by Kathi Santora | Aug 15, 2023
(August 15, 2023) With photos and storytelling, we will virtually visit the gravesites of ten Baltimore women, all very different from each other, who lived during Baltimore in the 1800s. Baltimore women of the time were the backbone of families and communities. At...
by Kathi Santora | Jun 9, 2023
(June 8, 2023) Baltimore Orioles head groundskeeper Nicole Sherry, one of only two women in Major League Baseball’s 118-year history to have that job, will join Orioles correspondent Roch Kubatko in a Virtual Speaker Program hosted by the Babe Ruth Birthplace...
by Kathi Santora | May 21, 2023
(May 21, 2023) Once-forgotten history lies under downtown Baltimore’s Verizon Central Office Building at Charles and Pleasant streets. At 15 E. Pleasant Street suffragist (and maternal aunt of actress Katharine Hepburn) Edith Houghton Hooker founded the Just...
by Kathi Santora | Apr 10, 2023
(April 10, 2023) After your day at the Flower Mart on Friday May 5, walk just a few blocks south on Charles Street to the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center (MWHC), now located in the former Woman’s Industrial Exchange (WIE). MWHC is documenting the history...
by Kathi Santora | Apr 3, 2023
(April 3, 2023) Want to research the life of a family member or local woman of note? You don’t need to be a trained historical or genealogist. Join the MWHC and the Allegany and Garrett County libraries to learn how to get started. You can “add HER story...
