About the Author

Winner of the Baltimore City Historical Society 2003 History Honor, Frank Remer Shivers, Jr., has taught in adult education programs at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was named "Teacher of the Year." He is coauthor of The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History and author of Maryland Wits & Baltimore Bards: A Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers and Walking in Baltimore: An Intimate Guide to the Old City, all published by Johns Hopkins .

Reviews

Written in a delightfully chatty and gossipy style, which lets us outlanders in on what life, then and now, is like on Bolton Hill. -- Fred Rasmussen Baltimore Sun Frank Remer Shivers, Jr. paints a rich portrait of one of Baltimore's first suburbs. Old House Journal