Mink Stole

February 5, 2013

1015 Paca St. 633 Sarah Ann St. Dozens of addresses all over Baltimore were once home to Maryland's African-American Civil War veterans. Many of them had been Eastern Shore slaves. Today, we'll hear about a Maryland State Archives project to document their lives, and we'll hear what their experience was like during the war--and after.

February 5, 2013

If a song plays on the radio and it was recorded anytime between the 1930s and 1960s, chances are it could have been penned by the late Johnny Mercer. Mercer wrote the lyrics of more than 1,100 songs before his death in 1976.