tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073838520097258789.post1606819962821628460..comments2024-03-18T20:18:47.786-04:00Comments on Landmarks: The Boy Martyrs of BaltimoreAllen Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02871983840550191787noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073838520097258789.post-77070859592308142732022-01-29T22:37:50.742-05:002022-01-29T22:37:50.742-05:00Thanks! This post helped answer some questions on ...Thanks! This post helped answer some questions on FB Baltimore Old Photos 1.29.22 post showing the monument.Claritzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073838520097258789.post-4137980961688405162021-02-19T20:20:28.257-05:002021-02-19T20:20:28.257-05:00I grew up playing along bread and cheese creek and...I grew up playing along bread and cheese creek and lived on Lombardy Dr which was 1 block over from the intersection of Wells and McComas Aves. Their tale of daring-do was something we grew up on even as late as the '70s. I've always wanted to learn more of the history of my neighborhood in Dundalk. <br /><br />There is one factoid if you could possibly give clarification on. The elementary school i and my father before me went to was called Gray Manor. Its no longer there. However the furthest baseball field was called the "cow pasture"<br /><br />I wanted to find out why it was called this. I can surmise, but would love to find out what was on that land during the time of the War 1812. Kipphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09985122887801103033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073838520097258789.post-74385796988533771432020-11-16T10:20:34.094-05:002020-11-16T10:20:34.094-05:00Thank you for your article. Much thanks again. Wan...Thank you for your article. Much thanks again. Want more.<a href="https://www.baltimorelocalmovers.com/" rel="nofollow">baltimorelocalmovers.com</a><br />M.aniqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06409390531800554627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073838520097258789.post-26022968624034995732020-09-01T12:53:36.086-04:002020-09-01T12:53:36.086-04:00In the 1930s during the Great Depression, my mothe...In the 1930s during the Great Depression, my mother Dorothy and her sisters Anne and Leanora walked down hill every Friday or Thursday with me (3-6 yrs old ") in tow to the Belair Market in " Old Town " to shop. After shopping, we walked back uphill two miles to our homes with each sister carrying two full shopping bags of vegetables and fresh meat and or fish. I hated the walk back . The three sisters would reward me with painted lead toy soldiers bought at a 5&10 CENT store on Gay Street. If time permitted, they would take time for me to see the Wells and McComas Monument. My dad Cesario would sometimes find work with paltry wages. The sisters pooled their family resources with my widowed granddad who lived with us and managed to find work at various places . I was the younger ( by 10years ) of two children of three married sisters who lived in two side by side row houses among seven adults;five adults and I in one house and two adults and my older cousin in the other . One aunt was childless and for me was like a second mother. w.r. bontoyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03511897006059196853noreply@blogger.com