Maryland’s
Greatest
Sports
Memories
Celebrating Johnny Unitas,
Dorothy Hamill and Jim McKay
through the things they earned
Baltimore is a great sports town, and Maryland has a rich history of sports and athletes.
The Sports Legends Museum at Camden
Yards has been offering a glimpse of that richness in a show, “Treasures From Our Attic,”
that runs through Dec. 30 and celebrates
some of the state’s most memorable events
and sports people. It has a silver tea set
(odd as it sounds) presented to quarterback
ave
Date
LITTLE ITALY
the
Freedom’s
Sisters
Through
Jan. 2
The stories of 20 African-American women, such
as Harriet Tubman,
Coretta Scott King and
Rosa Parks, who fought
for equal rights for
everyone. Reginald
F. Lewis Museum.
443-263-1800; african
americanculture.org
WASHING TON VILLAGE
Festival of
Trains
Nov. 26–Jan. 2
Toy train sets are a clas-
sic of Christmas, and the
Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Museum claims to
have Baltimore’s largest
display of model train
layouts—sure to delight
little and big kids alike.
410-752-2490; borail.org
CITY GUIDE
Baltimore
Johnny Unitas for the Colts’ 1959 NFL championship, the ring won by Carmelo Anthony
in the 2003 NCAA basketball championship
with Syracuse, the skates and dress worn by
Dorothy Hamill during her gold medal performance in the 1976 Winter Olympics, and the
Emmy award given to broadcasting great Jim
McKay for his coverage of the 1972 Olympics
in Munich and its horrific terror attack. The
museum, at 301 W. Camden St., adjacent to
Oriole Park, is open daily. 410-727-1539;
sportslegendsatcamdenyards.com.
Another Year,
Another Miracle on
34th Street
The year 2009
brought some of
the biggest crowds
ever to 34th
Street in Hamp-
den, in northeast
Baltimore. They
came for the spec-
tacle known as the
miracle: Christ-
mas decorations
galore—with an
emphasis on lights.
For more than 60
years it’s been an
annual Christmas
present to the
world from the lov-
able maniacs of
34th Street.
MOUNT VERNON
Lighting of the
Washington
Monument
Dec. 2
At 178 feet tall, the
Washington Monu-
ment at Mount Vernon
Place was the first
major architectural
memorial to the great
president, and now
each year it is lit glori-
ously for Christmas.
410-244-1030; bop.org
MOUNT VERNON
Holiday
Spectacular
Dec. 10–19
Baltimore’s biggest
holiday show presents
more than 100 elaborately dressed singers,
dancers and musicians
and a frolicking canine
named Rockin’ Rory of
America’s Got Talent.
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. 410-783-8000;
bsomusic.org
cornerstones,
urges visitors to
avoid trying to park
on 34th. Instead,
park on one of the
avenues and grab
a drink or dinner,
then walk around
the corner, head
down 34th and
try not to gape.
If you encounter
solicitors on the
street asking for
money to help pay
electric bills, ignore
them. The decorations are a labor
of love, and the
good people giving
it ask nothing more
than that you enjoy
their gift.
The lights are on
from 6 p.m. to midnight, starting the
night after Thanksgiving and through
Jan. 1. christmas
street.com.
NORTH CHARLES
A Tribute to
Johnny Mercer
Dec. 26–Jan. 2
His lyrics (“Moon
River,” “Summer
Wind”) haunt and
evoke an all-American
landscape (“That Old
Black Magic,” “The
Days of Wine and
Roses”). A holiday
tradition at Everyman
Theatre. 410-752-2208;
everymantheatre.org
