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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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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... -
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: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheila Dixon, Judges, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires
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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: Vaccines, Epidemics and Plagues, Sheila Dixon, Hospitals and Clinics, 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, Museum Dioramas, Robert Downey Jr., Ellicott City, Fiction
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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... -
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: Winston Churchill, Disasters, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Stock Broking, Newspaper and Magazine
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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: Halloween, Bela Lugosi, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Religious Festivals
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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, Marvel Entertainment, Inc., Vincent Price, Tod Browning, Ingmar Bergman
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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: Tim Robbins, Hank Azaria, Museum Dioramas, John Cusack
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Death becomes him
E dgar Allan Poe is finally getting the send-off he always deserved - from a city that has spent decades claiming him as one of its own. True, he's spent more than a century and a half buried in the hallowed grounds surrounding Baltimore's Westminster...Tags: Celebrity, Hospitals and Clinics, Baltimore Museum of Art, Criminals, Museum Dioramas
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A chance to get in touch with your inner zombie
Baltimore Sun reporterThe undead are among us. Or at least they will be, on Sunday. If you're one of the undead, you should already know that Sunday is World Zombie Day. And you probably know all about zombie walks, that unsettling phenomenon where hordes of the mobile dead...Tags: Ghouls and Zombies (legendary entities), Zombieland (movie), George Romero, Chris Jackson, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Exhibit on Baltimore NAACP opens today at central Pratt
A new exhibition sponsored by the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People opens today at the Central Library, 400 Cathedral St. Titled "97 Years and Counting," the exhibition...Tags: NAACP, Photography
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