PEOPLE

Life Lessons with guitar maker Paul Reed Smith

Paul Reed Smith has come a long way from tinkering on guitars and amplifiers as a teenager in his Bowie, Md., home. His eponymous company, now in its 25th year, employs 230 people at a Stevensville, Md., factory, and his instruments are played… continued

HISTORY

Former students recall days spent in a historic one-room schoolhouse.

For more than 50 years, African-Americans attended Kent County’s one-room Worton Point Colored School No. 2. Now a museum, its former students share memories of attending a segregated school without indoor plumbing or running water. Despite these shortcomings, many say it was the… continued

SPECIAL

From visiting Blackwater Wildlife Refuge to eating crabs at Cantler’s, here are two dozen (plus one) places and activities that should be on anyone’s Bay bucket list.

1 Visit Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge It’s easy to get caught up in the numbers at Blackwater: 25,000 acres, 35,000 migrating geese, 15,000 migrating ducks, 165 threatened or endangered plants, and more pairs of nesting bald eagles than any other location on the… continued