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In this, the revised edition of Tidbits: Odds and Ends from Baltimore's Water Department History, the purpose of its content remains the same; to provide the reader with a partial index to the enormous amount of information that is stored at the Montebello Filtration Plant. Noticeable changes made to this edition, besides the title, is that most repetitious information has been deleted, some entries have been shortened, and there have been many more files added, including photo files. The summarized information contained in this book comes from a variety of sources: personal journals and...

Between the years 1935 and 1940, a six and a half mile tunnel was built to connect the Loch Raven Reservoir with the Montebello Filtration Plant. This is the story of the men who built this tunnel as told through the engineers and inspectors personal journals. They not only wrote on the tunnel progress, but also on the daily issues of life at the site. Union troubles and a tunnel explosion occupied their writings for one whole year. How ten men were killed in the tunnel explosion was never revealed.

The story of the Kanza Indians before removal to the Indian Territory Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe's original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture-the effects of...