Map shows the Harbor crossing at Federal Hill, in effect 1961 to 1973. Excerpt from Stop the Road: "Federal Hill and the Inner Harbor – the Conquistadors of Concrete vs. the Platitudeness Planners*" The Road Wars biggest "untold story"Oddly, the battle over the location of the harbor crossing (Federal Hill vs. Ft....
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Consultants Awarded Black Hats and White Hats
White hat awarded to Architect Nathaniel Owings (left) of Skidmore Owings and Merrill for saving Federal Hill and the Inner Harbor; black hat awarded to Edward Donnelly (right) of Greiner engineering for (alleged) bribery and the courtroom lynching of the attorney representing Leakin Park advocates. Consultants awarded Black Hats and...
Incredible Then and Now Pictures of Fell’s Point
Rethinking Highways
Click on one of the images below to enlarge it or open the pdf document. You can then use the left and right arrows to scroll through the large images. Re-thinking Highways #1 Re-thinking Highways #2 Re-thinking Highways #3 Image #1 Re-thinking Highways #5 Re-thinking Highways #6 Re-thinking Highways #7...
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...
Bob Eney and Fells Point, a juncture that may have saved a community
"What an astounding thing that one person’s knowledge, interest and energy could have such an impact on all of us who today call Fell's Point home... One passionate soul really can make a difference!!" Kathleen Haller, Fells Point resident, commenting on Bob Eney’s passing in 2016 (originally posted at Next...
Saving Leakin Park
The advocates that successfully thwarted the City’s plan to build I-170 through Leakin Park gathered on November 11, 2021 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Volunteers Opposing the Leakin Park Expressway (V.O.L.P.E). Those pictured are: Iris Reeves (x-Councilmember and wife of x-Councilmember Norman Reeves, one of the...