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The holiday season brings some cheer to Baltimore
This holiday season, take a time-out from studying to enjoy the celebrations, free food and entertainment the city has to offer
Issue date: 12/4/08
The holidays are seldom filled with merriment and good cheer for college students who spend December living in the bowels of the library, never to see a single twinkle of light. But Baltimore is a city that loves Christmas (and various concurrent winter holidays), so as long as you are here, dear Hopkins students, you owe yourselves a break from B-level to enjoy the season.
If you just can't pull yourself too far from those marathon study sessions in your library carrel, there are enough festivities on and around campus to put you in the holiday mood. The Hopkins-owned Evergreen Museum & Library will live up to its name this season with "An Ever Green Evening." On Dec. 11, Christmas (and piney fragrances) will be in the air at the museum for a showcase of trees decorated by some of Baltimore's top interior decorators, landscape artists, architects and furniture makers. Walk through this winter wonderland for free just up the road at 4545 N. Charles St.
Oh, you're too busy to take the shuttle up the street, you say? That's no problem at all, because the holidays are within walking distance of campus, too! No matter how overloaded with work you are, there's no excuse good enough for not trekking over to Hampden to see the annual "Miracle on 34th Street." Every year, residents of the stretch between Keswick Road and Chestnut Avenue threaten to blow the power grid with dazzling holiday decorations that would make Clark Griswold turn green.
Legions of Baltimoreans come out every December to take in the view, and just being among them is guaranteed to send you back to the blissful, exciting, worry-free holidays you enjoyed when you had time to enjoy them. The parking situation is the only downside to this event, but since you can just fall off of the edge of campus and land in Hampden, even that's not an issue. The lights on 34th will be sparkling and blinking from now until New Year's.
So what was Christmastime like in this neck of the woods before Hopkins took over? Well, find out by visiting the Homewood House Museum. On Monday between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., the historic building will travel back in time to an early-19th-century Christmas during "Homewood by Candlelight." Flickering flames, eggnog and period music will make you feel right at home with the Carroll family.
If you just can't pull yourself too far from those marathon study sessions in your library carrel, there are enough festivities on and around campus to put you in the holiday mood. The Hopkins-owned Evergreen Museum & Library will live up to its name this season with "An Ever Green Evening." On Dec. 11, Christmas (and piney fragrances) will be in the air at the museum for a showcase of trees decorated by some of Baltimore's top interior decorators, landscape artists, architects and furniture makers. Walk through this winter wonderland for free just up the road at 4545 N. Charles St.
Oh, you're too busy to take the shuttle up the street, you say? That's no problem at all, because the holidays are within walking distance of campus, too! No matter how overloaded with work you are, there's no excuse good enough for not trekking over to Hampden to see the annual "Miracle on 34th Street." Every year, residents of the stretch between Keswick Road and Chestnut Avenue threaten to blow the power grid with dazzling holiday decorations that would make Clark Griswold turn green.
Legions of Baltimoreans come out every December to take in the view, and just being among them is guaranteed to send you back to the blissful, exciting, worry-free holidays you enjoyed when you had time to enjoy them. The parking situation is the only downside to this event, but since you can just fall off of the edge of campus and land in Hampden, even that's not an issue. The lights on 34th will be sparkling and blinking from now until New Year's.
So what was Christmastime like in this neck of the woods before Hopkins took over? Well, find out by visiting the Homewood House Museum. On Monday between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., the historic building will travel back in time to an early-19th-century Christmas during "Homewood by Candlelight." Flickering flames, eggnog and period music will make you feel right at home with the Carroll family.
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BaLTIMoRE mOverS
posted 1/23/09 @ 5:24 PM EST
Baltimore definitely is a city that loves Christmas! As do i! you really get the good warm holiday feeling in Bmore.
Gillian Kerr
posted 3/06/09 @ 11:50 PM EST
This sounds like a great program and a great way to improve education in our schools!
Anna Reed
posted 7/04/09 @ 1:15 AM EST
I have to agree with teh poster above... :/ looks like a lot of hot air to me.
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