The Crossroads boat has left the business park
Marc Van Camp's day job is chief financial officer for Bindagraphics. But he volunteers as The Sun's nautical correspondent in Crossroads Business Park in Southwest Baltimore, monitoring the maritime traffic just as Helen Delich Bentley used to cover the Port of Baltimore for the paper. Of course, there are no docks, cranes, berths or water at Crossroads. But that doesn't stop people from dumping boats there along with trash and busted furniture.
The Sun first reported on the latest Crossroads boat in January. Finally, after some crossed semaphors with the city, Van Camp sends this dispatch:
The ship has sailed.
For Crossroads denizens, not even Lord Nelson or Admiral Dewey ever spoke more stirring words.
Comments
I dunno, Jay. "England expects every man will do his duty" (Nelson @ Trafalgar) and "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" (Dewey @ Manila Bay) aren't very stirring. Perhaps you're thinking of "Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead." (Admiral Farragut @ Mobile Bay) or "I have not yet begun to fight" (John Paul Jones v. Serapis). I, for one, would've like to have heard, "Clean this junk up, stet!" from Mayor Rawlings-Blake. Pace Mayor William Donald "Do it now!" Schaefer.
Posted by: Jamie Hunt | March 3, 2010 12:04 PM