H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was the state's iconoclastic author and intellectual trendsetter. In 1922 the "Sage of Baltimore" praised the state for its "singular and numerous splendor from your stately estuaries of the Chesapeake to the peaks from the Blue Ridge." He happily claimed that Providence experienced spared Maryland the https://jaroslavx853pxg0.wikihearsay.com/user