Ellen Reich started her company Three Stone Steps in 2006 after being frustrated about not being able to find fairly made, attractive and functional accessories from foreign countries. Her passion for social justice prompted her to try to provide these kinds of items to the community while keeping their source in mind. Originally Reich was [...]
This week I interviewed Michael Clark of Common Seed, a T-shirt company based out of Hamilton, a community adjacent to Lauraville, and his partner operates out of his own shop in Oakland, Ca. Michael attends the Tuesday Market Connection in Lauraville every week as a vendor and really enjoys the market and the Lauraville community. [...]
This week I found the blog of John Laur, a Lauraville resident who recently started working with the Lauraville Improvement Association and recently visited the Tuesday Market Connection and wrote a blog about his experiences with some accompanying pictures. The blog itself focuses on John and his girlfriend Bobbie and their experiences in Lauraville. After [...]
This week I interviewed Danielle Weissman, a local hula hoop maker that demonstrates, sells and allows trials of her hula hoops at the Lauraville Tuesday Market Connection. She just got into making them about a month ago, and has been hooping for about six months now. Hula hooping is definitely a hit at the Tuesday [...]
I am having a really hard time to find current articles about Lauraville. It is a very small area of Baltimore, so there is not a lot of people blogging or writing articles about it; which is actually one of the reasons that I chose to cover it. I found a post in the blog All [...]
This week I unfortunately do not have any actual reporting to document. I have made several contacts and set up tentative appointments to have interviews, but did not conduct any of them since last week when I interviewed Todd Brizzi of Zeke’s Coffee. I made several efforts to make progress, scheduled interviews and meetings, and [...]
I came across an article in the Baltimore Sun yesterday about a little bookstore in Lauraville with some supposedly amazing muffins. I have never been to the Red Canoe, I have driven past it many times, but never noticed that they offered food. Author Richard Gorelick’s comments definitely have sparked my interest though: “I did [...]
Today I sat down with Zeke’s Coffee’s Todd Brizzi, who is the company’s graphic designer and quality control guy. He is very involved in the roasting process from beginning to end, but given both my time constraints and Zeke’s busy day, today I just went over some of the basics with him as the company [...]
So I have almost completely abandoned my idea to do the stories about the hiking areas in Baltimore. While this is interesting to me, and I think could make for a great multimedia project, I just think it is going to be a stretch to be able to get all of the necessary elements together [...]
Possible Sites: • Lauraville Improvement Association • Zeke’s Coffee • Great Soul Wellness Studio • Grind On Cafe • Tuesday Market Connection in Lauraville (Baltimore Sun) – Starts June 2nd. The Peg: Lauraville is a tightly knit community in northeast Baltimore that is doing many things to improve both the quality of the area and [...]
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