Lee McCardell was the most famous war correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. The first Sunpapers writer to get into the action after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, he reported on the fighting in Italy and covered D-Day. He was believed to be the first American correspondent to reach liberated Paris and was among … Continue reading From the Archive: A war correspondent’s holiday letter to his children
Three memories of Christmas Eve
One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those buildings, and had met a single … Continue reading Three memories of Christmas Eve
The origins of the Christmas story in ‘Baltimore, You Have No Idea’
A long time ago, when I read The Boston Globe every day, there was a reporter-turned-columnist named Jeremiah V. Murphy. He was an engaging writer. I remember a specific column he wrote about divorced fathers separated from their kids during the holidays. The sentiments expressed in the column were deeply empathetic, and the whole idea … Continue reading The origins of the Christmas story in ‘Baltimore, You Have No Idea’
Dan Rodricks 