125 years after the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened, the egalitarian mission of its founder remains.
In 1831, 22-year-old Enoch Pratt, a former Boston hardware store clerk, moved to Baltimore, launching a wholesale hardware business at 29 S. Charles Street. Proving a successful merchant, he expanded...
Henry Wong converted an empty room above his downtown CD shop into a cultural hub dedicated to jazz and classical music.
Henry Wong came to the United States from Hong Kong to finish school and study medicine, but things didn't go as planned. The lure of Western culture proved too great and pulled him away from his...
How the Pratt Street Riot determined the course of the war.
On the morning of April 19, 1861, the 6th Massachusetts Infantry arrived at Baltimore's President Street Station on its way to defend the nation's capitol in Washington City. Seven days earlier,...
The vision of Cho Benn Holback + Associates continues to reshape Baltimore's skyline.
The first time David Benn saw Clipper Mill, it was a ruin. The massive, main building of the 19th-century factory complex was open to the heavens, its roof gone, exposing charred girders and...
As new owners run the show, the Senator gets a facelift.
When Baltimore’s celebrated Senator Theatre closed its doors, the city went into collective mourning. The Art Deco theater had been a beloved fixture of the city since it opened in 1939, representing...
Vince Vaise, Chief of Interpretation at Fort McHenry
“To research for living history, I read a lot of original letters in the archives at Fort McHenry. There was one letter that stuck out in my mind from a citizen of Baltimore. He was sitting on his...
For nearly a century, the Tochtermans have been luring fishermen to an Eastern Avenue shop that's become a local institution.
It's late afternoon at Tochterman's, and the venerable tackle shop's neon sign flickers over Eastern Avenue. Its large-mouth bass, outlined in white light, splashes from an electric sea of green,...
Before the starting bell of the 134th Preakness Stakes, those who know horse racing best tell of an industry on the brink.
Horse racing has a long and storied history in Maryland, but it's not one tied just to colorful jockey silks, the roar of the gamblers, or the beauty of the beasts: It's about jobs, land preservation...
The bank may be defunct, but the camaraderie isn't
So can anyone out there remember where they were working in 1988? And how many people keep in touch with old co-workers 20 years later? Aren't half of them dead or living at a Buddhist commune in...
An ABC News documentary shows the more personal side of Hopkins.
In this age of so-called reality television, it is refreshing to see a gripping documentary air in primetime on ABC—especially one set in our own backyard.
Hopkins, a six-part series that begins June...
