It’s a time to reflect on our good fortune in Bolton Hill. We live in a real community that provides a web of friendship and support to its residents. Each year at this time, the neighborhood Social Action Task Force (SATF) circulates BHCA’s online Volunteer and Giving Guide.
Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church hosted three lay leaders from its partner church in Camajuaní, Cuba, during the summer. About 20 miles inland from the northern coast, Camajuaní was established in the latter half of the 19th century as a railroad town, serving as a hub for the tobacco and sugarcane industries.
Al Holsopple was on a bus to Annapolis in 2018 to participate in a Maryland General Assembly program when he met and chatted up another passenger, a retired Maryland state prison chaplain. That encounter, and many months of planning, fundraising and recruiting, has led to the creation of Lifting Labels, a non-profit jobs project for formerly incarcerated men and women here in Baltimore.
In Baltimore, community fridges have been a quiet horizon, maintained and even expanded across various neighborhoods. These fridges are generally hyperlocal, frequented by those close by, with the site provided and maintained by a philanthropic homeowner. Can we do this somewhere in Bolton Hill?
As we celebrate the passing of the old and the birth of new, take time to reflect on our good fortune in Bolton Hill. We live in a real community that provides a web of friendship and support to its residents. This is far too rare.
As we celebrate the passing of the old, and the birth of new, take time to reflect on our good fortune in Bolton Hill. We live in a real community that provides a web of friendship and support to its residents. This is rare.
A community of refugees from Afghanistan, brought to this country after the U.S. military withdrawal in 2021, is living in Reservoir Hill just a short walk north between Bolton Hill and Druid Hill Park. They will display and sell handmade items on March 5 at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Samaritan Community is a proud member of the Bolton Hill community. Located in the basement of Memorial Episcopal Church, we are an independent 501c(3) human services non-profit. Our mission is to aid individuals and families who are in crisis and want to improve their lives.
In my remarks at the May BHCA membership meeting, I referred to the “ring theory,” coined by Marc Dunkelman in a book called The Vanishing Neighbor.
In her day job, Katia Pokhodnya works from her Bolton Hill home for the Securities and Exchange Commission. She responds to whistleblowers – sometimes brave, aggrieved men and women willing to report corporate wrongdoing or fraud.
