Weird Western Maryland

  For the same number of Halloweens as Dante had circles of Hell, Nina Fike has turned her front yard into the Frightmare on Finzel Road, and documented the annual adventure on a public Facebook page .   " I have a crazy imagination, and I'm a giant kid," Fike told WVNews. "I've always loved Halloween, but since I started decorating nine years ago, it has become an obsession." Mark it on your map for 2022: The Frightmare is at 1035 Finzel Road in eastern Garrett County, just north of old U.S. 40. Photos courtesy of Nina Fike.   Sources: "Aragog and ferryman." WVNews 27 Oct. 2021. https://www.wvnews.com/aragog-and-ferryman/image_2a019920-3741-11ec-9e4e-7f6ab38a654c.html . Accessed 10 Nov. 2021. Fike, Nina. Frightmare on Finzel Road. https://m.facebook.com/Frightmare-on-Finzel-Road-271423083358001/ . Accessed 10 Nov. 2021.

A noteworthy Allegany County roadside attraction is the life-sized bull at the entrance to Wil-Mar Farms in Rawlings.  It seems untroubled by the traffic on U.S. 220, a.k.a. the McMullen Highway, but stands watch just in case. Wil-Mar Farms -- a cattle operation, of course -- probably was named for its husband-and-wife founders, William Harold Moran Sr. and Mary Ellen Kenny Moran. Take the first syllables of "William" and "Mary," and you get Wil-Mar. Source: "William H. Moran." Cumberland Times-News . 22 Dec. 2015. https://obituaries.times-news.com/obituary/william-moran-760345371 . Accessed 29 Sept. 2021.