Gary M. Almeter > Quotes

“Or the way people print the Maryland flag onto—and I cannot stress this enough—everything.”
― Gary M. Almeter, A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology

“Frank the body snatcher, who lived beneath the sloped seats of Davidge Hall’s anatomic theater, sold to medical students the whiskey displaced by the body in the barrel. The same thing happened at the receiving end of the shipment. Medical students drank the whiskey after removing the corpse from the barrel. This is reputedly the origin of “stiff drink.”
― Gary M. Almeter, A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology

“I loved Dave as much as two boyhood friends can love each other without saying it. I miss him now like I miss my own childhood. The time we were best of friends was really only measured in a few short years, but those years span a lifetime because that’s how I carry them in my memory.”
― Gary M. Almeter, A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology

“a neighbor who grew up in Baltimore joked that I would find a bar and a church at every corner, and that most of them were in the same building. It took me a year to realize he was serious.”
― Gary M. Almeter, A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology