Why is it called The Preakness? What’s in a name, anyhow? Who was Preakness?
According to the Maryland Jockey Club, it all started with the Minisi, a northern New Jersey tribe of native Americans. …
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“We need to change the world one 5-year-old at a time,” Marlo Thomas on Free to Be…You and Me.
In the spring of 1974, LaRae Petrovich and I ran into each other in the office break room. She asked …
Online: NYC’s Museum of Modern Art is digitizing every exhibition since MoMA’s opening in 1929.
Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh was name of the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art when it opened …
Nibs, barrels, grips, and feeds. Today is National Fountain Pen Day. Here’s a write-on memory.
My broad-nib Montblanc Meisterstück 149 died a few years ago. On a cross-country trip, it was frozen in my luggage …
The non-linear, video chapters of an iconic business are beautifully illustrated in L’Odyssée de Cartier.
Cartier. The Maison. By taking over his master’s workshop, Louis-François Cartier founded Cartier in 1847. Since then, the iconic brand …
Cuban-born American artist Carmen Herrera, “I never met a straight line I did not like.”
At age 104. Carmen Herrera says, “I waited for my bus for 94 years.” She’s referring to the saying, “if …
An early ’70s working trip to Florida introduced me to an engineering marvel—The Polaroid SX-70.
I’d been a 35mm film photographer—one who knew his way around a darkroom—for quite a few years before my first …
“Fake News” ruled the airwaves on the night of October 30, 1938. Here’s a recording of the broadcast.
The War of the Worlds, the 17th episode of the radio drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, was performed …
Iris Apfel. Wisdom aged like a fine wine.
I’ve written about Iris on BrockelPress before. Jacob and I are totally on board with her thoughts on style, design, and making …
The one about a phone call from NASA, holding Aerogel, and my name on a space probe.
I’ve always been a science and space geek, so I’m looking forward to July 14th and New Horizons’ close encounter with …
Join us this Saturday. Help celebrate the Historic Charles Street Association’s 100th Birthday.
Here’s the scoop from Baltimore’s HCSA: 100? It’s true! HCSA turns 100 years old this year… and we’re celebrating!! From …
Yet another bucket list item checked off
The art scene in the midwest throughout the 50s and 60s was a sad state of affairs. I went to the art …
New York Social Diary writes about an important Baltimore restoration
Via CivicWorks.com: The Clifton Mansion was originally built as a two-story Federal style farmhouse, between 1790 and 1801, by Baltimore …
Belmont Stakes, 10 things to know about the August Belmont Trophy
The August Belmont Trophy is awarded annually to the owner of the winning horse in the Belmont Stakes . The race has …
We’re leaving Baltimore
“And it’s about time that you do,” my mother said last evening—with just a touch of sternness in her voice. …
There was a happy time when people were self assured, fine with their physical being
IN A WORLD OF THEIR OWN: CONEY ISLAND PHOTOGRAPHS BY AARON ROSE MAY 9 – AUG 3, 2014 This is …
MST3K, the definitive oral history is a fun read
Released in 1966, Manos: The Hands of Fate is a D-minus of a B movie: Its plot, about desert-dwelling pagans, …
10 MInutes with Will Rogers, 1931
Will Rogers. Comedy and delivery—as relevant today as it was in the early 20th Century. I wish a new comedian would adopt …
The Jews of Baltimore, a 1910 reference
Some time ago I put a digital copy of Groeninger’s New Baltimore online as a free download and happily a whole lot …