Check out the article Unique, Unusual and Downright Strange Places in Washington County in the September 2023 issue of Hagerstown Magazine.
The Boonsborough Museum of History is featured in the article, along with some other great local places. The article talks about the beginnings of the museum, founded by Doug Bast: “When Doug Bast was 9 years old, one of his mates brought an old bottle to school. Fascinated by it, Bast bought it for $1. ‘I brought it home and my father said, ‘You paid a dollar for that thing?’ I said, ‘Yeah, look at it. Look at the color. I really got excited over it,’ Bast said in an interview before he died in 2021. Another story Bast often told was about a trip with his mother to the Smithsonian Institute. On the way home the young Bast proclaimed that, one day, he wanted a museum just like that one.”
Find a copy of the magazine at Josie’s on Main, Turn The Page Bookstore & Cafe, AC&T, Weis Market in Boonsboro and the Boonsboro Pharmacy.
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