Julie De Matteis is a librarian at the Catonsville Public Library in Catonsville, Maryland. Louis Diggs researches and publishes the histories of African American communities in Baltimore County, Maryland. It All Started on Winter's Lane , Holding On To Their Heritage and In Our Voices . His fourth book will be published in mid-2000. Louis is also the author and host of two websites, one for the Baltimore Area Chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers and and the other about the Oblate Sisters of Providence .
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