Editor’s note: Baltimore Fishbowl publishes occasional personal essays from local writers exploring local themes. Here, Baltimore writer Steve Mencher shares why he and his wife moved a mile north, from Charles Village to Guilford.
After six years in Charles Village, my wife and I are moving exactly one mile north, to Winthrop House, in Guilford. Here’s what we’ll miss when we move to our lovely, but much less diverse and convenient home.
In my six years in Baltimore, I’ve come to understand that no neighborhood is an island, and that’s what makes our current place work. Remington, Hampden, Waverly, Better Waverly, Abell and Harwood all are adjacent to us, or nearly so, and the mix of Black and white, gay and straight, student and family, make the streets come alive, and the Saturday 32nd Street Farmers Market shine…