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In these complicated COVID times, many have lost jobs or are hanging on to their businesses in a harrowing way. But for a fortunate few like David Storey, it has been something of a boon.
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Remembering Walter Sondheim alongside Rep. Cummings and Justice Marshall
Walter Sondheim, who died in 2007 at the age of 98, was a Bolton Hill native (1612 Bolton Street) and a Baltimore civic leader extraordinaire.
The late classical piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lived in Bolton Hill
Leon Fleisher, a leading American pianist in the 1950s and early ’60s who was forced by an injury to his right hand to channel his career into conducting, teaching and mastering the left-hand repertoire, died in August at a nearby hospice.
Tour Baltimore architecture and history with Doors Open
Doors Open Baltimore is the free annual citywide festival of architecture and neighborhoods that invites thousands of people to explore the city and make meaningful connections to the built environment.
Now 90, Sara Murnane’s love affair with Bolton Hill carries on
On May 6, Maryland recorded 28,163 coronavirus cases and as many as 1,437 deaths associated with the disease. But on that very same day, a healthy and joyful Sara Murnane marked her 90th birthday at her home on Park Avenue, looking out on a fountain that she cherishes.
The Mt. Royal Tavern loses a stalwart soul
For generations of Bolton Hill residents and MICA students the Mt. Royal Tavern has served as an introduction and rite of initiation into the neighborhood community.
Reflections of a 2020 graduating senior
Thursday, March 12, 2020 was an odd day at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
Neighbors: Keep a kind eye out for this Sara
In a city where homeless people, drug addicts and healthy young men with squeegees compete on corners everywhere for tips and attention, it is still jarring to this old man to see women among them – in the hot sun or rain, begging.