Sligo Creek Memorials

Bibi Khan

A small stone memorial for a neighbor, tucked under a tree on the north side of Woodman Avenue between the holding dams and bridge. The stone was discovered during a Friends of Sligo Creek walk in early spring 2003, and would be hidden by plant growth in summer.

A neighbor and friend painted this stone and placed a crepe myrtle over it. She reports that Bibi was a delightful woman who died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart problem.

Denis Martin Wolf

A plaque was placed on each of four benches in memory of Denis Martin Wolf.

Denis was 17 in 1974 when he and others rode bicycles up Sugarloaf Mountain in Comus, Maryland. A car with a drunk driver came down the road, hit Denis and killed him. The driver served thirty days in jail. The Wolf family had lived on Dennis Avenue, and Denis attended Forest Grove Elementary, Sligo Middle School, and Northwood High. He would have entered the University of Maryland the following year.

Two benches were placed on the Trail between the Dennis Avenue Recreation Center and Dennis Avenue.

Two more benches were positioned near the statue Whispers, at the corner of Dennis and the Parkway, in about 1977.

In memory of Denis the family provided a bikeway installation between a site in Prince Georges County and the University of Maryland, so students could avoid streets.

The family also wanted a memorial near home. Observing that children climbed over the sculpture Whispers, and that there was nowhere nearby to sit, the family had these two benches placed around the sculpture.

A niece of Denis later wanted a Girl Scout Gold Award project, and conceived the idea of a garden near the benches. It was built in 1998 with money contributed by the local chapter of MADD. The family makes a small contribution for changing flowers in pots and keeping the garden trim.

Whispers seen from several angles. The sculptor's signature is on a shoe.

Whispers was purchased by M-NCPPC from artist Steven Weitzman, in about 1972. Weitzman, born in New York, lived in Takoma Park for a time. He is known for large-scale public works, which include the sculpture at the National Zoo entrance on Connecticut Avenue and the indoor sculpture of tree-tending in the Judicial Center Building, Rockville. www.weitzmanstudios.com/about.html

Few appreciate trees as much as Joe Howard, who lives in the Sligo watershed and produces the county's Register of Champion Trees. Joe asked Steven Weitzman to sculpt a tree for his entrance door. The mat says Plant a Tree.

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Bibi Khan A small stone memorial for a neighbor, tucked under a tree on the north side of Woodman Avenue between the holding dams and bridge. The stone was discovered during a Friends of Sligo Creek walk in early spring 2003, and would be hidden by plant growth in summer. A neighbor and friend painted this stone and placed a crepe myrtle over it. She reports that Bibi was a delightful woman who died suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart problem.
Denis Martin Wolf A plaque was placed on each of four benches in memory of Denis Martin Wolf. Denis was 17 in 1974 when he and others rode bicycles up Sugarloaf Mountain in Comus, Maryland. A car with a drunk driver came down the road, hit Denis and killed him. The driver served thirty days in jail. The Wolf family had lived on Dennis Avenue, and Denis attended Forest Grove Elementary, Sligo Middle School, and Northwood High. He would have entered the University of Maryland the following year. Two benches were placed on the Trail between the Dennis Avenue Recreation Center and Dennis Avenue. Two more benches were positioned near the statue Whispers, at the corner of Dennis and the Parkway, in about 1977. In memory of Denis the family provided a bikeway installation between a site in Prince Georges County and the University of Maryland, so students could avoid streets. The family also wanted a memorial near home. Observing that children climbed over the sculpture Whispers, and that there was nowhere nearby to sit, the family had these two benches placed around the sculpture. A niece of Denis later wanted a Girl Scout Gold Award project, and conceived the idea of a garden near the benches. It was built in 1998 with money contributed by the local chapter of MADD. The family makes a small contribution for changing flowers in pots and keeping the garden trim. Whispers seen from several angles. The sculptor's signature is on a shoe.


Whispers was purchased by M-NCPPC from artist Steven Weitzman, in about 1972. Weitzman, born in New York, lived in Takoma Park for a time. He is known for large-scale public works, which include the sculpture at the National Zoo entrance on Connecticut Avenue and the indoor sculpture of tree-tending in the Judicial Center Building, Rockville. www.weitzmanstudios.com/about.html Few appreciate trees as much as Joe Howard, who lives in the Sligo watershed and produces the county's Register of Champion Trees. Joe asked Steven Weitzman to sculpt a tree for his entrance door. The mat says Plant a Tree.
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Bibi Khan

Denis Martin Wolf

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