Ginger Doyel

For over three centuries, the market house has been among Annapolis's most cherished and controversial landmarks. It's been a gathering place, where people of all backgrounds have come to eat, visit with friends, exchange goods, news, and ideas, and yes, even to exercise when part of it was a gym. Gone to Market chronicles the market's history. However, as the author notes in her Foreword, the market's story isn't simply a tale about a building. Rather,...

Over ther bridge, across Spa Creek from the uran core of Annapolis is a community with a rich legacy. It is the land that Louis Heintz call the "little beautiful village of Easport" when he sailed past it in 1891, and what author William Stevens dismissed as Annapolis's "shabby and unfragrant neighbor" in 1937.--jacket blurb.