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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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'Plan 9': so bad it's good
A half-century after it was made, movies still don't come any worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space, Edward D. Wood Jr.'s grade-Z sci-fi opus about aliens looking to take over the Earth by raising the dead and having them ... well, having them do something...Tags: American Visionary Art Museum, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Federal Hill, Johns Hopkins University
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Drug suspect flees into school, is captured
About 200 students were rushed out of a city school Thursday morning after a drug suspect fled police and ran into the Southeast Baltimore building, officials said. After more than six hours of searching, police located the man hiding in a cabinet...Tags: Drug Trafficking, Patterson Park, Medicine
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Jackson fans gather to view service from afar
They might not have had the coveted wristbands guaranteeing them seats at Michael Jackson's funeral in Los Angeles. But the singer's fans in Baltimore and across the country found other ways to bid farewell to the King of Pop.
In New York's Harlem...Tags: Gary, Newspapers, Clubs and Associations, Radio Industry, New York Times
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Clarification: Michael Jackson-National Audience
In a story July 7, The Associated Press reported that a simulcast of Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, drew only about 10 people. The library now says that viewers of the simulcast grew to about 60 people...Tags: Michael Jackson Memorial Service (2009), Michael Jackson
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Budget forces Pratt to change hours
Because of tough budget constraints, the Enoch Pratt Free Library has closed some library branches on some days and ended late-night hours for its Telephone Reference Service. "We had to try to make sure that the decisions we made wouldn't have a huge...Tags: Google Inc., Twitter, Inc.
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Meyerhoff funds to shore up middle class
The Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, a Baltimore-based philanthropic organization that for years aided high-profile causes in Israel and cultural institutions in the United States, has turned its focus to a problem closer to home:...Tags: National Government, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Government, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Patterson Park
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Local screenings
'Watchmen' returns Watchmen, the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic-novel exploits of a group of outlawed superheroes, will return this weekend for a limited run at Bengies Drive-In Theatre, 3417 Eastern Blvd. Showtime through Sunday is 10:45...Tags: Slumdog Millionaire (movie), Deborah Harry, Watchmen (movie), India, Danny Boyle
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'The Third Man' screens at the Senator Theatre
Classic film screenings continue at the Senator Theatre this weekend with Carol Reed's magnificent The Third Man, starring Joseph Cotten as a pulp novelist visiting postwar Vienna, where he learns that his good friend, Harry Lime ( Orson Welles), has...Tags: Senator Theatre, Bolt (movie), Revanche (movie), Academy Awards, Joseph Cotten
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The Eiffel Tower in Baltimore?
Fred Shoken, a Baltimore preservationist and planner, wrote to me several weeks ago after I had written a piece about Roland Park author Jill Jonnes' new book on the building of the Eiffel Tower. "I was disappointed that it made no mention of Baltimore's...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, New York Times, Patapsco, Newspapers, Roland Park
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Job seekers turn to the library
Capital News ServiceAs Baltimore's unemployment rate rose, many people headed to the library. Since the onset of the recession, attendance at the Enoch Pratt Free Library's career center classes has jumped 92 percent. For free, the Central Library on Cathedral Street in...Tags: United States, Employment
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Author Junot Diaz to read from his work at CityLit Festival
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic but has lived in the U.S. for 34 years. He is even more fluent in English than he is in Spanish. But he says there never will come a point in his life when he stops being an...Tags: Festive Event, Fiction, Book, United States, Migration
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Celebrate a weekend of all things Mom
Moms, it's your weekend. And if you're the kind who wants to spend it having fun with the family - instead of holed up solo with a glass of wine and a good book - there are plenty of kid-friendly activities to choose from around town. You can explore the...Tags: Walters Art Museum, Mother's Day, Govans, 1st Mariner Arena, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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