Small Town Baltimore
Title | Small Town Baltimore PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Sandler |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2002-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801870699 |
"This "album of memories" introduces the reader to the people and places - neighborhoods, restaurants, department stores, parks, hotels, night clubs, racetracks, and theaters - that once put the charm in Charm City."--BOOK JACKET.
The Baltimore Book
Title | The Baltimore Book PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Fee |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1993-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1566391849 |
Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. The Baltimore Book is both a history of "the other Baltimore" and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982. This book records and adds sites to that tour; provides maps, photographs, and contemporary documents; and includes interviews with some of the uncelebrated people whose experiences as Baltimoreans reflect more about the city than Francis Scott Key ever did.The tour begins at the B&O Railroad Station at Camden Yards, site of the railroad strike of 1877, moves on to Hampden-Woodbury, the mid-19th century cotton textile industry's company town, and stops on the way to visit Evergreen House and to hear the narratives of ex-slaves. We travel to Old West Baltimore, the late 19th-century center of commerce and culture for the African American community; Fells Point; Sparrows Point; the suburbs; Federal Hill; and Baltimore's "renaissance" at Harborplace. Interviews with community activists, civil rights workers, Catholic Workers, and labor union organizers bring color and passion to this historical tour. Specific labor struggles, class and race relations, and the contributions of women to Baltimore's development are emphasized at each stop. Author note: Elizabeth Fee is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.Linda Shopes is Associate Historian at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.Linda Zeidman is Professor of History and Economics at Essex Community College.
The Evolution of a Small Town
Title | The Evolution of a Small Town PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Graham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | North Baltimore (Ohio) |
ISBN |
We Call this Place Home
Title | We Call this Place Home PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Falk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Tales of a Small Town
Title | Tales of a Small Town PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Jerome Eddy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Prized Girl
Title | The Prized Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Amy K. Green |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2021-02-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 152474512X |
From debut author Amy K. Green comes a devastating tale of psychological suspense: A teen pageant queen is found murdered in a small New England town and her sister's search for answers unearths more than she bargained for. Days after a young pageant queen named Jenny is found murdered, her small town grieves the loss alongside her picture-perfect parents. At first glance, Jenny's tragic death appears clear-cut for investigators. The most obvious suspect is one of her fans, an older man who may have gotten too close for comfort. But Jenny's half-sister, Virginia—the sarcastic black sheep of the family—isn't so sure of his guilt and takes matters into her own hands to find the killer. But for Jenny's case and Virginia's investigation, there's more to the story. Virginia, still living in town and haunted by her own troubled teenage years, suspects that a similar darkness lies beneath the sparkling veneer of Jenny's life. Alternating between Jenny's final days and Virginia's determined search for the truth, the sisters' dual narratives follow a harrowing trail of suspects, with surprising turns that race toward a shocking finale. Infused with dark humor and driven by two captivating young women, The Prized Girl tells a heartbreaking story of missed connections, a complicated family, and a town's disturbing secrets.
Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"
Title | Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon" PDF eBook |
Author | David J. Puglia |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2018-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1498551106 |
Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. Each time, controversy followed leading to consequences ranging from protests and boycotts to formal legislative action. “Hon” brought into focus Baltimore’s past and future by symbolizing lingering divisions of race, class, gender, and belonging in the midst of campaigns to unify and modernize the city. While some decried “hon” and “the Hon” as embarrassing, others hailed the word and the related image of a down-to-earth, blue-collar woman as emblematic of the authentic Baltimorean. This book tells the story of the battles that flared over the attempts to use “hon” to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.