By JAMES B. HALE, Capital News Service
By JAMES B. HALE, Capital News Service
Published
01/02/10
DENTON - Former Gov. Harry Hughes sat recently in his favorite chair at his Denton home and remembered how at one point he had almost lost all hope for the Chesapeake Bay.
James B. Hale — Capital News Service
Former Gov. Harry Hughes stands in his Denton home and reminisces about helping start the movement to clean the Chesapeake Bay. Hughes helped create the multistate Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort, but he worries that inaction may have ruined his efforts.
Flanked on one side by a painting of himself as governor and on the other by a photo at his inauguration, Hughes reflected on his eight years leading Maryland.
He remembered the fiasco surrounding the move of the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis. And he laughed when he thought about then Washington, D.C., City Councilmember Marion Barry teasing him for being late to a meeting.
But of all his achievements and memories, the legacy Hughes left behind was a...
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