August 2, 2014 Fort Mchenry and the Baltimore Art District.

This was a very interesting day. We toured Fort McHenry, which is located in the southern portion of Baltimore on the Patapsco River. In 1814 the British Navy attacked the fort in an attempt to capture Baltimore. The 25 hour bombardment ended with American victory and when Francis Scott Key saw the American flag still flying above the fort he began to compose "The Star-Spangled Banner", which did not become the official national anthem until 1931.The fort tour includes a variety of interesting demonstrations like men dressed as soldiers marching with their rifles and a firing of one of the cannons. We then drove to the Mount Vernon-Belvedere  neighborhood of northern Baltimore. We took a peek in the Peabody Library in the Johns Hopkins University conservatory of music.  Across the street was an enormous ornate church, so big we could not get it all in one picture.