MICA

This conversation originally aired on September 20th, 2011.

In November of 1825, a 22-year-old lawyer, John H. B. LaTrobe, gathered a group of some of Baltimore’s most prominent citizens to organize a new school. They called the school the “Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts.”  

How a few Maryland counties are tackling the homeless census this year.

Groundhog Day is this week, but it’s actually a beaver that has taken up residence in the main park of the city of Salisbury on the Eastern Shore. We talk with the director of the Salisbury Zoo about what this indicates about the wildlife population on the Eastern Shore.
 
A peek into a modern marriage in the new show at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre.

Understanding shelter and security in new ways at MICA’s Under Cover exhibit.

November 4th & 5th, 2011, on The Signal…

Tracy Miller is the mother of fallen US Marine Corporal Nicholas Zielkowski.  He was killed in combat in Iraq in 2004.  This year, he’s been memorialized in song.  We talk with Tracy about her son, and we meet Michael Beresh, the musician who took it upon himself to make sure Nicholas’ memory is preserved.

We meet Geoffrey Welchman, host and writer of “The Inverse Delirium,” a podcast that pokes gentle fun at public radio and life in “This American Baltimore.”

September 23rd & 24th, 2011, on The Signal…

“In the past, personal and political liberty depended to a considerable extent on government inefficiency.  The spirit of tyranny was always willing, but its organization and equipment were generally weak.  Progressive science and technology have changed all that completely.”  

-Aldous Huxley, 1948

A long search finds the spot where colonial Maryland shielded Native Americans. Plus, Taylor Branch on the colonialist slant of the NCAA. And how the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts … became MICA.

How do the homeless youth of Baltimore cope?

Dr. Najmaldin Karim, neurosurgeon from Silver Spring…and Governor of Kirkuk.

Tom Hall talks with Mark Hyman about football.

Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck brings us her review of a Baltimore production of the 1959 classic by Lorraine Hansberry.