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Mencken House: A home, and legacy, to treasure
Despite what you may have heard, the "house museum" is not dead in Baltimore City. The H.L. Mencken House (officially closed since 1997 by the bankruptcy of the City Life Museums) has had more than 100 visitors during two recent weekends. The Johns...Tags: James Thurber, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Colleges and Universities, Travel, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Emily T. Taliaferro
Emily T. Taliaferro, an artist and former Friends School tennis coach, died of stroke complications April 2 at Roland Park Place. She was 82. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of Raymond S. Tompkins, a Sun reporter and later an official of...Tags: Arts, Adrienne Rich, Tennis, Heavy Engineering, Religion and Belief
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Stanley Harrison, Mencken scholar
Stanley Harrison, a communications and writing teacher who edited a scholarly journal about H.L. Mencken, died of cardiac arrest after a stroke April 5 at the home of a friend in Miami Beach, Fla. He was 81 and lived in Florida and Woodbine.
Born in East...Tags: College Park (Orlando, Florida), Colleges and Universities, Media Industry, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Year of good news highlights Baltimore's rich beer history
Baltimoreans like their beer, and so far it's been a good year.
My colleague Erik Maza, who keeps his eye on the local brew scene, has been the bearer of malty good news.
He has written about the Heavy Seas Alehouse, which opened earlier this year...Tags: Turkey (animal), Recipes, Germany, Lifestyle and Leisure, Human Interest
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Panos' career in print and practice honored by press association
During his more than 60 years in the news business, Timonium resident Lou Panos crossed paths with people from legendary Baltimore scribeH.L. Mencken to the Kennedy brothers — as in RFK and JFK. Along the way, Panos, 86, who was inducted last...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Entertainment, Baltimore City College, Colleges and Universities, Newspapers
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Were they all arabbers?
The Baltimore SunI responded to a reader's query in 2007 about the peculiar Baltimore terms A-rab and Arabber for a street peddler or huckster, explaining that the term probably originated from the nineteenth-century term street arab, a homeless child living by his wits.... -
Say it ain't so
The Baltimore SunCarol Saller has a disturbing post at Lingua Franca on difficult writers. It's quite a stunner. My experience has been almost exclusively with newspaper reporters, who display none of the obnoxious characteristics Ms. Saller describes. On the contrary,...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Ice Cream, Foods and Beverages, Newspaper and Magazine
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A photographic tour of Towson
Melissa Schehlein, a Towson native, walked the streets and byways of the Baltimore County seat in search of what was while documenting with her camera what is.
The result of her search was the recently published book, "Towson: Then and Now," a 96-page...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Catonsville, Baltimore County, Timonium, Cordish Cos.
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Charles Adam Fecher
Charles Adam Fecher, a self-taught Baltimore scholar, author and editor who undertook the formidable task of editing the controversial diaries of H.L. Mencken, died Monday of respiratory failure at St. Agnes Hospital.
The longtime Govans and Rodgers...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Colleges and Universities, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland)
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Praise from one Mencken scholar to another
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers' recent letter praising the work of Charles A. Fecher, the biographer and scholar of Henry Louis Mencken who died on January 16, was right on target. But it should also be noted that Ms. Rodgers is the author of the best and most... -
Who says Mencken would have hated speed cameras?
Giving the proceeds for traffic light and speed camera violators to charities is a good idea. Having these devices is a great challenge to speeders and DUI drivers who flout laws designed to protect all of us. I do not believe that H.L. Mencken would... -
Bookmark: Inscriptions tell their own stories
The first house I owned was quite small, but it came with a wonderfully mysterious basement. Among the treasures housed therein was a wringer washer, a green metal cabinet that opened with a deliciously coffin-like squeal and a collection of textbooks...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Arthur Miller, Travel, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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