Hampden Heritage

For those who may not have seen this article on the Sun's website: www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.railroad02feb02,0,1840831.stor...

Hi folks, Here at last is the final installment of the introduction chapter to my dissertation. (I left a couple of paragraphs of meaningles...

Just in time to keep all of our wonderful readers company over the holidays, another installment of my dissertation introduction. I have aga...

Hi folks, To give all our readers a break from my dissertation, I thought I'd let everyone know about a couple of labor history events t...

**Note: I have left out a section of this chapter that comes between the end of my last post and the beginning of this one. The omitted sec...

From Rural Mill Village to Urban Community: Hampden-Woodberry in Baltimore While numerous other industries appeared in Marylan...

2007 It was a typical hot and muggy June day for Baltimore, but the "Avenue" was packed with thousands of tourists w...

Hi folks, In an effort to get things started back up again on the blog, over the next few months I'll be posting excerpts from my actual...

The Hampden Community Archaeology Project continues its spring workshop series with a lecture by noted industrial archaeologist John McGrain...

Again, any and all comments and criticisms are welcome and indeed, encouraged. _________________________________________________________ My ...

Hi folks, Over a month after I promised it, here is the first exceprt from my own dissertation proposal. Although Dave and I have been work...

I'm just posting a reminder here that I'll be talking this Thursday at the Roosevelt Rec center. I plan to take about 30 minutes (o...

Hi folks, It's been a long time since I've posted anything, so I figured I'd better get back on track. In the next few weeks I w...

Here is the second in an occasional series abridging my dissertation proposal. I feel like I've said this a lot before - one begins to ...

The Hampden Community Archaeology Project (HCAP) announces its Spring 2008 series in public history and archaeology. Following hot on the h...

I've decided that, in order to have some stuff to post in the low season, I'm going to post some of the less boring parts of my diss...

PRESS RELEASE—12/29/2007 The Hampden Community Archaeology Project, in conjunction with the Hampden Community Council and the Center for Her...

Here's an announcement that I received from Bill Barry, Director of Labor Studies at Community College of Baltimore County (and one of t...

Well, the official end of the 2007 field season was on Friday. Most of our kids stuck it out until the end, and we celebrated with a barbec...

Wow, it's hard to believe that we're already in the middle of the fourth week of our field season! Our second Public Dig Day of the ...