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Stories from the Home Front

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Tom Hall, Stephanie Hughes - Sep. 13 (News Analysis) - WYPR's Gil Sandler has written a book of stories remembering Baltimore's home front during World War II.

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9-6-11: 1861 « Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Sep. 06 (News Analysis) - Adam Goodheart on the ideas of 1861.

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Baltimore 9/11 Memorial - I think we can do better

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Skyline - By Chris - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - Under construction right now at the foot of the Baltimore World Trade Center is the spot where Baltimore's memorial to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will stand.

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Then and Now: The First Lutherville Elementary School

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Lutherville-Timonium Patch - By Joanna Bell - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Lutherville’s first public school is for sale. It’s going for $199,500. It doesn’t come with desks anymore. From the looks of its listing on Long and Foster’s website, it comes with a lot of knotty pine paneling and built-in shelves, all of which look country-cottage and none of which look scholastic.

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10 years after Baltimore tunnel fire, much is unchanged

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Dresser - Jul. 16 (News) - Ten years ago Monday, scenes out of Baltimore gripped the nation and much of the world when a CSX freight train carrying hazardous cargo derailed and caught fire in the century-old tunnel that winds below downtown.

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Baltimore Artscape: A healing event

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Jul. 15 (Editorial) - Today, it's hard to imagine Baltimore without Artscape, the city's annual outdoor festival of the arts that begins Friday. In the three decades since its founding, the great gathering in the heart of midtown's arts district has become part of the warp and woof of this city's cultural fabric, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year with a multicultural mix of big-name musical acts, cutting-edge artworks and spicy foods.

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Held in Document Theft, ‘America’s Presidential Historian’ Faces New Scrutiny

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sabrina Tavernise - Jul. 15 (News) - Barry H. Landau, author and well-known presidential memorabilia collector, displayed his connections like pearls on a necklace.

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Probe expands into attempted theft of Maryland historical papers

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton, Julie Baughmann - Jul. 13 (News) - At the Maryland Historical Society, they're calling it the Great Cupcake Caper.

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Secrets of the Civil War -- For your YouTube viewing pleasure

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Rachel Monroe - Jul. 13 (News) - Recommended for scientists, non-scientists, Civil War buffs, and people who like to waste time on YouTube but feel like they're getting smarter while doing so.

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Barry H. Landau: Cupcake Enthusiast, Alleged Paper Purloiner

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Wire - By Adam Clark Estes - Jul. 13 (News) - Landau built his collection of presidential memorabilia, the largest outside of a museum, with the help of close ties to everyone from local historians to celebrities to administrations themselves. The New York City-based collector had showed up at the Maryland Historical Society on Saturday with a plate of cupcakes for the center's staff, a goodwill measure that The Sun says is a "calling card of sorts." Jason Savedoff, an accomplice, arrived with Landau, and apparently, the two of them have been busy. The Historical Society of Philadelphia says the pair, sometimes using pseudonyms, has visited a dozen times so far this year but behaved very oddly.

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Historic theft: Case of the purloined letters

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Sun Editors - Jul. 12 (Editorial) - Even under the best of circumstances, archives lack air-tight security. It's generally harder to get to the gate at the average airport than it is to gain access to the valuable historic documents stored and maintained by the hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. universities and colleges, public libraries, non-profit organizations and state archives.

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Probe into stolen historical documents expands

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 12 (News) - At the Maryland Historical Society, they're calling it the Great Cupcake Caper.

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Pair, including historian, charged with theft of artifacts

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 11 (News) - Barry H. Landau has rubbed elbows with presidents, helped plan inaugurations, and claims one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside museums and presidential libraries.

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Pair tried to steal millions worth of historical documents, police say

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Justin Fenton - Jul. 11 (News) - Two New York City men have been charged with stealing millions of dollars worth of documents from the Maryland Historical Society.

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Poe House Schmoe House: Lit Prof Says Let Doors Lock

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By Mikita Brottman - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - Baltimore Fishbowl readers may recently have learned that the Poe House at 203 Amity Street can expect no further financial support from the city. In certain quarters, this revelation will no doubt cause much brow-beating and hand-wringing, but I have always seen the Poe House as something of a “purloined letter”—that uncanny object which, as Poe aficionados well know, cannot be properly seen because it is lying right in plain view.

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John Mackey: A revolutionary player on the field, a true force off of it

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Dave Zirin - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - In death, legendary Baltimore Colts tight end John Mackey will undoubtedly be remembered for how he played the game.

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Civil War Archaeology at Lafayette Square

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Tim Hill - Jul. 08 (News) - Lafayette Square is a leafy little park in the middle of West Baltimore, surrounded by lovely old churches, some pretty rowhouses and Victorian mansions, and like many formerly tony areas in Baltimore, abject poverty and crumbling buildings.

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World War II Shipwrecks could threaten U.S. coast

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frank D. Roylance - Jul. 08 (News) - On the evening of Feb. 2, 1942, an unarmed tanker with 66,000 barrels of crude oil on board was steaming in the Atlantic, about 90 miles off Ocean City. Without warning, it was struck by German torpedoes. The attack set the W.L. Steed ablaze, and sank it; only a handful of the crew of 38 survived.

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Mourning five martyred newsboys and the evening paper they worked for

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 05 (News) - Veteran Baltimore journalists raised their plastic cups of single-malt Scotch at Loudon Park Cemetery yesterday morning to five young colleagues who died in the line of duty. Just like the newspaper they all had worked for.

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An old school education

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Lauren Slavin - Jul. 05 (News) - A shivering student in physical education class stood covered by a white sheet waiting to be judged on whether her posture was good enough to stand up in front of a classroom of elementary school children.

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'Little Willie' Adams had his hand in many business ventures

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frederick N. Rasmussen - Jul. 02 (News) - The other evening, former Baltimore Sun reporters Antero Pietila and C. Fraser Smith sat in the studios of WYPR radio discussing the life and times of William Lloyd "Little Willie" Adams, who died Monday at 97. Adams, who went from numbers runner to venture capitalist during his 60-year career, bankrolled some of the most prominent black-owned businesses in the city when regular banks wouldn't.

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Baltimore Lost a Legend with William Adams' Death

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

North Baltimore Patch - By Michael Olesker - Jul. 01 (Opinion) - Little Willie went from brokering illegal numbers operations to being a political power broker in Baltimore.

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Legendary Baltimore Businessman Dies at 97

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

blackamericaweb.com - By Sean Yoes - Jul. 01 (News) - Legend has it that the larger-than-life figure known as William “Little Willie” Adams was once robbed by someone who obviously knew not what he had done.

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Sailor's Delight

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Magazine - By Terri Solomon - Jul. 01 (News) - In the fall of 1980, I got a call from a gentleman who was the captain of the first Pride of Baltimore, saying he wanted to have a bit of a respite. He was candid, saying there were other candidates involved, but would I be interested? I said 'Yeah, I'm interested.'

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Help Comes Tapping

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Andrew Zaleski - Jun. 30 (News) - Poe's short-lived home might be closed by early next year—unless an unlikely duo from the city's local arts scene saves the day.

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