Halfway through February of 1958, the daily temperature had rarely been above freezing. The 11th started the morning at 5 degrees. Icebreaking boats made their way through the harbor, smashing paths to free ice-locked boats. When the possibility of snow was reported on Valentine’s Day, “the Weather Bureau said it could give no estimated snow…
Once again I turned to The Park School Cookbook for some low-stress dinner ideas. I’m getting a surprising amount of mileage out of this little book. The recipe comes from Victoria Frank Albert, who was actually a grand-daughter of the school’s founder, Eli Frank, Sr. In my decades of living in Baltimore, I’ve noticed the…
Nothing could be more emblematic of the spirit of Baltimoreans than the passionate and swift reaction to the fire at the Book Thing earlier this month (March 2, 2016). Word spread like, well… fire, and Book Thing patrons including yours truly felt immediately compelled to share what we can to help restore this institution. Baltimore…