FROM SUN MAGAZINE: IN PRINT SUNDAY Oprah Winfrey: Built in Baltimore">FROM SUN MAGAZINE: IN PRINT SUNDAY Oprah Winfrey: Built in Baltimore

Oprah Winfrey is one great storyteller. So let her set the stage for the story of her time in Baltimore — seven and a half years starting in 1976 that would profoundly shape not only the life of the young anchorwoman, but also give birth to the media phenomenon known as Oprah. "I came to Baltimore when I was 22 years old. Drove my red Cutlass up from Nashville, Tenn., arrived and was as close to 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as I could be," Winfrey says. "I had no idea what I was in for or that this was going to be the greatest growing period of my adult life."

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Columns from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center, limestone from the Pentagon and an as-yet undetermined remembrance from a field in Shanksville, Pa., will become part of an Inner Harbor memorial for those killed on Sept. 11, 2001. The $2 million memorial will honor the 63 Marylanders who died by recording their names and birthdays. The focal point will be the 22-foot-long section of tangled steel columns, left.

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  VIDEO: City tears down vacant homes

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  GM to break ground for electric motor plant in White Marsh

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  Proposal unveiled for a new city courthouse

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  Rawlings-Blake, ministers urge progress on 'Superblock'