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Happy 99th Birthday, Jimmy Carter. I knew you when.

By Gene Meyer | October 1, 2023 | 8

Peanut farmer James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr., our 39th commander in chief often mocked as president but revered as ex-president, entered hospice in February and I began writing this in…

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Find Hope, Harmony, and Goodwill in “Hidden Maryland”

By Gene Meyer | September 27, 2023 | 3

Couldn’t we all use a little Hope, Harmony, and Goodwill? Lord knows, these are trying times. Times of war, global warming… and who knows what lurks in the future to…

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Generations: Past, Present, and Future

By Gene Meyer | September 20, 2023 | 4

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about generations. My thoughts are prompted in part by much ado about President Biden, who is 80, and not enough ado about DJT, who…

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Shields Green: He Went with the Old Man

By Gene Meyer | August 22, 2023 | 0

“I think I’ll go with the old man.” With these words, on Aug. 21, 1859, Shields Green sealed his fate. The “old man” was John Brown, and Green was a…

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Harriet Newby’s “One Bright Hope”

By Gene Meyer | August 15, 2023 | 3

“I want you to buy me as soon as possible, for if you do not get me some body else will,” Harriet, an enslaved house servant,  wrote on this day…

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Wash Post Aug. 9, 1974: Nixon Resigns; Larry Broadmoore Carries On

By Gene Meyer | August 8, 2023 | 1

It was on this day 49 years ago — nearly half a century — that the front page of the Washington Post carried a simple large-font two-word banner headline: “Nixon…

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Is a picture still worth 1,000 words? Newspapers say no.

By Gene Meyer | July 16, 2023 | 2

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Or at least they used to say that. Now, however, many publishers seem to think that – though they are not…

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R.I.P. Winfield M. Kelly, Jr., AKA Mr. Prince George’s

By Gene Meyer | July 2, 2023 | 4

For many years, Winfield M. Kelly, Jr. was a newsmaker, a homegrown success story in then majority-white blue collar Prince George’s County, Md. abutting the District of Columbia. He was…

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On D-Day +1. ICYMI, my WP story from the 50th anniversary in 1994

By Gene Meyer | June 6, 2023 | 0

D-Day 75 Years Later In 1994, I had the honor and privilege of telling the story of the D-Day landing through the voices of veterans, then mostly in their seventies.…

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Bobby Kennedy’s death, when hope turned to despair

By Gene Meyer | June 6, 2023 | 4

It has been 55 years to the day since Bobby (referred to more formally as Robert F.) Kennedy died, the victim of an assassin’s bullet. The anniversary brings back personal…

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  • Happy 99th Birthday, Jimmy Carter. I knew you when.
  • Find Hope, Harmony, and Goodwill in “Hidden Maryland”
  • Generations: Past, Present, and Future
  • Shields Green: He Went with the Old Man
  • Harriet Newby’s “One Bright Hope”

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