In 2020 and early 2021, the Peale participated in the Lexington Market Public History Initiative in an effort to collect stories and memories about the world-famous Lexington Market as the market itself prepared for a redesign and reopening. The initiative’s core partners were Baltimore Heritage, Baltimore Public Markets Corporation, Lexington Market, Inc., Market Center Community Development Corporation, Seawall, and the Peale, and the work was partially enabled by a Pathways Grant from the Maryland Center for History and Culture. This project was financed in part by the Maryland Center for History and Culture’s Thomas V. “Mike” Miller History Fund.

Kendrick Keys: My mother's sister, my Aunt Rose, and I would go to breakfast at Lexington Market. She would take me to breakfast just for her and I to spend time together. I mean, an aunt and nephew, an aunt and niece, those were very special moments, so everyone should cherish those because your aunt or uncle is like a second parent.

Kendrick Keys: She's no longer with me, but we would eat at this one breakfast place. We always went to breakfast. It was never any other meal, but we would always do breakfast. And I believe the name of what is it is the Sandwich King, and it was its own little stall, but it was one of the only stalls that had a seating area. It had about four or five stationary tables, and we would sit there and have breakfast. You would go get your breakfast and then take it over to the seating area. It was the only place that we would have breakfast. Everyone had their favorite deli or favorite breakfast place or favorite grocer, and that was my Aunt Rose and I's favorite stall. I asked a cousin earlier, but she believes the name may have changed, but it's called, I think, the Sandwich King.

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