Jamboree

Annie Oakley, the gal who became legend because of her sharpshooting skills, will be honored in Cambridge Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the first Annie Oakley Riverside Jamboree. The home that she built there in 1913 will be open for tours, and visitors will hear tales of her days with "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" when Sitting Bull dubbed her "Little Sure Shot."On Saturday, the festival will feature an American Indian Pow-Wow of the Nause Waiwash tribe at Sailwinds Park with Native American crafts, drums and dance, food and festivities along with a ceremony to honor Annie's relatives.

Thank you for your portrayal of the recent downtown Baltimore sit-in ("'Occupy' protesters gather," Sept. 5). Reporter Peter Hermann 's account of a 53-year-old former real estate broker who quit her job to sell costume jewelry and now complains about not being able to afford "a bookkeeper" and a "web designer" brought home the degree of self-absorption, entitlement, neediness and sheer dweeb-iness of the assorted suburban PTA moms, tenured sociologists,...

The Naval Academy won the first Navy Jamboree soccer tournament yesterday with a 4-0 victory over Monmouth in Annapolis.Towson State matched Navy's 2-0 tournament mark with a 4-3 win over The Citadel, but the Mids earned the title on their 8-0 goal differential compared to the Tigers' 6-3.Against Monmouth, the Mids scored three times in the first period as Aaron Swenson, John Watkins and Seth Walters knocked in goals. P. K. Kennedy scored his third goal of the year in the second half.For Towson, Todd Hicks scored one goal and had an assist.

film Cinema Sundays: Cinema Sundays at the Charles has never had a more urgently topical entry than I.O.U.S.A., the prescient documentary about the catastrophic rise in America's national debt and deficit spending, co-written and executive-produced by Addison Wiggin, the executive publisher of Baltimore-based Agora Financial. Coffee and bagels will be served at 9:45 a.m.; the program starts at 10:30 a.m. Individual tickets are $15. Go to cinemasundays.com. Michael Sragow pop music Coldplay: Since the recent release of one of its best albums, Viva la Vida, Coldplay has been crisscrossing the country on a well-received tour.

Stiff competition was the rule, not the exception last weekend for the 64 contending crews in this year's Eastport Yacht Club J-Jamboree.After several years of holding the event on one course, the fleet was divided in two this year, with each portion sailing its own course in different areas of the bay on two beautifully sunny and pleasant days.The split fleet, which proved popular and manageable for racers and race committee alike, set the J/22s and J/24s on a northern course nearer to Annapolis, while the J/29s and J/30s sailed a course south of them.

While other Baltimore youngsters were enjoying the last two weeks of summer playtime before the start of school, 22 soon-to-be first-graders and kindergartners were getting up early and eagerly heading off to Hampden Elementary.They were happily getting a jump start on learning in Hampden's third annual "Reading Jamboree" -- a program devised and run by kindergarten teacher Sharon West, who gave up vacation time to work with the children she had taught in the previous school year.West said that when she first became a classroom teacher three years ago, she noticed that pupils did not perform to their full academic abilities until well into the school year -- a particular problem for first-graders during the first few weeks, when primary placement testing is done.

I inherited a collection of Boy Scout memorabilia. The oldest dated item is a jamboree neckerchief dated 1935. The first Boy Scout Jamboree was scheduled in Washington, D.C., in 1935. There was a polio epidemic that year, and the jamboree was canceled. Neckerchiefs, patches and other memorabilia had already been made. The first jamboree was held in 1937.Your rare neckerchief is worth more than $100.My chair has a painted mark on the bottom that says "Stephen Shorey." Where was it made?Stephen Shorey was a chair maker in Rochester, N.H. Shorey's Mills made 3,000 to 4,000 chairs a year in the 1850s.

Frank Gosman's nightclubs are gone, but he found a new home for the country music show he started three decades ago: his Clarksville barn. Every Sunday afternoon, Gosman opens his doors to the Country Showcase America Jamboree, a show in the style of the Grand Ole Opry. Gosman, as master of ceremonies, tells stories, offers chatty comments and calls up singers from the audience to perform traditional country tunes with backup from a five-piece band. Halfway through, everyone takes a break for a supper brought in by a participant.

DE KALB, Ill. -- If only there were a Boy Scout merit badge for counterfeiting through embroidery, Michael W. Welsh might be suspected as a candidate to receive one.He has other accomplishments for which more traditional civics badges would seem appropriate. He served on the De Kalb City Council for eight years. He got 43 percent of the vote in De Kalb's mayoral election in April.But now, how about a badge for seeing the FBI in action, up close, as they make an arrest?At the 1993 Boy Scout Jamboree that ended this week in Bowling Green, Va., Mr. Welsh, a Scouting volunteer, was arrested on charges that he peddled bootleg versions of the badges Boy Scouts earned for attending the gathering, authorities said.

Thank you for your portrayal of the recent downtown Baltimore sit-in ("'Occupy' protesters gather," Sept. 5). Reporter Peter Hermann 's account of a 53-year-old former real estate broker who quit her job to sell costume jewelry and now complains about not being able to afford "a bookkeeper" and a "web designer" brought home the degree of self-absorption, entitlement, neediness and sheer dweeb-iness of the assorted suburban PTA moms, tenured sociologists,...

Stella C. Gersuk, a retired Northern High School English teacher who was also a well-known Baltimore square dance instructor, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Saturday at Milford Manor Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Pikesville. She was 90. The former Stella Cohen was born and raised in Baltimore. She graduated in 1932 from Western High School. After earning a teaching certificate from what is now Towson University in 1934, she began teaching in Baltimore elementary schools.

Frank Gosman's nightclubs are gone, but he found a new home for the country music show he started three decades ago: his Clarksville barn. Every Sunday afternoon, Gosman opens his doors to the Country Showcase America Jamboree, a show in the style of the Grand Ole Opry. Gosman, as master of ceremonies, tells stories, offers chatty comments and calls up singers from the audience to perform traditional country tunes with backup from a five-piece band. Halfway through, everyone takes a break for a supper brought in by a participant.

SCENE Open-mike events, which are happening in different atmospheres all over the city nearly every week, are the front line for the poetry revolution. EATS Yin Yankee's fresh and tasty seafood comes with high prices, but the creative flavors and a dollop of humor make it worth the money. Waitress Nina Tukarski shows off the special of the day: seared sea scallops, littleneck clams and black tiger prawns with sticky rice noodles in a coconut curry sauce. CDs Annie Lennox's new album, Bare, delivers songs that inspire such superlatives as "best" and "most gripping."

WHEN MORE THAN 40,000 Boy Scouts gather, there's a lot of work to be done. Nobody knows that better than Michael Fratantuono and John McCarty. Troop Committeeman Fratantuono and Assistant Scoutmaster McCarty - both of Boy Scout Troop 550, which is sponsored by the Linthicum Elementary School PTA - recently returned from two weeks at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, where they served on the staff of the 2001 National Scout Jamboree. Fratantuono and McCarty were members of a staff of 7,400 that provided programs for more than 41,000 Scouts from all over the United States and several foreign countries, including Russia.

Item: Banquet Fun Nuggets What you get: About 16 nuggets Cost: About $3.50 Preparation time: 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 minutes in microwave, 9 to 11 minutes in oven Review: I bought these dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets, hoping they'd entice my finicky daughter to add a new food to her diet. The new shapes did bring her to the table. While my husband and I couldn't get her to eat any of the nuggets, she did stage a little dinosaur jamboree on her plate. Children who actually eat their food will find these nuggets pretty tasty.

While other Baltimore youngsters were enjoying the last two weeks of summer playtime before the start of school, 22 soon-to-be first-graders and kindergartners were getting up early and eagerly heading off to Hampden Elementary.They were happily getting a jump start on learning in Hampden's third annual "Reading Jamboree" -- a program devised and run by kindergarten teacher Sharon West, who gave up vacation time to work with the children she had taught in the previous school year.West said that when she first became a classroom teacher three years ago, she noticed that pupils did not perform to their full academic abilities until well into the school year -- a particular problem for first-graders during the first few weeks, when primary placement testing is done.

Item: Banquet Fun Nuggets What you get: About 16 nuggets Cost: About $3.50 Preparation time: 3 1/2 to 6 1/2 minutes in microwave, 9 to 11 minutes in oven Review: I bought these dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets, hoping they'd entice my finicky daughter to add a new food to her diet. The new shapes did bring her to the table. While my husband and I couldn't get her to eat any of the nuggets, she did stage a little dinosaur jamboree on her plate. Children who actually eat their food will find these nuggets pretty tasty.

THE HOWARD County Fair is a festival, a competition, a place to learn about agriculture, a marketplace and a forum. It is also an exhibition and a wonderfully informal social gathering.On Saturday, midway rides and concessions open. Exhibitors bring their animals, plants, baked goods, crafts and much more for judging and display. Judges begin to award ribbons.On Sunday, grand opening day, you can see contests all day and enjoy a parade at 2 p.m. Stay for more contests and attractions such as a precision performance by the Spur and Stirrup Club's 22-member Mounted Drill Team at 6: 30 p.m. and 7: 30 p.m. Joan Bosmans coaches this group.

FORT A.P. HILL, Va. -- The civilian is lost. He has not been a Boy Scout, obviously. You can spot that right away. He is the only person in camp not wearing khaki.He needs help.He has come to the right place.For here, on a military training installation, are 30,000 boys between the ages of 11 and 17 who have memorized the third plank of Scout Law and are eager to show him that they can be:HelpfulA scout is concerned about other people. He does things willingly for others without pay or reward.