MID-ATLANTIC: MARYLAND • CHESAPEAKE BAY 77

Maryland Lost and Found...Again. Eugene L Down on the Shore. Adele V. Holden. A true story MARYLAND: ARCHITECTURE Meyer. This tour across the Free State makes comment that reveals a lifestyle among local blacks who meted on the American landscape. Part love letter, part oral out life in a society rigidly enforced by Shore whites; a Annapolis Vignettes. Ginger Doyel. Annapolis, history, and part obituary, the book explores the people way of life both humane and cruel. It recalls battles to capital of Maryland and home of the U.S. Naval Acad- and places where life has made special contributions fulfi ll goals instilled by parents who saw education as emy, offers an architectural feast. Shows buildings to America. From cities, waterways, farmland, and their children’s only chance in a segregated country. representing every period in historical perspective and transportation routes come true stories of the state’s Conquering adversity, the poet/author chose a life adds colorful facts to enhance appreciation of them. unique development. devoted to teaching and equality. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" • 113 b/w photos, 28 illustra- Size: 6" x 9" • 54 b/w photos • Index • 296 pp. Size: 6" x 9" • 20 b/w photos • 248 pp. tions • 316 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-548-8 • soft cover • $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-87033-547-1 • soft cover • $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-87033-571-6 • soft cover • $24.95

Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland. Donald Memory of a Murder. Earl Staggs. A killer is leaving G. Shomette. Maryland’s pre-planned urbanization a trail of terror and death from Baltimore to Ocean City, from 1668 to 1751 was doomed because it ignored and only one man can stop him. The man develops natural realities. The true stories shared here relate psychic powers that allow him to see things most people A Guide to Baltimore Architecture. 3rd Edition. John not simple tales of buildings and wharves, but a can’t. Twelve years later, his special sight opens the Dorsey & James D. Dilts. Grouped by neighborhood, more history of people, both freemen and slaves, who lived, doorway to a man who begs for help, “I think I killed than two hundred notable Baltimore buildings are pictured worked, defended, and died with them. Of 130 sites, someone." Will the man’s visions lead to the killer? and described with commentary on their history and style. less than 20 exist today. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" • 272 pp. Photographs, maps, and tours as well as biographies of Size: 7" x 10" • 4 illus., 29 b/w photos & 13 maps ISBN: 978-0-87033-604-1 • soft cover • $13.95 Baltimore architects. Index • 384 pp. Size: 4 1/2" x 9" • 273 b/w photos & 30 maps • Glossary ISBN: 978-0-87033-527-3 • hard cover • $36.95 • 472 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-477-1 • soft cover • $24.95 Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution. Briar Patch: The Murder that Would Not Die. M. Christopher New. Many Marylanders who would Donald Grady Shomette. The murder of two teenage not engage in the movement for independence lost girls remained unsolved with one false lead after their homes and jobs, and some were banished to Nova another … until a surprising phone call was received Scotia. Some were ill-used by British commanders to more than 40 years later. Would it put an end to the Baltimore’s Cast-Iron Buildings & Archi- fi ght England’s enemy, Spain, in Florida. This tragic crime dubbed “The Murder That Would Not Die"? tectural Ironwork. James D. Dilts & Catharine chapter of American history should not be forgotten. Inspired by the 1955 Northwest Branch Park murder F. Black, editors. This celebration of a unique Size: 6" x 9" • 10 illus., 4 maps • Index • 210 pp. case in a peaceful Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. aspect of Baltimore’s architectural and industrial ISBN: 978-0-87033-495-5 • hard cover • $26.95 Size: 6" x 9" • 288 pp. history, examines cast-iron buildings, showing ISBN: 978-0-7643-3782-6 • hard cover • $24.99 how the material was fabricated and the buildings erected. The heavily illustrated, includes ironwork Maryland Folklore. George G. Carey. Tall tales, Cal Ripken, Jr., Quiet Hero. 2nd Edition. Lois catalogs from the mid-1800s. legends, folk heroes, and local characters relate tra- Nicholson. star Cal Ripken, Jr. is remembered Size: 8 1/2" x 11" • 4 color & 69 b/w photos/ ditions and history that often are taken for granted. for his early years in a baseball family through the maps • Directory of Buildings • 116 pp. Size: 6" x 9" • 6 b/w photos, 1 map • 176 pp. minor leagues, two Most Valuable Player Awards, and ISBN: 978-0-87033-427-6 • soft cover • $29.95 ISBN: 978-0-7643-3594-5 • soft cover • $12.99 record-setting achievements as the Baltimore Oriole’s superstar shortstop. Grades 4 to 8 Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country. A. Size: 6" x 9" • 50 b/w photos • Chronology/Index Aubrey Bodine. Jennifer Bodine, editor. Au- • 128 pp. brey Bodine’s photographs chronicled nearly ISBN: 978-0-87033-481-8 • hard cover • $13.95 every aspect of Maryland life on pages of the Baltimore Sun from 1924 to 1970. 286 digitally restored pictures are divided into fi ve distinct Baltimore Harbor Haunts: True Ghost Stories. From Maryland to Cooperstown: Seven Mary- areas: Baltimore and surrounds, Chesapeake Melissa Rowell and Amy Lynwander. Exposes 37 land Natives in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Lois P. Bay, Eastern Shore, Southern Maryland and hauntings, from the ghost of a drowned boy in Canton Nicholson. Chronicles the lives and careers of seven Annapolis, and Western Maryland. Essays and to famous ghosts of Fort McHenry. of baseball’s elite, beginning with Baltimore’s own captions convey Bodine’s unique observations Size: 6" x 9" • 68 b/w photos • Index • 160 pp. ; Vic Willis; famed hitter “Home " Baker; in his own words. ISBN: 0-7643-2304-0 • soft cover • $14.95 William Julius “Judy" Johnson; Robert Moses “Lefty" Size: 9" x 12" • 283 b/w photos • 168 pp. Grove; ; and . Grades 4 to 8 ISBN: 978-0-87033-562-4 • hard cover • $29.95 Size: 7" x 9" • 39 b/w photos • Index • 144 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-494-8 • hard cover • $19.95 Bodine’s City: The Photography of A. Au- brey Bodine. Jennifer B. Bodine. A. Aubrey Bodine was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature Spooky Creepy Baltimore County. D. P. Roseberry. Fighting for Fairness: The Life Story of Hall of photographer for 43 years. These 154 images Come closer to the fl ames as you read the contemporary Fame Sportswriter Sam Lacy. Sam Lacy, with transcend their geographical bounds in Baltimore haunts of Baltimore County, Maryland. Hear demons Moses J. Newson. An outspoken advocate for equal as Bodine’s subject matter varied wildly. He in an attic at a Harford Road residence, see shadow opportunity, Sam Lacy spearheaded integration in photographed people, animals, buildings, harsh people in Perry Hall, and meet a murderous ghost in . He lived with sports heroes weather conditions, textures, geometric patterns, Middle River. These new and scary stories will have you and , in the segregated and cityscapes. A. Aubrey Bodine devoted his reading into the night—or at least until the fi re dies! accommodations to which they were relegated for life to elevating photography to an art form. Size: 6" x 9" • 14 b/w photos • 160 pp. years, despite their outstanding performances on Size: 9" x 12" • 154 b/w photos • Index • 160 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3254-8 • soft cover • $14.99 the playing fi eld. ISBN: 978-0-7643-3844-1 • hard cover • $39.99 Size: 6" x 9" • 35 b/w photos • Index • 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-512-9 • hard cover • $29.95 CHESAPEAKE BAY: SCENES The Patapsco: Baltimore’s River of History. Paul J. Travers. This book narrates the Patapsco’s life story Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu for 50 Years in Yesterday on the Chesapeake Bay. from the early Indian camps on its shores through the Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimore. Rex Barney, James Tigner, Jr. The story of the Ches- late twentieth-century revitalization of its harbor, a with Norman L. Macht. The man who threw faster than apeake Bay told through 466 vintage story that contains some of the most important and most and whose pitching career sped by quicker than postcards and other ephemera. See the fascinating events of Maryland’s past. It follows a his fastball. Barney became a legend as part of the Bay in the days before there were bridges. chronological order of historical highlights, allowing most exciting era of the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1943 to Travel by steamboat between Baltimore the reader to dip at will into the exciting blend of 1951. Rex takes the reader into dugouts, clubhouses, and Norfolk; go to bathing beaches in people, places, and events that have had such great and broadcast booths to meet managers, stars, and Maryland, then continue south to Virginia. impact on the state and the nation. scrubinis. Size: 11" x 8 1/2" • 204 color & 262 b/w Size: 6" x 9" • 9 b/w photos, 12 illustrations & 1 map Size: 6" x 9" • 50 b/w photos & 2 illustrations • Index photos • Price Guide • 160 pp. Index • 238 pp. • 280 pp. ISBN: 0-7643-2597-3 • hard cover • $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-87033-400-9 • hard cover • $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-87033-443-6 • hard cover • $19.95 The Best of Times on the Chesapeake Bay: Maryland’s Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time From Colts to Ravens: A Behind-the-Scenes An Account of a Rock Hall Waterman. Robert and Place. John R. Wennersten. The region has Look at Baltimore Professional Football. John L. Rich, Jr.; lived by Captain Lawrence William Simns. been geographically isolated and socially unique in F. Steadman. The tale of football in Baltimore; from Larry Simns has worked as a commercial fi sherman in its language and customs in agriculture, seafaring, the organization of the Colts in 1947, through the sale the waters of Maryland for nearly sixty years, serving and race. Before accelerating change affects its trans- of the team to Bob Irsay in 1972, to the infamous trip as President of the Maryland Watermen’s Association formation to modern standards, this book refl ects the out of the town under the cover of darkness in 1984, since the 1970s. Here, fi nd 65 stories that provide a Eastern Shore’s unusual socio-cultural history through and fi nally the acquisition of a new Baltimore team, funny, pointed, and candid portrait of his journey to absorbing narrative and examples of its probable the Ravens, in 1996. lead independent, hard-charging commercial fi sh- vanishing lifestyle. Size: 6" x 9" • 68 b/w photos & 3 illustrations ermen. Accompanied by pen and ink drawings by Size: 6" x 9" • 21 b/w photos, 1 map Index • 256 pp. Anne Crane Harlan. Index • 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0-87033-497-9 • hard cover • $24.95 Size: 6" x 9" • 42 illustrations • Index • 288 pp ISBN: 978-0-7643-4277-6 ISBN: 978-0-87033-428-3 • hard cover • $23.95 • soft cover • $19.99.