Viewing Baybrook

The tour of the Filbert Street Garden was exciting. I enjoyed seeing the amount of work the surrounding student put into the garden. I loved the stepping stones the elementary students created to outline the walkway through the garden along with the fence into the raised bed gardens. I am really excited to see the garden in the spring when some of the plants start to grow. I thought the idea of the rounded classroom gardens were a great idea along with the arms length and elbow length spacing to plant seeds. I think my favorite part of the garden tour was when Jason Reed told us about the strawberry patch and how the five worse students at the local middle school lead members of the community to create the patch. To me, that’s what the community is for.

When we walked down to the Polish Home Hall and explored the interior, I gained a better perspective of the area.  We walked down the street where we could see the townhomes in the area and we even saw some of the residents. The Polish Home Hall was gorgeous. The view from the second story really captured the impact the industrial companies had on the area. I was very interested to learn the brief history of the building, and was a little upset that it is currently vacant. As I was walking around in the building, I wondered if my Fiancés family has any connections to this building. I believe his Polish ancestors were in the Baltimore area around the 1920’s when the building became the Polish Home Hall. That is something I am definitely going to look into.  

Through our tour I was also able to see the Farring-Baybrook Park that I am researching. The view from the park was incredible.  It was a clear view of the Baltimore skyline.  I have started to look up historical articles on Farring-Baybrook Park in the Baltimore Sun, but I haven’t had much luck. I have found score records from baseball games and one murder-suicide that occurred near the park.  I am going to keep searching the Baltimore Sun for any more information. I have also checked the Baltimore county parks website which have very little information on the park. I have researched the Farring family, which has given me a lot of results. I now need to refine my search to focus on the information I want to find. Hopefully in my continuing search I find some piece of information that leads to a bigger picture of Farring-Baybrook Park.