BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Baltimore County Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Baltimore County Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b4ce6bdb-be54-4e65-8223-00afc7cb2432 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20261022T102244Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261115T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261115T144500 SUMMARY:The Sage of Baltimore LOCATION:Perry Hall Branch\nPerry Hall Branch X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Perry Hall Branch;X-APPLE- RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Perry Hall Branch:geo:39.4152155,-76.4506152 GEO:39.4152155;-76.4506152 DESCRIPTION:Hear about Henry Louis Mencken: a journalist\, author\, arbite r of the American language\, opinion maker\, ultimately a literary g iant and native Baltimorean..\nhttps://bcplinfo.libnet.info/event/17429305 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

His Scopes trial reporting \;skewered& nbsp\;the sacred cows of the time\; his literate magazine work with the Sm art Set and American Mercury raised the level of public discourse. We look at the high points of his life \;-- \;his personal elitism\, a bl ind spot where empathy should have been and views that bordered on racial bias. His guiding stars were always less \;government and more persona l liberty\, \;but \;in \;his \;negative views of \;Fra nklin Roosevelt and \;the New Deal \;made \;him out of step wi th the times. Mencken the person was in many ways controversial\, yet he w as a powerful influencer on American literature.

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