Arts & Culture

Marc B Terrill is the President of THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore. In his professional leadership role, Marc directs the day-to-day management and operations as well as the long-range planning for THE ASSOCIATED, with a primary emphasis on the development of human and financial resources. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and obtained his Masters in Social Work with a concentration in community organization from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University.

Mark Furst is the president and chief executive officer of United Way of Central Maryland. Prior to joining the organization in 2004, he spent over 25 years in banking, primarily in executive positions at M&T Bank and its predecessors.

Mark has volunteered on various nonprofit boards over the years and presently serves as a director of Baltimore City Head Start, GBC LEADERship and Baltimore Workforce Investment Board.

Carmela Coyle is the President & CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA), a position she has held since July 2008. MHA is the advocate for Maryland hospitals, health systems, and the communities and patients they serve.

In her role, Carmela is sharpening the association’s focus on advocacy and public policy. Quality and patient safety is a priority, where she is helping hospitals make health care in Maryland the safest in the nation.

We learn about the right-wing troubadours who pioneered an obscure genre of music known as “conservative folk” in the 1960s. They saw their music and lyrics as a way to fight the influence of communists and hippies on the youth of America.    

It sounds like science fiction, but neuroscientists may be on the verge of altering our brains to erase the fear we associate with traumatic memories.  Dr. Richard Huganir tells the story of his lifelong scientific quest to understand (and control) human memory.

If we’re honest with ourselves, we can all probably remember back to a childhood instance when we felt insufferably bored by a grade-school history textbook.  It wasn’t the history that that was boring – it was reading about it in those dry pages peppered with long-ago dates and unfamiliar names.  Well, guess what?  The textbooks are still like that, and today’s kids are still bored.

On May 20th, The Stoop hosted an evening of live storytelling called, “Eureka:  Stories about discoveries, breakthroughs, and brave new worlds.”  One of the storytellers was Richard Huganir.  Dr.

Believe it or not, there used to be right-wing counterparts to the left-leaning folk troubadours of the anti-war movement, and their work has been collected in the anthology, Freedom is a Hammer: Conservative Folk Revolutionaries of the Sixties.

Audio for this segment will be available by the end of the day.

This segment originally aired on December 5, 2012

Joe Jones - April 30, 2013

May 22, 2013

The area known as Perry Hall in Baltimore County gets its name from a nearly 250 year old mansion called the Perry Hall Mansion. From its early years in the late 18th century until now, it’s changed hands many times, it’s been damaged by fire and added-onto, and it’s played a role in some very important historical developments in our state.