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Mill Memorabilia

Feature photo: Members of United Steelworkers Local 2609 at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point Plant hold a “tailgate” meeting at Penwood

I began working at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point Plant in 1973. I had graduated high school in 1968 in Connecticut

Photo used under a Creative Commons license from flickr user Jasperdo In the 1970s, I was living in Waverly, near

I peel leaf-colored clumps from my shovel. The clay carries memories, art class, wonders of the kiln, the rabbi’s head

Animals go loony when earthquakes and volcanoes gather their murderous forces. But dogs and owners sleep silently even as teachers

He sits like one of the park’s statues, knit cap pulled down to his eyes, blanket tugged up to his

In 1970, after dropping out of college in Washington, D.C., I moved to Baltimore where I lived in a row

The evening before, sands were a flea market. Bronze pen shells, necklaces of barnacles, Purple urchins, mottled purse crabs, spotted

It will be a hot night; They all are in August On the West Baltimore streets. Where people die and

Same guy, ponytail now gray, still strong, enduring as the word, scrappy. Larry the legend, busted ass, eight hours in