Promoting the living works of Henry Louis Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore"
Promoting the living works of Henry Louis Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore"
The Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland (SHGM) will have as guest speaker at their annual dinner meeting on September 29, 2015 the incomparable Marion Rodgers who will remark on “Mencken the German American: Outside, Looking In.” Where: Zion Lutheran Church, Gay and Lexington Streets. When: September 29, 2015 starting at 6:00…
The 10th Annual Service will be held Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 2:00 PM at the Mencken Family Grave site, Loudon Park Cemetery, 3620 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore. Signs will point the way to the grave-site. After the brief memorial service attendees are invited, as usual, to the Spirits West Country Club, 2601 Wilkens Avenue. Loudon…
Mencken Day 2014 will be held September 13, 2014, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD. 10:30 AM: Mencken Society Annual Meeting with guest speaker Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Marion’s latest book is H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (The Library of America, 2014). 2:00 PM: The 2014 Mencken Memorial…
The Library of America will be releasing a new edition of the Days books, edited by the incomparable Marion E. Rodgers: “Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in type- scripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material—often more frank…
Society member Calvin Kern Kobsa died at the age of eighty-six at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson on May 10, 2014. Calvin, the son of Charles J. Kobsa, a piano maker and tuner, and Marie Kern Kobsa, was born in Baltimore July 31, 1927. He was graduated from Polytechnic Institute and earned a bachelor’s degree…
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