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Every September, Mount Vernon Place hosts authors, book vendors and exhibitors for the Baltimore Book Festival. More than 100 poets, authors and book illustrators -- such as Nikki Giovanni, Pearl Cleage and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend -- hold readings, lectures and signings at the free weekend festival. The book festival is also an opportunity for local authors to gain exposure, while readers can stumble upon literary finds at vendor tents on the green. Other festivities include cooking demonstrations, walking tours, storytellers, children's entertainment, street theater and music.
Every September, Mount Vernon Place hosts authors, book vendors and exhibitors for the Baltimore Book Festival. More than 100 poets, authors and book illustrators -- such as Nikki Giovanni, Pearl Cleage and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend -- hold readings, lectures and signings at the free weekend festival. The book festival is also an opportunity for local authors to gain exposure, while readers can stumble upon literary finds at vendor tents on the green. Other festivities include cooking demonstrations, walking tours, storytellers, children's entertainment, street theater and music.
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Mystery writers converge on city for conference
If you're a mystery fan, Baltimore is the place to be this week. Beginning Thursday, the international Bouchercon conference, Charmed to Death, will bring about 1,500 mystery writers and mystery lovers here for a four-day celebration of the genre. Among...Tags: Roland Park, Govans
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Gold comes out of the cellar and into the lore
My column several weeks ago chronicling the Depression-era story of two Baltimore youths, Theodore Jones, 16, and Henry Grob, 15, who turned up 3,558 gold coins in the dirt cellar of an Eden Street tenement, brought some interesting responses. A full-...Tags: Pikesville, Laws
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Baltimore Book Festival schedule
Festival Stage Sept. 26 6:30 p.m. -- Baltimore Theatre Alliance Reception: Kickoff Reception 7 p.m. Baltimore Playwrights Festival Sept. 27 11 a.m. -- Teen Book Blast Noon -- Book Divas Young Adult Panel 1 p.m. -- Graphic Novel Panel: Creating Your Own...Tags: Coppin State University, John Shields, Cab Calloway, Labor Legislation, Hip Hop
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Howard County Datebook
On Stage 'Blacklisted' Rep Stage, the professional theater-in-residence at Howard Community College, is starting its 16th season with Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, Christopher Trumbo's story of his father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and his...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Literature, Carl Orff, Mel Brooks, Paul Robeson Jr.
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A tell-tale festival
Age hasn't made Walter Mosley any less adventurous.
The 56-year-old cut his teeth writing crime fiction; his historical series with detective Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins spanned 11 books and established Mosley as a best-selling author. But in the past decade,...Tags: Mount Vernon Place, Festive Event, Fiction, Sales, Denzel Washington
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Treasure in the cellar brought more trouble than riches
The story of two Baltimore teenagers and their random discovery of a cache of gold coins in a copper jug while digging in the dirt cellar floor of a three-story rowhouse at 132 S. Eden St. became a national story during the height of the Depression....Tags: Bethlehem Steel Corp., People, Bolton Hill, Lawyers, Vernon Hills
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Eclectic schedule
SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 14 RV Outdoor Show, Fairgrounds THROUGH SEPT. 18 Contemporary Ceramics from Wales, Clayworks THROUGH SEPT. 18 Symbiosis: Animal and Human Form, Clayworks THROUGH OCT. 5 Tableware Show, Potters THROUGH DEC. 8 Selling the Candidates:...Tags: Michael Buble, Constitutional Issues, Animals, Culture, Robin Williams
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Summer festival guide
Special to baltimoresun.comHairdos that mirror beehives, cars that drip with unfamiliar ornaments and books that came off the shelves years ago. It's time for Baltimoreans to tuck away their winter clothes and welcome the warm weather, and there's no better way to celebrate the...Tags: Minority Groups, College of Notre Dame, Roberta Flack, Brian McKnight, Jack Johnson
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Mount Vernon
Special to baltimoresun.comOne of Baltimore's greatest havens for fine art, music, architecture, history and all other aesthetic delights is Mount Vernon. Just north of downtown, the neighborhood is a thriving cultural center and an intrinsic element making up Baltimore's diverse...Tags: Minority Groups, Culture, Food and Dining Culture, Architecture, Classical Music
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Lady of the stories
Sun reporterIn the chronicles of Baltimore can be found a wise woman who has studied all the best masters in history and archaeology and the arts, and whose cleverness at telling stories is unparalleled throughout the realm. Her name is Laura Amy Schlitz and not, as...Tags: Book, Heinrich Schliemann, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Tutoring makes the difference
WHEN MONTEARA Johnson heard she was going to a "tutoring place" for dyslexics, her heart sank. She was 10 years old, had a history of academic failure, had repeated the fourth grade. Monteara had never heard of dyslexia, the reading disorder. When her...Tags: Family, Labor Markets, Personal Income
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