This year marked the 26th Annual Powwow at Ferry Bar Park over behind the scenic Port Covington Wal-Mart.
For years this festival stood as a regional rite of spring (like Sowebo Festival) as the nexus of Baltimore's hippie meets alternative culture gathered along a beach often strewn with medical waste (I shit you not, in '94 or '95 my girlfriend at the time went to sit down on the beach, screamed, pulled up her hand and it had a syringe sticking out of it that looked like it washed ashore from the hospital across the water), to contract poison ivy as you piss in the woods while yahoos in boats cruised the beach line to watch the ladies squat, drink cans of Natty Boh and buy cheap balloons filled with nitrous while bands with an insufficient sound system made a racket.
Unfortunately, the 26th Annual Powwow was busted up by Baltimore's finest because, evidently, there are no more violent crimes to investigate or open-air drug markets to shut down.
Thanks Baltimore City!
In the cops defense, it was an eerily quiet weekend when it comes to city violent crime, the temperature was ambient and the sun was shining. The cops wanted to be outside, they didn't have much choice on who they could harass.
Posted by: Brasco | May 06, 2013 at 06:52 AM
I'm confused by this writter. Good bad what do you really thing of this event.
Posted by: the correction | May 06, 2013 at 08:00 AM
I say thata powwow is one of my favorite festivals its child friendly and always peace fulThe event benifits the Arabers of Baltimore.People forget that the nitrous tanks are not part of the pow wow nor are they sanctioned by the organisers and they actively try to stop them and the customers from being in the actual park. I dont know why it got shut down but i suspect that the permits were not correct for the amount of people.
Posted by: Harvey Wiley | May 06, 2013 at 09:03 AM
Baltimore has a huge heroin problem. I can almost guarantee the syringe you saw was from a junkie shooting up in the park. I would imagine the hospital properly disposes of their used syringes.
Posted by: Ernest J. Anastasio | May 06, 2013 at 04:55 PM
OR it could be indicative of an era (late '80s - mid '90s) when there were issues with medical waste washing up on the shore because hospitals weren't properly disposing of syringes.
Posted by: Rusty Chompers | May 06, 2013 at 06:36 PM
what time did it get shut down?
Posted by: aryana | May 09, 2013 at 11:14 AM