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In the spirit of Boston's famed Freedom Trail, it may soon be easier to discover Baltimore's cultural and historical treasures on foot.Two Bolton Hill neighbors are charting a walking trail that would connect the dots between Baltimore's attractions and historic sites on city streets.A smaller walking tour, linking some of the city's premier cultural and architectural attractions, is being discussed at the newly formed Mount Vernon Cultural District.Proponents say a simple sidewalk line extending a few miles would help the tourism industry and give residents a greater sense of the city.

JAMESTOWN ISLAND, Va. -- Until recently, the first fort at the Jamestown settlement was believed to be lost forever, its secrets washed into the nearby James River. That's what the history books said.William Kelso, visiting Jamestown more than three decades ago as a 21-year-old history graduate student, didn't want to accept that. And so, many years later, he found soil stains where oak and walnut posts once formed the walls of the original 1607 triangular fort at the western tip of Jamestown.

Lawyers representing midshipmen implicated in the U.S. Naval Academy's cheating scandal are questioning whether the government is willing to give their clients a fair shake.Several of them complained yesterday that junior officers with no Naval Academy experience will be reviewing the report, expected as early as today, of the five-member panel that is to decide how many academy seniors will be recommended for expulsion.In addition, those four Navy lieutenants, who did not graduate from the academy, will be briefed by legal advisers from the panel headed by Rear Admiral Richard C. Allen, but the defense team says it appears unlikely they will be offered the same chance.

WASHINGTON -- Overruled in his first major decision as the Navy's new top civilian, John Dalton is fighting to save his credibility as well as a working relationship with his top military officer at a time when the Navy remains dogged by a 2-year-old sexual harassment scandal.Defense Secretary Les Aspin's reversal last week of Mr. Dalton's call to remove the Navy's top officer, Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, for failing to show leadership at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, was more than simply an embarrassment.

Soil samples dug last week from above and below the three lead coffins buried in St. Mary's City 300 years ago may hold microscopic clues to what grew in the colonists' fields and gardens.The clues are the tiny pollen grains that drifted into the graves while they lay open in the late 1600s."We do not have any information on what the landscape . . . was like," said Dr. Henry Miller, chief archaeologist for Project Lead Coffins."Was it all pretty much settled? What kinds of trees and other plants grew there?

The couple who abandoned their severely disabled son at a Delaware hospital in December have agreed to a year's probation instead of a trial in Delaware, and to limit contact with their son to supervised visits. Richard and Dawn Kelso of Exton, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, had been charged with child abandonment and conspiracy. The Kelsos dropped off their 10-year-old son, Steven, in his wheelchair at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 26 and left. Their actions drew national attention from parents and advocates for children with disabilities, and the Kelsos later told state prosecutors they had been facing a reduction in the visiting nursing care in January and did not know what else to do. Thursday, the couple apologized in a statement issued by their Wilmington lawyers.

Michael D. Kelso Jr. expected to have to sacrifice his place on the wrestling team and in the marching band to keep up with the challenges of his schoolwork at City College. But at times he still felt overwhelmed by the demands of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at his high school. He would come home from school, take a nap and then stay up until 2 a.m. doing homework, his father said. "I went to counselors several times talking about getting out, but they talked me through it," Kelso said.

Bank announces four promotions Mary Ann Scully, president and chief executive officer of Howard Bank, has announced the promotion of four assistant vice presidents to vice president. Promoted were Donna Fredericks, consumer loan manager; Barbara Knickman, deposit operations manager; Brenda Tomkins, commercial loan manager; and Steve Poynot, relationship manager. Christine DeBernard, senior vice president, operations executive for Howard Bank, has been elected to the board and named treasurer of the Friends of the Howard County Library.

Neither Dr. Gerald Maher, team dentist for the New England Patriots, nor Bert Straus, an industrial design engineer in Baltimore, will attend the NFL's concussion conference in Chicago today. But what they have to offer may be relevant to the continuing debate over concussions. Maher says he has a mouth guard the Patriots use that can cut down on concussions originating in the jaw. Straus says he has expanded the technology he used to create a protective cover over Mark Kelso's helmet in the late 1980s after the former Buffalo Bills safety experienced a number of concussions.

WASHINGTON -- Navy Secretary John H. Dalton has asked for the removal of the Navy's top officer, Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, for failing to show proper leadership at a convention of naval aviators in Las Vegas where scores of women were assaulted, Pentagon officials said last night.In a sweeping indictment of senior Navy leadership, Mr. Dalton has also notified Defense Secretary Les Aspin that he will seek disciplinary action against 12 other admirals and Marine generals who attended the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, damaging if not effectively ending their naval careers.