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Defenders' Day weekend events include re-enactments of the era's cooking, too - Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.
- Jack "Pops" Norris, 75, specializes in tours for children. The animated guide goes to great lengths to make history alive and interesting. Norris leads the "At Union Mills With Pops" tours at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. each Wednesday at Union Mills, located on Littlestown Pike north of Westminster.
- The massive flag that inspired Francis Scott Key was assembled by Mary Pickersgill in a now forgotten Baltimore brewery.
- A string of GOP heavyweights, including several presidential candidates, have campaigned in Maryland in recent months, despite the state's reputation as a Democratic stronghold. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is to visit this week.
- Satire poking fun at Sarah Palin's account of Paul Revere's ride was a disgrace.
- Raymond Burke offers a humorous take on what Sarah Palin might have had to say about the Battle of Baltimore
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis Scott Key is counted among her distant relatives, research shows.
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