Figure 1. The 10-D plan for the harbor crossing at Federal Hill, in effect 1961 - 1973 Consultants in 2023 – how will your work look in 50 years? In a presentation to the Baltimore Chapter of Lambda Alpha International, Evans Paull put Baltimore’s highway planners to this test: how...
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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...
The Highway to Nowhere, Explained but Inexplicable
It was a cliffhanger. The City was facing a federal deadline to get I-170 under construction before July 1, 1973, but they could not start construction until the Federal Court ruled on the lawsuit brought by the Movement Against Destruction (MAD). Bill Hellmann and David Wagner would later serve as...