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Sunday, March 25 Fundraiser The Goshen Farm Preservation Society's annual "Java & Jazz Event," a fundraiser to benefit the restoration and preservation of Goshen Farm in Cape St. Claire, will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Margaret's Episcopal...Tags: Pleasant Plains, Easter, Anglicanism, Christianity, Anne Arundel Community College
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Arbutus Library visitors find scavenger hunt a fun way to learn during Black History Month
It's a big area to search.
As the second-newest branch of the Baltimore County Public Library, the Arbutus Library features 25,000 square feet of space for more 110,000 items, several meeting rooms and a large computer area, as well as areas for...Tags: Black History Month, Ella Fitzgerald, Black History, Movies, Leon Day
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Maryland will feature prominently in Smithsonian's latest museum
When the country's largest museum devoted to African-American history and culture opens in Washington, Maryland people and places will get a healthy share of the limelight.
A two-story log house built by freed slaves from Montgomery County, dubbed the...Tags: Annapolis, Slavery, Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama
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Tuskegee Airmen offer insights into era of segregation
When he was a Tuskegee Airman on an Alabama air base in the 1940s, Cecil O. Byron and other members of the all-black squadron could not shop or dine in the nearby town. They were relegated to the balcony at the movies and could not leave the theater until...Tags: Black History Month, Movies, Colleges and Universities, Randallstown, White House
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Dec. 7 not just another day in Harford, now or in 1941
Seventy years ago today, at shortly before 8 in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, in Hawaii, the first wave of Japanese aircraft attacked the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War II.
But two days before the attack,...Tags: Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Havre de Grace, Japan, American Red Cross, Europe
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You liked Red Tails and the Tuskegee Airmen? Read on
"Red Tails," the years-long project of director George Lucas, is sure to bring some overdue attention to the Tuskegee Airmen, the all-black aviation unit that fought discrimination in the U.S. military as well as our enemies in World War II. Reviews for...Tags: U.S. Military, Minority Groups, World War II (1939-1945), Tuskegee University, Wars and Interventions
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Children's novel promotes healthy lifestyle
The children's novel "The Adventures of M.T. Pitt" is helping Howard County promote healthy lifestyles for youths. The book shines a light on an imaginative young boy whose expanding girth makes him a target for the school bully. The Howard County Health...Tags: Weight, Howard Community College, Howard County, Libraries, Family
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'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.
The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....Tags: Lance Reddick, Idris Elba, Media Industry, Community (tv program), The Big C (tv program)
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Harts M. Brown
Harts Morrison Brown, a retired management consultant who had been a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died June 24 of lung cancer at the Veteran Administration Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center in Northeast Baltimore.
The...Tags: Employment, Employees, Christianity, Ellicott City, Social Security
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Museums
Adler Planetarium 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive; 312-922-7827, adlerplanetarium.org America's first planetarium has one of the world's greatest collections of antique astronomical instruments. One of those is the fully restored Gemini 12 spacecraft flown...Tags: Natural Resources, Navy Pier, Jim Lovell, Technology, John Hancock Center
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Sanford's Memorial Day observance cut short by rain
SANFORD — It wasn't a lack of patriotism or fortitude that brought Sanford's Memorial Day ceremony to an early halt Monday morning. A torrent of rain — courtesy of tropical depression Beryl — drummed down from the skies about 30 minutes...
Tags: Sanford, Memorial Day, Seminole County, Festive Events, Casselberry
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Memorial Day events in the Orlando area
Memorial Day Ceremony: 11 a.m. Friday; Starke Lake Gazebo, 125 N. Lakeshore Drive, Ocoee. Ocoee Police Department Honor Guard and Ocoee High School Air Force JROTC Color Guard. Details: 407-905-3100. Veteran Salute: 1 p.m. Friday; Westchester of Winter...
Tags: Osceola County, Teresa Jacobs, Winter Springs, Wekiva River, Memorial Day
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