Arrive Magazine - January/February 2011

CITY GUIDE
Baltimore

Parks, Shirley Chisholm and Roy Wilkins.

Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth represent abolition and women’s rights. Booker

is said to be the
nation’s only Grand
Marnier club.

T. Washington and George Washington Carver are two great educators. Joe Louis, Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson celebrate athletic accomplishments. Eubie Blake and

Greatness
and History,

Billie Holiday represent not only music but also great black people from Maryland. The museum, closed Mondays through most of the winter, is in the Greenwood East neighborhood. 410-563-3404; greatblacksinwax.org.

Depicted in
Wax
Run to this
A quirky museum has a serious
Walking Tour

The tour starts at ; p.m. and goes until ;:;;. Organizers say most participants won’t need dinner afterward. The cost is ;;;. Tours must be reserved in advance, at which time you learn the meeting place. The tour runs on Thursdays in January.

but engaging mission
The Fells Point

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a step away—or several steps away—from the usual tourist trap wax museum. It’s a serious endeavor, dedicated to educating the world about renowned black people and their accomplishments, from Americans Nat

Call or visit their
website for Febru-
ary dates. baltimore
foodtours.com.

Turner and Harriet Tubman to the ancient Egyptian Queen of Sheba and Imhotep. Martin Luther King Jr. is there to tell the story of the civil rights struggle, along with Rosa

Food Tour is part
history lecture, part
restaurant crawl,
set in a landmark
neighborhood that
is nearly ;;; years
old. Participants
are led down cob-
bled streets into
some of the best-
kept eating and
drinking secrets
around: fourth-
generation Greek
family recipes,
smoked crab cakes
from an old family
restaurant, local
beer, sausages
from a ;;-year-old
family-run factory,
potato latkes and
drinks at what

ave Date

INNER HARBOR
CHARLES VILLAGE
LEXING TON
AROUND THE CI TY
CI TY CENTER

Odyssey’s
Advancing
Edgar Allen
Winter

the

Shipwreck!

Abstraction
in Modern
Poe’s Grave
Restaurant
Baltimore Boat
Show
Pirates &

Jan. 19
Week
Jan. 27–30
Treasure
Sculpture

Visit Poe’s original grave on his birthday, where every year since 1949

Jan. 21—30

Through Jan. 31 Visitors see treasure recovered by Odyssey

Through Feb. 20

An examination of the
emergence of abstract
forms in sculpture
through works by Henry
(but not 2010!), the
Marine Exploration and
get a feel for the work
of treasure hunters and
the lives of pirates of
old. Maryland Science
Moore, Louise Nevelson
and David Smith, among
others. Baltimore
“Poe Toaster” has left a
half bottle of cognac and
three roses. Learn more
at the Poe Society. West-
minster Hall, corner
of Fayette and Greene.

Some 60 restaurants serve three-course dinners for $35.11 (not including drinks, tax or tip). Some serve lunch as well, for $20.11. O;ered each winter and summer.

More than 500 power boats and over 150 manufacturers. This year’s show includes restored antique boats and an all-electric boat that claims to be 100 percent green.