The Sunday Capital article, Quiet Waters Park celebrates 30 years ...

The Quiet Waters Park visitor center will be open on Saturdays through September to promote a commemorative poster designed by local artist, Joe Barsin, and a historic display of the park through the years. (Courtesy of Joe Barsin)

Quiet Waters Park celebrates 30 years, well, quietly

By Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette | Sep 06, 2020 at 6:00 PM

… Ask Barsin what he remembers of the park in the early ’90s …. it’s the weekend getaways with his sons. Kayaking, paddle-boarding, listening to concerts. The Barsins took advantage of everything the park had to offer, he said, so when the county approached him to design the commemorative poster, he was “touched.”

“I feel like I knew the park intimately,” he said. “It was like a dream job.”

On his poster, a blue heron, wings spread in mid-flight, divides the rest into four sections. In each, Barsin illustrated a season of park activities — winter ice skating, summer concerts, spring plein air painting and fall water sports.