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Getting Eisenhower's statistics right

Sun, 3 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

General was 62 at inauguration, with birthplace official

In a recent Sun column, Theo Lippman Jr., a retired Sun editorial writer and author, wrote that if Sen. John McCain is elected, "he will take the oath of office when he is 72 years and five months old. That would be the oldest ever at the first day of a presidency."

A platterful of fond Connolly's memories

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Even though Connolly's Pier 5 Pratt Street seafood house served up its last crab cake platter in 1991, Baltimoreans near and far still fondly recall the old, no-frills restaurant and wish that such a place still existed.

Days of crabs on the city's waterfront

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

For 70 years, Connolly's fed the old Baltimore

The death earlier this month of Karen Naomi Connolly-Lawless brought Connolly's Seafood House, her family's old Pratt Street waterfront restaurant, back into the news.

Mayor made sure Ocean City didn't tank

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Quirky gas strategy, ads drew tourists during tight times

Now, let's not get all giddy and break out the vintage Louis Roederer Cristal Brut Champagne in order to celebrate the news that oil prices sagged late last week from $141 to $136 a barrel.

Oldest running mate ever had Md. roots

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Henry G. Davis, 80 when tapped in '04, was born in Howard

If the age of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is of some concern to voters, how about the case of Henry Gassaway Davis, who was 80 when he was nominated to be Democratic nominee Alton B. Parker's vice presidential candidate in 1904?

Oil in Maryland? It's just a pipe dream

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

People have been drilling, off and on, since the 1860s

What do you know about Marcellus shale, a sedimentary bedrock that underlies much of the Appalachian Basin, including Maryland's westernmost counties, and why should you care?

Neighbors mourn a house's demise

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Built for $6,000, it stayed in the same family for 105 years

"It was gone in 15 minutes. That's all it took to knock down Miss Hawks' house," Lester Watson, a cashier at Graul's Market in Ruxton, told a shopper last week.

Through a painted screen, nostalgically

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Artist once based in Baltimore returns for showing of film

Tommy Whittington, who lives in Westlake Village, Calif., returned to his old East Baltimore neighborhood and haunts last week.