Given its present-day ubiquity in Baltimore, it’s no surprise that lacrosse’s national museum is here. But the city and region’s importance to the sport was hardly preordained.
The south side of the Inner Harbor used to house convoyed rows of such shipyards, but now there is only this one—which has been operated by the Lynch family for more than a century.
This month, the Organ Historical Society convention comes to town. With the Archdiocese of Baltimore church consolidation plans underway, it may be the last time several historic organs are heard.
On Sunday morning, 150 swimmers—many appropriately sporting crab floaties and Orioles gear—intentionally leapt off the dock at Bond Street Wharf. Among them was our own research editor Amy Scattergood.
The renowned North Baltimore Aquatic Club launched the careers of Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps and Beth Botsford—both of whom Himes coached when they were kids.
Inspired by Sixth & I—Washington, D.C.'s nondenominational arts hub in a historic synagogue—Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh will offer programming focused on building community relationships.
Women are an essential part of the engine that makes our region thrive. In our annual section that follows, Women Who Move Maryland, we spotlight women professionals who play a leading role in Baltimore and beyond.
“It was a monument...the last vestige of an era when generations worked at Bethlehem Steel, GM, and Lever Brothers," says former Key Bridge ironworker Buddy Cefalu, 75. “I just hope I live long enough to see it rebuilt and the first car go across.”
The president of the Baltimore Civic Fund spearheads everyday services like pothole repair and snow cleanup, as well as larger projects like regional recycling efforts and bridging the digital divide.
The social media famous Baltimorean posts provocative, wildly entertaining YouTube videos that have earned her millions of fans—and her fair share of haters, too.
When the bridge came town on that fateful Tuesday, the pastor at Mt. Olive Baptist Church in nearby Turner Station sprang into action to unite the community.
"We linked up together and formed bonds with people we would never talk to under any other circumstance," reflects author D. Watkins, "and then from park to park, we balled harder than the sun shined."
Michael Lisicky recently crossed off the final stretches of his eight-month endeavor, which allowed him to get more deeply acquainted with the city's many neighborhoods.
To honor her late father, lovingly known as "Farmer Bill," Erica Wood forged a meaningful connection with the Baltimore Farmers Market beneath the JFX.
The fourth-year law student is from a village in the Kunduz Province, which didn’t even have a public school until U.S. troops dislodged the Taliban around 2003. She’ll take the Maryland bar exam in July.
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