…our stories, who else will?” RUFFIN: When we empower visitors to make meaning on their own terms, we make room for multiple lenses in our institutions, although it requires that…

…close—but only geographically. Emily Post, born Emily Price, spent the first ten years of her life living on Chase Street in Baltimore (a mere three blocks away from where Stein…

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…of a sprawling family. While collecting the details for On Gold Mountain, she developed the idea for her first novel, Flower Net (1997), which was a national bestseller, a New…

…and the concept of home are cyclical. Homes are lost and found, and not even necessarily on the same planet. Home is simply wherever human beings have landed in the…

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…Awards Blair Network Communications SilverLens Montgomery County Grant Award: $1,200 Blair Network Communications (BNC) is a student-run media production organization at Montgomery Blair High School. SilverLens, BNC’s documentary team, creates…

…American-made Porters. Brewing in colonial days was a female-driven industry, with much of the production happening in the home. Even Martha Washington managed the home brewing at her husband’s estate….

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…Anne Tyler Might Be the Greatest Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of…” The Daily Mail, January 31, 2015. Accessed March 15, 2015. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2931435/Anne-Tyler-began-writing-idea-wanted-know-like-somebody-else.html “Emily Post: October 27, 1873-September 25, 1960.” The…

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…I start with generic biographies and then focus on reading and re-reading as much detail as I can. I also attempt to get as much as I can of their…

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…to make enough money from ticket sales to pay back the construction and operating costs of his new building. But he struggled to compete in an already crowded market for…

…his demise. But the duality of Hemingway’s tenacity is what makes him irresistible as a writer and a character. Unexpectedly, it also makes Hemingway and his characters relatable. Like his…

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