Black History Month starts and Welcome to Springuary

February should be renamed Springuary - 68 at the airport, 71 degrees downtown Baltimore today.

As taken directly from www.baltimore.org/multicultural/black-history

Baltimore Black History:

Between 1789 and 1832, Joshua Johnson (also signed as Johnston) painted portraits of Baltimore residents. He is noted as the first prominent African American portrait artist. Some of his works depict a child holding a strawberry and, according to the 1814 Baltimore Directory, Johnson was noted as living on Strawberry Alley (although he is thought to have moved throughout Baltimore and Fells Point). The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Maryland Historical Society have some of his works on display.