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	<description>Opening Eyes, Opening Ears, Opening Minds</description>
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		<title>Blood and Fire:  Reflecting on the 45th Anniversary of the Catonsville Nine Actions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 17th marks the anniversary of when nine Catholic activists burned 378 draft files in the parking lot of the Catonsville draft board to protest the Vietnam War. Little did they know the ripple effects of their actions.  May 6th on MHC&#8217;s radio segment, Humanities Connection, Dr. Theodore Gonzalves, Department Chair of UMBC’s American Studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Wheels Fell Off the Wagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching my older son fail at the Maryland History Day competition on Saturday was one of the toughest things I’ve done as a parent.  He had paced through the hours between his presentation to the judges and announcement of the awards.  At the awards ceremony, his face was pale.  He clenched and unclenched his hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Words of Steelworkers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MHC launched a new radio segment in March 2013 on WYPR 88.1, FM called &#8220;Humanities Connection,&#8221; airing every Monday at 5:45pm.  While the station reaches the Baltimore, Hagerstown, Frederick, and Ocean City areas, from time to time we&#8217;ll share the written essays submitted for the show by MHC scholars, some of which are truncated for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2013 Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year Remarks: Clinton Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.mdhc.org/blog/?p=947</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Letters About Literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, April 13, over 100 students received honors during the Letters About Literature Awards Ceremony, held at the Enoch Pratt Library Central Branch Wheeler Auditorium, during the CityLit Festival.  The Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year Award was given to Clinton Smith, 10th grade teacher at Parkdale High School in Prince George’s County.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;State of the Oyster&#8221; Community Conversations on the Shore</title>
		<link>http://www.mdhc.org/blog/?p=931</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Community Conversations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum received grant support from MHC in 2012 for a series of Community Conversations. Inspired by MHC&#8217;s Let&#8217;s Be Shore project, &#8220;State of the Oyster&#8220; dialogues focus on  water quality and its affect Oyster industry on the Eastern Shore. In this post, Robert Forloney, Director of the Center of Chesapeake Studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Annapolis to New Orleans, Maryland History Day Participants Honored</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, January 28, nine students and two teachers were honored at the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis for their accomplishments at National History Day 2012. These outstanding middle and high school students from across the state, as well as Teachers of the Year Curtis George of Matapeake Middle School in Queen Anne’s County and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marylanders at the Front Lines for Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.mdhc.org/blog/?p=894</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[For All the World to Hear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOR ALL THE WORLD TO HEAR: STORIES FROM THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS An Oral History, Performance and Digital Humanities Outreach Project of the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC by Harriet Lynn In the 1950’s an African-American college student, Woodrow “Woody” B. Grant, Jr. sat in his Virginia Union University classroom mesmerized by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Maryland One Book Selection Narrows:  What Books Made the Top…11?</title>
		<link>http://www.mdhc.org/blog/?p=878</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[One Maryland One Book]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[book clubs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2012, nearly 7,000 Marylanders, hailing from every county in our state, took part in the Maryland’s only statewide book club, One Maryland One Book (OMOB).  Partners—from libraries to universities to community centers—hosted book discussions, events, concerts, and other programs highlighting our 2012 selection by Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo.  MHC was proud to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MHC Thanks You for an Amazing 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.mdhc.org/blog/?p=860</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how we say it, we definitely mean it! It is our privilege to collaborate with and serve nearly half a million people through a dozen innovative, high-quality humanities programs like Chautauqua, Journey Stories, Maryland History Day, One Maryland One Book, and Practicing Democracy. The Maryland Humanities Council offers more than 650 events each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students&#8217; Encounter with The Cellist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kim Popetz This past summer I was talking with a Maryland Humanities Council staffer when she mentioned that the One Book One Maryland author would be headed my way in the fall to speak at an event.  Having read The Cellist of Sarajevo six months prior I could barely contain my excitement, but not [...]]]></description>
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