National museum honors African-American history, culture
Step into the gigantic elevator at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture and take a trip through time as you go down into the bowels of the museum. In […]
POSTCARD from Fatima
A hundred years ago today, three children living in rural Portugal said they saw visions of the Blessed Mother who spoke to them and even made the sun dance. The […]
TIPSY TOURIST: DeJon Vineyards
A newspaper assignment meant I had to spend a lovely fall afternoon in the countryside of Northern Baltimore County. Poor me. It was a fun assignment with kids and celebrating. […]
Old Town Winchester: shopping and history
Petula Clark once sang a song praised the sights and sounds of Downtown. “Things will be great when you’re downtown.” I’m dating myself but I was a really little kid […]
The house where Patsy Cline launched her singing career
Virginia Patterson Hensley walked out the front door of her little white house and, with her mother, went to New York City to become a star forever known as Patsy […]
A grand Glen Burnie
I grew up down Ritchie Highway from Glen Burnie. Known mostly for its shopping centers, comfortable neighborhoods — and my high school, it isn’t a place one would call grand. […]
A nod to the fallen at Antietam — MARY K. TILGHMAN WRITES
I spent many hours contemplating the ultimate sacrifice given by so many during the Civil War Battle of Antietam while I wrote DIVIDED LOYALTIES. Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or […]
