Your Maryland

Your Maryland

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Your Maryland episodes

  • Ten Bears
    In 1975, The Morgan State University Lacrosse team defeated Washington ---- Lee in the biggest upset in NCAA Lacrosse history.
    5 min
  • Jacob Gruber
    In 1818, Jacob Gruber, a minister from Pennsylvania, was charged with inciting a slave revolt in Maryland when he preached about abolition in Hagerstown.
    5 min
  • The Dover Eight
    In March, 1857, a group of slaves from Dorchester County made their way to Dover, Delaware on the Underground Railroad. There, after being betrayed, they narrowly escaped from the Dover jail and continued on to freedom.
    5 min
  • Mouse
    Before he made a name for himself in the vaudeville scene in New York, Eubie “Mouse” Blake got his start playing honkytonk music in the pool halls, saloons, and brothels of East Baltimore.
    5 min
  • The Explorer
    After working together for 22 years, Matthew Henson and Robert E. Peary located the North Pole in April, 1909. History, however, would record only Peary's name as having made the discovery.
    5 min
  • ----The Parthian Shot----
    Dashiell Hammett, born on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1894, worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency before turning to writing, creating such memorable characters as Sam Spade and The Thin Man.
    5 min
  • Cowpens
    On January 17, 1781, a group of American militiamen and Continental regulars defeated 1100 British troops commanded by Banastre Tarelton in a South Carolina meadow known as the Cowpens.
    5 min
  • The Revolutionary
    During the Revolutionary War, Charles Wilson Peale served with, and painted portraits of, many great leaders fighting for independence from England, including George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.
    5 min

About Your Maryland

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Since 2002, ----Your Maryland---- hosted by Ric Cottom, has presented little-known human interest stories from Maryland's past. Beginning with accused witches and the murderous career of John…