Bolton Hill lost two grande dames in April. Over many years they separately brought to the neighborhood originality, community spirit and energy that helped make Bolton Hill the unique place that it is. Read about Susan Van Buren and Debby Phinney:
A memorial service for Timothy Lee App, a nationally celebrated painter and educator at MICA, will be held on Sunday, March 1 at the former Corpus Christi church in Bolton Hill, now known as The Basilica Oratory at Corpus Christi. He died on Nov. 19, after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Henri Ann Daniels, a longtime resident of Bolton Hill and an activist in neighborhood and city affairs, died at the age of 83 on Dec. 15 after a brief hospitalization. A funeral at Douglas Memorial Community Church a few days later attracted a hall filled with family, neighbors, professional colleagues and friends who came to remember the diminutive woman who helped restore Eutaw Place half a century earlier.
The Banner and The Sun both ran warm obituaries for Dr. Jeremy Walston, 64, a Bolton Hill resident and geriatrician who died of cancer during the summer. He was a world-renowned physician who ran the Human Aging Project at Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and worked tirelessly to improve the quality of life for people as they age and better manage the progression of disease in the elderly.
Bolton Hill residents who knew her used the same words to describe their West Lanvale Street friend: “colorful;” “cheerful;” “flamboyant;” “sparkling.” Sally Gold, a lawyer and longtime resident of the neighborhood who more recently spent most of her time in New York, died of cancer there last month. She was 75.
A memorial service was held this month for June Carr, a longtime Bolton Hill resident and neighborhood advocate, who died in January at the age of 96. She was a native of England who first came to America as a child during the German blitz attacks on Britain.
The first issue of the Bolton Hill Bulletin appeared in April 1972, a large tri-fold printed newsletter that would undergo surprisingly few changes over the next decades. Only in 2016 did it surrender to technology and become an online-only publication for what was then the Mt. Royal Improvement Association, now BHCA.
🏠 BHCA creates committee on neglected, mismanaged properties; 💯 Parago family honored with Centennial Homes award; 🗿 Removing remnant of Confederate monument under discussion; 🕊️ Jim Craigen, Bolton Square resident, dies; 🌽 Two farmers markets are nearby on Wednesdays and Thursdays; ✈️ Brown Memorial Church is fundraising to bring Cubans to Bolton Hill
Dr. William Noel, 58, a former Bolton Hill resident and a distinguished scholar, was hit by a van and killed on April 10 while walking along a road in Edinburgh, Scotland. He directed the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, an international collaboration to conserve, image and study the erased texts lying beneath a 13th century prayer book. He also pioneered the presentation of machine-readable, openly licensed datasets of digitized illuminated medieval manuscripts at The Walters Art Museum.
“There was no one in the world like Nancy Dorman. She believed in this city and the power of art and education. Humanity, a willingness to roll up her sleeves, and an unshakeable commitment to civic betterment — Nancy embodied it all.” (from a statement issued by the BMA).
