
Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.
Episodes
14 episodes
Boomer Thoughts of the Week 06/19/2025
Each week I will have commentary on where the podcast stands or is going. In this episode, I have also provided my thinking on the contributions of the author, Antero Pietila, the former Baltimore Sun reporter, and William Lloyd Adams, known to...
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Episode 13
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Young Boomer Love and Marriage: Keeping It Fresh! Kevin and Mary James Press
Boomers range in age from 79 to 61. Kevin and Mary were not aware they were Baby Boomers until this interview. I chose to interview them because whenever I see them, they seem like newlyweds. Hear their advice for staying together and enjoying ...
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Episode 12
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30:04

The Doctor is In! -- Dr. Jerry Luck, Jr.'s, Family, J. Carter Luck and Kathy Kyper Luck
Dr. Jerry Luck, Sr., was another iconic member of the Cherry Hill community. Rain or shine, night or day, he was there for us and only charged $ 3 per visit into the late 1960s. According to his daughter-in-law, Kathy Kyper Luck, Dr. and Mrs. G...
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Episode 10
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Uncle Sam Wants You! Wayne and Debbie Hicks Speaks, Retired Air Force Family
Wayne and Debbie are my cousins. They have a delightful story of life as a career military family. High school sweethearts, they married at 18, and the rest is history. They have travelled internationally and at one time, considered staying in ...
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Episode 9
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Boomer Thoughts of the Week
Each week on Wednesday as I publish new episodes, I will give you some thoughts that I have collected since the previous week. These thoughts can pertain to something that happened over the course of the week, or they could be totally random. T...
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Episode 11
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Meet the Baltimore Boomer
Linda G, Morris is the author of Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore. She learned so much about Baltimore writing the book, she wants to share Baltimore and her fellow Boomers with the world. In this inaugural e...
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Episode 1
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Power Couple Extraordinaire: Robert L. and Carolyn Green Wallace
Bob Wallace and Carolyn Green Wallace are two of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever met. While I had Bob in my Cherry Hill book as a Cherry Hill success story, I was not previously aware of him. I relied heavily on my very dear friend, S...
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Episode 7
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42:50

Sharon Artis Jackson: From Garrison Jr. High into the World
Meet one of my best friends from Garrison Junior High School. We graduated from Garrison in June 1962 and had not seen each other until November 2024. I went to a luncheon of Western High School women, and there she was. This same girl that bea...
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Episode 8
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39:54

Beyond the Gates: David L. Nash, Harlem Globetrotter
My friend and former coworker talks about what it was like growing up in St. Louis, and how he came to play professional basketball. I often kid him about living in a community in PG County similar to the one the CBS soap is modeled after. Meet...
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Episode 6
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32:21

Brother John! John H. Morris, Jr., Esq.
My baby brother grew up to be a really good person. He became a trial attorney--always defending the underdog. Listen as we discuss family events that shaped our relationship.
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Episode 3
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37:10
A Love Story--Donald Thoms, Retired PBS VP
Donald and Mariana Thoms were high school sweethearts at Edmondson High School. They are the parents of actress Tracie Thoms and DJ/Comedian Austin Thoms. Donald and Mariana were married almost 50 years when Mariana was diagnosed with dementia ...
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Episode 5
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48:26

Cherry Hill's Daddy Logan's Daughter: Francesca Brooks
Daddy Logan was a man before his time. He came to Baltimore from NC to work at the Bethlehem Steel plant on Sparrows Point in Baltimore County to save up money for his own entrepreneurial opportunity--creating a mobile grocery store for the fam...
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Episode 4
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33:02

I've Got My Sister With Me, Judith Campbell Graves
Meet my sister, Judy (Judith Ann Campbell Graves), who was born in 1944 and is in the silent generation. She was my first friend in this world, and we were born into a multi-family, large three-story row house at 517 N. Gilmor Street betw...
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Episode 2
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