“I remember Hampden before it was hip,” writes Christopher Corbett, professor and acting chair of English, in his latest column in Baltimore Style magazine. Forbes and the New York Times have both recently written about the Baltimore neighborhood.
“I’m too old for skinny jeans. And I don’t look good in a pork pie hat,” he writes. “But I like hipsters. I like them so much that I hope some of them will buy rowhouses and fix them up and pay taxes and have a litter of little hipsters and send those little hipsters to public school and raise the test scores and all will be well.”
The column, “Hip, Hip Hooray,” appeared in the December issue of the magazine.
