Lake area/Garrett County episode of “Getting Away Together” on Monday, March 26, 2012 at 6 pm in the lower level of Uno Chicago Grill Deep Creek.

The episode filmed in Garrett County was made possible by the Garrett County Chamber of Commerce, Garrett County Economic Development, Railey Mountain Lake Vacations, Bill’s Marine Service, Bill’s Outdoor Center, Honi-Honi Bar, Uno Chicago Grill Deep Creek Lake, Arrowhead Market, Garrett 8 Cinemas, Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations and Long & Foster Resort Rentals. The episode will serve as a valuable marketing tool for the region to use in the years to come. 

Complimentary appetizers will be available and drink specials will be available for purchase during the episode. To RSVP, register online at visitdeepcreek.com or call Charlotte at 301.387.6171 by 3 pm on Monday, March 26.


"Getting Away Together” follows participants staying together underneath the same roof in vacation rental homes, villas and condos across America.  The series is produced by Emmy Award-winning PineRidge Film & Television Company for distribution exclusively on PBS member stations nationwide. The first season will feature 10 dynamic travel destinations, including Garrett County and the Deep Creek Lake area episode, during the series run.

A military family, Mike & Alexis Piet from Arlington, VA were selected to be featured in the episode. The episode follow Mike & Alexis, their parents and family friends John, Mara and their son Jack as they visit Wisp Resort, the Deep Creek Lake Art & Wine Festival, Adventure Sports Center International, Honi-Honi Bar, Swallow Falls State Park, a local Farmer’s Market and training for the annual Garrett County-based annual SavageMan Triathlon, a world-acclaimed triathlon that fights skin cancer.

For more information, please visit www.visitdeepcreek.com

Historic Barns of Maryland

Maryland Public Television will air a special on "Historic Barns of Maryland" this Wednesday February 29 at 8pm.  The special will include a segment on Garrett County Barn Quilts.  You might recognize some familiar faces and/or places in this preview below. 

 

Below is a picture I took of "Snail's Trail" on Bittinger Road this past summer. 

 

 

Military Family Films Reality Travel Show at Deep Creek Lake

A Washington DC area military family was chosen to film their vacation experience on a new travel television show, Getting Away Together.

Michael Piet, from Arlington Va, entered his family and friends’ story to win the Dream Vacation contest at Deep Creek Lake and the opportunity to share their trip on an episode of the new PBS show Getting Away Together. The series has begun to air in select cities across the country. 

Each episode features a different group of travelers at vacation destinations across the country. The Deep Creek Lake episode features the Piet family who is usually scattered across the globe on military deployment and work for the Foreign Service. Michael Piet, an Afghan War veteran and his wife, a US Naval Academy graduate and Marine, have served multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. The family has served the country for over 30 years all over the world making this a rare opportunity for them to come together. Michael, who became familiar with the area while participating in the annual Savage Man Triathlon, submitted his entry in honor of his wife and to give the family a vacation where they could get together one last time before Michael and his wife relocate overseas.

The show filmed the Piet family as they enjoyed a weeklong vacation at the lake,  where they stayed in a rental property provided by Railey Mountain Lake Vacations. 

Getting Away Together is being filmed exclusively for PBS member stations. For more information on the series, visit www.gettingawaytogether.com

Here's a great preview. 

 

WQED Production on Leo Beach Receives Mid-Atlantic Emmy Nominations

Leo Beachy: A Legacy Nearly Lost has been nominated for two Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Awards in the categories of:

• Outstanding Historic/Cultural Feature
(David Solomon, writer/producer; Paul Ruggieri, photographer/editor)
• Outstanding Program Writer
(David Solomon)

The nominated work is a follow-up to a previously-acclaimed WQED story on Beachy’s life. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will announce this year’s Emmy® winners September 24, 2011 at a ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Leo Beachy was a teacher turned photographer in the early 1900s who took pictures of life in the Appalachian region of Western Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. After his death in 1927, most of Beachy’s glass plate negatives were destroyed. Decades later, some of the plates miraculously found their way back to his niece, Maxine Beachy Broadwater of Grantsville, MD. And so began her tireless efforts to preserve the negatives and share the unforgettable, historic images.

WQED writer/producer David Solomon and photographer/editor Paul Ruggieri first told the Beachy story in a short 2008 OnQ feature. The story was a viewer favorite, won a 2008 Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Award, and caught the attention of the Naylor Foundation, which in turn awarded the Garrett County Historical Society a $40,000 grant to preserve the priceless negatives and make them available world-wide for educational purposes.

In 2011, Solomon and Ruggieri expanded the 2008 story into documentary form on the WQED program, EXPERIENCE, showing the intricacy of the preservation process and revealing newly-printed photos. Included in the updated story are memorable interviews with Mrs. Broadwater, photo archivist Chris Schwer, Grantsville resident Mabel Stanton, Grantsville pharmacist Gerald Beachy and Bob Boal of the Garrett County Historical Society. The new segment resulted in the two Emmy® nominations this month.

EXPERIENCE is a half-hour, locally-produced documentary series that airs on WQED-TV Mondays at 7:30 p.m. EXPERIENCE will return on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. this fall on WQED-TV with encore broadcasts on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Additional episode information, links and past episodes of EXPERIENCE may be found online at wqed.org/experience. For updates on EXPERIENCE viewers may “Like” the show’s fan page on Facebook.

World Next Door TV Visits Deep Creek Lake

This video will make you want to get to Garrett County pronto before the snow melts!  Sonja Lowery's World Next Door TV visited Wisp Resort, hosted by Railey Mountain Lake Vacations.