by Kathi Santora | Mar 19, 2024
(March 19, 2024) For decades, the Woman’s Industrial Exchange (WIE) sold handcrafts to a loyal following at 333 N. Charles Street in Baltimore’s historic Mt. Vernon neighborhood. Handmade sock monkeys were a customer favorite. Come to the Maryland Women’s Heritage...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 7, 2024
(March 7, 2024) Join Maryland Women’s Heritage Center for a fundraiser bus trip to NYC and a Broadway production of Suffs, a new look at the 19th century votes for women movement. Link for tickets:...
by Kathi Santora | Mar 7, 2024
(March 7, 2024) On Thursday, March 21, 2024, the Maryland Commission for Women will induct five women into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame and present the 2024 Maryland Young Women Leaders Award to five high school students. The 2024 inductees into the Maryland...
by Kathi Santora | Feb 27, 2024
(February 27, 2024) In the 1960s, Willie Pearl Mackey King sensed that there were opportunities outside of her native Georgia (where Jim Crow practices were a way of life). There was no money for college so King moved to Atlanta to work. An acquaintance mentioned that...
by Kathi Santora | Feb 26, 2024
(February 21, 2024) Most 20th century music critics think of Rosa Ponselle, as one of the world’s greatest opera sopranos. After she married Carle A. Jackson, son of Baltimore’s Mayor Howard Jackson in 1936, Ponselle adopted Baltimore as her hometown....
