Baltimore Events in Pictures: 2011

The Motorettes perform at the Baltimore Ports America New Year's Eve Spectacular in 2010. This was the last year
Ports America sponsored the event. 

Boy watches participants in the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. parade. This kid was particularly drawn to this group
and it made me think that maybe this is the message that drew him the most. Or maybe it was the faces of  the stick
figures. Either way, tomorrow's generation is depending on us to teach them about peace.

A shadowy figure leaves the tomb of American author Edgar Allan Poe in 2011. The Poe Toaster used to
leave a glass of cognac and roses on Poe's grave until 2009 when he failed to appear.

Dance troupe performing at the 2011 St. Patrick's Day Parade on Pratt street.

Children have a chance to look at and pet baby chicks and ducklings at the 2011 Flowermart in Mount Vernon.

Performers at the 2011 Cinco de Mayo. 

Go Ask Alice entry performs in the water section of the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture race in 2011. Go Ask Alice
won The People's Choice award for the second year in a row.

Elvis serenades 2011 Baltimore's Best Hon, Sherry Meyers. 

People began dancing the Cha Cha slide at the African American Festival in 2011.

4th of July fireworks in 2011.

Performer in Center Plaza. The Downtown Partnership organizes events in Center Plaza during the summer including
musical performances on Wednesdays.

People dance in the rain at the Mount Vernon 1st Thursdays concert in July 2011. On this particular day performances
were cut short by rain but a few people took the opportunity to literally dance in the rain. 

Stiltwalkers at the 2011 Artscape, the largest free arts
festival in the US. 

Members of the Morgan State University perform at the annual Washington Monument lighting ceremony in 2011.
The event ushers in the holidays season in Baltimore. 

Santa high-fives a boy as he arrives at the beginning of
Fell's Point's  Olde Tyme Christmas in 2011.

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