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Gregory William Pappas, age 55, of Abingdon, Maryland passed away on February 13, 2021. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Basil and Linda (Gibbons) Pappas. Greg was a graduate of North Harford High School, Loyola University of Maryland, and University of Baltimore. He recently celebrated 35 years of service with McCormick & Company, Inc.

Greg and his loving wife of 28 years, Nancy (Eberhardt) Pappas, devoted themselves to raising their three wonderful sons. Their family enjoyed outdoor activities, sports, music, family game nights, movie nights, vacations together and multi-family social gatherings. They are members of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Bel Air.

Greg had a passion for sports. He played softball, basketball, golf and coached youth sports. He relished family ski trips, bike rides with Nancy, fishing and evening kayaking with the family dog on the Bush River. He was a Baltimore sports fan through and through – avidly supporting the Orioles and the Ravens all while collecting memorabilia and autographs. Somehow he always seemed to find time for college basketball, hockey and Triple Crown. Greg proudly participated in Boy Scouting with his sons, and was grateful to retreat to camping mode as a family last summer when activities were limited due to the COV

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Pappas Building Ruins and the Ship of Theseus

by Tim Gilmore, 4/28/2021

cont’d from Brooklyn: Pappas Building / H.C. Care Co. Building

1. The Stones

You can’t see the stones from the road. I park at the Doty Building, where Ted Pappas first opened his solo offices in his Uncle John’s building in 1968, then walk a block north on Washington Street. I pass one of the closed ramps to the Isaiah D. Hart Bridge, each ramp scheduled for demolition, and walk east on Monroe Street.

This portion of Downtown still retains ghost shadows of its original neighborhood feel. Perhaps a hundred of those thousands of original tall handsome houses with spacious porches, like the prototype Ted designed for Northwest Jacksonville HabiJax after listening to community concerns and dreams, still stand. Attorneys and bail bondsmen operate offices in the few old buildings not boarded-up rooming houses. Lots of empty lots hold the absence of lovely homes demolished. A present absence. A what-should-have-been had Jacksonville, as every other North American city, not ruined so much of itself.

In just such a block, I pass a gaggle of homeless men and women who’ve parked their shopping carts in a space central to their assemblage. Across the street, a broken-down 1970s van bears a Georgia license