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Hooked on Game of Thrones? George R.R. Martin’s novella Nightflyers is about to be a new TV series. You can check out the book first at the Pratt.
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On May 17, 1968, nine men and women entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland. They removed several hundred draft records, and burned them with homemade napalm in protest against the war in Vietnam. The nine were arrested and, in a highly publicized trial, sentenced to jail.
This act of civil disobedience intensified protest against the draft. It prompted debate in households in Maryland and across the nation. It stirred angry reaction on the part of many Americans. The act also propelled the nine Catholic participants – especially priest brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan – into the national spotlight.
The Catonsville action reflected not only the nature of the Vietnam antiwar movement in 1968, but also the larger context of social forces that were reshaping American culture in the 1960s.
Fifty years later, you can view historical documents linked to the Catonsville Nine on Digital Maryland, including photos, videos, and court records.
On Saturday, May 19 at 2pm the Edmondson Avenue Branch will hold a movie screening and discussion of “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.”
Digital content contributed by Cornell University Library, Friends of the Catonsville Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library, Herman Heyn, Dean Pappas, Lynne Sachs and University of Baltimore Library.
The Hays-Heighe House Horse Racing Photographs Collection contains one color and twenty-one black and white montages of race day photographs. The photos were taken between 1934 and 1951 of prize-winning horses raised and trained at Prospect Hill Farm once owned by Robert H. and Anne Heighe of Harford County, Maryland. That Farm is now the campus of Harford Community College.
Once the manor house for the Heighes, the Hays-Heighe House maintains the archives of Prospect Hill Farm. They’ve also maintained archives of the thoroughbreds raised by Mrs. Heighe that raced at tracks in Maryland and as far away as Long Branch outside of Toronto, Canada and Tropical Park in Miami, Florida. The collection is also associated with two trainers prominent in Harford County and Maryland racing who worked for the Heighes, Jack Boniface and Joe Mergler.
Check out the photos and much more on Digital Maryland.
From fighting back against fast food to a story ripped from the headlines of history, there’s lots of check out at the Pratt.
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