my grandparents lived in Annapolis....I mean right smack in the middle of Annapolis in an appartment that was one block from the State House.....as kids we roamed the entire area, free of fear....lovely town, lovely docks, and the Naval Academy.....we used to go to the Bay Bridge to swim but sometimes went to some sort of "private" beach area that cost my parents $6 dollars which was a lot back then...
fresh corn...lovely Greek food....St. Mary's carnivals.....I have good memories of Maryland...
Yeah, back in the day. What we had then has been ground into the dirt, pushed out of our common culture, or otherwise intimidated into irrelevance as the Leftist/bureaucratic machine has expanded into our back yards like uninvited Gypsies. I don't even recognize the state where I was born and raised - every year I come home, as a good son should, and I find a new reason to think, "It's now illegal here to do
what?!?!?"
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920