Museum Shop-Around set for Dec. 4 and 5 at Evergreen
On Dec. 4 and 5, holiday shoppers will be able to browse
their favorite Baltimore museum shops in one place--Evergreen's
Carriage House.
The event brings together 21 shops from area destinations,
including the American Visionary Art Museum, Babe Ruth Museum,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore
Symphony, Baltimore Zoo, B&O Railroad Museum, Calvert Marine
Museum, Evergreen House, Great Blacks
in Wax, Hampton House Mansion, Historic St. Mary's City,
Homewood House Museum,
Maryland Historical Society, Maryland Science Center, Montgomery
County Historical Society, National Historic Seaport, National
Aquarium in Baltimore, Port Discovery, Star-Spangled Banner House
and Top of the World. Proceeds will be divided among
participating organizations.
An Early Bird Shoppers Breakfast from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on
Saturday, Dec. 4, offers a continental breakfast and a 20 percent
discount on purchases; tickets, $10 per person, are available at
participating museum shops.
The Museum Shop-Around takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on
Saturday, Dec. 4, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 5.
Admission is $5 for adults; children 12 and under are free.
Refreshments and free parking will be available. For more
information, call 410-516-0341.
High-tech tellers at Federal Credit Union are
recognized
What started as a unique deterrent to robbery has earned the
Johns Hopkins Federal Credit
Union kudos in the Baltimore Business Journal's third
annual Innovation in Technology Awards. The remote teller system
of the 24,000-member credit union was named one of 10 finalists
in the competition last month, the only financial institution to
receive an award along with Internet and technology companies.
The remote teller, located in the lobby of the East Monument
Street main branch, works like a drive-up teller window that uses
a pneumatic tube to carry transactions to eight teller stations.
It is the first of its kind in Maryland and also promotes
efficiency.
Wreath-making workshops to be held at Glass Pavilion
Wreath-making workshops, sponsored by the university's
historic houses, will be held on Friday, Dec. 3, at the Glass
Pavilion, Homewood campus, from noon to 1 p.m. and 1 to 2 p.m.
Using traditional methods, participants will decorate a
balsam wreath using cuttings of nature's best magnolia and holly,
topped off with a big bright bow. All materials and instructions
are included in the workshop fee. Participants are encouraged to
bring a bag lunch; refreshments will be provided.
The cost is $14 for members of
Homewood House Museum or
Evergreen House and for JHU staff; $15
for nonmembers. Pre-registration is required. To make a
reservation, call 410-516-5589.
Homewood House Candlelight Tour free to JHU community
Homewood House
Museum will come alive with the holiday spirit as flames glow
during its annual Candlelight Tour, scheduled this year from 5 to
7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 13.
Candles will sparkle, and music and good cheer will permeate
the air as visitors tour rooms set for entertaining in the home
of Charles Carroll Jr. Built in 1801, this elegant Federal house
will be decorated for the holidays by the Homeland Garden Club in
19th-century style with garlands of greens and windows of
boxwood. Guests can sample holiday refreshments in the wine
cellar and visit the Homewood Shop, featuring unique gifts.
Homewood members and Hopkins staff and students are admitted
free. Admission for others is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $3
for students. For more information, call 410-516-5589.
Hopkins hosts groundbreaking for White Marsh facility
While the original Sept. 16 Johns Hopkins at White Marsh
groundbreaking was postponed due to Hurricane Floyd, construction
was not. So on Nov. 19, Edward D. Miller, CEO of Johns Hopkins
Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine, and several other
Hopkins representatives and elected officials, held a
"groundbreaking" ceremony for the under-construction medical
facility. The 50,000-square-foot outpatient complex, modeled on
Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station, will offer Hopkins care in
a community setting. Located on Honeygo Boulevard, the new
facility is scheduled for completion in early summer 2000.
NAMES Project AIDS quilt panel displayed at Peabody
In honor of National AIDS Day and Quilt Across Maryland,
both Dec. 1, a panel of the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt will be on
display at the Peabody Conservatory. The quilt will be located in
the NationsBank Lounge, second floor of The New Building, where
it can be sen on Dec. 1, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Dec. 2, 3 to 6 p.m.;
and Dec. 3, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.