It’s the most wonderful time of the year*!
(*Unless you own a car in Hampden and are hoping to park it south of 38th Street.)
Love it or hate it, one of Baltimore’s brightest annual traditions is back. Long before Light City or Inviting Light, a vernacular spectacular has drawn untold thousands of curious visitors to an otherwise sleepy block of rowhouses. Since 1947, residents of the 700 block of W. 34th Street have been decking their halls, porches, gardens, brick, and formstone with a blinding array of Christmas, Hanukkah, and assorted other non-denominational-Winter-Solstice-celebration lights. (As well as inspiring one of the single funniest “only in North Baltimore” Wikipedia entry subsections about the NIMBY bah-humbuggery/Hanuk-kvetching.)…