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John Patti, left, who retired in February after a 38-year career as a reporter at WBAL Radio – with producer and engineer Joe Evelius, a high school and college classmate – is resurrecting a series that aired 2006-2014. (Kevin Parks/CR Staff)

‘Christmas in Maryland’: Broadcast shines a light on unique stories of holiday season

By Gerry Jackson, Catholic Review

John Patti has a parochial way of describing his collaboration for his upcoming radio program “Christmas in Maryland.”

John Patti is the host of “Christmas in Maryland,” which will take listeners on a Christmas journey throughout the state (Kevin Parks/CR Staff)

“It’s pure Baltimore and pure Maryland from two guys who grew up here,” said Patti, host of the five-part story-telling series that will be featured on Baltimore’s “Christmas Radio Station” WLIF (101.9 FM) in November and December.

Patti, who retired in February after a 38-year career as a reporter at WBAL Radio – with producer and engineer Joe Evelius, a high school and college classmate – is resurrecting a series that aired 2006-2014. Evelius and Patti, 1973 Mount St. Joseph High School and 1977 Towson State (now University) graduates, produced the series for Q Productions and then pitched it to WLIF.

The series will take listeners through a Maryland holiday journey, sharing Christmas experiences from Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore. Along the way, there will be stops at the famous 34th Street Hampden lights display, a ride on a Western Maryland locomotive and caroling in Dorchester County.

The stories will include the unique (a Christmas countdown in East New Market with a special family twist) and the inspiring (a Santa’s helper in Eldersburg who personally responds to letters from hundreds of children).

The stories also will showcase the quirky – tales from movie director John Waters FINISH READING HERE

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