Hagerstown Unite - Own it

This video has been a passion project to support the vision for Hagerstown in Washington County, MD, which has been a massive bipartisan effort from many governmental entities, local businesses, and nonprofit leadership. #hagerstownunite #ownit

Learn about our downtown revitalization and details about the publicly funded Urban Improvement Project right now in our city: hagerstownunite.org

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"To know your footing, is to know where you’re headed.
Ours is proudly planted on a foundation
That set the world into motion
From locomotion to aviation
We manufacture, and man if you factor in…
That we give a dollar back to our very own. That’s right, we own it.

And what’s a journey without a few scars, sure we have ours
But matching jerseys don’t make you a team, matching bruises do!
So if one of us falls, then two… will be there to raise them up.
We’re not afraid to face our true refection in the water
And when those waters become troubled
Together we’ll build a bridge over it,
That leads to the Hagerstown we know we can be

Oh, you don’t believe?

Don’t you know that your criticism is like a piece of coal?
You think it’ll leave marks on us but you forget the railroad is all we know
This is Hub City, we throw your coal in the fire and away we go
We don’t need your esteem, we make our own steam!

Our eyes are wide open, a vision isn’t a dream.
We’ve had 20/20 before 2020; blue prints are yesterday.
The ground has been broken and downtown there’s movement.
Fate’s not writing our story, we’ve got the pen, we own it!

We teach our next generation to be leaders of innovation

We have standing ovation for creative culture, where community is communicated through the canvas.

We’re both hand in hand and arms wide open
Mind, body, and a spirit of “let’s hear it for…
Hagerstown!”

So from here on words are obsolete, if you’re all in then there shouldn’t be a seat beneath you.
Get up!
Like this is your past, like this is your future,
Move!
like this is your life, like this is your heart

Believe!
like Hagerstown is your home…
Because you can’t spell town without own…
Own it."

Words and performance by Spencer Jackson
Original music by Roland Bingaman
Creative and video production by HighRock

Sponsors: Bowman Development Corp., CHIEF, Hager5 LLC, HighRock, Middletown Valley Bank, Visit Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Partners: Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, Bushey Feight Morin Architects, Grimm and Parker, City of Hagerstown, The Maryland Theatre, Meritus Health, University System of Maryland, Washington County Public Schools

Essential support was provided by every single person in this video and countless others. A very big thank you to everyone, it couldn’t have been possible without you.