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Make Baltimore, MD, a Tribe City
I live in Baltimore and see there are many Baltimore people on Tribe, but we are affiliated as part of Washington. I work in Washington, but it's a totally different community. While the Corridor is treated as a larger metropolitan area for census statistical purposes, Washington is really not the hub for those of us who live in Baltimore. Baltimore is an older, well established city with a unique history of firsts and should be recognized with its own identity in the Tribe. It has great neighborhoods, universities, museums, art, music, personalities, restaurants, etc. It has Barry Levinson and John Waters, Homicide and The Wire, the National Aquarium at Baltimore, Edgar Allen Poe's midnight tour, the Inner Harbor, Fort McHenry, the haunts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda, the home of H.L. Mencken, the place where Frederick Douglass escaped slavery, the beginning of the first railroad, home of the Orioles and Ravens and the Camden Yards Stadium, Bertha's mussels, Crabby Dick's, The Block, America's shortest Senator, the U.S.S. Constellation (built along with Boston's favorite old ship, the U.S.S. Constitution here in our shipyards), the Walters Art Gallery. America's first monument to Washington is in Baltimore.
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Richard
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posted 05/10/05
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