Baltimore: Razed stadium’s rubble eyed as oyster habitat

Concrete rubble from Memorial Stadium, the former home of baseball’s Baltimore Orioles and football’s Baltimore Colts, will be used to create an artificial oyster reef in the Chesapeake Bay.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources plans to plant more than 4 million baby oysters on the reef off the mouth of the Patapsco River.

“We’re using one cultural icon to rejuvenate another,” said Bill Goldsborough, senior fisheries scientist at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, one of several conservation and sportsmen’s groups helping build the reef.

Construction of the reef is expected to begin this summer pending regulatory approval.

BOSTON: Philadelphia professor wins Hemingway award

The author of a literary love story is the latest recipient of the Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award, a $7,500 prize for distinguished first works of fiction.

Justin Cronin, associate professor of English at La Salle University in Philadelphia, received the annual award for his book, “Mary and O’Neil,” which weaves together a series of stories about the relationship of two young teachers.

Patrick Hemingway, son of the Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway, is scheduled to present the award to Cronin today at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.

The Kennedy Library houses nearly all of Ernest Hemingway’s manuscripts and correspondence, largely through the efforts of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.