Rethinking Highways

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Book launch at Fell’s Point Fun Festival

Book launch at Fell’s Point Fun Festival Just in time for the annual Fells Point Fun Festival (October 1-2), Stop the Road, Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars has been released and is available through Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.  This is indeed timely and appropriate, because the first Fun...

Did beer save Fell’s Point?

Figure 1. Picture of one of the early Fell's Point Fun Festivals (undated). Source: The Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point The inception of the Fell’s Point Fun Festival Stop the Road, Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars will be released on October 1,...

B&D to publish stop the road

From the B&D website: "We are excited to add Evans Paull to our author list! Paull is the author of Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore’s Road Wars. Stop the Road will be released in fall of 2022.Stop the Road is a microcosm of a clash over...

The demise of Baltimore’s streetcar system

 Baltimore's streetcar system was dismantled by National City Lines (NCL) in the period of 1948-1965. NCL, a holding company formed by General Motors, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Standard Oil of California, and Phillips Petroleum, acquired or controlled 46 transit systems for, as one author put it, “the express purpose of...