From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office: At approximately 10:20 pm, on Tuesday July 22, 2014 deputies responded to a call for a shooting in the 900 block of Pulaski Highway, in Joppa. The victim, identified as Ryan Jay Kerrigan, age 28 of Bel Air, reported that he had left Stone House Tattoos, and was walking […]
Spreading Ink: The Rise of the Suburban Tattoo Parlor in Maryland
Growing up in 1980s Harford County, I knew of only two kinds of people who had tattoos – members of the military and members of rebel motorcycle gangs. Back then, the faded blue and gray images were largely unrecognizable in shape or design. Any lettering had long since bled into an amorphous set of unreadable […]