Upcoming Events

October Lunch and Learn
Worker Perspectives in the Baltimore Museum of Industry Archives

Thursday, October 8 at 1:00 pm
Presented by Maggi Marzolf
Online Event

Join Baltimore Museum of Industry Archivist Maggi Marzolf for a behind-the-scenes look at archival materials that explore the perspectives of the workers who supported and labored in Baltimore-based industries. Through photographs, documents, and other rarely seen materials, explore stories of labor, unionization, workplace culture, and the social and economic forces that shaped workers' experiences. Featured collections include the Charles Bernstein Papers, BGE, Bethlehem Steel, the Port That Built a City and State film collection, and the Joseph Kotelchuk Papers - including materials that have yet to make their public debut in the museum's online archives.

Maggi Marzolf has served as the BMI's Archivist since 2020. In this role, she stewards more than 4,500 linear feet of archival collections and a 5,000-volume research library documenting Maryland's rich industrial and labor history. She oversees the acquisition, preservation, digitization, and accessibility of the museum's archival collections while collaborating across exhibitions, public programs, and community engagement to bring these stories to life. Marzolf's work helps preserve and share the experiences of workers, industries, innovators, and communities that shaped Baltimore's past and continue to inform its future. Marzolf holds an MLIS from the University of Maryland, College Park and an M.A. in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University.

November Lunch and Learn
Too Precious to Lose: The Story of Memory, Faith, and Community

Thursday, November 12 at 1:00 pm
Presented by Jason G. Green
Online Event

Jason G. Green was raised on fellowship-literally. Fellowship Lane served as a spiritual metaphor throughout his coming of age. A precocious preacher's kid, Green felt a call to the ministry but ultimately devoted himself to public service. After working on Barack Obama's presidential campaign, the young attorney spent four and a half years serving in the White House as special assistant to President Obama.

However, Green's government career was cut short by a devastating call. It seemed his beloved ninety-five-year-old grandmother was on her deathbed. At her side, he listened in disbelief while she detailed her life story dating back to her 1918 birth in Quince Orchard, a town in Montgomery County, that once stood where they now sat, erased by the vestiges of time. How could he have never known the legacy of this robust community that he'd descended from? How could its entire existence have vanished from history but for the memory of a few elders? Green's historical research uncovered a surprising trove of tales about his newly freed ancestors who built an African American house of worship, and whose progeny, on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, made the brave decision to create an integrated church. Quince Orchard's lost story is part of what Green calls the texture in the American fabric: the moral leadership of the Black church, the longstanding resilience of the Black community, and the transformative love of the Black family.

Based on his memoir, Too Precious to Lose, Green discusses the family and community he discovered and the truths he learned from the compassionate, communal-led lives of his forebearers.

Jason G. Green is a Maryland-born community organizer, attorney, storyteller and entrepreneur. Green served as special assistant and associate White House Counsel to President Obama, advising on economic and domestic policy matters. Green co-founded SkillSmart, a company that reshapes how communities measure economic impact, and is CEO of EverGreen Labs, where he supports visionary organizations working to expand economic opportunity and strengthen community. Green serves as trustee to the Pleasant View Historic Association and supports its efforts to preserve the historic site. His award-winning documentary, Finding Fellowship, explores the rich history of Quince Orchard and the fight to preserve its legacy. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Yale Law School, Green remains rooted in the work of truth and justice, investing in stories that remind us who we are. He currently spends time between Maryland and Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Ritu, and son, Aidan.