museums
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A volunteer at a historic Harford County mill that once ground corn into meal is teaching today's visitors an old-fashioned craft of making dolls from cornhusks. -
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- Poster for 30th annual event in September
- A tiny landscape painted by Renoir on a napkin that was stolen from the BMA more than 60 years ago still belongs in Baltimore and should be returned.
- This week's Race takes us to Berlin to learn that 1) historical quotes are hard, yo, and 2) hipsters in Berlin win at hipstering.
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- The Benjamin Banneker Park and Museum on Oella Avenue is hosting an Earth Day celebration and the Children's Home on Bloomsbury Avenue will host an electronics recycling drive, both on Saturday April 20
- Ron Browning havre de grace community notes
- Fire Museum of Maryland's 36th annual Steam Show is May 4, Lutherville Garden Club holds MayFair on May 4,
- Mavis S. "Sherry" Sheedy, a retired Baltimore City public schools art teacher and museum docent, died April 4 from congestive heart failure. She was 74.
- A proposed partnership between UM College Park and Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art could benefit both institutions in ways neither could afford on its own
- The Laurel Historical Society's living history program Civil War reactment April 13, shich was co-sponsored by the American Legion and 2nd Maryland Infantry reenactors, included demonstrations from period soldiers and civilians on everything from rifle fire to Army musicians, and was capped off with a live reenactment of the fictitious Battle of Laurel Station.
- Needlework expert Kathleen Franetovich will be at Hays House Museum in Bel Air from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 14 to talk about schoolgirl samplers, decorative needlework created by young girls in Early America
- Frances T. Kidder, a former real estate saleswoman and world traveler, died Thursday from a stroke at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. She was 96.
- Last week it was announced that the Carroll County Farm Museum, in conjunction with the Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area First Call event, will host a Civil War era baseball game on May 5, at 2 p.m. as part of a two-day Civil War re-enactment event, May 4 and 5.
- But things to do are stacking up. The Susquehanna Museum of Havre de Grace at the Lock House reopens April 13 (Saturday), 1-5 p.m. for the season. Free admission. Contact 410-939-5780, email: lockhousemuseum@gmail.com or visit their site at www.thelockhousemuseum.org.
- Layoffs of 14 employees at the Baltimore Museum of Art driven by lingering effects of the 2008 recession
- District 10 VFW Ladies Auxiliary met for their quarterly dinner meeting April 2 at the VFW Post 8185, Port Deposit. Auxiliary units from Elkton, Chesapeake City, and North East joined the auxiliary unit from Post 8185 to make plans for June's convention.
- Mark your calendar for the big blasty Spring Celebration coming to the historic district on Saturday, April 20.
- Maryland's largest museum reduces staff by 9 percent due to lingering effects of the recession
- Black marks scuff the staircase at 922 N. Charles St., left there by frustrated tenants kicking the wall in a vain attempt to make their neighbor, The Museum Restaurant and Lounge, quiet down. Most nights, tenants say, the sound of DJs hyping up the crowd rattles china cabinets and nerves alike.
- Work on a $4.7 million museum at Naval Air Station Patuxent River that is mostly paid for with state and federal grants has been suspended and a prominent construction firm was recently pulled from the project, St. Mary's County officials said Friday.
- One Orioles fan tells how a missed encounter with the big hitting catcher Gus Triandos changed his life forever.
- Mutter Museum may leave you shocked and horrified or amazed and fascinated. Either way, its collections of bones, bodies, body parts, plus tumors and other
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- The sixth annual Daffodil Days celebration at Whipps Cemetery Garden is coming up on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The garden is at 3651 St. John's Lane.
