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Anne Garside, Editor MdHS Press publishes Combat Correspondents: The Director of Communications Baltimore Sun in World War II [email protected] page 8 Editorial Committee: Robert W. Rogers, The Ballet Theater of Maryland presents “Specters, Director Phantoms and Poe” Patricia Dockman Anderson, page 15 Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine Christopher Becker, With an Artistic Eye: Folk Art from the Maryland Photographer Historical Society By Alexandra Deutsch, Chief Curator Christie Coe, page 16 Chief Development Officer Alexandra Deutsch, The audacious Privateers of the War of 1812 Chief Curator swashbuckle through the pages of the Mammoth Logs Pam Jeffries, By Carol McClees Designer page 22 Erin Kimes, Chief Programming Officer Please, touch! Hands-on Programs at the Maryland Mark B. Letzer, Historical Society By Naomi Coquillon, Associate Director Deputy Director of Community Relations for School Programs page 26 Calendar of Programs and Events pages 28-31 Board of trustees Alex. G. Fisher Officers P a r t y Henry Hodges Stansbury, Chair n c e Alex. G. Fisher, President n g D a FDJaraemvdiedes rS Wic. Tk. hCMao.l enHrsu,t Pdarbseolesni,d ,S Teerncetra-eEstluaercreytr S wSpionsored by the Francis Scott Key Society CFreacnicl iEs. JF. lCamareery, ,A Vsisciest Parnets Tidreeansturer Friday, November 20 Thomas A. Collier, Vice President Dorothy McI. Scott, Vice President Trustees Gregory H. Barnhill, Robert M. Cheston, Jr., Ann Y. Celebrate the closing weeks of FGernewgoicrky,, BSrainand rPa. HRa. rFrilnaxg,t oHn., LRouusisse Gll . FHreiscbhyt, , J Hr.., TRhoobmearst Maryland Veterans of World War II. HD.o Mweilllle, rL, eJnowsoeopdh ME.. MIvoeoy,r eM, .J Wayinlleis HM. aPclgainllk, ,C Gleeaovreglaen Sd. Come to dance or enjoy the Swing RP.i cShc,h Leyfnfen nSapcrkienrg,e Jrr .R, Joabceqrutesl,i nPea tSrmiceialk Ein.s Soanu, lM, Dicahvaiedl Music that led to the Big Band era. J. Sullivan, Richard C. Tilghman, Jr., Edward Walker Details to be announced. Chairpersons Emeriti L. Patrick Deering, Jack S. Griswold, Barbara P. Katz, Stanard T. Klinefelter Presidents Emeriti John L. McShane, Brian B. Topping Ex-Officio Trustees The Hon. John P. Sarbanes, The Hon. David R. Background Photo: USO sponsored dance at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1944. Craig, The Hon. James T. Smith Jr., The Hon. Sheila Dixon, Druscilla Null Front Cover: For description, see page 17. Fall 2009  A Message (cid:10)(cid:34)(cid:32)(cid:32)(cid:13)(cid:10)(cid:47)(cid:202)(cid:55)(cid:22)(cid:47)(cid:21)(cid:202)(cid:202) FROM THE (cid:31)(cid:1)(cid:44)(cid:57)(cid:29)(cid:1)(cid:32)(cid:12)(cid:202)(cid:202) Director (cid:22)(cid:202)(cid:47)(cid:22)(cid:31)(cid:13)(cid:45)(cid:202)(cid:1)(cid:202)(cid:57)(cid:13)(cid:1)(cid:44) You don’t have a thing, if you (cid:37)(cid:54)(cid:37)(cid:50)(cid:57)(cid:0)(cid:41)(cid:51)(cid:51)(cid:53)(cid:37)(cid:0)(cid:47)(cid:38)(cid:0)(cid:0) Dear Friends: aint got that swing! (cid:45)(cid:33)(cid:50)(cid:57)(cid:44)(cid:33)(cid:46)(cid:36)(cid:0)(cid:44)(cid:41)(cid:38)(cid:37)(cid:0)(cid:39)(cid:41)(cid:54)(cid:37)(cid:51)(cid:0)(cid:57)(cid:47)(cid:53) Take your partners for a Swing Dance Party at the Maryland Historical Society on Friday, November 20. In the closing months of our exhibition Maryland Vet- erans of World War II, MdHS takes a nostalgic look back at the Swing and Big Band music of the era. You can also bring your family to one of our World War II movies. Popcorn supplied free! Partnership is the theme I am delighted to announce that MdHS has formed a partnership with Maryland song of the fall. Life magazine that will greatly enhance our visibility throughout the state. Beginning (cid:40)(cid:41)(cid:51)(cid:52)(cid:47)(cid:50)(cid:57)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:35)(cid:53)(cid:44)(cid:52)(cid:53)(cid:50)(cid:37)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:33)(cid:50)(cid:52)(cid:51) with this issue, the fall, winter, and spring/summer issues of MdHS News will be bound into the September/October, January/February, and May/June issues of Maryland Life, thus extending our circulation to over 70,000 readers for each issue. I extend a warm welcome to our new Maryland Life readers and hope that you will get to know us better. (MdHS members will continue to receive their copies of MdHS News as usual.) Most of all, we are grateful to our members for helping us sustain the Maryland Historical Society in good times and bad. As “Dancing with the Stars” and such TV shows remind us, one needs a good partner to have all the right moves. So please stay in step with us. (cid:52)(cid:50)(cid:33)(cid:54)(cid:37)(cid:44)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:78)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:36)(cid:41)(cid:46)(cid:41)(cid:46)(cid:39)(cid:0) Robert W. Rogers (cid:33)(cid:46)(cid:36)(cid:0)(cid:45)(cid:47)(cid:50)(cid:37)(cid:1) (cid:51)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:67)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:65)(cid:89) This summer MdHS welcomed Christie Coe as our new Chief Develop- (cid:110)(cid:228)(cid:228)(cid:135)(cid:206)(cid:120)(cid:199)(cid:135)(cid:153)(cid:120)(cid:120)(cid:123) ment Officer. A seasoned professional, Christie began her fundraising career at the University of Maryland School of Law as Director of An- (cid:38)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:70)(cid:65)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:86)(cid:73)(cid:67)(cid:69)(cid:12)(cid:0)(cid:83)(cid:85)(cid:66)(cid:83)(cid:67)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:66)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:76)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:69)(cid:26) nual Giving. She then moved to Catholic Charities where she served in (cid:87)(cid:87)(cid:87)(cid:14)(cid:45)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:89)(cid:76)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:44)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:14)(cid:67)(cid:79)(cid:77) many capacities from Director of Individual Giving to Capital Campaign Director. My Sister’s Place Bridesmaids’ Bingo, the funding for the Our Daily Bread Employment Center, and the start-up fundraising for Cristo (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:45)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:89)(cid:76)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:44)(cid:73)(cid:70)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:73)(cid:83)(cid:0)(cid:65)(cid:0)(cid:80)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:85)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:80)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:84)(cid:78)(cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:0)(cid:0) Rey Jesuit High School are a few of her career highlights. Christie holds (cid:79)(cid:70)(cid:0)(cid:84)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:0)(cid:45)(cid:65)(cid:82)(cid:89)(cid:76)(cid:65)(cid:78)(cid:68)(cid:0)(cid:40)(cid:73)(cid:83)(cid:84)(cid:79)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:67)(cid:65)(cid:76)(cid:0)(cid:51)(cid:79)(cid:67)(cid:73)(cid:69)(cid:84)(cid:89) an MBA from the University of Baltimore and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.  MdHS News In 1867, the North poster German Lloyd Steamship Line and the B&O Railroad reached a ticketing agreement to recruit immigrants to travel from the port in Bremerhaven, Germany, to Baltimore on steamers and to Western Maryland and beyond on B&O lines. Employment discrimination existed against Chinese applicants until World Immigrants brought War II, when wartime labor shortages and an alliance with China produced their culture to their new new legislation that allowed for Chinese At the Locust Point home; for example, until World War I, citizenship and redesigned quota station, immigrants were German was taught in Baltimore schools. restrictions. This photograph was taken processed and checked for diseases in the 1950s, when Mr. Woo worked including trachoma, an eye infection. as an engineer for Glenn L. Martin Company, an aircraft manufacturer (precursor to Lockheed Martin). The B&O erected two 400-foot piers MdHS Education Programs teach middle on Locust Point to accommodate the arrival of and high school students how to use immigrants on the North German Lloyd Line. By 1920 Locust Point Piers 8 and primary sources as keys to unlock the past. 9 had welcomed more than 600,000 Czechs, Poles, Russian Jews, Ukrainians, For more information call 410-685-3750 x334. Lithuanians, Hungarians, Serbs, and Germans to America. This picture was taken at the Locust Point immigration station. Fall 2009  Alfred and Trafford Klots Collection given to MdHS A marvelous collection, compris- tiny village of Breton, France, and ing paintings, photographs, the chateau often served as a back- and memorabilia on the life drop for their work as well as a home. and work of Alfred Partridge Klots Since 1987, the chateau has hosted the (1875–1939) and his son, Trafford Klots Rochefort-en-Terre Artists Residency (1913–1976), has recently been given to Program for the Maryland Institute MdHS by Mrs. Trafford P. Klots. College of Art. Both of these Maryland artists, To celebrate this wonderful gift, the who spent much of their lives in Klots paintings will remain on view in France, won international reputations. the Symington Library through the fall. Alfred specialized in portraits; Traf- ford produced portraits, landscapes, seascapes, and other varied subjects. The father’s luminescent paintings are academic in their technique, while the son’s bolder compositions are charac- terized by exuberant brush strokes and vibrant colors. In 1908, Alfred purchased the chateau of Rochefort-en-Terre in the Clockwise from top: Portrait of an Unidentified Lady by Alfred Partridge Klots Photograph of Trafford Klots with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, viewing their portrait Portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Trafford Klots Portrait of Trafford Klots by William Draper Gifts of Mrs. Trafford P. Klots  MdHS News You worked hard for your land, now make your land work for you. 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Th ere is no one more fi tted to tell Th ey all risked their lives to get stormed ashore at Iwo Jima but had a their story than Joe Sterne. Himself a their stories: more terrifying brush with death on veteran reporter not unfamiliar with London bureau chief Th omas an escort carrier that nearly capsized war zones, the author knew all the O’Neill endured the Blitz on that in a typhoon. wartime correspondents personally. city. Price Day was in action at Anzio Th e correspondents sent back gritty It was a time, as Sterne reminds us, and Cassino. Holbrook Bradley, at stories of the endurance and humor of “when censors could block or excise age twenty-eight “the young whip- ordinary G.I.s, sailors, airmen, and their stories, when they worked with persnapper of the group,” landed with Marines, mentioning Marylanders by portable typewriters—no spell checks, the Maryland-Virginia 29th Division name whenever they could (over 6,000 no send buttons—and jeeped scores on the Normandy beaches and was named mentions in all) and they net- of miles to fi le. Long days, tough days, subsequently wounded by shrapnel. ted some sensational scoops: but also fun days and heady, history- Lee McCardell narrowly escaped Norton told the world of the watching days.” death when a bomb exploded near his stringing up of Mussolini and his In those days correspondents wore jeep. Howard Norton had a close call mistress at a Milan gas station. uniforms. “Embedded” with the during the Saipan invasion when a British Expeditionary Force in France, Japanese shell hit his subchaser, killing Frank Kent wrote that he and his most of its crew. Philip Heisler trav- Photographs courtesy of The fellow correspondents “looked slightly eled 100,000 miles with U.S. forces Baltimore Sun unless stated self-conscious trying to recognize col- —from Pearl Harbor to the skies over otherwise. leagues last seen in civilian clothes.” Japan aboard Flying Fortresses. He 8 MdHS News Mark S. Watson won Lee McCardell fi led Howard M. Norton a Pulitzer Prize for his deeply personal accounts scooped the world on the World War II reporting of the war in Europe. death of Mussolini and in and was later awarded He later served as the the Pacifi c witnessed the the Presidential Medal of paper’s bureau chief in Saipan invasion. After the Freedom. both London and Rome, war Norton won a Pulit- covering the Middle East zer Prize for investigative and North Africa from reporting of Maryland Rome. MCardell ended government scandals. his career as assistant managing editor of The Evening Sun. Holbrook Bradley landed Price Day, a future Pulit- Philip Heisler traveled with the 29th Division on zer Prize winner and Sun 100,000 miles with U.S. Omaha Beach. After the editor-in-chief, reported forces—from Pearl Harbor war, Bradley went to work the Italian campaign and to the skies over Japan for the State Department. was with the Seventh aboard Flying Fortresses. Army from its landing in He later served as manag- southern France to Berlin. ing editor of The Evening This family snapshot was Sun for thirty years. taken the day he left Baltimore on December 8, 1943. Courtesy of Kath- erine Day Slevin. Thomas M. O’Neill was London Bureau chief. He reported the Blitz on London, followed British government policy, and served as a conduit for reporters on the continent. After the war, he became the newspaper’s top political columnist. By Joseph R. L. Sterne Edmund Duff y was cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun from 1924 until 1948, winning three Pulitzer Prizes. His third Pulitzer was awarded for his Oc- tober 7, 1939, cartoon titled “The Outstretched Hand,” showing Hitler’s hand dripping blood as he made spurious peace off ers. Fall 2009 9 Launch Party and Premiere for McCardell was the first American reporter to ride into liberated Paris a Combat day ahead of de Gaulle, sitting on top of a Citroen packed with members of Correspondents: the French resistance. “It wasn’t the easiest method of travel but the driver The Baltimore Sun in was in a hurry to get home,” he wrote. World War II As they moved with the troops into the heart of Germany, Price Day and Lee McCardell were among the first to Monday, November 9, 5:30-8:00 p.m. file stories on Nazi atrocities and death camps. Co-hosted with The Baltimore Sun On May 7, 1945, Day wrote one and honoring author Joseph R.L. of the major Sun achievements of the Sterne. war, that appeared in the paper on May 9. He was the only correspondent The Baltimore Sun documentary of an individual newspaper to witness based on the book will be shown the German surrender in the school at approximately 6:15 p.m. house at Rheims. Eisenhower’s press and 7:30 p.m. people had decreed that only wire $15 per person. Free to veterans. service reporters could attend, so Day Please reserve by Thursday, October 29, enterprisingly got himself credentials by calling Alexandra Beiter at 410-685- to an obscure British news agency for 3750 ext. 319 or abeiter@ mdhs.org the day. When Japan surrendered, no less Joe Sterne than three Sun reporters were aboard the U.S.S. Missouri to observe the formal surrendar ceremony on Sep-  Combat Correspondents  tember 2, 1945: Philip Potter, Thomas O’Donnell, and Robert Cochrane. has been published with the support of Throughout the war, the doyen Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP of the Sun’s team, Mark Watson, the first journalist to win the Presiden- The Abell Foundation tial Medal of Freedom, wrote such Friends of MdHS Press prescient articles on military strategy, W. Shepherdson Abell that, when he died, the Press Room at the Pentagon was named in his honor. and with the cooperation of The oldest of the correspondents, Wat- son had served on General Pershing’s The Baltimore Sun staff in World War I. Watson’s age didn’t stop him from Books will be available for $34 for author signing the night of the almost beating McCardell into Paris. Launch Party with 35% discount for MdHS members. Riding in with a U. S. armored col- umn, he found himself the only fluent Combat Correspondents can also be purchased in person at French speaker among his fellow the MdHS Museum Bookstore or ordered from the Johns Americans seeking directions to get to Hopkins University Press by calling 1-800-537-5487 toll the Eiffel Tower. Desperate to join the free or 410-516-6965, Monday-Friday, 8:30a.m.–5p.m. victory parade, U.S. officers installed MdHS member discounts also apply to purchases through him in a car at the head of the column. JHUP. Publication Fall, 2009. 0 MdHS News