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The National Museum of Health and Medicine
Once it re-opens in its new Silver Spring, Maryland location this fall, this site will scare and educate, with displays of prosthetic eyes, amputated limbs and incomplete skeletons
June 2011 |
By Tony Perrottet
Ladew Topiary Gardens
Clipped hedges and a house full of antiques are the main attractions for this museum north of Baltimore, Maryland
June 2011 |
By Robert M. Poole
On the Trail of Harriet Tubman
Maryland’s Eastern Shore is home to many historical sites and parks devoted to the heroine of the Underground Railroad
February 02, 2011 |
By Jeanne Maglaty
Photographing Baltimore's Working Class
Baltimore's A. Aubrey Bodine cast a romantic light on the city's dockworkers in painterly photographs
April 2010 |
By Abigail Tucker
A Dinosaur Graveyard in the Smithsonian's Backyard
At a new dinosaur park in Maryland, children and paleontologists alike have found fossils for a new Smithsonian exhibit
February 2010 |
By Abby Callard
Crawling Around with Baltimore Street Rats
The “urban ecosystem” serves as a research lab for scientist Gregory Glass, who studies the lives of the Charm City’s rats
November 18, 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Civil War Geology
What underlies the Civil War’s 25 bloodiest battles? Two geologists investigate why certain terrain proved so hazardous
April 14, 2009 |
By David Zax
Bank Executives See the Forest and the Trees
In a Maryland forest, bankers trade in their suits and ties to study the environment with Smithsonian scientists
April 2009 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
The More the Merrier
Photographer Neal Slavin captures the night some Santas bent the rules
January 2009 |
By David Zax
Muskrat Love
An annual festival on Maryland’s Eastern Shore celebrates an unlikely mascot
April 21, 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
Maryland
Whether it's rustic camping in the mountains you crave or chamber music played by world-class musicians, Maryland’s diverse cultural offerings should not be missed.
November 06, 2007 |
By Smithsonian.com
Bleeve It, Hon
The tentative city the sportswriter grew up in has regained a bit of swagger
January 2007 |
By Frank Deford
Preacher on the Go
Tiny Smith Island has three churches but only one pastor, who gets around by boat and Golf Cart
May 01, 2001 |
By T. Edward Nickens
