Baltimore is a blue collar city. It is a city of neighborhoods. I do not agree with Bella that it is dangerous or that there is nothing worth seeing there. Washington D.C. now - THERE'S a dangerous place. Any large city has dangerous areas, and that goes for Miami as well. Annapolis is nice, if somewhat gentrified. But it isn't really a city - just a small town that has been turned into a capitol.
All over the central Maryland area there are people complaining that their electric bills have doubled. The electric companies have not really answered this - they keep saying that it is just colder than last year and that we are using more electricity than we have been. This is not just in Baltimore, but also in the Washington suburbs and probably also in Annapolis. As for prejudice - I don't think there is any more in Baltimore than in - say Richmond or Raleigh or other large southern cities. My MIL, and my SIL were nurses - they were RNs and did work in hospitals. I don't know why working in hospitals would be so bad and I am quite surprised that any schools still have school nurses. There were none when my children were going to school 25 years ago or even longer ago than that. I got out of teaching some time ago, and friends of mine retired about 5 years ago specifically because of the problem with the kids being able to do anything they wanted and teachers not being backed up. But we are down in a very rural area - not in the city. I don't think the problem with the schools is restricted to Baltimore. I suspect it is nationwide. -----Original Message----- >From: CT <c2sai...@gmail.com> >Sent: Feb 5, 2009 2:04 PM >To: liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org >Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] baltimore Question > >>>IN Baltimore the only thing I can see worth visiting, is Fort McHenry. >And the aquarium. But it’s an easy ride from Annapolis which, I agree with >‘bella is a better place to stop. > >CT >S/V Calliste >30°24'43.07"N >88°34'1.90"W > > Depends on what you would like to see. We have museums (I enjoyed the Science Museum but there's also Walters Art Gallery, the railroad museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, streetcar museum, Babe Ruth Museum, Civil War Museum, Public Works Museum - although I think the dime museum has closed), sports venues, a historic market, Poe's grave, and the Bromo Seltzer tower. The National Zoo isn't in Baltimore, it is in Washington. Baltimore does have the Baltimore Zoo and the National Aquarium. In addition to Ft. McHenry, there is also the Flag Museum and the shot tower. Plus there's a buoy out where the ship that F.S. Key was on during the bombardment was anchored. And of course there's the Seven Foot Knoll lighthouse and the various ships of the inner harbor (Constellation, Torsk etc). _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardnow.org To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardnow.org The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
