History Conversations: Hidden Maryland webinar is now online!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My video presentation of Hidden Maryland: In Search of America in Miniature that aired on Tuesday, Dec. 13, can now be viewed online. My talk,…
Read MoreOn This Day in History: Two of John Brown’s Black Raiders Executed.
John Anthony Copeland and Shields Green were hanged on Dec. 16, 1859 in Charlestown, Virginia (now West Virginia) for their role in the raid on Harpers Ferry. They were two…
Read MoreLet’s Remember Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” 81 years ago, is little remembered. But it still resonates, along with Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan. 6, 2021, as…
Read MoreThis Year: Give the Gift of Maryland
To Market, To Market… With Thanksgiving in the rear mirror, can the holiday gift giving season be far behind? This year, you have the option of “giving the gift of…
Read MoreBurn leaves, Ban leaf blowers
Those of a certain age may recall the not unpleasant scent of leaves burning in the fall. This was the traditional way of disposing of the season’s regular deposits of…
Read MoreWhat’s in a book? An interview with Eugene L. Meyer, author of “Hidden Maryland”
“The journalist’s new collection shines a light on “hidden Maryland.” Holly Smith, Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Independent Review of Books, interviewed me on the publication of my newest book Hidden…
Read More“Hidden Maryland: In Search of America in Miniature”
Excited to announce the publication of my new book Hidden Maryland: In Search of America in Miniature. For eight years, from 2005 to 2013, when it folded, I wrote columns…
Read MoreLocal Journalism, Claudia Levy, and “Five for Freedom”
Why Local Journalism Matters Back in September 1991, I wrote a story about an EPA plan to incinerate 120,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil in rural St. Mary’s County, Maryland.…
Read MoreClaudia Levy Memorial, Hidden Maryland, Five for Freedom
Claudia Levy – a Celebration of a Life Well Lived that Ended Much too Soon: A memorial celebration of the life of Claudia Levy, our dear friend and former colleague…
Read MoreTough Times, the Fourth of July, and a story “too good to check”
These are tough times, no doubt about it. Extreme weather related to climate change. Worst inflation since 1981. Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine. The unraveling revelations surrounding the Jan. 6…
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