From the vault: The annual Chincoteague pony swim
The annual pony penning at Chincoteague takes place this week, bringing an element of cowboy spectacle to the otherwise quiet island.
From the Vault
Baltimore neighborhoods
Baltimore street photographers
Year in review
Freddie Gray: protests, aftermath
24 hours with...
A. Aubrey Bodine
Viewing Baltimore from above
Light For All: The Baltimore Sun at 181
Light for All: The credo embodied the democratic ethos of The Baltimore Sun, the city’s first “penny paper.”
The Towsontown Spring Festival at 50
Fifty years old and still Baltimore County’s biggest annual party, a sure harbinger of spring and the rare chance to enjoy Courthouse Square and its surroundings without having to dodge all the cars and other traffic. With food, music, vendors, carnival rides and hopefully lots of sunshine. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. next Sunday in the area surrounding Courthouse Square, at Washington and Pennsylvania avenues. Free. towsontownfestival.com.
–Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun
Lewis Hine’s photos of child labor in Maryland and beyond
Lewis Hine’s photographs of child labor in 32 states documented the horrors of working conditions in the early 1900s. Here, a look at some of the shots he took in Maryland.
Chemical weapons testing at Edgewood Arsenal through the years
In today’s Baltimore Sun, reporter Mary McCauley commemorates the beginning of World War I with a look at Maryland institutions born from that conflict. Here, a closer look at the Edgewood Arsenal, now a part of Aberdeen Proving Ground, where the U.S. has manufactured and tested chemical weapons since 1918.
Baltimore Sun front pages during WWI
Nearly 100 years have passed since America’s entry into World War I. On April 6, 1917, the United States Congress declared war on Germany at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson. The Baltimore Sun, then published separately in the morning and evening as The Sun and The Evening Sun, covered America’s efforts in WWI on its front pages until the war’s conclusion in November of 1918.
From the vault: At Center Stage, the show goes on
Center Stage on Calvert Street has reopened after a $28 million renovation. 44 years ago, its old building was destroyed in a fire.
From the vault: Remembering ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’
A look back at the Ringling Bros. circus, which first came to Baltimore in 1898.
From the vault: A ghost tour of the Admiral Fell Inn, formerly the Anchorage
The Admiral Fell Inn in Fells Point is haunted. But not like, The Shining haunted, insists the hotel’s general manager Mario Corrado Jr.