Your Maryland
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Since 2002, Your Maryland hosted by Ric Cottom, has presented little-known human interest stories from Maryland's past and ;Beginning with accused witches and the murderous career of John Dandy in the earliest days of the colony, through Morgan State's fabled Ten Bears in the 1970's, the show covers nearly four centuries of heroes, scoundrels, floods, fires, brilliant writers.
Your Maryland
1w ago
Making his way home to Maryland after the surrender at Appomattox, Confederate officer Henry Kyd Douglas was arrested in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and briefly detained in Washington during the trial of the Lincoln Conspirators.
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Your Maryland
3w ago
On April 10, 1912, a group of prominent Baltimoreans boarded RMS Titanic of the White Star Line in Southampton, bound for New York on her maiden voyage. The journey did not go as expected.
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Your Maryland
1M ago
In September 1814, after raiding and burning Washington, British troops turned their sites on Baltimore. They were met with great resistance from the Americans, and the planned invasion of Baltimore never took place.
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Your Maryland
1M ago
Baltimore's Joe Gans was rated the greatest lightweight boxer of all-time by boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder, Nat Fleischer. In a rematch on May 12, 1902, he defeated Frank Erne and became Lightweight Champion of the World.
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Your Maryland
2M ago
In the spring of 1862, aspiring journalist G A Townsend traveled south by train and steamboat to cover the Civil War. On his travels he met civilians and soldiers alike and came face to face with the realities of life during wartime.
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Your Maryland
2M ago
On January 30, 1956, a devastating fire broke out at Arundel Park during a church fundraiser and oyster roast.
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Your Maryland
3M ago
Baltimore socialite Wallis Simpson's life took a number of interesting turns over the course of the first half of the 20th century.
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Your Maryland
4M ago
After working together for 22 years, Matthew Henson and Robert E. Peary located the North Pole in April, 1909. History, however, would record only Peary's name as having made the discovery.
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Your Maryland
5M ago
A colorful "history" of the bathtub, as told by H. L. Mencken.
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Your Maryland
6M ago
In 1893, Mary Garrett, daughter of B&O Railroad magnate John Work Garrett, uses her fortune to fund the nation's first co-educational medical school at Johns Hopkins.
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