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Comments (0)I recently went on a bus tour of Druid Hill Park and its once-Jewish ‘hoods that was presented by the Jewish Museum of Maryland. With my old friend Barry Kessler, the museum’s former curator, leading the tour, you knew you were going to learn a lot. Barry has an encyclopedic mind. And since there were a lot of senior citizens who grew up in the Druid Hill Park area (or remember going there to visit friends and family) onboard, you knew there were going to be a lot of firsthand recollections of that neighborhood’s golden age. Not a mousy generation. So the tour was the perfect mix of scholarship (Barry) and folksy remembrances and anecdotes. But what was missing – like at so many other Jewish gatherings – were young people. Granted, the tour was on a Wednesday morning,… read more
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