Plans Set for Rash Field Park Phase 2
(This article first appeared in the February 2023 issue of the South Baltimore Peninsula Post newspaper.) In December, the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore released its final design concepts for the next phase of Rash Field Park at the Inner Harbor, showing a focus on recreation and wellness to complement the first phase’s focus on children’s…
SoBo Spring Sports Are Here!
Sign-ups and some try-outs are already under way as spring comes to South Baltimore. Here’s your guide to all the outdoor recreation options and sports on the peninsula. (Photos by Mary Braman) – Compiled by John Thomas Baltimore Beach Volleyball Baltimore Beach Volleyball at Rash Field on the Inner Harbor offers free drop-in games on…
A Voyage Around the Peninsula
The SoBo peninsula reveals its many diverse faces when you look at it up close from the water’s edge. Two Peninsula Post volunteers recently circumnavigated the entire shoreline by kayak, from the Inner Harbor to Ridgely’s Cove beneath I-395. Steve Cole contributed photographs, with an assist from Dan Strodel, whose kayaking skills made this voyage…
A World-Class Rye Whiskey That’s Maryland to the Core
(This article originally appeared in the December 2022 issue of the South Baltimore Peninsula Post newspaper. Corrected Feb. 13, 2023) Quite a bit of Maryland comes together on the southern shore of the SoBo peninsula to make whiskey that is leaving its mark around the world. Sagamore Spirit (301 E. Cromwell Street) blends limestone-filtered spring…
Digging into the Past in Sharp-Leadenhall
Lauren Schiszik had a hunch that buried beneath the playing fields, paths, and green space of Solo Gibbs Park were intact remains of houses and fragments of the lives of people who lived here as far back as the Civil War. The park in the historic Black neighborhood of Sharp-Leadenhall sits on land once filled…
Support SoBo Community News, Events in 2023
With the help of generous donors and neighbors like you, South Baltimore United is wrapping up its first full year of working to build stronger community connections across the SoBo peninsula. And what a year it’s been! With your support, this all-volunteer nonprofit organization created: And we have even more planned for 2023 – more…
‘Baltimore Peninsula’ Prepares to Open at Port Covington
This January, the first prospective residents will tour the brand-new apartment buildings. In March, the first apartment dwellers will move in. And with that, the South Baltimore peninsula’s newest neighborhood will be launched in the former industrial area of Port Covington. The first phase of the massive planned community south of Interstate 95, which has…
When Baltimore’s ‘Road Wars’ Raged Across SoBo
(This story originally appeared in the October-November 2022 print edition of the South Baltimore Peninsula Post.) EDITOR’S NOTE – In the 1950s, when plans for a nationwide interstate highway system were born, cities across the country began to grapple with how to make room for expressways snaking through dense urban landscapes. Baltimore was no exception,…
See the Vision for SoBo’s Southern Shore
On December 5 and 6, South Baltimore got a sneak peek at the near-final plans for transforming the 11-mile shoreline of the Middle Branch into “Baltimore’s next great waterfront.” In a pair of online public meetings, representatives of the “Reimagine Middle Branch” project laid out a detailed draft plan that is slated to go to…
Capturing Motherhood and Family Life on Canvas
(This “SoBo Made” feature originally appeared in the October-November 2022 print edition of the South Baltimore Peninsula Post.) Artist Lee Nowell-Wilson is as vibrant as her paintings that adorn the walls of her studio in the School 33 Art Center (1427 Light Street). A Maryland native who lives in Baltimore, Lee has rented a studio…
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