Reminiscing in Maryland
Recent Sun articles and columns on state history
3:44 PM EDT, April 28, 2012
Backstory: Bettye Mills, flamboyant and kind club owner
Long before ecdysiast Blaze Starr became the reigning Queen of The Block, there was the legendary Bettye Mills, who arose from humble Pigtown origins to become one of the tenderloin district's more memorable characters and nightclub owners — which in those days The Baltimore Sun politely called "cabarets."
March 11, 2012
African-American social club celebrates its centenary
Members of the Arch Social Club, at North and Pennsylvania avenues, are about to have a party.
3:43 PM EST, January 28, 2012
Landmark Waverly shoe repair shop closes its doors after 90 years
After 90 years of repairing shoes and other leather goods, Hack's Shoe Repair, a fixture in Waverly since 1922, will close its doors for good this week.
February 5, 2012
Boston mayor had defused racial tensions
Former Boston Mayor Kevin Hagan White, who steered the city through the racial storm caused by court-ordered school desegregation and is credited with giving political access to blacks, women and gays, died late last month at his Beacon Hill home.
January 8, 2012
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.
12:08 PM EDT, June 25, 2011
The life and fate of Alger Hiss remains a hot topic among readers
"The other curious thing about the Hiss case is the psychology of believing that Hiss was a spy, which requires abandoning much of what we know about rational thought."
December 28, 2008
Frederick N. Rasmussen: Reminders of the 'Greatest Game' filled John Unitas' Golden Arm
Too bad we can't jump in the car today and drive to Johnny Unitas' Golden Arm restaurant in Rodgers Forge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants with a hearty meal and a couple of cold ones.
December 13, 2009
BACK STORY
Readers indulge in fond Hutzler's memories
When Hutzler's left Baltimore it was like losing my mother," Shirley Cooper said in a phone call the other day.
January 10, 2010
BACK STORY
City had 9 other mayors resign; a 10th was Union POW
Mayor Sheila Dixon, who announced last week that she will resign and leave office on Feb. 4, is not the first Baltimore mayor to take that path.
July 27, 2008
Frederick N. Rasmussen: A platterful of fond Connolly's memories
Even though Connolly's Pier 5 Pratt Street seafood house served up its last crab cake platter in 1991, Baltimoreans near and far still fondly recall the old, no-frills restaurant and wish that such a place still existed.
June 4, 2006
40 years of Sun athletic standouts
June 4, 2006
40 years
In June 1967, the Orioles wore shiny new World Series rings. Baltimore still had pro teams in basketball and ice hockey. And kids listened to pop music on transistor radios tuned to WCAO-AM.
February 14, 2004
Jacques Kelly: Hippo's opening another night to remember
AS MY CAB turned south on Eutaw Street on Tuesday night, I asked the driver, "Where are the moving lights?"
February 22, 2003
Jacques Kelly: Hoping B&O Museum is able to maintain pieces of history
I’VE OFTEN thought that Baltimore possesses three truly great object collections: the Cone sisters' canvases, the treasure of Henry and William Walters and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Yes, the rail museum at Pratt and Poppleton, which suffered such a direct hit from this week's snowstorm, is this country's knockout stable of iron-horse history.
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