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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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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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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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Probe into stolen historical documents expands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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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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'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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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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Former Senator Theatre owner Tom Kiefaber disrupts city council meeting

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Laura Vozzella - Jun. 20 (News) - Former Senator Theatre owner Tom Kiefaber disrupted a City Council meeting Monday night, bounding up to the dais as the council was about to take a final vote to designate the interior of the theater a historic landmark.

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After 25 years, Len Bias' legacy lives on

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jeff Barker - Jun. 18 (News) - Sunday marks 25 years since Bias was pronounced dead of a cocaine overdose after his body began to shake uncontrollably in his College Park dorm room.

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Tunneling through Baltimore

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jacques Kelly - Jun. 17 (News) - On a train bound for Washington the other evening, I considered how much Baltimore is a city built atop tunnels. As we slipped into the darkness just beyond Penn Station, I smiled at how Baltimoreans grow fascinated by stories about our dank underground byways, under the harbor, downtown, the streets, even Federal Hill.

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Juneteenth

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - Where will Marylanders be commemorating emancipation this weekend? Sheilah finds out from representatives of the National Juneteenth Museum and the Maryland Historical Society.

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Eschewing flashy, out-of-town shows, Baltimore museums look inward

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Tim Smith - Jun. 15 (News) - In the 1990s, crowds packed the Walters Art Museum to see a touring show of artifacts from the reign of China's first emperor. They flocked as well to the Baltimore Museum of Art to see a collection from London's Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Women inmates sew 1812 flags for bicentennial celebration

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Baughman - Jun. 14 (News) - The sew shop at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup is alive with the ticking sounds of Brother sewing machines, with Maryland state and U.S. flags draped over tables and chairs.

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Everyman Theatre holds groundbreaking event

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Record - By Maryland Daily Record - Jun. 08 (News) - Photo slideshow of the Everyman Theatre groundbreaking event.

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Everyman Theatre starts $18M west side project

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Joanna Sullivan - Jun. 07 (News) - Politics and the arts mixed on Baltimore’s west side Tuesday morning for a ceremonial groundbreaking for Everyman Theatre’s new home.

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Historic Niemann organ destroyed in St. Stanislaus construction

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Meredith Cohn - Jun. 05 (News) - Only a handful of his well-regarded instruments remain out of about 40 created more than a century ago by Niemann, a German immigrant who studied organ making in France and settled in Baltimore. Despite its local heritage and historic value, the church organ became "match sticks and scrap metal" as crews cleaned out the shuttered St. Stanislaus for a redevelopment project.

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Bromo Seltzer Tower celebrates 100 years

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Jacques Kelly - Jun. 02 (News) - Baltimore's Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower is marking its first century this month as a commercially impractical but beloved curiosity named for a top-selling hangover cure.

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American Legion, VFW fight to maintain ranks, political clout

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Larry Carson, John Fritze - May. 29 (News) - At 62, Maryland American Legion Commander Michael L. Mooney is one of the younger members of his Baltimore County post. And that, he said, is part of the problem.

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Dundalkian Served in Army, Marines and Navy

Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Dundalk Patch - By Ron Cassie - May. 29 (News) - Dorsey “Sonny” Kline, who passed May 22, left school and joined the Army at 16 in 1946. After an honorable discharge because of his age, he later served in the Marines and, then the Navy.

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Then and Now: Lutherville Station Shopping Center

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Lutherville-Timonium Patch - By Joanna Bell - May. 28 (News) - The shopping center by today’s Lutherville Light Rail station has not had the best of luck. It’s been revived, recently, by an Old Navy a Borders Books and Music (which survived a corporate downsizing) and as of this weekend a MOM's Organic Market. Around the year 2000, however, it was virtually deserted.

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