An article in yesterday's Anne Arundel edition of The Sun gave the wrong telephone number to make a pledge for the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation's Honor Roll of Women. The correct number is 280-6550.
* The Sun regrets the error.
I am going to assume that the electrician who wired our house when we remodeled last year doesn't put Christmas lights up at his house, and/or doesn't use candle lights in the windows.
My thoughts were not totally of brotherly love last night when I discovered that several outlets under windows, that I know were in the plans, were not in the walls. I'm to blame for not catching the omission in June, when Christmas lights were far from my mind . . . but guys, please don't assume that the little lady is just going overboard. Extra outlets aren't an indulgence, they're a Christmas practicality and safety measure.
Now I have to use extension cords after all.
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Hats off to the staff of the Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation development office.
They have come up with an idea that will appeal to people of both sexes, any creed and every race. It can be a gift, an honor, a statement of personal belief or a simple tax deduction.
The idea is a 32-foot "Honor Roll of Women" recognition wall in the main corridor at the Rebecca M. Clatanoff Pavilion on Jennifer Road, which is scheduled to open on Mother's Day weekend. The pavilion is devoted to women's health care and research.
"The honor roll is a wonderful and permanent way to express admiration for a woman you care about -- mother, wife, daughter, grandmother, granddaughter, friend or mentor," said Ruby Fuller, AAMC Foundation board member.
Pledges of $100 a year for five years, made by Dec. 31, will ensure inscription of the honoree's name in time for the unveiling of the wall on Mother's Day weekend next year. Subsequent gifts and pledges will be added periodically.
For more information or to make a pledge for the Honor Roll of Women, contact the AAMC Foundation at 280-2550.
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"The Other Annapolis," a book by local historian Philip L. Brown, has been translated into an exhibition at the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Focusing on the photographs that illustrate the book, the exhibit recalls life among African-Americans in segregated Annapolis in the first half of the 20th century.
Mount Moriah AME Church, which traces its origins to 1799 and in whose 1874 building the Banneker-Douglass museum is housed, is strongly represented in the exhibit.
The exhibition also focuses attention on the work of the three photographers who documented black Annapolis from the late 1930s through the 1950s: Thomas Baden, J. William Swann and Franklin Smith.
The exhibit is on view through Jan. 28. The museum, at 84 Franklin St., is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m.
For more information, call curator Cheryl Miller at 974-2893.
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A different take on area history can be seen in Galesville on Sunday, during the Galesville United Methodist Church House Tour from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The tour will begin at the church, at 4825 Church Lane. Tickets are $12 per person. Galesville is at routes 468 and 255. Information: (410) 867-3789 or 867-1887.
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