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Five for your planner: Monday, June 11
1. Civil War weekend Civil War ball and Valley of the Shadow exhibit preview is set for 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, June 15, at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, City Park, Hagerstown. Second South Carolina String Band will perform. Period refreshments. $40...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Towson Odd Fellows Lodge marks 160th anniversary
Gene Leasure says stepping into the lodge room of the Towson Odd Fellows Lodge No. 79 on York Road is like stepping into a time machine. Once inside, you're in the mid-1800s — from the architecture of the room to its appointments, from the...
Tags: Human Interest, Towson, Arthritis, Arts and Culture, Stranger Than Fiction
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Parade of sail sets off from Norfolk en route to Baltimore
As the schooner Pride of Baltimore II headed up the bay from Norfolk Tuesday, the 1,300-square-foot American flag rippling from its main gaff suddenly snagged and ripped.
Fortunately, Pride has a sewing machine onboard.
"We have a lot of flags," said...Tags: Cruises, Fort McHenry, Pittsburgh, Arts and Culture, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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Staff picks for June 14 to 20
The Top Five Performance cafe Goose Route Arts Collaborative will present Adam Booth, storytelling; Cam Millar Ensemble, original music; Monica Larson, new media; kittyclarkmoves, contemporary dance; and visiting Katherine Ferrier and Pamela Vail,...
Tags: Movies, Music, Museums, Wars and Interventions, Franklin County (Virginia)
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Battered Baltimore buoy gets some Sailabration love
The Baltimore SunIt’s a much-battered part of the Baltimore Harbor scenery, bobbing in the water just above the Key Bridge on the way to the Inner Harbor. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of boats—including Tall Ships and Navy warships--will pass by the Francis...Tags: Fort McHenry, Bill Elliott, Personal Service, Patapsco, Inner Harbor
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Star-Spangled Sailabration kicks off at Inner Harbor
It took 200 years, but the oft-forgotten War of 1812 got some attention Wednesday.
A flotilla of more than 40 ships representing a dozen nations glided under the Key Bridge and into Baltimore Harbor to launch the commemoration of the conflict that gave...Tags: Pratt Street, Sailing, Harborplace, Fort McHenry, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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10 ways to commemorate the War of 1812
How considerate of the British, to attack Baltimore in 1814 and thus give Baltimoreans, two centuries later, ample excuse to hold a two-year celebration.
As you may have heard by now, Baltimore is kicking off its bicentennial celebration of the War of...Tags: Rash Field, Pratt Street, Fort McHenry, Education, Wars and Interventions
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On Flag Day, inspiration abounds
For the better part of a decade, Jill Crowther-Peters has portrayed the widowed seamstress who stitched the Star-Spangled Banner, but on Thursday she had the chance to really feel what it was like to be her.
Crowther-Peters, dressed as 19th-century...Tags: Flag Day (United States), Harborplace, Fort McHenry, Barack Obama, Taylor Green
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At 50, Arundel historical society celebrates one of its biggest accomplishments
The Benson-Hammond House stands as a tranquil oasis amid Linthicum's bustling air and ground traffic. The 200-year-old mansion-turned-museum sits on about 3 acres, surrounded by BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. That it escaped the wrecking ball and has...
Tags: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Museums, Linthicum, Libraries, Fashion Shows
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New American citizens take their oath
The white-haired Bosnian grabbed his certificate of citizenship with two hands, held it over his head and smiled broadly. A South Korean woman bowed. A long-haired woman from Ecuador posed like a beauty queen. They were some of the 40 immigrants (from 31...
Tags: Istanbul (Turkey), Immigration, Pikesville, Russia, Flag Day (United States)
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Sailors, Marines make 1812 county landmark shipshape
Military past and present came together Friday morning on a patch of farmland that played a key role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812.
Armed with the weapons of landscaping, 55 sailors and Marines in town for the Star-Spangled...Tags: Fort McHenry, Baltimore County, Wars and Interventions, Patapsco, Fells Point
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For a time, Fort McHenry stood empty as its strategic importance was diminished
The quickly constructed, earthen star-shaped Fort Whetstone, built in 1776, was the first fortification to occupy the site where Fort McHenry now stands. The city's vulnerability to a waterborne attack was exposed in the spring of 1776 when the British...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Fort McHenry, England, Wars and Interventions, Patapsco
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