In the summer of 1963, Grace Peterman Cowger and her three siblings organized an anniversary party for her parents. Clifford and Marian Peterman had wed on July 30th, 1913 in Princess Anne on the Eastern Shore where, like themselves, generations of Grace’s family had lived and farmed. The Salisbury Daily Times ran a photo of…
I recently had the privilege of giving a talk at the Homewood Museum on Johns Hopkins University’s campus. I focused on Baltimore’s culinary history, but or course there was plenty about Maryland in general. After the talk, someone asked a question about the influence of immigrants on Maryland cuisine. “Honestly,” I said, “if I had…
An advertisement ran in the San Francisco Examiner in 1932, posing as a heavily illustrated article. The top left illustration is alarming: it shows a tearful wife looking on as her angered husband hurls a biscuit. The biscuit penetrates the wall, heading for the edge of the newspaper itself. A caption explains that such violent…
Sources for this regional delicacy are getting fewer and fewer as the years go by.
Helen Avalynne Gibson and John Millard Tawes didn’t have a decadent wedding. The newspapers ran no reports about Helen’s dress, or the flowers she carried, or the people who attended. In fact, the union didn’t appear in the paper at all until nearly two months later, when the Baltimore Sun ran a small article entitled,…