COVER STORY:
Big city fun, small town love
Ron Cassie
Photography by Bill Green
Autumn 2007 Issue
| Mary Ann and Bill O'Donnell were married six years ago under the Community Bridge on Frederick’s downtown Carroll Creek. They now live in a 100-year-old home on East Fourth Street.
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As couple do, they wondered about the next stage.
"She did say it first," Bill acknowledged.
"I told him it was time," recounted Mary Ann, a Howard County special education teacher.
No, it wasn't about children. Well, not about more children, anyway.
The youngest family member had left for George Washington University, they said standing together on the front steps of their recently purchased Frederick row house.
"I knew I wanted to be downtown," Mary Ann said. "I drove through Frederick every day on my way home from work."
They had a swimming pool and a hot tub in Thurmont, but not much of a social life, they realized. Bill is 52. Mary Ann, 46. There should be more to do.
"It's being able to walk to the stores, the coffee shops, the theaters, the restaurants and all the spur of the moments things you can," Mary Ann said. "That's why we're here. We want to take cooking lessons at Isabella's."
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