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The List: August 2026

From the 10th-annual Love Groove Festival to the return of Baltimore Fashion Week and the Maryland State Fair, here are the happenings to mark on your calendar this month.

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Arts & Culture

The Largest Jane Austen Collection in North America is, Surprisingly, Right in Our Backyard

In some ways, the collection is as much about its founder Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, the intrepid Goucher College alumna who pursued Austen with a nearly messianic fervor, as it is about Austen herself.