I had a similar experience growing up in Mattapan (a section of Dorchester, MA)
People still wax rhapsodic about Mattapan, and I even named my first CD after the main street, Blue Hill Avenue.
Now I’m getting misty too!
I felt a bit silly with tears but indeed I really adore the city of my birth.
My husband was from Massachusetts.
Originally he was from Indiana.
But Baltimore, gorgeous inner harbor. At times I felt like Mary Tyler Moore and wanted to throw my beret joyfully into the air.
Baltimore was built for people like me and my family. Never forget the stock yards, bulls would get loose and run the streets.
Never forget the Lexington Market and Broadway Market on Broadway and Bank streets.
LOVED PIMILICO!!
Man I got to stop.
But it’s my town. I am a Baltimoron.
Charm city.
Baltimore was never a beautiful place, rich or exceptional. But it had everything a city of average folks like family needed.
They ruined it.
But Nancy D’Alesandro.....she should be tearing up too.