Showing posts with label Baltimore City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baltimore City. Show all posts
Jun 13, 2022

‘The Wire’ Stands Alone

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(NYTimes) “The Wire” premiered on HBO on June 2, 2002. In the two decades since, its reputation has only grown, as has its audience. It is ...
Jul 4, 2017

A woman’s name on the Declaration of Independence

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(Washington Post) This Fourth of July, look closely at one of those printed copies of the Declaration of Independence. See it? The woman...
Sep 10, 2014

The House that Mencken Built

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(City Paper) ... To read “Happy Days” in Baltimore is a disorienting experience. Mencken brings the city, especially Hollins market, to s...
Jul 8, 2014

Harry Gilmor's Raid

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(Wikipedia) Gilmor's Raid, also known as The Magnolia Station Train Raid, was a foraging and disruptive cavalry raid that was part of a...
May 22, 2010

Before I got rid of my Maryland accent

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Jan 4, 2010

Don Shula

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(Wikipedia) Donald Francis "Don" Shula (born January 4, 1930) is an American former American football coach. He is best known as c...
Dec 25, 2009

Cab Calloway

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(Wikipedia) Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway...
Dec 22, 2009

Haldan Keffer Hartline

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(Wikipedia) Haldan Keffer Hartline (December 22, 1903 – March 17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a co-winner (with George Wald a...
Dec 17, 2009

Cal Ripken, Sr.

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(Wikipedia) Calvin Edwin Ripken, Sr. (December 17, 1935–March 25, 1999) was a coach and manager in Major League Baseball who spent 36 years ...
Dec 14, 2009

Richard Cassilly

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(Wikipedia) Richard Cassilly (14 December 1927 – 30 January 1998) was an American operatic tenor who had a major international opera career ...
Dec 9, 2009

Rodgers Forge designated as historic by park service

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(Towson Times) Move over Stoneleigh. Rodgers Forge is now also on the National Register of Historic Places. The community recently gained th...
Dec 5, 2009

Mystery writer captured the Baltimore of old

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(Jacques Kelly) A Maryland murder mystery writer came to mind the other afternoon as darkness was coming over Lafayette Avenue in Bolton Hil...
Dec 3, 2009

Maryland Historical Society cuts operating hours, staff

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(Baltimore Sun) A $670,000 budget shortfall caused by the dismal economic climate has prompted the Maryland Historical Society to cut hours...
Dec 1, 2009

Part of Clipper Mill project foreclosed

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(Baltimore Sun) Part of the Clipper Mill development in North Baltimore will go to a foreclosure auction later this month, including more th...

For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For

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(NYTimes) ... Disenchantment is Poe’s intellectual theme as well. He scorns the Transcendentalists and other American writers with their vis...
Nov 28, 2009

Morris Louis

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(Wikipedia) Morris Louis (Morris Louis Bernstein) (November 28, 1912 - September 7, 1962) is a United States abstract expressionist painter,...
Nov 25, 2009

Washington Wizards owner Abe Pollin dies at age 85

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(ESPN) Abe Pollin, the Washington Wizards owner who brought an NBA championship to the nation's capital and later had the mettle to stan...

Baltimore Opera Theatre shows promise in its first production

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(Baltimore Sun) ... Described in the program book as "a new opera company with an aesthetic view of the arts ... not based on frivolous...
Nov 22, 2009

William Walker Atkinson

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(Wikipedia) William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an o...
Nov 21, 2009

Negro League baseball museum proposed for Baltimore

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(Baltimore Sun) Baltimore would become home to the first East Coast museum devoted to Negro League baseball teams and players, under a $4.1 ...