In cooperation with The Last Word Bookstore in Savage Mill, the Maryland Writers’ Association is hosting its first Author Showcase on April 1, 1 to 4 p.m., at the bookstore. The program will give each author 8 minutes to discuss their latest book and offer a brief reading. The featured auth...

    Charles Constantine Pise, born November 22, 1801, in Annapolis, Maryland, was an American priest and writer who became the only Roman Catholic United States Senate Chaplain and the first American to be ‘knighted’ by the Pope. He was the son of an old P...