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Kelly: Book illuminates Baltimore's early role in civil rights

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:03:37 GMT

City had early role in fight for equality

Only recently, with the controversy over the proposed demolition of the Read's drugstore at Howard and Lexington, are we beginning to take note of Baltimore's important and early role in the civil rights movement. A few weeks ago, a copy of a new book, "Round and Round Together," arrived with much to say.

Kelly: What comes of St. Michael's sword as last Bible sold

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:40:04 GMT

Once massive Catholic parish has closed, its contents auctioned

The closing of an old city church is an emotional event. The final Masses were held at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church at Wolfe and Lombard streets in late July. Then, last week, the auctioneer arrived and sold off much of the contents of the Butchers Hill church established in 1845. It was the church where my great-grandparents were married before moving to their Aisquith Street home.

Churches stage sour beef dinners

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:39:36 GMT

It takes three days to marinate the beef

The nights come on earlier. The furnace clicks on. On a humid afternoon, the deep, resonant bell at City Hall sounds the time. It's sour beef's high hour in Baltimore.

Kelly: Livelier Mount Vernon looks to be catching the buzz

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:21:16 GMT

Neighborhood had hard times, but now it's bustling

Something seemed not quite right the other evening while I stood at a Charles Street bus stop.

After burglary, showcases are bare at city silver shop

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:53:00 GMT

Thieves took $100,000 worth of items from Howard Street store

The door at 831 N. Howard St. swings open to one of Baltimore's more charming salesrooms. But Friday, when I stopped by the place known as the Imperial Half Bushel, it was a dispiriting and depressing sight.

Jacques Kelly: Ketchup day marked end of summer

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:00:00 GMT

No commercial brand could touch Guilford Avenue version

When I reached for one of this season's final tomatoes, I got a surprise. It had bruised and was emitting white foam. In another time and place, that tomato, as injured as it was, would have gone into the stewing caldron. Bruised, soft, mushy, reject tomatoes found a welcome at our Guilford Avenue home. September was our ketchup-making month.

Renovations at Lyric are wrapping up

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:43:00 GMT

Among changes are an enlarged stage

Standing outside Pennsylvania Station, I surveyed the summer's continuing transformations of the Mount Royal Avenue neighborhood. My eye caught the old Lyric, Baltimore's 1894 music hall-opera house-graduation stage. After a year partially encased in scaffolds and topped by a crane, the Lyric appeared complete, robust and ready for another season.

Schaefer was the neighborhood mayor

Jacques Kelly — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:27:00 GMT

He fixed Baltimore up with ideas like City Fair

If you lived in Baltimore in the 1970s, it seemed that William Donald Schaefer paved every alley. An exaggeration? Yes. But then, as now, old Baltimore needed a lot of fixing and Schaefer was in his neighborhood mode. He did it well and had the support of some pretty amazing people. He listened to his aides and he also obsessed over letters his constituents mailed him.

Ritual of opening up the house to the new season

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

The people who sell the bleach, detergents, trash bags, brooms and brushes love to see me coming this time of the year. For two or three weekends, I've been lugging the vacuum cleaner up and down the stairs. I've already totaled one shop vac filter because I did not know you have to remove it before use on a watery Baltimore cellar floor still showing the effects of March's rains and the February thaw.

A historical tribute and Mass mark Ireland's Great Hunger

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Applause to retired Judge Tom Ward, who is among the organizers of a historical tribute to recall Ireland's Great Hunger, a period between 1845 and 1853 when thousands left the Emerald Isle and sailed for America.

Hippo's opening another night to remember

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 14 Feb 2004 05:00:00 GMT

Jacques Kelly

AS MY CAB turned south on Eutaw Street on Tuesday night, I asked the driver, "Where are the moving lights?"

Hoping B&O Museum is able to maintain pieces of history

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 22 Feb 2003 05:00:00 GMT

Jacques Kelly

I VE OFTEN thought that Baltimore possesses three truly great object collections: the Cone sisters' canvases, the treasure of Henry and William Walters and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Yes, the rail museum at Pratt and Poppleton, which suffered such a direct hit from this week's snowstorm, is this country's knockout stable of iron-horse history.

Saturday nights in 'Perry Mason's' courtroom

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 17 Feb 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Jacques Kelly

THE TELEVISION shows of 45 years ago were fairly tame fare compared to what the networks and cable deliver today. But certainly when this medium was relatively new - and the arrival of a fresh set in the neighborhood was still something of a novelty - gathering around the black-and-white screen was an event.

Chief medical advice from family: Get better

Jacques Kelly — Sat, 10 Feb 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Jacques Kelly

IHEARD this week from my sister, the mother of the twin girls who just turned 3. All her children (she has three) are down with the sort of childhood maladies that arrive in the late winter. Her washing machine is working overtime. The children just aren't themselves. Or are they?