Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood

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Bob Wallace and Carolyn Green Wallace are two of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever met. While I had Bob in my Cherry Hill book as a Cherry Hill success story, I was not previously aware of him. I relied heavily on my very dear friend, Sidney Rauls Ellis, to give me information about the people in Cherry Hill since she lived there much longer than I did. I was just closing up the chapter on success stories when Sidney mentioned that Deborah Curry's cousin had a computer business. I contacted him, put him in the book, and forgot about him. Two years later, I was on Facebook, and something popped up on my screen about a seminar Bob was conducting at a church in Columbia, MD. I am a firm believer in signs, so I took this as a sign that I should attend this seminar happening in three days. The rest is history. Listen and be blessed!

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Meet one of my best friends from Garrison Junior High School. We graduated from Garrison in June 1962 and had not seen each other until November 2024. I went to a luncheon of Western High School women, and there she was. This same girl that beat me in the poetry contest with maybe 8 lines to my 2-page poem. But I ain't mad at her--now.  Listen to what has happened to her over the past 60 years.

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My friend and former coworker talks about what it was like growing up in St. Louis, and how he came to play professional basketball. I often kid him about living in a community in PG County similar to the one the CBS soap is modeled after. Meet Dave and discover his journey.

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My baby brother grew up to be a really good person. He became a trial attorney--always defending the underdog. Listen as we discuss family events that shaped our relationship.

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Donald and Mariana Thoms were high school sweethearts at Edmondson High School. They are the parents of actress Tracie Thoms and DJ/Comedian Austin Thoms. Donald and Mariana were married almost 50 years when Mariana was diagnosed with dementia and died 2 1/2 years ago. Donald shares their story and details his career in broadcasting, rising to the position of VP with PBS.

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Daddy Logan was a man before his time. He came to Baltimore from NC to work at the Bethlehem Steel plant on Sparrows Point in Baltimore County to save up money for his own entrepreneurial opportunity--creating a mobile grocery store for the families in Cherry Hill and other parts of Baltimore City. His wife, Estelle, managed the brick and mortar grocery store they purchased in another part of south Baltimore. Daddy Logan's school bus grocery store was a welcome sight to children who saved their pennies to buy the wide variety of candy he carried. Miss Dorothy P., 93, an early resident of Cherry Hill who was a celebrity herself with a set of triplets born in Cherry Hill in addition to four other children, remembers Daddy Logan. "I loved Daddy Logan. He was a friend to everyone. What I remember most is how he treated people. We were young with families, our husbands not making a lot of money. Not one person who went on Daddy Logan's bus came off empty handy--whether you had money or not. Those were the days when we shared and gave to each other. Daddy Logan was known for his goodness. What a man! I'm 93 and still remember his kindness to all. Best days of my life. Daddy Logan was one of the kindest men I have ever known."

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Meet my sister, Judy (Judith Ann Campbell Graves), who was born in 1944 and is in the silent generation.  She was my first friend in this world, and we were born into a multi-family, large three-story row house at 517 N. Gilmor Street between Edmondson Avenue and Franklin Street. The house had an elegant, long front staircase with a curved banister that led to the living room and a simple back staircase that led to the kitchen--a kitchen filled with sisters talking and laughing and preparing daily meals while we children played all over the house. We lived there with 3 aunts, 2 uncles, 3 cousins until I was 4 in 1953 when we moved to a row house in Cherry Hill. We discuss our lives growing up together, and Judy discusses being bussed from Cherry Hill to Westport, a neighboring community ten minutes away, after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools. We compare our experiences attending Edmondson High School and Towson State Teachers College, now Towson University.

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Join me as I tell you about my podcast launching at 9 p.m., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. 

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