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Archival Film Screening: Shipbuilding at Sparrows Point
Tuesday, October 11 | 7-8 PM
Free, no registration required, on YouTube
Be among the first to see recently digitized footage from The Port that Built a City and State, the weekly program hosted by Helen Delich Bentley on WMAR between 1950-1965, showing shipbuilding and steelmaking at Sparrows Point in this YouTube Premiere. This program is part of Steel Weekend programming hosted by the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, PA.
Francis Scott Key Lecture Series—FSK from Home Claire McCardell: WWII and The American Look with Robyn Levy, Tory Burch Claire McCardell Fashion Fellow
World War II brought Frederick, Maryland-born fashion designer Claire McCardell to a turning point in her career. Already established in the fashion industry but not quite a household name, McCardell was commissioned to design uniforms for the Office of Civil Defense Corps. Using non-rationed materials such as weather balloon cottons, aprons, and mattress ticking, McCardell embraced the opportunity for uniqueness, ultimately leading to the embedded American Look for women.
Photographing Bethlehem Steel
Hear from photographers Ed Leskin (based in Bethlehem, PA) and J.M. Giordano (based in Baltimore) about their work documenting steelmaking communities in the mid-Atlantic and around the world. Leskin’s project “Images of Flesh and Steel” includes portraits of steelworkers in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Giordano’s temporary exhibition Shuttered: Images from the Fall of Bethlehem Steel documents the changing landscape of Sparrows Point. This program is part of Steel Weekend programming hosted by the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem, PA.
The Big Tomato: Picked, Packed, and Shipped in the Chesapeake
Live Virtual Program (Zoom)
Join us on October 18th at 7:00PM when Baltimore Narratives guest speaker, Kate Livie, will share the history of tomato packing on the Eastern Shore, and how the region’s produce fueled industry, sparked innovative technology, shaped culture and transformed the landscape. This program will be hosted on Zoom. Access provided after registration.
FREE for all audiences. Donations encouraged.