Old Men and the Sea

By Brennen Jensen | Posted 2/19/2003

Harry Jaeger, a scrappy, blue-eyed 67-year-old in a U.S. NAVY retired ball cap, scrambles up a looming tractor tire, hoists himself up a stout rope, and scrambles aboard the main deck of the Tamaroa. [MORE]

The Courtroom Kidnapper

By Charles Cohen | Posted 9/2/1998

A lot of folks today will tell you politicians are criminals. Usually they're referring to supposed indiscretions committed while in office. [MORE]

Postcards from the Edge

By Tom Chalkley | Posted 10/25/2000

Touch Monroe Frederick's business card, and you touch the man's soul. On one side, there's the usual contact information, a slogan ("Some History--Plus a Postcard, too"), and a one-line bio ("25 Years NY Area Photographer Jet Magazine"). [MORE]

Fire in the Hold

By Charles Cohen | Posted 3/7/2001

Looking around Brown's Wharf in Fells Point, with its restaurants and water-taxi stand, it's hard to imagine that this touristy pier was once covered with the dead victims and bloodied survivors of the worst explosion in Baltimore maritime history. Eighty-eight years ago, at 10:30 a.m. [MORE]

The Lost Tribes

By Tom Chalkley | Posted 4/5/2000

Pictured here is a native of Virginia circa 1585, a stand-in, for the purposes of this column, for his kinspeople from Maryland. Europeans dispelled and absorbed the aboriginal peoples of Maryland so early, and so thoroughly, that no drawings of them exist. [MORE]