7-02-13: Reprinting the Declaration of Independence, bringing news to the blind, and the Paris Hilton of the 19th century




WYPR: Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast Podcast show

Summary: In January 1777, Baltimore postmistress Mary Katherine Goddard printed 13 copies of the Declaration of Independence. We talk to Mindy Belloff, an artist who painstakingly reprinted these Goddard broadsides. Then, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, online and in print - there are various ways to read the news these days. But what if staying informed meant having the news read to you? We visit a radio service doing just that. Plus, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was the daughter of a Baltimore businessman and the sister-in-law of Napoleon. She helped define celebrity in the early 1800s. Tom Hall talks to her biographer, Charlene Boyer Lewis.