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The Monthly Newsletter of the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association May 2013

A Few Important UpdatesBy Eric Costello

I hope everyone will do their best to attend the General Membership meeting this month, Tuesday, May 21, at 7 pm. We will be holding our annual elections. If you are interested in running for the Board, please send an email to [email protected] and I will get you a copy of the nomination form and conflict of interest form. In order to run, you must live within the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association’s (FHNA) boundaries and be a member in good standing for at least 30 days prior to the election.

In addition to the election, we have presentations from/on: Baltimore Energy Challenge, the Community Garden at Digital Harbor High School (DHHS), the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks (BCRP) and our friends at South Harbor Renaissance on the playground at Federal Hill Park, and Baltimore Beach. We will also be discussing how best to allocate our Grand Prix Community Impact Funds from 2012. Here are some other important updates:

As discussed at the General Membership meeting •in April, the FHNA Board has decided to protest the proposed Cross Street Beer Garden. At that meeting, the General Membership gave the Board the authority to make this decision. We have retained the law firm of Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP as counsel, as suggested by the General Membership. If you would like to assist in our opposition efforts, please contact Keenan Dworak-Fisher at [email protected] to find out how you can help, or to see the petition that we are circulating. Neighbors should sign the petition only if they oppose the plans for the bar and fully understand the petition. If you have not yet seen the petition by May 12, please contact Keenan or me and we will make sure you have an opportunity to review it and sign it.The FHNA Board and its Preservation Committee are •considering the feasibility of creating a Commission for Historical & Architectural Preservation (CHAP) district in Federal Hill. The purpose of a CHAP district is to enhance and promote the culture and economy of Baltimore through the preservation of buildings, structures, sites, and neighborhoods that have aesthetic, historic, and architectural value. If we are to move

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forward with this, it will be an enormous undertaking. In the coming months, you will see information presented on CHAP regularly at our meetings, as well as documentation posted on our website. In the near future, we will be seeking your input by creating a survey on CHAP and will have an email address solely dedicated to this effort. More information on CHAP is available online at: http://www.baltimorecity.g o v / G o v e r n m e n t / B o a r d s a n d C o m m i s s i o n s /HistoricalArchitecturalPreservation/AboutCHAP.aspx The angled parking pilot has been put on hold due to •a number of issues, but we hope to have a concrete answer on this within the next two weeks.The proposed traffic circle at Key Highway and Light •Street is now slated for construction to begin in Fall 2014. No other information has been provided by the City or DOT. However, I have been informed that DOT is available to present more information at one of our meetings.The casino impact funds will be discussed at either the •May or June General Membership meeting and we will be taking suggestions to take back to the Casino’s Local Development Council, where FHNA has a seat.

May 2013 Federalhillbaltimore.org Federal Hillsider

Federal Hill Neighborhood AssociationBoard of Directors

OfficersPresident: Eric Costello 410.528.1514Vice President: VacantTreasurer: Gayle McClure 410.230.9419 Secretary: Bob Merbler 443.629.0162

Board Members at Large

Board Member: Bob O’Donoghue 410.783.0174Board Member: Ginny Gerhart 443.271.3218Board Member: Jody Martin 410.332.0539Board Member Jennifer Nelson 410.727.0384Board Member Mellisa Colimore 443.743.9290

Recycling and Trash Schedule:Set out by 6 a.m.

Trash on Wednesday (in cans with tight-fitting lids)Recycling on Friday

REMINDER!! Please put your recyclable materials in paper bags, cardboard boxes, City recycle bins or any container clearly marked “recycle”; at the same location as your regular trash. DO NOT USE PLASTIC BAGS. With single stream recycling, we send our materials to a processing facility which uses an automated system to sort and bale recyclables.

INFORMATION PAGE

FHNA CommitteesConsider Getting Involved

Please contact any of the Board members listed nearby and express your interest. You will be welcomed.

Beautification/Green: Walt SaxonBlock Captains: OpenBusiness Affairs: Jody MartinGrants: OpenHillsider: Jeannie Malkiewicz Gayle McClure Bob O’Donoghue Ginny Gerhart Nicole QuinnLiquor/Live Entertainment: Keenan Dworak-FisherMembership: Eric Costello Bob MerblerParking: Eric Costello Ginny GerhartPreservation/Design John ThompsonPublic Safety: Mellisa ColimoreSchools Liaison: Jessica DamenSocial: Nicole Quinn Paul QuinnSouth Harbor Renaissance Liaison: Claire JohnsonTechnology: Jennifer NelsonTrees: Rich Polan

Bulk Item Pick UpYou may place up to three items out for collection. One day per month is set aside for this collection. All citizens have to do is call 311 and give the following information:

Your addressYour telephone #

What 3 itemsCall 3 or more working days before your scheduled date. If you do not know your day, please call 311. You may also schedule a collection at 311 Online.

To Request City ServicesCall 311 6am to 10pm or Online 24 hours at

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Monthly C.O.P. Walk

Thursday, May 23rd, 7 p.m.

Meet in front of Porter’s at the corner of Riverside Avenue and Cross Street

BATTERY: 800 bl. Battery Ave., Andrew Gellene,[email protected]: 700 bl. S. Charles St., Betsy Smith, [email protected] 800 bl. S. Charles St.(East Side), Bob O’Donoghue, [email protected] 800 bl. S. Charles St. (West Side), Robert Bennett, [email protected] 911 S. Charles (Henrietta Square), Mellisa Colimore, [email protected]: Unit bl. E. Churchill, Andrew Swanston, 410-244-8541 100 bl. E. Churchill, Debra Nelson, [email protected] 200 bl. E. Churchill, Andrew Gellene, [email protected] Unit bl. W. Churchill, Robert Bennett, [email protected]: 900 bl. Compton St., Valerie Woolston, [email protected]: 900 & 1000 bl. E. Covington St., Gary Ly, [email protected] CROSS: 100 bl. E. Cross St., Dave and Judy Dadds, [email protected] 200 & 300 bl. E. Cross St., Doug and Jill Forbes, [email protected] 400 bl. E. Cross St., Navah Langmeyer, 410-837-6470 100 bl. of W. Cross St. (North side), Ashley Pescrille; [email protected]; 410-244-4810GRINDALL: 200 bl. Grindall (South side), Brynn Matkoski; [email protected]; 410-340-4706; Twitter: @Grindall_St 400 bl. Grindall, Michelle Li and Michael Lors, [email protected]’S YARD: Randee Askin, [email protected]: Unit bl. E. Hamburg St., Nancy Baum, [email protected] 100 bl. E. Hamburg St., Valerie Woolston, [email protected] 300 & 400 bl. E. Hamburg St., Michael Moriarty, [email protected]: 700 bl. S. Hanover St.(between W. Hughes and W. Montgomery), Tony Raneri, [email protected] 800 bl. S. Hanover St. (East side), Robert Bennett, [email protected] 900 & 1000 bl. S. Hanover St. (East side), Ashley Pescrille; [email protected]; 410-244-4810HARDEN Unit bl. Harden Ct., Jon Paul Mathieu, [email protected]: Unit bl. E. Henrietta St., Michelle Mills, [email protected] Unit bl. W. Henrietta St., Robert Bennett, [email protected] SQUARE: Mellisa Colimore, [email protected]: Unit bl. E. Hughes St., Rich Polan, [email protected] Unit bl. W. Hughes St., Betsy Smith, [email protected] LANE: Randee Askin, [email protected]: 700 bl. Light St., Rich Polan, [email protected] 800 & 900 bl. Light St., Richard Kaminski 1000 bl. Light St., Nancy Baum, [email protected]: Unit bl. W. Montgomery St., Betsy Smith, [email protected] Unit bl. E. Montgomery St., Bob O’Donoghue, [email protected] 100 bl. E. Montgomery St., Walt Saxon, 410-703-9133 200 bl. E. Montgomery St., Susan Bridges, [email protected] SQUARE: Robert Bennett, [email protected]: Unit bl. Olive St., Ashley Pescrille; [email protected]; 410-244-4810PATAPSCO: Unit bl. Patapsco St., Patti Sumner, [email protected]: Unit bl. Poultney St., Martin Christensen, [email protected]: 1000 bl. Riverside, Guy Quallich and Betsy Royal, [email protected]: 100 bl. Warren, Virginia Becker 200 bl. Warren (North side), Alley Firey, [email protected]; 410-812-0600 201 Warren Apts., Virginia Becker 301 Warren, Harbor Hill Apts., Richard Kaminski 300 & 400 bl. Warren, John Rehmert, 410-752-5399WILLIAM: 700 bl. William St., Walt Saxon, 410-703-9133 800 bl. William St., Debra Nelson, [email protected] 900 bl. William St., Valerie Woolston, [email protected] 1000 bl. William St., Brynn Matkoski; [email protected]; 410-340-4706; Twitter: @Grindall_StWHEELING: Unit bl. E. Wheeling St., Jon Paul Mathieu, [email protected]

Block Captain ListFHNA General

Membership Meeting and Annual Elections

Tuesday, May 21st, 7 pm, Christ Lutheran Church

Debris, Bulk Trash, Recycling & eCycling Drop-off Location:

Western Sanitation Yard 701 Reedbird Avenue, 410-396-3367,

Mon. – Sat., 9 am – 5 pm (Labor Day/Memorial Day) & 9 am – 7 pm (Memorial Day/Labor Day)

For additional locations go to: baltimorecity.gov/Government/AgenciesDepartments/PublicWorks/BureauofSolidWaste

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May 8: Maryland Film Festival. Charles Theatre, 1711 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Noon.

May 10–August 23: Summer Social Series. West Shore Park, Baltimore Inner Harbor. The series takes place from 5–8 pm one Friday of every month this summer. With live music performed by local bands; beer, wine, and mixed drinks; food trucks; a Waterfront Kids play area, and the Walter Sondheim Interactive Fountain, these socials offer something for everyone and are FREE to attend. May 10, June 21, July 26, August 23.

May 16: Federal Hill’s Third Thursday. Enjoy shops, restaurants and galleries as they open their doors and welcome you with specials on this night from 6 to 8 pm.

May 18: 138th Running of the Preakness Stakes & InfieldFest 2013. Pimlico Race Course. Live performances by international superstar Pitbull and hip-hop Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. All day.

May 22: Wellness Talk, “What’s Mindfulness Got to Do With It?” Free at the Institute for Integrative Health, 1407 Fleet Street (Harbor East), 6 - 7:30 pm. Increased energy, mental agility, and a positive mood have long been hailed as benefits of mindfulness, a way of experiencing our lives moment by moment. This interactive, experiential session will demystify the elusive thing called mindfulness and explain what it means for your health. Reservations are required, visit www.bit.ly/WhatsMindfulness. Questions to 443.681.7605.

May 25–September 29: FREE Waterfront Wellness—Fitness Classes. West Shore Park, Baltimore Inner Harbor. Saturdays: Boot camp–8:30 am, Zumba –9:30 am. Sundays: Yoga–8:30 am, CrossFit –9:30 am.

June 8–June 9: Honfest in Hampden! All day.

June 23: First Annual One Piece SoBo Trash Mob and Festival. Save the Date. Follow us on Facebook for the latest information. https://www.facebook.com/OnePieceSoBo

Light Street Community Yard Sale, May 18Sell, Purchase or Donate Items in one of Federal Hill’s Green Spaces

Doing a major spring cleaning and don't have the yard/public space to host your own yard sale? We have the solution! Light Street Presbyterian Church is organizing a Community Yard Sale on Saturday, May 18, from 8 am to 4 pm. Rent a space and sell your stuff here! Space rental is $20 ($5 additional if you need to rent a table). Set up time is 7 am–8 am.

Or perhaps you would like to donate items for the church to sell to support its mission and ministry. To set up a delivery date and time, contact David Lascu ([email protected], 443-804-6896) or the church office ([email protected], 410-539-0125) to make the appropriate arrangements.

And please drop by on May 18! Join your neighbors in one of Federal Hill’s beautiful green spaces: the Light Street Church Garden. There will be lots of housewares, books, appliances, and furniture available for sale at bargain prices! Come and purchase items for your home, family, and friends.

For more information, contact Rev. Roger Scott Powers at:[email protected] or 410-539-0125.

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The Mayor’s spring cleanup was a big success in our neighborhood on Saturday April 20th!

Despite the late arrival of our city-provided trash container (The 9:00 am arrival was delayed until around 1:30 pm due to a 10K race in Locust Point), we got off a full load of trash by day’s end. With help from two gentleman in a pickup truck (not from the neighborhood) and “re-homers” from the neighborhood, virtually 100% of the recyclable items (grills, screens, appliances, lumber, flower pots, ladders, bricks, etc.) were recycled. Obviously this saves valuable landfill space and extends the life of that facility.

The trash container was located at William and Warren Avenue and Gayle McClure was there as well with donuts, coffee and information on the new ONE PIECE program. The central idea of One Piece is for each of us to pledge to pick up one piece of trash each day and many of our residents signed up and got the certificate. For more information see the article in this issue. If you would like to help, please call Walt (410-703-9133) or Gayle (410-241-1374 or [email protected]) and we can sign you up and answer your questions.

We also had a number of volunteers working each block that we would like to acknowledge and thank: The group working with Joe and Lynn Helpern in

Robert Baker Park, the group working in Federal Hill Park with Lynn Colimore and Tony Raniere, Diana and her two boys, Phil and Cindy Anderson, Beka, Charles, Eric and all the others who showed up and helped get our parks, blocks and neighborhood in shape.

On Thursday April 25th, I helped Federal Hill Prep parents, teachers and first and second grade students stencil crabs on storm drains up and down Cross Street. This was part of the school’s Environmental Awareness Week and it was a lot of fun. The kids were awesome, involved and full of energy!

Meanwhile, we have ongoing projects and would welcome additional volunteers to help out for an hour or two.

Beautification and Green Committee by Walt Saxon

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I’d like to continue to introduce you to some of the vendors of the Cross Street Market. I asked them each to tell you a few of their most popular or well-known items and their “hidden gem” – something you may not know about. Hope you find what you’re looking for here in part two!

Mr. Sausage: 410-300-7121Best known for hot dogs, sausage, salad and soupHidden Gem: Rolls

Mondawmin Fried Chicken: 410-685-2815Best known for fried chickenHidden Gem: hot bar, rotisserie chicken

Nick’s Seafood: 410-685-2020 Best known for crabcakes, raw bar, sushi, Maryland crab soupHidden Gem: Happy Hour (Monday thru Thursday)

Pop Tacos: 410-605-0230Best known for tacos (pork, beef, chicken, fish and shrimp)Hidden Gem: Cilantro noodle soup. Everything is homemade – no MSG

Pretzel Twist: 410-528-2772Best known for the original pretzel and lemonadeHidden Gem: fruit shakes, mixed fruit, cinnamon pretzel and half & half (iced tea/lemonade)

Rosie’s Posies: 410-244-8773Best known for flowers and plantsHidden Gem: Harry London chocolates, Ravens & Orioles T-shirts

Sweet Shoppe: 410-576-2910Best known for Naron chocolatesHidden Gem: Best milkshakes in South Baltimore, Hershey’s ice cream

Tian’s Teriyaki: 410-900-7321Best known for chicken and shrimp with rice, squid kabobsHidden Gem: fresh cut cooked vegetables (we use all fresh ingre-dients)

Wireless One: 410-347-9939Best known for Cellular phones, electronics, 4G modems, hot spotsHidden Gem: bill payments, Otter box, Skull candy, unlimited talking plans from $30/mo

Meet the Market (Cross Street that is!) Part Twoby Jeannie Malkiewicz


Inappropriate Urination in PetsBy Jill Shook, DVM, CityPets Veterinary Care & Wellness

Few things are more frustrating than a dog or cat urinating in the house or outside the litter box. Inappropriate urination, especially in cats, is a common reason animals are taken to shelters or euthanized. There are several possible causes for this problem in pets, but typically the cause is either a medical or behavioral issue. Although the scope of this subject is too large to cover in detail here, I hope to give you a course of action and some things to think about if you are dealing with this problem.

Several possible medical issues can cause inappropriate urination in both dogs and cats: urinary tract infections, bladder stones, kidney stones, vaginitis, liver disease, kidney disease, arthritis, and feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) are some. Any animal that is urinating inappropriately should have a complete physical exam and a urinalysis. Depending on the symptoms, the exam and urinalysis findings, and the age of the pet, further testing such as blood work, radiographs, and a urine culture may also be recommended. It is important to note that it is very uncommon for cats less than 8 years old to have bacterial urinary tract infections. More often they have FLUTD, an inflammatory condition of the urinary tract, exhibiting a high numbers of white and red blood cells, but typically no bacteria. Do not use antibiotics if no evidence of a bacterial infection exists.

If your dog is urinating inappropriately and a medical reason has been ruled out, and the dog has been spayed or neutered, then it is time to look at housebreaking issues. In dogs it is important to establish a daily routine and to be consistent. Dogs should get up around the same time every morning, eat around the same times every day, go outside first thing in the morning and right before bedtime, and not go more than 8 hours between bathroom breaks. Obviously, if you have a new puppy or a senior pet they will need to go out more often.

Praise them for going to the bathroom in appropriate places. Teach your dog some sort of signal, like barking or ringing a bell, to let you know they need to go out. You have to catch your dog in the act of urinating in the house to correct the behavior; take them right outside, and praise them once they use the bathroom outside. Never punish a dog after the fact. I often tell

clients to put their dog on leash and tie the leash around their waist so the dog cannot be out of sight. That way the owner can interrupt the undesirable behavior and reinforce the good behavior.

Inappropriate urination in cats can be a little more challenging. Once again, medical issues should be ruled out first and the cat should be spayed or neutered. Addressing potential litter box problems may prevent and/or correct inappropriate urination. The general rule is provide your cats with one more litter box than the number of cats in the household. Scoop the litter boxes at least once daily; empty, clean, and replace with fresh litter once weekly. Place litter boxes in quiet, low-traffic areas where the cat will not be disturbed. Don’t put the litter boxes near pets’ food and water. Lots of cats don’t like scented litters, hooded litterboxes, or litter box liners. Make sure your cat is getting enough attention and playtime and try to eliminate sources of stress for your cat. New people, pets, or furniture in the house or stray cats or construction outside can cause stress and lead to inappropriate urination.

If your pet continues to experience problems with inappropriate urination, contact your veterinarian or an animal behaviorist for further recommendations. With patience, consistency, and persistence, house-soiling issues can usually be solved. You can also visit the websites listed below.www.catsinternational.orgwww.veterinarypartner.comwww.healthypet.com


Artist Eileen Wold Explores Connection Between Ecology and Industryby Ann Wiker / Art Exposure

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My three-year-old loves the drive down Key Highway through the tunnel and onto the Keith Avenue exit to Canton. He likes the train tracks and the ships and the industrial landscape. I’ve seen it differently through his eyes, and now I’m looking at it even more closely because of my friendship with Eileen Wold.

Eileen is an artist living in Federal Hill, whose recent artwork focuses on the structural elements of energy production. She became interested in the smokestacks, oil refineries, and power plants that were appearing in the background and foreground of her paintings; so she investigated how these structures connect to our daily lives. She visited the Baltimore Coal Terminal to learn where the coal was coming from and where it was going. She explored the Brandon Shores Coal Burning Power Plant that’s visible from the Hanover Street Bridge and then created two transfer drawings now on display at Umbrella Arts in New York City. She traveled to West Virginia to explore the surface coal mine industry. These research trips gave her a deeper sense of the connection between ecology and industry and her own role within that bigger picture. Her West Virginia coal project is now showing at College of Notre Dame, Gormley Gallery, until October 8.

Eileen was trained as a painter. Her history of landscape painting informs all her art making. Although her smokestack paintings are done in oils, her work encompasses drawing, photography, sculptural installation, and performance art as well. “I found that over the years, as my subject matter deepened it became necessary for me to expand my approach to art making,” she explains. “Through interdisciplinary work, my art can respond to my research in the most relevant and sensitive way possible.” In addition to her interest in energy production, Eileen has explored issues concerning our waterways, air pollution, and sustainability. She is currently working on a project for the University of Maryland, Baltimore, that will feature art responses to the issues of the water and air quality of the Chesapeake Bay area. Eileen earned her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she helped to teach a class in Climate Change and Sustainability. She now teaches at Anne Arundel Community College and through Art Exposure Inc., in addition to creating her own art. She finds that teaching energizes her own ideas and forces her to ask herself, and her

students, insightful questions about the creative process.

Eileen has a studio in the Load of Fun art space on North Avenue in the Station North Arts District. Recently she renovated an abandoned alley behind Calvert Street, as part of a group exhibit called Axis Alley. She planted a temporary tomato garden there as a comment on the lack of fresh fruits and vegetables in the surrounding area. The emphasis on giving in Eileen’s work is rooted in her upbringing and her undergraduate experience with the community services organizations at Loyola University Maryland. She has led workshops for elementary school children in D.C., worked bedside with AIDS patients in NYC, and will soon lead a children’s art mural project at The Kreeger Museum in DC. I asked Eileen what motivates her. “At a very basic level,” she said, “I make art to better understand the world around me. And I am finding that the more I learn and research, the more poetry I find in the response, and that motivates me to keep searching for more understanding.”

You can see Eileen’s landscape work on display at the offices of Conti, Fenn, and Lawrence LLC at 36 South Charles Street. She teaches drawing, watercolor painting, and digital painting through Art Exposure Inc. For more information on this exhibit and on the classes, visit www.artexposureinc.com.


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Ditch Your Car Keys on Bike to Work Day, May 17

If you’ve ever wanted to ditch your car keys and bike to work, Friday, May 17, is the day to do it. Take part in Bike to Work Day, which Baltimore, along with the rest of the country, will be celebrating. The organization Bike Maryland will set up stations at 7 am all over the city to perk up riders with coffee, breakfast snacks, and repairs, if needed. Most stations will stay open till 9:30 am.

Bike Maryland’s event planner, Mary Herbranson, describes the Bike to Work Day movement as “a great way to promote bicycling as a viable commuting option, a fun activity, from a public health standpoint, and it encourages important bicycling safety initiatives.”

Two days later, on Sunday, May 19, Bike Maryland is sponsoring RecRide, an event that starts and ends in Patterson Park and offers two bike tours, of 12 and 30 miles. RecRide also features Bike Jam, which according to Ms. Herbranson, “plays host to super exciting, super fast pro cycling races. There will also be food trucks, beer, and

a Bike & Health Expo.” Registration is open on the Bike MD website at www.bikemd.org.

Contact Mary Herbranson for more information at [email protected] or call 301-567-4710.

FHNA General Membership Meeting

Tuesday, May 21st, 7 pm, Christ Lutheran Church

In addition to the election, we have presentations from: Baltimore Energy Challenge, the Community Garden at Digital Harbor High School, the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks and our friends at South Harbor Renaissance on the playground at Federal Hill Park.

Last year at this time I was writing about running out of my home in the middle of the night to see fire trucks,ambulances, and police cars clustered around REGI’S BISTRO at 1002 Light Street. Regi’s recovered and is going strong. I am happy this year to report that ALAN AND SANDE MORSTEIN, who held what they called a “firesale,” celebrated the anniversary of the event on April 10 with high revelry. They offered their delicious food at a 25% savings for the occasion, and to thankthefirstresponderswhokeptthecalamity from being worse than it might havebeen,servedthelocalfiremenandpolice for free. Many area residents cannot imagine the community without this local favorite.

Another local address is becoming a favorite of local residents and of shoppers from throughout the Baltimore metro area. PHINA’S FOR THE HOME at 901 S. Charles St. has a rich history. The store and building are owned by CARLA WING, who named the business after her late mother JOSEPHINE M. BRAVO. In the mid-1980s, Ms. Bravo came to Baltimore from New York. She had been a trailblazer with careers in both politics and education, particularly noteworthy since she is a woman of color, making these advances during a period when the going was seldom easy. One of the highlights of that career included her years as New York Secretary of Labor, a true breakthrough role. Upon retirement from these areas, she continued with new activities and decided to open a business in Baltimore on S. Charles


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Street. Modest Rupert’s Attic, an antiques store named for husband Modesto Ruperto, was at the current location of Phina’s for many years.

Then, says CARLA WING, her mother, at age 83, encouraged her to provide something missing entirely from the Baltimore market: a fine linens shoppinglocation. Now Phina’s is that shopping destination, offering, for example, over 5000 choices for custom duvets and bedding sets. Carla also carries gorgeous towels and other accessories for the bath. There, you will be amazed by hand-painted scarves and pillows, soaps, and bathrobes, and more items in-store and easily ordered than I could possibly list. The word has spread and a mother’s vision and a daughter’s dream have come true. Her favorite part of having this business is working with customers to find out how theylike to live and what makes them happy. She also loves Federal Hill because “it feels like home, like living in a village. People even bring you special tea when you have a cold.” As for work, she says she enjoys the artistry of putting together the perfect model bedding for a client. “All they have to do is get between the sheets and enjoy the night.”

Congratulations are in order again for Federal Hill’s own JESSICA DAMEN, gifted artist and neighborhood activist, for an innovative collaborative effort with piano virtuoso ROBERT HITZ and fellow artist MAXINE TAYLOR. “The Red

Door is Open” on April 27 at The University of Baltimore was part of the school’s Spotlight Program and featured an improvisational piano performance by Hitz, inspired by the art of Damen and Taylor. Host and moderator KIMBERLY LYNNE “lead the audience’s perceptions and observations during the presentation which combined music, artwork, and the creative process.” Jessica, called “The Lewis Carroll of Baltimore,” has won numerous awards for her works, praised for their surreal beauty and their ability to evoke haunting memories of childhood and beyond. I am particularly touched by her fascinating use of color. We are truly fortunate to have her in our midst.

Mark your calendars for a community event that offers great things for adults and children alike. Sunday, June 2, The JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL will be sponsored by Federal Hill Main Street from 11 am to 7 pm on S. Charles St. between West and Hamburg. One of the favorite features of this event is KIDS’ KROSS on Cross Street on the south side of the Cross Street Market. The fun includes live music on two stages, including the Honey Island Swamp Band, right off the JazzFest Stage in New Orleans; the Jamie McLean Band, and many more. Arts and crafts, lots of food and drink options, a wine garden, and Artist Alley are big attractions. JANE SEEBOLD says this is one of her favorite neighborhood events because “it truly has something for everybody. Our 60 volunteers make it happen. Everyone pitches in to make it a success. It’s a testament to how people feel about our wonderful community. Everyone is happy that day, and it’s a real celebration of city life.”


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di · [s]sec′ · ting the Baltimore Rowhouse(and exploring its impact on life in the City)

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Part 4 - heating, cooling and indoor plumbing coping with Baltimore’s freezing winters and hot

and humid summersFireplaces, for example, heated the early rowhouses–

one for each room except for the kids’ and servants’ (if there were any) bedrooms. Later the iron kitchen stove replaced the kitchen fireplace, and an iron stove, or a Latrobe fireplace insert (invented by Benjamin Latrobe from Baltimore) replaced the other fireplaces. The iron stoves were a vast improvement over fireplaces, because the fire was confined within an air-tight iron box so that the already heated air in the room would not be sucked up the chimney along with the smoke from the fire. And the fuel changed too. Coal took over from wood because a little bag of coal produced as much heat as a big pile of wood. And the coal fire could be banked, so that it did not have to be tended in the middle of the night. Starting in the late 1800’s heating technology changed again: new rowhouses came with, and older houses were retrofitted with, monstrous coal or oil furnaces with big, black, round ducts going every which way, tucked into end of the cellar on the way to the upper floors.

Often coal was delivered through a chute from a sidewalk trap door to the coal bin in front of the cellar. It was moved from the bin to the furnace by shovel. Because getting coal into the furnace produced such a greasy, billowy, black cloud of coal dust, you stayed out of the cellar until the dust had settled. But it didn’t only settle in the cellar - over time, the black powder made its greasy way up and into the entire house. Oh well. Today you can still see a whole lot of the banged-up metal plates buried in sidewalks that once led to the now unused coal bins.

Today the furnace has morphed again, into a tall tan metal box tucked in a closet, with its ductwork almost completely hidden within the walls and ceilings. It is fueled by gas or electricity.

And let’s not forget air-conditioning. Baltimore is south enough and humid enough that air-conditioning is more than just nice during the City’s 2 to 3 summer months. Early Baltimoreans had different ways of coping with the summers heat. To keep the additional heat of cooking food from making the rowhouse kitchen

uninhabitable, they could move the cooking out of the kitchen into a shed attached to the back of the house or into the cooler cellar below. And they could sit on the front steps until late at night commiserating with the family and the neighbors until the boiling bedrooms upstairs cooled off a little bit. Sometimes the heat was so awful that members of the family would grab a blanket and move to a grassy meadow in one of the City’s major parks and sleep on the grass each night until the heat wave was over. Or they could spend a weekend in Ocean City (or, if they were wealthy enough, they could even enjoy most of the summer in a summer house in the woods to the north or alongside the Ocean or the Bay). (By the late 1800’s, they could also go to the movies during the hottest part of the day; movie theaters were some of the first buildings in the City to be air-conditioned. [The theaters used evaporated water, cooling towers on the roof to create the cool air that was pumped into the auditoriums below.])

Finally in the late 1950’s, the possibility of air conditioning the rowhouse itself arrived. A window air-conditioner plopped into the bottom of a window might be added that could blast cold air into the anointed room (and drip water down the outside brick). For a more permanent solution, a sheet metal box was added to the top of the furnace. It was connected by two runs of copper tubing to a second sheet metal box in the backyard (or on the roof), which, because of the miracles of electricity and mechanical refrigeration, created the amazingly cold air that allowed the residents to survive the worst months of Baltimore’s miserable hot and humid summers.

What is the magic of mechanical refrigeration? (My father, who was an electrical engineer, once tried to explain it to me when I was a kid. I still remember that, after a couple of minutes into his very thorough explanation, my brain went completely mushy.) But later I discovered that the explanation is really very simple.

If you compress a gas, the gas and its container become hotter (because the molecules of the gas move faster and bump into each other and the container with more energy). And if you let the gas escape through a


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miniature hole into a second container with less pressure, the gas and the new container become colder (because the gas is now lazier and its molecules bump into each other less often and with less energy).

So, in the outside metal box of the air conditioner, a pump compresses the warmed gas that it receives from the copper tubing loop from inside the house. Then, the highly pressurized, now very hot gas, is cooled as it circulates through the outdoor copper tube radiator that, with the help of evaporating water and a fan, releases a large amount of heat from the hot pressurized gas into the outdoor air.

Next, the highly pressurized, but now cooler, gas is pumped through the other side of the copper tubing loop back into the house. Here the gas passes through a device with a miniature hole, called an expansion valve, into the low-pressure side of the system and as a result becomes quite cold. The cold gas then flows through the copper tube radiator on top of the furnace. And the inside air blown over that radiator becomes the cool air that is blown throughout the house. The warmer gas at the other end of the indoor radiator is then returned to the outside unit on the other side of the copper tubing loop to begin the cycle all over again.

The physics principle is the magic! All the rest of that air conditioner is simply the machinery that moves the gas through the copper tube loop, compresses it, pushes the excess heat into the outside air, and then moves it back indoors, releases the pressure, and blows the newly cooled air into the room and the rest of the house.

Now let’s talk about that gas: The first air conditioners employed toxic or flammable gases, such as ammonia, methyl chloride, or propane. They worked, but the gases were extremely poisonous, or explosive, and could easily result in fatal accidents when they leaked. In 1928, Thomas Midgley Jr. created the first chlorofluorocarbon gas, which was named Freon. This gas was a very efficient conductor of heat and cold and was neither particularly poisonous nor explosive.

The name was trademarked by DuPont for any Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), Hydrogenated Chlorofluorocarbon CFC (HCFC), or Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant gas. Each specific gas within the family of gases was also given a code such as R-11, R-12, R-22, and R-134A to indicate its particular molecular composition. The blend most used for air conditioning buildings has been the HCFC known as R-22.

But all of the Freon gasses are extremely potent greenhouse gasses when leaked into the atmosphere.

R-22 for example has a global warming potential about 1,800 times higher than carbon dioxide. By law it cannot be used in any new equipment and must be replaced by less potent global warming gasses. It was phased out for use in new equipment in 2010 and must be completely discontinued by 2020. Several non-ozone-depleting refrigerants have been developed as alternatives, including R-410A invented by Honeywell (formerly AlliedSignal), and sold under the name Genetron (R) AZ-20. This refrigerant was first commercially used by Carrier under the brand name Puron. And as alternatives to conventional refrigerants, natural alternatives, such as CO2 (R-744), have also been proposed.

pipes, wires, and electronic dishesEven if you actually know it, it is still hard to imagine

what it was like to live in the early Baltimore rowhouse that, in fact, had none of the utilities that we are so dependent on today.

The first utility to arrive from the street was water, at first delivered through wood pipes buried under the street. (Last year I was talking to a supervisor who was working on the City’s project to ream out and repair the utility pipes under Grindall Street in South Baltimore. I told him about the original water pipes being made out of wood. He said, “I know, I’ll show you: I put the section we found under your street in the back of my pickup truck.” Talk about one excited dude; my mind was reeling; I couldn’t even imagine what it would look like. How did they connect them to each other? We walked up the street and peered over the tailgate: it was gone.)

Initially the water was piped to a spigot in the back yard to replace the backyard well (which had shared the backyard with the privy or outhouse (Oh my gosh! I don’t want to even think about it), but soon it was brought indoors to a spigot above the kitchen zink (another Baltimore word [after all, some of the first ones were made out of zinc]). In most neighborhoods, sewer pipes arrived shortly thereafter. In some poorer neighborhoods, indoor bathrooms really didn’t happen until much later – the families used the outhouse in the back yard. And the family took baths in a portable tub brought into the kitchen on Saturday night and filled with water heated on top of the kitchen stove. Or in some of the poorer neighborhoods, families could get all cleaned up at the local public bath near the public market thanks to the generosity of Henry Walters who gave the City the money to build them.


Baltimore has an amazing heritage of wealthy citizens giving back to the City. Henry Walters also willed his rowhouse mansion on Mt. Vernon Place and his carefully purchased art collection to the City. Johns Hopkins founded the Universities and also gave away vast sums of money to various charitable causes. (He is sometimes credited with inventing the whole concept of philanthropy.) George Peabody followed Johns Hopkins’ example and did more than his share. Even today, the tradition has continued with Harry Weinberg, who made his money in real estate deals in Downtown Baltimore, and Henry J. Knot, for example, and many, many others.

The lack of indoor plumbing in some of Baltimore’s poorer neighborhoods was such a chronic problem that finally in the mid-1930s the City passed a law that required that every residence in the City must have a functional indoor bathroom by the end of 1941. In the old part of the City you can see those 1941 bathrooms: a little concrete block back yard addition, or a second floor back porch filled in with siding, or a tiny, square, second

floor window where a back bedroom window used to be are the visual reminders of that 1941 law.

Of course, there was still more to go. How about gas service: originally for gas lighting, but soon it powered the kitchen range, the water heater (can you imagine a life without hot water), and the new furnaces. And electricity - what could we do without electricity? You got all of the lights that you could ever want; they were bright, they didn’t flicker, and you didn’t have to blow them out when you went to bed. And the electric clothes washing machine and the clothes drier sure made life a lot easier. And then came radio and TV and telephone and cable for the TV (not to mention all sorts of dish antennas on the roof to pick up signals from satellites above), and DSL for connecting to the Internet. And soon enough, glass fiber. The industrial revolution, now joined by the digital revolution, keep on going faster and faster and they just won’t stop.

Flutist Andrew Foley and pianist Erika Knepp will play a benefit concert at Light Street Presbyterian Church, 809 Light Street, Saturday, June 1, at 4 pm. Entitled “An American in Paris,” the concert features classical music for flute, piano, and voice by composers including Debussy, Copland, and Bolling. Donations will be appreciated; all proceeds support the church’s mission and ministry.

A frequent soloist, Andrew Foley has performed at various venues throughout the United States and France. He was the first-prize winner of the 2012 Baltimore Music Club Competition. A first-year doctoral student at the Peabody Conservatory, Andrew is an active and passionate teacher and currently maintains a studio located between DC and Baltimore.

Erika Knepp, the choir director and accompanist at Light Street Presbyterian Church, is co-artistic director of the newly formed Light Street Chamber Music Series. She is a chorus member of Annapolis Opera and an active recitalist in art song and musical theatre. She has collaborated with instrumentalists, singers, and

dancers at the Peabody Preparatory and Conservatory, Anne Arundel Community College Theatre and Opera, Compass Rose Theatre, the Annapolis Chorale and Youth Choir, Columbia Pro Cantore, the Ballet Theatre of Maryland, and the Royal Academy of Ballet. She maintains a private piano and vocal studio in the Baltimore/Annapolis area.

For more information, contact Rev. Roger Scott Powers at [email protected] or 410-539-0125.

“An American in Paris” Flute and Piano Concert, June 1 at Light Street Church


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April showers bring May flowers—and budding trees as well. This past month the coordination of our ongoing planning effort brought forth many fantastic results. Previously, 24 stumps were ground out during our Presidents Day event back in February. We then rode the wave of success from that Federal Hill Thinking Green (FHTG) Project all the way to Spring Planting. With funds from FHNA as well as the Federal Hill Business Association, Historic Federal Hill Main Street, and the Federal Hill Hospitality Association, we again hired Parks and People Foundation for street tree procurement and planting. In April, five white oaks were planted along Montgomery Street, five lindens were planted along Light Street, and five lindens were planted along South Charles Street. City Forestry directed the city’s Department Of Public Works to cut 16 new tree pits in the sidewalks south of and along Ostend Street. Since the creation of FHTG, the FHNA tree stewardship efforts have extended our mapping to include the main-street area and part of South Baltimore Neighborhood Association beyond Cross Street

Intermittently, we hired Parks and People to “amend” existing empty or newly cut tree pits to facilitate new plantings and insure the potential for successful growth. We still have expectations for an extended spring planting to include City Forestry as well as Parks and People. The city arborist has committed to planting 10 to 15 replacement street trees—thank you, Erik Dehle and Jahmilla Wilson. Also Parks and People have

promised to fill the empty tree pits along the overlap of the Gwynns Falls Trail (GFT) that runs through our neighborhood with funds from a GFT grant. Finally, Parks and People has generously committed to match our spring procurement of 15 trees with a donation of 15 more trees to further increase our urban tree

canopy—thank you Guy Hager, Jeff Barrett, and Will Lam. Once we catch our breath from all this activity, we will re-map the FHNA/FHTG tree plan and look towards fall planting to plan our next efforts. Looking forward, let’s all remember to maintain our precious trees and tree pits through the summer by cleaning, raking for aeration of the soil, and adding mulch. The mulch provides some heat protection of the roots during the summer months. It also holds in moisture

by restricting evaporation. Those tree beds deserve an insulating blanket to get relief from the scorching sun.

DEEP-ROOT WATERING—10 gallons minimum is recommended when mother nature does not provide rainfall. That's 5 large household buckets, and you can't just spill out a bucket. Adjusting a hose down to a trickle is the way to go, not washing away mulch & soil by dumping out an entire bucket. You can tie a hose around the trunk & snake it back downward leaving it in place for an hour or so. Twice a month should be sufficient, but increase watering during dry conditions.

Federal Hill Thinking Green Tree Stewardship AccomplishmentsBy Rich Polan, [email protected]

“Remember to maintain our precious trees and tree pits through the summer by cleaning, raking for aeration of the soil, adding mulch, and providing deep-root watering.”

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Communication Campaigns: We will reach out via social media, new letters and signage to various groups with targeted communications about the impact of trash/litter on our community and the actions they can take to reduce their litter footprint on the peninsula. The Target Groups include:• ElementaryAgeChildren• HighSchoolAgeChildren• Homeowners• Renters/landlords• RealEstateAgents• Dogowners• Smokers• RestaurantsandBars• Businesses

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