Bready, Laurie

Abstract Doris Feather Hortop was an immigrant from Yorkshire, England and an employee of the Baltimore City Recreation Department. In this interview, she discusses her first experiences as visitor and then bride in Baltimore; Children's Playground Association; organization of social clubs for women, particularly 38-year-old Amity Club; differences between life in Yorkshire, England and Baltimore; Fourth of July pageant in Patterson Park and folk dancing classes; and years as a story teller in...