Winnie The Pooh

FREE FUN: From fireworks to birthday cakes, concerts to street performers, the Inner Harbor will feature lots of family fun .. during the Fourth of July Celebration at Harborplace -- and it's all free!TODAY:* 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.: The American Roots Concert, featuring Grandsons of the Pioneers at the Harborplace Amphitheatre. Their style comes from taking the roots of American music, such as rhythm and blues, western swing and rockabilly, and making it into rock 'n' roll.TOMORROW:* Noon to 1 p.m.:Baltimore celebrates Harborplace's 14th birthday, serving thousands of pieces of birthday cake.

MARTINEZ, Calif. -- It is lights-out time at Juvenile Hall, but the boys are in no mood to rest. Locked up in the dark in their small rooms, the streetwise teen-agers are anxious -- stewing about the future, perhaps, or about why their parents have not come to see them in weeks.One distressed youth pounds his head on a wall and wails. Another curses the world, and everyone in it. Then all at once a new voice pours forth, descending through speakers into the bare institutional rooms. It is a woman's voice, melodic and warm.

A.A. MILNE: The Man Behind Winnie-the Pooh. Written by Ann Thwaite. Random House. 553 pages. $29.95. IN A.A. Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner," Rabbit thinks that Christopher Robin "respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right." The same could be said of Ann Thwaite's new biography of Milne. Her efforts are to be respected even if she doesn't get it right.Thwaite's book is long on facts and short on interpretation. Her obviously painstaking research has produced a hefty volume chock full of unnecessary detail and trivia.