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Writers LIVE! Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson talks about her book, Cyberwar.
An Evening with Nic Stone, Author of Dear Martin
Nic Stone will talk about her book, Dear Martin.
Writers LIVE! Mary Schmidt Campbell
Mary Schmidt Campbell talks about her book, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden.
From Beer Halls to the Palace: The Rise and Demise of American Vaudeville
Dr. Alan Kreizenbeck is a theatre practitioner with a love for popular entertainments. Come learn about the history of vaudeville, famous Jewish vaudevillians (in both Yiddish and “mainstream” theatres), Harry Houdini’s vaudeville career, and vaudeville in Baltimore. Corny old jokes will be re-told, songs will be presented, and many photographs will be shared.
Lunch & Learn: Electrifying and Animating Maryland's Christmas Gardens
Animated Christmas wonderlands! From repurposed clock works to water pumps, from candles to incandescent lights, from old washing machine motors to electric TRAINS, TRAINS, TRAINS, mechanically-minded Marylanders added life to the German immigrant tradition of miniature worlds under the Christmas tree. This talk, given by Paul Rubenson, explores the roots and reasons behind a local craft tradition that embraced early twentieth-century technological enthusiasm to become an American holiday staple.
Everything’s New: Baltimore in the Roaring Twenties
During the decade of the 1920s, Baltimore was a boom town. Throughout the decade, life in Baltimore was changing, as its people and commerce adapted themselves to new social trends, new employment opportunities, and exciting new technologies. In almost every year of the decade, a new and significant business opened or expanded. Commerce, industry and jobs for the city’s residents underwent dynamic changes as Baltimoreans listened to Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong on the radio and danced the Foxtrot and Charleston.