Revolutionary War

Loretta Reynolds grew up just off Erdman Avenue on the eastern edge of Baltimore as the youngest of five girls. Today she is Brigadier General Reynolds, and commands Parris Island, the famous training grounds for the U.S. Marine Corps. She'll tell us her story.

Then – The Olympics are over, but the Paralympics are just gearing up!  We'll talk with Baltimore’s own Jessica Long, who'll be going for the gold in swimming.

The story of one of the most pivotal battles of the Revolutionary War, and the Marylanders who sacrificed themselves so General Washington’s army could fight another day.

Tom Hall talks to Stanley Mazaroff about his book on Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, and Bernard Berenson, the scholar and dealer who helped ferret out copies in Walters’ collection and, by doing so, secure the Walters’ position as a great museum.