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Walking tours for the curious and compassionate

Find more info & book tours at https://fullstorybaltimore.tours !
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Final outdoor walking tours of the year (probably):
Sat., Dec. 6, 2pm: Black Reconstruction in Lower Chas. Village
Sun., Dec. 7, 2pm: Black Reconstruction
Weds., Dec. 10, 6pm: Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point
Sun., Dec. 14, 2pm: Black Reconstruction
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Photo of a tour guide, holding a laminated photo, standing in front of a brick rowhouse. Photo of a tour group walking through a festively lit side street in Fells Point, Baltimore.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Bonus tour guide photos that didn't make it into the ticket booking site 😅
Photo of a tour guide, holding a laminated fire insurance map page, wearing a microphone, standing outside of a record store. Photo of a tour guide, dressed in black, wearing a headset microphone and portable loudspeaker, standing in a streetcorner park in front of a couple of psychedelic colorful murals.
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Tickets now available: ~Black Reconstruction in Lower Charles Village~ premiering in late November! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...
Photo of a narrow street with small rowhouses, on a cloudy day. The rowhouses are painted turquoise, dark red, and light pink. Photo, taken at an angle, of a colorful floral mural with a garden in front of it and a large old brick building in the background. Photo of the front door of a house: the door is dark wood with a colorful geometric stained-glass design.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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If you need to get your walking tour + critical ethnohistory fix this weekend or next, check out these free plant walks at Cylburn Arboretum!
Flyer for Plant Walks at Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore, with the text: Meet us at the Vollmer Center for a free guided tour of the Cylburn Arboretum! Two walks each Saturday Starting at 10AM or 2PM 10/4 10AM - Intro to Plant Families Learn the basics about plant families, and why they are useful. This walk will focus on members of the legume family (Fabaceae), which includes a number of notable trees at the Arboretum. 2PM - Piedmont Woods Visit an area of the Arboretum known as the Piedmont Woods collection, and learn about the Piedmont region. 10/11 10AM - Walnut and Hickory Family Visit and learn about members of the Walnut family (Juglandaceae) at the Arboretum. 2PM - Oak, Beech, Chestnut Family Visit and learn about members of the Beech family (Fagaceae) at the Arboretum. 10/18 10AM - Latin Plant Names Learn about the history and politics of using Latin for botanical names. 2PM - Fruit and Nut Trees Visit some of the many species of fruit and nut trees that grow throughout the Arboretum, from the Small Tree Collection to the woods 10/25 10AM - Ethnobotany Learn about and discuss ethnobotany (the stud of people and plants) at the Arboretum 2PM - Maple Collection Visit and learn about trees in the Maple collection and related species in the Small Tree Collection BALTIMORE CITY RECREATION
October 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Faux Civil War recruiting poster, with text in a variety of vintage fonts, reading: RALLY, NEIGHBORS, FOR THE UNION The walking tour “Baltimore’s Confederate Shadows: Mount Vernon to Midtown” SOON TO TAKE THE STREETS! Knowledge is power! Let the rebels take warning! NO SKEDADDLERS WANTED! FALL IN, FOLKS! The Union MUST and SHALL BE preserved! The Rag of Treason must no longer define us! On Saturday, October 4th, 7pm to 8:45pm And Wednesday, October 15th, 7pm to 8:45pm ☞ Purchase tickets at https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/ Returning for two nights only Do not miss this unique chance Another faux Civil War recruiting poster, with text in a variety of vintage fonts, reading: NOTICE! RALLY, NEIGHBORS, FOR THE UNION AWAKE! THE ENEMY ARE UPON US! AND JOIN US ON THE WALKING TOUR “Baltimore’s Confederate Shadows: Mount Vernon to Midtown” SOON TO TAKE THE STREETS! Knowledge is power! The Union MUST and SHALL BE preserved! The Rag of Treason must no longer define us! On Saturday, October 4th, 7pm to 8:45pm And Wednesday, October 15th, 7pm to 8:45pm ☞ Purchase tickets at https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/ Returning for two nights only Do not miss this unique chance
September 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Keep an eye out for these fliers going up around Seton Hill in the near future, and maybe even come join us on the tour! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#s...
Walking tour flier with a dark red background and photos of Seton Hill in Baltimore, with the text: Come on a walking tour of your neighborhood! Victorian-era Seton Hill On this walking tour through the beautiful old streets of Seton Hill, once known as Baltimore’s French Quarter, we’ll explore the surviving traces and look for the ghosts of the Victorian city. Come step off the beaten path with Full Story Baltimore and hear stories about the neighborhood, including Baltimore’s Black Catholic history, student “pranks and misdemeanors,” the real history of Baltimore’s asylums, and the human history of the USA’s oldest Gothic Revival masterpiece. Accessibility: We’ll be walking over some uneven grassy terrain and paving stones in addition to city sidewalks, and the tour will cover approx. 1.3 miles. 1.5 hours long. Saturday, October 11, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. For tickets ($12–$15) and more, go to https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#seton-hill or use this QR code: [and there's a QR code that links to the same URL]
September 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Checking out the fabulous exhibit about her work at the Maryland Center for History and Culture
A person dressed in black clothing, in a museum, pointing excitedly at a display about Claire McCardell putting pockets into women's clothing, while sticking their other hand in their own pocket.
September 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Heyyyyyyyy this sucks
Screenshot of a Baltimore Rec & Parks Facebook post about the Halloween event/trail in Druid Hill Park, showing comments where Full Story Baltimore asks if there will be pedestrian options and the sponsoring org replies "This is a drive through only."
September 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Tonight! Second-to-last nighttime "Baltimore's Confederate Shadows: Wyman Park & Charles Village" tour! Come think about Reconstruction and historical reckoning in the beautiful autumnal weather............ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...
Photo of a tour guide with a lantern standing next to an empty Confederate monument plinth, at dusk.
September 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Upcoming tours: Baltimore's Confederate Shadows (Wyman Park & Charles Village), special daytime edition, Nov. 23rd at 4pm fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...
A tour guide standing across the street from a historic Baltimore church, surrounded by a tour group.
September 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Upcoming tours: Revolution in Baltimore Town: The Tour, even more Black history–centric than usual, special for Dunmore Day (Nov 7)! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#r...
Tour guide holding a map, standing in front of the schooner Pride of Baltimore II on a pier in Baltimore harbor.
September 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Upcoming tours: ~~Victorian-era Seton Hill~~, Saturday October 11th, 10am fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#s...
Photo of a brick Romanesque Victorian building in Seton Hill, Baltimore, on a cloudy day. Photo of a brick Romanesque Victorian building attached to a modern one, in Seton Hill, Baltimore, on a sunny day.
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Upcoming tours: Baltimore's Confederate Shadows (Mount Vernon to Midtown), returning for only 2 nights in October!! fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...
A tour guide holding a lantern standing in front of a brick Victorian mansion in midtown Baltimore, at night, surrounded by fallen leaves.
September 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Photo credit to @pantsawe.bsky.social, first tour guest to send in a pic of the Old Congress Hall commemorative plaque there. 🧡🧡🧡 If you're going to this WNBA game today, keep an eye out for the plaque! And come on our Revolution in Baltimore Town walking tour to learn more
Photo of the brass(?) Old Congress Hall commemorative plaque from 1894 inside CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore. It shows an image of what the building on that site used to look like.
September 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's looking like the thunderstorms will be over by tour time on Saturday (8pm). Come join us in the cool night air after the rain for a gentle walk and some bracing stories... fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#c...
A Victorian house built of stone and slate with red painted trim, at night, partially lit.
September 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Thanks to @ajseyler.bsky.social of @hopkinsretro.bsky.social for a great tour of the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus today! 🧡
A tour guide stands and speaks with a portable loudspeaker in front of Gilman Hall at JHU in Baltimore on a sunny day.
September 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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These new tour fliers are starting to go up along/near the tour route. (More later, after it rains.) Feel free to share...

If anyone with a color printer wants to print more of these and put them up, you're welcome to, just let us know & we'll email you the PDF (no pressure though!)
Screenshot of a flier with a close-up photo of a Confederate monument, that reads: Why does JHU have a confederate monument on campus?? Find out more by going to this link: [QR code that links to tour website] or by coming on the walking tour: Baltimore’s Confederate Shadows: Wyman Park & Charles Village. plus the Full Story Baltimore logo and contact info.
August 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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We took a field trip to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philly last weekend, and are fairly certain that this is supposed to be James Armistead Lafayette in the giant Battle of Yorktown painting there 🤩
Giant oil painting depicting mostly the American officers' camp at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. Close-up of the painting in the previous pic, focusing on a handsome Black man depicted next to a white horse in the painting. The aforesaid painting, with your friendly neighborhood Full Story Baltimore tour guide standing next to the giant painting for scale, pointing at where the Black man (probably James Fayette/James Armistead Lafayette) is visible on the right-hand side.
August 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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FYI that the Maryland Center for History & Culture is open late w/free admission on the first Thursday of each month, so you can, e.g., go say hi to Baltimore's Favorite Guy (shown with tour guide for scale) for FREE!
Giant painted portrait of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, painted ca. 1823/24 so he is older and looks very stately. Same portrait as in previous photo, with your friendly neighborhood tour guide standing in front of the portrait and looking rather small by comparison.
July 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Photo of printed mini-broadsides with the same text as shown in the post quoted here, now printed with citation info on the back. Shown with a pen for scale.
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"Revolution in Baltimore Town" tour hand fans are here!! Every tour guest on the Revolution in Baltimore Town tour will receive a complimentary hand fan with their tour ticket.

Revolution tours on June 21, June 28, and more (as weather allows). Book tix: fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/#r...
Photo of five circular hand fans, pale blue and orange, that have an illustrated design and the words "Baltimore says NO KINGS!" on them.
June 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A little bit of good news: we have a fabulous new merch design!! This design features an illustration of the Revolutionary War fortifications at Whetstone Point ("Fort Whetstone"), inspired by a 1781 map of Baltimore for the French army encampment—drawn/designed by the inimitable @curses.zone
A circular design with hand-lettered text that reads "Baltimore says NO KINGS!" and an illustration (not to scale) of the star fort and water battery at Fort Whetstone. The background is pale turquoise-ish blue, and the text and illustration are different shades of dark orange. This version of the design also has the Full Story Baltimore tour and company info in typed text on the bottom in a different shade of blue. A circular design with hand-lettered text that reads "Baltimore says NO KINGS!" and an illustration (not to scale) of the star fort and water battery at Fort Whetstone. The background is pale turquoise-ish blue, and the text and illustration are different shades of dark orange.
June 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Advertising flyer in the style of an 1880s ad for a Spiritualist medium or magic act. The text reads: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Baltimore’s Favorite Historical Sensation The Grandest and Most Fascinating Entertainment Full Story Baltimore ~Walking Tours for the Curious and Compassionate~ presents The British Empire in Baltimore A Walking Tour Of the historic Downtown and lovely Mount Vernon neighborhoods. Come join us to learn about some of the complicated and messier parts of Baltimore’s history and its connections to the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century British Empire, covering topics like local Indigenous history, plantation slavery, the Plantations of Ireland, privateering, the opium trade, and Victorian occultism. Accessibility: We will be walking on uneven brick city sidewalks, partially in darkness, and the tour will cover approximately 1.5 miles. June 12th, 7pm to 8:45pm June 19th, 7pm to 8:45pm ~Purchase tickets at https://fullstorybaltimore.tours/~ RETURNING FOR TWO NIGHTS ONLY!! Don’t miss this unique chance!
May 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Also. If you're on the mailing list you know this already: We now have loyalty cards and gifts! Come on four tours (or bring a group of people), receive a beautiful free 15-oz mug!
Photo of two black mugs with the Full Story Baltimore logo, along with a stack of smallish square loyalty punch cards that have the info in this post written on one side and four of the Full Story Baltimore logos on the other side. The background is a wooden secretary desk.
May 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Currently working on rescheduling/rebooking tour guests for today's tour, because, well, look at the weather forecast for that part of the city 😬
Partial screenshot of an hourly weather forecast, which is predicting 98 to 99% chance of thunderstorms during the same time as the scheduled walking tour.
May 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM