Sociology

Columbia Digest

2013-05-22 14:50:28

Art exhibits •"Parked Outside the Door," a photography exhibit by John Petro, will be on view through Saturday, June 1, in the Bill White Room and Lobby Gallery at Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House, 10400 Cross Fox Lane. Gallery hours are 9 a....

Library brings musical side of Lincoln to life

2013-05-20 07:48:00

Enjoy a truly unique musical role-playing experience with General Grant and President Lincoln. Will and Bernadine Boyce have spent years perfecting their impersonations of General and Mrs. Grant (along with other Civil War personalities) and Dr. Duke...

Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure

2013-05-13 05:28:00

Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...

No shortage of ways to celebrate Mother's Day in Ellicott City

2013-05-02 13:33:27

Here's wishing every lady who is celebrating, a very happy Mother's Day. I hope the weather cooperates on Sunday, and you can take your family for a stroll down Main Street. As luck would have it there are several things going on this Mother's Day. One...

Dr. Edward L. "Mac" McDill, Hopkins professor

2013-05-03 13:28:51

Edward L. "Mac" McDill, former chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's sociology department who was also the founding director of the Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools, died April 25 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in...

Maynard praised as tough, capable prison administrator

2013-04-27 13:38:00

In a career that's spanned more than four decades in four states, Gary D. Maynard has dealt with inmate sex scandals, prison riots, suicides and shrinking public safety budgets. Last week, the Maryland corrections secretary faced a bank of TV cameras...

Anne Arundel County Digest

2013-04-26 00:00:00

Classical concerts The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra concludes its season at 8 p.m. May 10-11 at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 801 Chase St. in Annapolis. Concerts feature pianist Cornelia Herrmann performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 and...

Spring is in full blossom all over Ellicott City [Mostly Main Street]

2013-04-22 16:50:00

This beautiful time of year has certainly been enhanced by all of the lovely plantings. The Ellicott City Restoration Foundation planted hundreds of daffodil bulbs throughout the Historic District and they were magnificent. And, did you know that 1,...

Thatcher made history by standing firm

2013-04-10 11:23:00

In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television — and the fact that the telegenic Mrs. Thatcher had a "certain...

Reenactors drudge up Laurel's rugged Civil War past

2013-04-15 11:19:00

Nowadays, the "bink" of metal softball bats from the softball diamond is about the loudest noise heard near American Legion Post 60 in Laurel. But it wasn't always that way. Around 150 years ago, it was commonplace for residents to hear the "boom"...

Eagle Archive: Civil War era baseball revisits county's love of the grand old game

2013-04-12 06:37:00

On April 14, 1866, the Olympian Base Ball Club was formed in Carroll County. Carroll County has always had a love affair with the game. Some of my fondest memories of growing up came from listening to Orioles baseball on WTTR or getting together with...

Sun commentators are blind to conservatism's virtues

2013-04-12 05:00:00

It seems Easter was a field day for attacking Dr. Ben Carson for his conservative views ("Ben Carson's biblically based conservatism," March 31.) Columnist Dan Rodricks claimed he was not surprised by Dr. Carson's equating gays with pedophiles and...

Mary Cummings, executive director of the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society (left), and Eric Hemenway, director of repatriation, archives and records of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, recently worked together to earn a grant from the Michigan Humanities Council.

2013-05-21 05:33:00

Nora Worthington, right, of Towson, resident costumer at Baltimore School for the Arts, styles the hair of Anne Comer, a sophomore at Baltimore School for the Arts, before a performance of "Torn Asunder: The Civil War Midstream" on May 3 at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.

2013-05-07 05:50:29

World War II veteran Jack Goldstein, of Boca Raton, is awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honor of France by Nicole Hirsch of the American Society of the Legion of Honor, during a ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts , Sunday May 5, 2013, in Fort Lauderdale.

2013-05-05 00:00:00