Ric Cottom
Host, Your MarylandRic Cottom, host of "Your Maryland," came to Baltimore more than four decades ago and never left. Formerly the editor and publisher at the Maryland Historical Society, he now runs the Chesapeake Book Company, publishing Chesapeake regional history, biography, and environmental studies.
Ric lives in historic Roland Park with his lovely wife Barbara. He loves Maryland seafood, Hopkins lacrosse, Ravens football, good books, tropical islands, and a dry martini, in no particular order.
From the shores of the Chesapeake to the Allegheny Mountains, "Your Maryland" brings you four centuries of colorful men and women who have called this state home. Join us on Thursdays at 5:30 during All Things Considered and discover—"Your Maryland."
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Driven by his Catholic belief, a desire for wealth, and a sense of adventure, Cecil Calvert founded the Maryland colony in 1632. Things may have been… -
The 1894 Baltimore Orioles use legendary antics and creative methods in their battle for the pennant in a surprisingly successful season. -
On July 24, 1868, a great flood swept through the Patapsco River valley, causing great damage and loss of life. -
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In 1934, two teenage boys find a secret stash of gold coins in the basement of an empty house on Eden Street in Baltimore.
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On July 3, 1863, Confederate officer Henry Kyd Douglas was wounded just south of Gettysburg and becomes first a patient and then a prisoner of Union…
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Though one of America's greatest orators of the time, Edward Everett, gave a grand speech at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg, it was Abraham…
