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The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the public library system of Baltimore, Md., and is one of the oldest free public library systems in the United States. The first branch, the Central Library on Baltimore's Mulberry Street, opened on Jan. 5, 1886, and four additional branches opened over the next three months. The libraries, as well as an endowment of more than $1 million, were a gift to the Mayor and the City Council from Enoch Pratt, a notable 19th century Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. Today, there are 22 branches of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, including the Southeast Anchor Library in Highlandtown, which opened in May 2007. The library also offers a Bookmobile service, in whic...
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the public library system of Baltimore, Md., and is one of the oldest free public library systems in the United States. The first branch, the Central Library on Baltimore's Mulberry Street, opened on Jan. 5, 1886, and four additional branches opened over the next three months. The libraries, as well as an endowment of more than $1 million, were a gift to the Mayor and the City Council from Enoch Pratt, a notable 19th century Baltimore businessman and philanthropist. Today, there are 22 branches of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, including the Southeast Anchor Library in Highlandtown, which opened in May 2007. The library also offers a Bookmobile service, in which a library on wheels visits local schools.
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It's easy to find great food at great prices
Self-confidence is as attractive in a restaurant as it is in a person. The best places to dine both expensively and frugally more often than not turn out to be the product of someone's clear vision.
You can tell you're in one of these places when you'...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Ellicott City, Restaurants, Pizzas, Hamburgers
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Classic 'La Boheme' accompanied by organ
"La Boheme," MGM's 1926 silent epic of selfless love in the pursuit of high-quality playwriting, will be shown Sunday afternoon at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, with organ accompaniment by James Harp, director of opera and education for the Lyric Opera...Tags: Showtime Networks, Inc., Opera (genre), Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Museum Dioramas, Music Theater
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They're going to Town
A long-awaited renovation of Baltimore's historic Town Theatre will finally move to the construction stage if a local theater company can raise the last $3.5 million it needs to pay for construction.
Everyman Theatre, which operates out of leased space...Tags: National Aquarium Baltimore, Energy Saving, Cherry Hill, Maryland Science Center, Libraries and Museums
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Parents' response to swine flu vaccination effort lags
With a citywide schools vaccination program to combat swine flu just days away, Baltimore officials are concerned about the low number of consent forms they have received from parents.
Of 80,000 forms sent home last week, just 1,800 have been returned,...Tags: Sheila Dixon, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Epidemics and Plagues, Swine Flu
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Gathering Saturday at Pratt to honor Sherlock Holmes -- and his enemies
Baltimore Sun reporterTo most of the world, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character, a master of deductive reasoning created by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over the course of 60 novels and short stories. But true Sherlockians, like those who will be gathering at the...Tags: Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Museum Dioramas, Ellicott City, Fiction
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After nearly 4-year probe, Baltimore mayor to get day in court
It was a day packed with official events for Mayor Sheila Dixon: approving millions of dollars in contracts at a Board of Estimates meeting, holding a news conference to urge parents to vaccinate their children against swine flu, pushing health care...Tags: Trials, Colleges and Universities, Lawyers, Juvenile Delinquency, Swine Flu
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Free
CINEMA SATURDAY: Enoch Pratt Free Library honors the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Writers' Project with two free screenings Saturday. Tim Robbins' look at politics and art in Depression-era New York City, "The Cradle Will Rock," stars...Tags: John Cusack, Museum Dioramas, Tim Robbins, Hank Azaria
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Wild stock ride ended in a crash
"You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy." - President Herbert Hoover to author Mark Sullivan The weeks preceding the Great Crash of 1929 that occurred 80 years ago this week would be remembered for decades...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Will Rogers, Great Depression (1929), History, Transportation
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Arts live for Saturday
TRICKS AND TREATS AT THE CHARLES: The Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles St., offers up a sweet cinematic treat for Halloween. "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" is a horror spoof starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi. For...Tags: Coraline (movie), Charles Theatre, Halloween, Lon Chaney, Lou Costello
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Macabre movies miss the mark
Baltimore Sun reporterBaltimore's an Edgar Allan Poe kind of town, never more so than in 2009 with the Poe House, a football team named for his most famous poem, and a year-long celebration honoring the macabre author's death. Naturally, Baltimore's repertory movie house would...Tags: Jude Law, Vincent Price, Charles Theatre, Dracula (movie, 1931), James Whale
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Panelists to talk about race, segregation and achievement in schools
baltimoresun.comThe Open Society Institute-Baltimore is hosting a panel discussion Monday evening called "Can We Talk About How Race Affects Our Classrooms?". It's the next installment in OSI's "Talking About Race" series, and will focus on the impact of continued... -
Free or cheap Halloween fun for the kids
baltimoresun.comThis year Halloween falls on a weekend, which means that kids don't have to wait until school lets out to don their costumes and celebrate.If you're still planning your Halloween itinerary, check out Charm City Mom blogger Kate's list of Halloween weekend...
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