Text Box: John Morrow’s photography has again been recognized in a competition. His image titled “Brown Bear” is among those on exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natual History. This exhibition features the finest images from the museum’s 2006 Nature’s Best Photography International Awards Competition and the 2006 National Wildlife Photography Awards. It will be open to the public through April, 2007… Raya Bodnarchuk’s 11 animal sculptures have been installed at the Forest Glen Pedestrian Bridge at the intersection of Rt. 495 and Georgia Ave. A ceremony will take place at the beginning of January, but anyone can walk the bridge and see them now… Developer Hemingway Homes is proposing to build five homes on a 3-acre lot across MacArthur Blvd. from the Cabin John Shopping Center, The Village News reports… Cabin John is planning to digitize 40 years of issues of the Village News and is now soliciting bids for the work… The wooden stockade fence recently erected along MacArthur Blvd. and up the hill directly across from the main entrance to Glen Echo Park was put up to prevent vandalism, the owner of the property told several residents of Tulip Hills. The vandalism was damage caused by paintballers. Local residents have also noticed that a tall ironwork decoration that topped one of the entrance gate pillars is now missing. The fence encloses a large tract of land, a stone house and an outbuilding, and the driveway to them from the boulevard… Text Box: WELCOME, NEWCOMERS! If moving to a newer house is progress, then Beth Rockwell and Jim Ford are regressing. They have just moved into 7300 University Ave., a house probably dating from the late 1890s. The house they moved from on Wilson Lane is an old farmhouse built in 1903. Previously Beth lived in Bannockburn in a 1949 house. “We’re old house people,” she acknowledged. They had planned to renovate the Wilson Lane house, which is on a half-acre and has a barn in back, until their old friend Jane Stevenson told them about the Glen Echo Chautauqua house with double turrets. Even though it needed a lot of work, they were charmed by it, especially since it had the downstairs bedroom they had planned to add to their other house. Another attraction was the number of people they already knew in Glen Echo. Beth went to school with Jim Shaut of Harvard Ave. in upstate New York. They knew the Vassar Circle Springuels from the Bannockburn Pool. And Eve Arber and Susan Grigsby are staffers at American Plant Food, where Jim is the Chief Operating Officer. Beth has taught English at Whitman High School since 2000. Her two children once attended Whitman, as well as Pyle Jr. High and Bannockburn Elementary School. Her daughter, Kate, 24, lives with them in Glen Echo and also works at American Plant Food. Jim’s daughter Leila, 24, live in Charlotte, N.C. They are also joined in Glen Echo by Harley, 4, a Golden Beagle; Wiley, 6, a mutt, and Big Cat, 10. On Dec. 23 they will celebrate their wedding at the Church of the Redeemer in Fairway Hills, just across from Glen Echo. Beth is an avid reader and enjoys gardening, but as a high school teacher is left little time for anything but grading papers. She does, however, sponsor the Whitman Fashion Society, which presents a show at the annual Festival of the Arts. Jim likes gardening, fishing, canoeing and taking jaunts in his motorboat. Welcome to Glen Echo! Text Box: AROUND TOWN