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Profile of two burgs

On July 30 I'll be leaving behind my happy home in Sacramento, CA to live on the other side of the country in the small, conservative town of New Windsor, MD. I'll be on a self-imposed mission, a human rights assignment, an adventure of a lifetime , doing something I've not done before, with people I don't know, in a town I've never heard of and only recently seen on a map. I'll be reporting on my "Journey with the Brethren" from this Blog to give insight into the organization where I'll be a volunteer for the next two years. So to start my sojourn, I thought it would fun and maybe even educational to profile the two locations—they appear to be very diverse. My destination... New Windsor is a town located in Carroll County, Maryland. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,303... 491 households, and 369 families residing in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 95.24% White, 3.84% African American, 0.08% Native Amer