1814 – sunrise in a small city

first steam mill

eighty bushels per hour
no hands oliver evans system
superfine flour.
the millers weren’t yet alarmed.
certain individuals cornered coal

aquarium at sunrise — (a steam-powered mill began operating on the pier at the end of gay street in 1814)

sir arthur brookes victory

exhilarate
watching an empire
melt away before you.
never soon enough

cannon and sunrise — (facing 15,000 maryland soldiers, militia, and citizens fortifying hampstead hill in patterson park, the british stopped their attack on baltimore in 1814 and withdrew)