Parkville man recalls winning Medal of Honor

May 11, 2008

There are 30 living Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, and Paul J. Wiedorfer from Parkville is one of them.

Recent columns

• The man who brewed city's 1st legal beer

  May 4, 2008

  All local beer lovers know of the colorful 1879 statue of King Gambrinus, "the patron saint of brewers," which stood in a niche for years above a door of the old J. F. Wiessner Brewery in the 1700 block of N. Gay St., beckoning passersby to enjoy a cold one. It now rests in the Maryland Historical Society.

• Lonesome whistle blew for last time

  April 27, 2008

  Fans of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad would have to agree with poet T. S. Eliot's assessment that "April is the cruelest month," because 50 years ago this weekend, the railroad stopped whisking travelers over its famed Royal Blue Route between Washington, Baltimore and New York City.

• Who was the man behind those tulips?

  April 20, 2008

  A stroll through Guilford's Sherwood Gardens on a warmish, sun-splashed spring afternoon is a perfect restorative from the cares and worries of the day - and a wonderful way to celebrate Earth Day.

• When Baltimoreans hailed 'New Beer's Eve'

  April 13, 2008

  "Back again, back again, We've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again, Since Roosevelt's been re-elected moonshine liquor's been corrected, we've got legal wine, whiskey, beer and gin." Recorded by Bill Cox in 1936

• Attention was paid to Mildred Dunnock

  April 6, 2008

  The next time you're watching the noir classic Kiss of Death, take note of the woman Richard Widmark ties to a wheelchair and shoves down a flight of stairs -- and into film history. It's none other than Mildred Dunnock, a Baltimorean and member of the Goucher College Class of 1922.

• Woodlawn's vanished Jewish farm colony

  March 30, 2008

  When Ida Katz died earlier this month, a few days shy of her 100th birthday, her son, Dr. Morton I. Katz, a retired Pikesville orthodontist, said his mother had spent her early years living with her family at Yaazor, the Hebrew Colonial Society of Maryland's 351-acre commune that was on the border of Baltimore and Howard counties.

• Last shift for a vigilant railroad man

  March 23, 2008

  There's no reason why you should have known Danny Moffett.

• Ending 'five centuries of naval warfare'

  March 16, 2008

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• From Douglass High to singing for Gershwin

  March 2, 2008

  Nearly 73 years have passed since Baltimorean Anne Wiggins Brown, who played the role of Bess in the original production of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess, hauntingly sang "Summertime" before an audience seated in New York's Alvin Theatre.

• Baltimore's other symphony orchestra

  February 24, 2008

  Theadosia Johnson Stokes remembers growing up in Baltimore during the 1930s, and dressing in her Sunday best, to attend concerts of the old Colored Symphony Orchestra and Chorus that were held in the auditorium of Frederick Douglass High School.

• Baltimore pastor a visionary for equality

  February 17, 2008

  When the Rev. Harvey Johnson graduated from Wayland Seminary in 1872, he came to Baltimore as pastor of the Union Baptist Church, which had been established in 1852.