Food Friday: Seize the Summer

Food Friday: Seize the Summer

​   Judging by the articles and photos that the algorithm is serving up to me, the hottest summer on record is over. It’s time to chuck all the pretty cotton block-printed textiles, and go shopping for cozy dark velvets and comfortable corduroys. It’s almost fall, and shouldn’t I start thinking about Halloween decorations? It […]

Food Friday: Seize the Summer

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  Judging by the articles and photos that the algorithm is serving up to me, the hottest summer on record is over. It’s time to chuck all the pretty cotton block-printed textiles, and go shopping for cozy dark velvets and comfortable corduroys. It’s almost fall, and shouldn’t I start thinking about Halloween decorations? It is […]

Cambridge Police Take a New Approach to Officer Mental Health

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For generations, police officers were expected to absorb the difficult things they saw on the job and simply move on. Fatal accidents, unexpected deaths, family crises, violence, and the daily stress of police work were considered part of the profession, with relatively little attention given to what that repeated exposure could do to an officer […]

Cambridge Time Machine: Back in the Day It Was Governor Goldsborough’s Home

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This 1936 photograph shows Shoal Creek Manor, an 18th-century brick plantation house near Cambridge, Maryland, sometimes known locally as the “Haunted House.” The property was later associated with Charles Goldsborough, a U.S. congressman and Maryland governor who died there in 1834. Like many large Eastern Shore estates of the period, Shoal Creek relied on enslaved […]