Category Archives: Neighborhoods

Stickin’ It To The Man, Baltimore Style!

By Scott Carberry (Baltimore Boy, 3/29/2012) “I was tooling around my old neighborhoods of Waverly and Charles Village today and came across a recently added traffic circle thingy at the intersection of 32nd Street and Guilford Avenue. Every time I … Continue reading

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A Chowder Feast

(Baltimore Sun, 8/20/1842) A party of gentlemen left our city on Thursday morning at an early hour, for the shores of Back River, with the determination of having an old fashioned chowder dinner, of which so much has been said … Continue reading

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The Frightening World of John Merzbacher

By Peter Hermann (Baltimore Sun, 3/23/2012) With new talk that convicted child rapist John Joseph Merzbacher could regain his freedom because defense attorneys failed to disclose a plea offer back in the 1990s, let’s take a moment to review the … Continue reading

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A Mysterious Death At Baltimore’s The Belvedere

By Benn Ray (Atomic Books Blog, 3/21/2012) In this month’s issue of Fortean Times (#286), local author Mikita Brottman has an article involving the curious 2006 death of Rey Rivera, a 32 year old financial writer working for Agora called … Continue reading

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