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Mencken Day 2013
Mencken Day 2013 will be held on September 7, 2013 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD. Schedule 10:30 a.m. — Mencken Society annual meeting 1:30 p.m. — The 2013 Mencken Memorial Lecture — “An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine” by Dr. Howard Markel.…
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Marion Rodgers on Mencken and the Red Scare
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers will speak on Mencken’s writings concerning “The Red Scare.” “In the deportation of radicals after the Red Scare, of April 1921, Mencken reminded his readers that “probably two-thirds of those allegedly Reds were wholly innocent, and even the guilty ones were not fairly tried.” Though by no means sharing the views of…
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Tour the Mencken House With Marion Rodgers
Johns Hopkins’ Odyssey Program offers two tours of the Mencken House on Saturday, April 20, 2013, conducted by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. The course fee is $30 for either the morning or the afternoon tour. There is a $3 entrance donation to benefit the Friends of the H. L. Mencken House at the door. Section 01…
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Charles Fecher to be Honored 2012-10-20
“The Baltimore City Historical Society is honoring the late Charles Fecher at its annual Mayor’s Reception on October 20, 2012 at Mount Calvary Church, 816 N. Eutaw Street [cor Madison Ave.], from 12 to 2:30 p.m., tickets are $20.00 and may be purchased at the door. Fecher was a distinguished Mencken scholar and editor of the Mencken diaries. For…
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Mencken Day, September 8, 2012
Mencken Day Schedule of Events, Saturday, September 8, 2012 Mencken Day at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 10:00 AM-5:00 PM: The Mencken Room is open to the public. 10:15 AM. The faithful assemble in the foyer of the Wheeler Auditorium to meet old friends, chat, and browse the exhibits. 10:30 AM.…
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Mencken Day 2012
Mencken Day falls on Saturday, September 8, 2012, and will be held at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore. Details will be posted as they become available.
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David Donovan on HLM and the Saturday Night Club
David Donovan will speak on “H.L. Mencken and the Saturday Night Club” on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at the the Pratt Library’s Southeast Anchor Library, 3601 Eastern Avenue (S Conkling St), Baltimore, MD 21224.