Middletown Daily Photo: Sad Day In Middletown

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Sad Day In Middletown

The crime rate in Middletown is very low, so this was big news yesterday. Two adults and three children died in an apparant murder/suicide. I believe it happened in the yellow house in these pictures.

I met some friends for lunch at The Main Cup and one of those friends who works there knew the family. This house is right behind the restaurant.

Click here for a story from a Washington DC TV station.

Click here for a story from the Hagerstown TV station.

Click here for a story in the Frederick News Post.

Click here for CNN coverage.

2 comments:

Arija said...: I came for your skywatch which is lovely but got stuck here. What a tragedy when they had a nice house to live in and a good community surrounding them. Too many people these days succumb to economic hardship not realising that the only important thing is life itself not all the bought trappings to keep up with the Jonses.; April 19, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Sally in WA said...: This is a sad story.

The slide and swing pictures make me think of those poor children who lives were cut short.; April 20, 2009 at 10:40 AM

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About Middletown

Middletown, Maryland was founded in 1767 and is said to be named either for its position midway between South Mountain and the Catoctin Mountains or its central location between the larger Maryland cities of Frederick and Hagerstown. A few years earlier, a visiting surveyor and future “Father of our Country” George Washington referred to Middletown Valley as one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen.

The town was incorporated in 1833. After the Civil War battles of South Mountain and Antietam, Middletown churches served as hospitals for both Union and Confederate soldiers.

Today Middletown boasts a delicate balance of old and new. Instead of a Mayor, the town leader is a Burgess. Some of the buildings were built in the 1700s and 1800s. There are large Victorian homes as well as the typical cookie-cutter subdivisions that dot the edge of the Washington DC commuter exurbs.

The only franchise restaurant in town is a Subway; the only Starbucks is inside the Safeway.

If you really want to understand what small-town America feels like, visit Middletown during the Independence Day festivities and fireworks at Middletown Park, the Volunteer Fire Department’s annual mid-July Carnival or the Middletown Heritage Festival held in the fall.