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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 23, 2018
Caption: Walking in Barth's Footsteps
Additional Description: ① Boyhood Home at 107 Aurora Street [private residence]

② Choptank River waterfront, where Barth and friends played as children

③ Former Site of East Cambridge Elementary School

④ Former site of Arcade Theatre at 502-504 Race Street where Barth's Jazz combo, the Swingtette, performed

⑤ Former site of Whitey's Candyland, owned by Barth's father, at 405 Race Street

⑥ 101 High Street [private residence], where Barth wrote The Floating Opera; he rented an apartment overlooking Water Street

⑦ Long Wharf, where Adams Floating Theatre docked
Close-up of map on marker
Submitted: February 2, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p415268
File Size: 1.866 Megabytes

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