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2021 Preservation Award: Grant Dehart
Historic Annapolis is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Historic Annapolis Preservation Award. HA’s Preservation Award honors those who have connected the history and culture of our city […]
2021 Preservation Award: Janice Hayes-Williams
Historic Annapolis is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Historic Annapolis Preservation Award. HA’s Preservation Award honors those who have connected the history and culture of our city […]
An Idea Of Equality
I’ve written before about William Eddis (see “Our Little Capital” from January 28, 2021), an Englishman who arrived in Annapolis in September 1769, three months after his patron, Governor Robert […]
2021 Preservation Award: Phyllis ‘Tee’ Adams
Historic Annapolis is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Historic Annapolis Preservation Award. HA’s Preservation Award honors those who have connected the history and culture of our city […]
The Late Dreary Tempest
We Marylanders are used to the winter storm drill. As soon as forecasters warn of an approaching snowmageddon, we rush out to stock up on all the essentials: toilet paper, […]
2021 Preservation Award: Sands House
Historic Annapolis is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Historic Annapolis Preservation Award. HA’s Preservation Award honors those who have connected the history and culture of our city […]
2021 Preservation Award: Annapolis Maritime Museum and the Wilma Lee
Historic Annapolis is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Historic Annapolis Preservation Award. HA’s Preservation Award honors those who have connected the history and culture of our city […]
The Happiest Nation Under The Sun
Two hundred fifty years ago, on January 30, 1772, Annapolis publisher Anne Catharine Green reprinted a positive piece of political prognostication penned by an “old Correspondent” to a London periodical. […]
Of Singular Advantage to this Country
By January 1772, the nonimportation associations of 1769 and 1770, which organized and enforced colonial boycotts of taxed English goods, were already a distant memory for many Americans. After all, […]
Clubbing in Annapolis
Who knew that going clubbing was all the rage in colonial Annapolis? Of course, the city’s elite gentlemen’s clubs of 250 years ago were nothing like today’s nightlife hotspots. Some […]
A Vast Loss Of Time
I’ve written before (see especially “A Predictable Pattern”, November 26, 2020) about colonial Maryland’s last proprietary governor, Robert Eden, and his habitual mishandling of disagreements with the General Assembly’s Lower […]
Common Complaints
These days, when public complaints about politics, the media, and rising prices abound, turning back our attention 250 years ago reveals a time…when public complaints about politics, the media, and […]