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,…
In the Pratt Library’s African-American Department, within a special collection, “African American Funeral Programs,” are the funeral programs for both Bernice and Edward Watson.
As Lady Baltimore cake ascended in popularity in the late 19th century, it was quickly joined by a lesser-known counterpart. A 1900 cookbook, “Miss Olive Allen’s tested recipes : 200 selected from many hundreds gathered from all over the world,” touted alongside its Lady Baltimore Cake recipe that the cake is “Delicious! Not expensive when…
A few decades after Lillian Lottier, Marylee Felton was taking the same path: serving the city and community through a career in education.
New blog posts have been rolling in very slowly since I’ve been busy promoting “Festive Maryland Recipes.” Sometimes I get nervous about letting my research fall by the wayside. But I’ve been tending to an aspect of Old Line Plate that has become every bit as important to me: connecting with people. The pandemic made…