The assignment for each of us, #ShareYourLove, is both intriguing and daunting. What do we love? This reporter loves many things. But reading and listening seem to be especially appropriate here. For visitors to this city and region who need to know what’s happening in the area during their…
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Since the U.S. Naval Academy, like most government installations, limits vehicular traffic on the Yard, several sites go practically unnoticed by visitors taking a walking tour. If you’re game for a relatively short, level stroll up Turner Joy Road, making an immediate starboard (right) turn as you…
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Photo courtesy of VAAAC With apologies to newspaperman Horace Greeley—or whoever truly coined the phrase “Go west, young man”—visitors to this area are urged to “go south.” Those yearning to peel away the veneer of the main attractions here in search of elusive “local color” would do well to…
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Maryland has, at many times, been referred to as “America in Miniature”— with its “purple mountain majesty” to the west, “amber waves of grain” and “fruited plain” in its midsection, and the eastward “shining sea”, it is easy to understand why. What better way to celebrate these vast natural…
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For visitors to this region, it’s easy to get caught up in the grand aura of all the attractions—celebrations of its seagoing heritage, food, historic architecture, brick-lined streets, and walkways—all contemporary interpretations of Annapolis’ and Anne Arundel County’s sweeping and glorious past…
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As everyone knows, tailgating is never an acceptable practice on our open streets and highways, but in the confines of the parking lots at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on game day, it can be loads of fun—and sometimes even pure magic. While not on a scale of schools ten times its size, there’s…
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A tour of the United States Naval Academy is a “must-do” on the Annapolis sightseeing list. Only one place on “The Yard,” however, offers the most diverse and captivating tales of midshipmen past and present and figures from other facets of U.S. naval history. It’s probably also the least known…
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