Your Maryland
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Your Maryland

Little-Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains

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Your Maryland

Little-Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains

About this book

Four centuries of Maryland's history in one colorful and dramatic volume.

" Good evening, I'm Ric Cottom. Welcome to Your Maryland." Since 2002, when he first delivered his now-classic radio segment on Maryland history, Ric Cottom has narrated hundreds of little-known human interest stories. Collected here are 72 of his favorite on-air pieces, enhanced with beautiful papercut illustrations by Baltimore artist Annie Howe. From accused witches and the murderous career of gunsmith John Dandy through tales of Johnny U and the greatest game ever played, Your Maryland covers nearly four centuries of the Free State's heroes and scoundrels.

Entertaining listeners of all ages while sparking their interest in the past, Cottom's beloved Your Maryland is a unique blend of carefully researched regional history and narrative nonfiction. He deftly emphasizes the human dimension of Maryland's colorful past: its athletes (two- and four-legged), beautiful spies, brilliant writers, misunderstood pirates, and ghosts. All of that color, suspense, and humor—as well as the author's unusual talent for discovering interesting historical facts and personages—is part of your Maryland.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Map
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1. Voyage of Discovery: A much-disliked Captain John Smith explores the Chesapeake
  10. Chapter 2. Avalon: George Calvert’s first attempt at colonization
  11. Chapter 3. The Murderous Career of John Dandy: An evil but indispensable gunsmith in St. Mary’s City
  12. Chapter 4. Witchcraft in Maryland: This wasn’t Massachusetts, but . . .
  13. Chapter 5. The Monster: Thomas Cresap terrorizes Pennsylvania and pronounces Philadelphia “one of the Prettyest Towns in Maryland”
  14. Chapter 6. The Blood-Red Flag: Eighteenth-century Chesapeake pirates were all too human
  15. Chapter 7. The Summer of ’76: Democracy, and the lack of it, at the start of the American Revolution
  16. Chapter 8. The Revolutionary: Charles Willson Peale at Valley Forge
  17. Chapter 9. Privateers: Chesapeake sailors escape a British prison and join John Paul Jones aboard the Bonhomme Richard
  18. Chapter 10. The Mermaid: A generous British captain encounters a nest of American “pirates”
  19. Chapter 11. Mr. Smith’s Ball: Baltimore belle Elizabeth Patterson scandalizes Washington society
  20. Chapter 12. The Most Hated Man in Maryland: Alexander Contee Hanson provokes the mob in 1812
  21. Chapter 13. The Scourge of the Chesapeake: Admiral George Cockburn arrives in the Chesapeake
  22. Chapter 14. A Frolic with the Yankees: An arrogant British aristocrat meets the Kent County militia
  23. Chapter 15. The Cool Hand and the Hothead: Robert Ross burns Washington and turns for Baltimore
  24. Chapter 16. Defenders: The bombardment of Fort McHenry
  25. Chapter 17. The Chasseur: An American privateer announces a blockade of Great Britain
  26. Chapter 18. The Battle of the Ice Mound: The last fight of the War of 1812
  27. Chapter 19. Jacob Gruber: Roger B. Taney’s antislavery background
  28. Chapter 20. The Bear: Hunter Meshach Browning in Western Maryland
  29. Chapter 21. The Slave Breaker: An incident from the life of Frederick Douglass
  30. Chapter 22. Moses: Harriet Tubman
  31. Chapter 23. Gidu: Freed African Americans on the west coast of Africa encounter native superstition
  32. Chapter 24. The Vineyard Tournament: The origins of Maryland’s state sport
  33. Chapter 25. The Rose of Westminster: Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore
  34. Chapter 26. Christiana: Fugitive slaves defend themselves in southern Pennsylvania
  35. Chapter 27. John Brown: The abolitionist finds immortality
  36. Chapter 28. April 19, 1861: The Pratt Street Riot
  37. Chapter 29. Clara’s Boys: Clara Barton during the first days of the Civil War
  38. Chapter 30. Lost Sons: George Alfred Townsend encounters a bereaved mother looking for her boys
  39. Chapter 31. Barbara Frietschie: The story behind the poem
  40. Chapter 32. The Despot’s Heel: Who were those men on Federal Hill?
  41. Chapter 33. The Glorious Fourth . . . 1863: In Baltimore on an historic day
  42. Chapter 34. The Orator: The prelude to the Gettysburg Address
  43. Chapter 35. Color Guard: The heroism of “a regiment of slaves”
  44. Chapter 36. The Music of Point Lookout: A poet brings solace amid the misery at Point Lookout prison camp
  45. Chapter 37. Hetty Cary: A beautiful woman, a battle flag, and the state song
  46. Chapter 38. The Great Patapsco Flood of 1868: Destruction and heroism on the Patapsco River
  47. Chapter 39. Ghosts of Western Maryland: Light-hearted stories of unnatural things
  48. Chapter 40. Early Racing at Pimlico: How the Preakness began
  49. Chapter 41. Preakness: The legacy of a great horse
  50. Chapter 42. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Part I
  51. Chapter 43. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Part II
  52. Chapter 44. Gus Rice: The Oyster Wars on the Chesapeake
  53. Chapter 45. The Maestro: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky performs in Baltimore
  54. Chapter 46. The Heiress and the Medical School: Mary Elizabeth Garrett refuses to take “no” for an answer
  55. Chapter 47. The Pennant: The halcyon years of the Baltimore Orioles, 1894–1896
  56. Chapter 48. The Evil Empire: Good vs. Evil in 1897
  57. Chapter 49. Mouse: A mischievous musical genius rises out of Baltimore
  58. Chapter 50. Goliath: The equine hero of the Great Baltimore Fire
  59. Chapter 51. The Jungle: Upton Sinclair and the meatpacking industry
  60. Chapter 52. The Explorer: Matthew Henson at the North Pole
  61. Chapter 53. The Aviator: A devil-may-care pilot thrills Baltimore
  62. Chapter 54. Diamond Jim: The wages of excess
  63. Chapter 55. The Babe: A product of St. Mary’s Industrial School goes to spring training
  64. Chapter 56. Titanic: A Baltimore story of the great tragedy—with a happy ending
  65. Chapter 57. The Great Bathtub Hoax: H. L. Mencken has a bit of fun with a gullible nation
  66. Chapter 58. The Last Man: Henry Gunther, of Highlandtown, becomes the “last man” to die in World War I
  67. Chapter 59. Maryland, the Free State: Prohibition? Not here . . .
  68. Chapter 60. Leander: A Navy crew goes to the Olympics
  69. Chapter 61. The Schneider Cup Race of 1925: The golden age of airplane racing comes to Bay Shore Park
  70. Chapter 62. Cab and Thurgood: Two high-school kids in segregated Baltimore
  71. Chapter 63. Wallis: Young, poor, Wallis Warfield gets her start
  72. Chapter 64. Hatrack: H. L. Mencken and the Boston Watch and Ward Society
  73. Chapter 65. The Crack-up: Scott and Zelda
  74. Chapter 66. King Kong: The Great Ape’s connection to Catonsville
  75. Chapter 67. Omaha Beach: The Twenty-Ninth Division at Normandy
  76. Chapter 68. Canajoharie at the Gut: A war story
  77. Chapter 69. Tunnel Joe: A resourceful and irrepressible prisoner digs his way out of the state penitentiary
  78. Chapter 70. Johnny U.: How the greatest quarterback in football history came to the Baltimore Colts
  79. Chapter 71. The Greatest Football Game Ever Played: The 1958 NFL championship game
  80. Chapter 72. Silent Spring: The courage of Rachel Carson
  81. Acknowledgments
  82. Essay on Sources