License Plate Bingo
Just in time for the long, irritable driving hours to your summer vacation, license plate bingo gets more interesting. School’s end brought a new standard license plate to Maryland.
Maryland War of 1812 plates, issued on Flag Day, June 14, are still rare enough that they should be worth double points on highway bingo. But they won’t be rare for long, as the new commemorative plate is standard issue and will gradually replace Maryland’s old black-and-white plate with the Maryland crest created in the 1980s for Maryland’s 350th anniversary. —
The new standard plate joins two special plates — the Chesapeake Bay plate and the red and orange agricultural Ag Tag — plus 800 or so organizational plates, including a newly issued one celebrating Annapolis.
All are made by prison inmates through Maryland State Correctional Enterprises.
“The War of 1812, the Chesapeake and the writing of the poem that became our national anthem is one of Maryland’s most important national heritage stories,” War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission executive director Bill Pencek told Bay Weekly.