DO YOU KNOW THE FREDERICK COUNTY CONNECTION TO JOHN McCRAE?

John McCrae’s moving poem “In Flanders Field” will be read in schools, ceremonies and privately throughout the nation this week for Veterans Day, but what local folk might not know is the Canadian poet and physician has ties to Frederick County. McCrae spent a portion of his medical residency at Garrett Hospital in Mount Airy, working with children before interning at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Visit the Mount Airy Museum, run by the Historical Society of Mount Airy, to see an exhibition and learn more about his time at the Robert Garrett Sanatorium.