Baltimore is also known as Smalltimore. Stories abound about how the great guy you met turns out to be the complete and utter jerk who broke your cousin’s heart in prep school. Everyone knows everyone else, or knows someone they know. 
That’s why this ad campaign is particularly funny.
Who do you know in Baltimore?
Meg that is so completely true. I asked Katie if she read this cool blog called Pigtown Design and not only did she know you but could name three other people we all know. Such a great part of this city. :)
ReplyDeleteOkey Dokey ~ how about Jack Hiss, Millard Hart or John Trader.To be fair ~ John Trader ,my grandfather passed away in the 1940's. He was a well known and loved tug boat captain in the Harbor and died when he slipped off the boat. He lived in South "Bawlmar" The other 2 are alive and well ~ one being an amazing woodworker the other a car salesman. Do you know them?
ReplyDeleteRegards from Terri in Ct who get's weird looks when she calls strangers "Hon" and who happen to be at the Nate Show the day you were on this fall!
Hi Terri! I will have to watch the tape of Nate and see if I see you!
ReplyDeleteI know a Jack Millard, but if I poked around, I could probably figure a connection to the other two! Where did the Captain live in South Baltimore? I've lived down there for a while.
Being interrelated to people I just met drove me nuts - I remember meeting a friend's nanny and later discovering that my father was HER babysitter when he was a kid.
ReplyDeleteOne of the hardest decisions I made in my life was to leave the Big Crab but at least I am an hour away!
And Meg, it was so bizarre when I realized that I had gone to the estate sale at YOUR house in the 90s by way
of one of your blog posts!
I might say the same thing for Philadelphia! Very small town there too and I was probably related to half the population of the Main Line (my parents were even 7th cousins!!! yikes). I haven't lived there for years, but I'm sure it hasn't changed much!
ReplyDeleteI've never met anyone who went to Gilman or Bryn Mawr who ever referred to it as prep schoo
ReplyDeleteOnly you Meg! xv
ReplyDeleteI went to MICA a loooong time ago and have cousins in Baltimore.
ReplyDeleteMy old roomie Sandy, from back when I was a flight attendant, was from Baltimore. Except she pronounced it "Bawlteemore". I used to rib her about that.
ReplyDeleteMarcheline... there are lots of ways to say Baltimore! Bawlmer is one, and Bal-teee-more is another typical way.
ReplyDeleteAn eye... I have 28 first cousins, most of whom lived in close proximity to us growing up, so there was always lots of family around.
ReplyDeleteMeg, don't we both have the great pleasure of knowing James Archer Abbott of Evergreen House?
ReplyDeleteDC... indeed we do... and we probably both know John Bower of Bower Lewis & Thrower in Philadelphia.
ReplyDeleteI do not think so, but perhaps someday I will meet John Bower and you, Meg, as well.
ReplyDeleteCaleb Stine, the folk/alt/rock musician was our next door neighbor on Wyman Park Drive. He used to play guitar at our son Calvin's birthday parties. Cal called him C'leb. If you google Caleb you'll find his sight and you can hear him play. Then you'll want to go see him live, he's fabulous. Also I used to see John Waters at the post office and the Rotunda Giant. He was always so dignified and polite. I love Baltimore.
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