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Once, maybe twice in a lifetime, we are challenged beyond measure. Eradicating Baltimore City from all ills, darkness
is such challenge. With all its past glory; what The Star Spangled Banner was written about, 2nd largest settlement in America
to immigrants, where Mergenthaler invented linotype which revolutionized the printing press, gave Poe, Fitzgerald, Holiday,
Mencken, Calloway, Blake, and Ruth their start, where most household names still used today were made; we The City of Firsts,
Charm City, and The City That Reads rise now to our greatest feast, our greatest conquest.
The first Baltimore Citizen
Circle* started in December 1998 in response to the dire passion of its founders. Citizen Circle Members have already made
large impacts, successes, and contributions working with various organizations including: Save America's Forests, Results,
League of Women Voters, Neighborhood Congress/Citizen's Planning and Housing Association, Common Cause, and community associations.
Members are also creating innovative solution-based educational programs for submission into government legislature.
Baltimore Citizen Circles are multi-cultureal, multi-race, multi-religious, and multi political.
* "Citizen Circles"
originally named "Citizen Salons"
With each challenge we have encountered, we became stronger in our faith that we
can indeed achieve peace. We will provide links to other sites and other resources that provide more detail on our city history
or particular events in our past.
Baltimore City has a record of independence. In order to finance what became the
American Revolutionary War, Baltimoreans opened their purse strings and funded most of the war. With money and the finest
military leaders, Baltimore led the new nation into the birth of the United States of America.
In the Civil War, Baltimore
citizens chose sides. Literally, brother was pitted against brother. Maryland, being a southern state (South of the Mason-Dixon
line), fought not only for heritage and geography, but also for identity.
Baltimore continues its independence as only
one of four places in the United States that charters as an independent juristiction (is not part of a county) since its inception.
In true Baltimore fashion, St. Louis, Missouri, Sun Valley Nevada, and Washington D.C. adopted similar charters when it comes
to their city governments.
We invite you to become a part of the peace process; of Baltimore, and the world.
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