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A dignified tribute to those who served their country

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:28:08 -0400

Baltimore National is tranquil, immaculate military cemetery

The hauntingly beautiful greensward that straddles the city and Baltimore County lines along Frederick Avenue was dedicated 71 years ago this month. Called "Little Arlington," Baltimore National Cemetery is where Boy Scouts were to arrive this evening to begin the Memorial Day custom of placing small flags on all the graves of the military veterans and their spouses interred here.

Woodwards raised Triple Crown champions at their Bowie farm

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:14:49 -0400

Family was involved in scandal when wife shot husband, thinking he was a prowler

My earliest recollection of the television that arrived in my family's Guilford Avenue home was the broadcast of the 1955 Preakness. We were all fixed on that black-and-white Sylvania mounted high on a wall. Nashua beat Swaps and went on to win the Belmont, too.

Shrine of St. Anthony has majestic history

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:55:00 -0400

Howard County monastery is a lunch stop on tour May 19

This coming week offers a chance to visit two worthy Maryland landmarks. The normally off-limits Gibson Island Club will be open, and you can enjoy a lunch overlooking the Magothy. And I paid an advance visit to the Shrine of St. Anthony at Folly Quarter, a remarkable Roman Catholic monastery complex in western Howard County.

A neighborhood that few leave

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 4 May 2012 20:21:00 -0400

Overlea is a quiet, livable community with hilly streets

The other evening, I sat at Doris Poling's dining room table and we discussed Overlea. A lifelong resident of the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood, she asked what angle I would take in writing about it.

New apartment project comes to old Epstein's department store building

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:36:39 -0400

Redevelopment replaces budget store but carries on utilitarian spirit

I looked once, then twice at a Light Street building across from the Cross Street Market in Federal Hill. Was the old Epstein's department store returning to Baltimore?

Unspoiled valley is site of steeplechase race

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:04:41 -0400

Jockeys will ride across Baltimore County land during Grand National Steeplechase on Saturday

Each April, I look forward to the Saturday when the Grand National Steeplechase jockeys ride across a swath of unspoiled Baltimore County valley. From a vantage point atop a hill off Butler Road, just off Falls Road, I look out across the Western Run Valley and think how fortunate we are to have this setting — and the chance to visit it on a single spring afternoon. That's enough; too much traffic is not what this location needs.

Liriodendron is a Harford County treasure

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:01:00 -0400

Bel Air mansion was built by Hopkins Hospital founder as summer home

When the street sign said Boulton, I knew I was near the right address. Soon another familiar street name popped up — Atwood — and I was squarely in Bel Air's Howard Park, a subdivision created out of the orchards surrounding a noteworthy Baltimorean's summer home.

Pioneering modeling agent recalls Easter fashions

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:20:00 -0400

Diana Kane broke racial barriers with Baltimore modeling agency

Downtown's Howard Street was jammed on the Saturday before Easter, and Diana Kane was busy with her new modeling agency.

Lebow Bros. building transforming into Design School

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:19:21 -0400

Developers working on abandoned 'palace of Industry'

You smell damp masonry as you approach the old factory atop the Jones Falls Valley just above downtown Baltimore. The restoration and conversion of the old Lebow Brothers garment manufacturing plant into a new $25 million Baltimore Design School is now five months in the making. Open to the elements since the mid-1980s, it still reeks of abandonment. But that changes by the day.

Parkway Theatre needs to flourish again

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:07:29 -0400

The city is offering it for sale

I keep an old photograph of a thriving North Avenue taped to my desk. The largest sign projecting over the sidewalk is that of the Parkway Theatre. But for more than 30 years now, the movie theater has been closed and hasn't been doing what it should be — entertaining Baltimoreans.