ERIN TSCHANTRET, HANDS hands on her hips and a glint in her eyes, stands on the deck of a 52-foot-long ship anchored in Fell’s Point. In her tricorn hat, short leather vest, gray skort and red sport sandals she looks like a cross between Captain Jack Sparrow and the mom next door. And as she faces the crowd assembled on the deck of her double-masted, skull-and-crossbones flying vessel, the Fearless, it becomes clear that’s the point. Read More...
Explore More The Chevrolet Camaro, for decades the dream car of many teenage American males, is going out of production.
General Motors, which sells the brawny muscle car, said Wednesday it will stop making the current generation early next year.
The future of the car, which is raced on NASCAR and other circuits, is a bit murky. GM says another generation may be in the works.
“While we are not announcing an immediate successor today, rest assured, this is not the end of Camaro’s story,” Scott Bell, vice president of Chevrolet, said in a statement Wednesday. Read More...
In this second week of Black History Month, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced their bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to approximately 200,000 African Americans who served with the Union Army during the Civil War. My great-grandfather Isaiah King of New Bedford was among them. He was a soldier with Company D of the Fifth Massachusetts (Colored) Cavalry, having enlisted at age 17 on Jan. Read More...