Salisbury

The Gillis-Grier House is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2⁄2-story Queen Anne style... frame house built in 1887 by James Cannon. The house has gable-front elevations on three sides, a three-story octagonal tower, and a shorter 2⁄2-story service wing. Also on the property is a frame 1⁄2-story stable, now used as a garage. It is one of the dwellings that define Salisbury's Newtown neighborhood and named after the two inter-related families that held title to the property between 1896 and 1975. The Gillis-Grier House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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Pemberton Hall is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1 ⁄2-story, three-bay, Flemish... bond brick house with a gambrel roof. The construction date of "1741" is scratched in a brick above the side door. One of Isaac Handy's , builder of Pemberton Hall, five sons was George Handy , a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati. During the American Civil War, the Hall was the home of Allison Parsons, a Southern sympathizer, who insisted on firing a cannon upon the receipt of news of each Confederate victory. In 1868, the Governor of Maryland, Elihu E. Jackson , purchased Pemberton Hall with James Cannon at a trustee's sale. Seth Taylor owned Pemberton Hall from 1931 to 1963, at which time the Pemberton Hall Foundation took it over and restored the house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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The Perry-Cooper House is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story frame dwelling topped... with a French mansard roof that was built about 1880. It features a central tower, with a bowed entrance on the first floor and a nine-foot-high Palladian window on the second. It was the residence of one of Salisbury's well-known civic leaders, Thomas Perry, whose family occupied the house from 1897 until 1950. The Perry-Cooper House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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Honeysuckle Lodge is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1⁄2-story eclectic frame dwelling... built in stages during the first half of the 20th century. The home has a Colonial Revival style. Also on the property is a 1-story, frame guest house built around 1940. The asbestos-shingled frame structure is supported by a continuous brick foundation, and the medium-sloped gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The yard is planted with mature trees and shrubs. Honeysuckle Lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
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Alexis Denisof is an American actor who is known for playing Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off... Angel. Denisof was born in Salisbury, Maryland, to a Russian-American father and an Irish-American mother, Christiana. He also indicates that he is a small part French on his father's side. He moved to Seattle, Washington when he was three years old. After graduating from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, he moved to Britain where he lived and worked for a number of years. He was the fight director for a stage production of Hamlet, and in 1991 he was the fight director of The Other Side for the BBC, Romeo and Juliet, and The Soul's Dark Night. One of his first known works in television is on the arcade version of the video for "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. He had a small role in the movie First Knight appearing in scenes with Sean Connery and Richard Gere. Denisof appeared with Sean Bean in three episodes of Sharpe as Lord John Rossendale. He has done many stage productions, including one with Anthony Head, who played Wesley's predecessor Rupert Giles on Buffy.
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John Soursby Glover Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on... the Superman-inspired television series Smallville. Glover was born in Kingston, New York, the son of Cade and John Soursby Glover Sr., a television salesman and was raised in Salisbury, Maryland. Glover attended Wicomico High School and acted at Towson University. Glover is also actively involved with the Alzheimer's Association. His inspiration for joining this cause was his own father's experience with Alzheimer's Disease. He is openly gay and has been in a relationship with sculptor Adam Kurtzman since 1993. One of his early film performances was a small but pivotal role as a U.S. diplomat in White Nights.
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Jessica Lee Rose is an American-New Zealand actress who first gained popularity after playing the role of lonelygirl15. In June 2006, Rose debuted... as lonelygirl15, a fictional teenage homeschooled character named Bree who appeared in many video blogs on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The mystery surrounding the possible fictionality of her character led to an outing by the Los Angeles Times which thrust her into the mainstream spotlight. In 2007, Rose won a Webby for this role. After Bree was killed off lonelygirl15 in August 2007, Rose played "Jen K." on ABC Family's Greek. She went on to appear in various movies, such as Perfect Sport and SyFy's Ghost Town, and other web series, such as Hooking Up and Sorority Forever. She signed on to do the independent movie 'Look At Me' with her 'Lonelygirl15' Co-Star Yousef Abu Taleb in March 2010. Rose was born in Salisbury, Maryland and moved to Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty in New Zealand when she was eight. She attended Mount Maunganui College in 2000-2003 for part of her secondary school education. Afterward she attended an acting class at Studio 111 in Auckland.
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Alexis Denisof is an American actor who is known for playing Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off... Angel. Denisof was born in Salisbury, Maryland, to a Russian-American father and an Irish-American mother, Christiana. He also indicates that he is a small part French on his father's side. He moved to Seattle, Washington when he was three years old. After graduating from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, he moved to Britain where he lived and worked for a number of years. When Denisof first arrived in California to begin working in the U.S., he stayed with Ted Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen for a year. He was the fight director for a stage production of Hamlet, and in 1991 he was the fight director of The Other Side for the BBC, Romeo and Juliet, and The Soul's Dark Night. One of his first known works in television is on the arcade version of the video for "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. He had a small role in the movie First Knight appearing in scenes with Sean Connery and Richard Gere. Denisof appeared with Sean Bean in three episodes of Sharpe as Lord John Rossendale.
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John Soursby Glover Jr. is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on... the Superman-inspired television series Smallville. Glover was born in Kingston, New York, the son of Cade and John Soursby Glover Sr., a television salesman and was raised in Salisbury, Maryland. Glover attended Wicomico High School and acted at Towson University. Glover is also actively involved with the Alzheimer's Association. His inspiration for joining this cause was his own father's experience with Alzheimer's Disease. He is openly gay and has been in a relationship with sculptor Adam Kurtzman since 1993. One of his early film performances was a small but pivotal role as a U.S. diplomat in White Nights.
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Jessica Lee Rose is an American-New Zealand actress who first gained popularity after playing the role of lonelygirl15. In June 2006, Rose debuted... as lonelygirl15, a fictional teenage homeschooled character named Bree who appeared in many video blogs on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The mystery surrounding the possible fictionality of her character led to an outing by the Los Angeles Times which thrust her into the mainstream spotlight. In 2007, Rose won a Webby for this role. After Bree was killed off lonelygirl15 in August 2007, Rose played "Jen K." on ABC Family's Greek. She went on to appear in various movies, such as Perfect Sport and SyFy's Ghost Town, and other web series, such as Hooking Up and Sorority Forever. She signed on to do the independent movie 'Look At Me' with her 'Lonelygirl15' Co-Star Yousef Abu Taleb in March 2010. Rose was born in Salisbury, Maryland and moved to Mount Maunganui, Bay of Plenty in New Zealand when she was eight. She attended Mount Maunganui College in 2000-2003 for part of her secondary school education. Afterward she attended an acting class at Studio 111 in Auckland.
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Leslie Hamilton Gearren is the identical twin sister of actress Linda Hamilton. Leslie Hamilton Gearren co-starred as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2:... Judgment Day. She was born in Salisbury, Maryland to a physician father who died when she was five. Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High and Wicomico High School in Salisbury, Maryland, with her sister. In the director's cut when Sarah is accessing the CPU in the Terminators head, Leslie plays Sarah's reflection creating a faux mirror effect. In Sarah's dream of the nuclear holocaust, Linda plays the hardened Sarah Connor that looks on, whilst Leslie plays a younger, untroubled Sarah who plays with an infant John before being consumed by the nuclear fire. In the steel mill, Leslie plays the T-1000 in Sarah Connor's form, who tries to trick John Connor before the real Sarah creeps up behind and opens fire. Terminator 2 is the only film Leslie has appeared in. She works as a nurse.
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