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The art of transforming an Avenue: Community leaders draw on the power of jazz, not just economic initiatives, to revitalize historic Pennsylvania Avenue
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Baltimore Afro-American
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May 11, 2001
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Glover, D. Morton
Baltimore Afro-American
05-11-2001
The art of transforming an Avenue: Community leaders draw on the power of
jazz, not just economic initiatives, to revitalize historic Pennsylvania
Avenue
"Who is Eleanor Fagan Gough?" asks Alvin Brunson. "She's Billie Holiday, of
course, born to Sadie Gough and Clarence Holiday," he wittily informs.
"What was the Royal Theater first called?" he again poses. "The Douglass!"
he exclaims with excitement.
Brunson, the educational director for the Center for Cultural Education,
Inc., loves such bits of local history and intends for others to share in
its preservation.
He wants future generations to know how "The Avenue" was once the place to
go if one ...
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