Crossroads: Change in Rural America, a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, opened at Kent Cultural Alliance’s new Vincent & Leslie Prince Raimond Cultural Center on April 22, 2023. This is the final stop of the display that is presented through the Maryland Humanities Museum on Main Street program. The tour began in September 2022 with stops at the Farm Heritage Conservancy at Serenity Farm, Benedict, Charles County, Oxford Museum at St. Paul’s Church, Oxford, Talbot County, Western Maryland Heritage Association at Allegany Museum, Cumberland, Allegany County and Rose Hill Manor Park and Museums, Frederick, Frederick County.
The Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area is partnering with Maryland Humanities for the tour’s final Maryland stop.
“The Stories of the Chesapeake is thrilled to bring this thought-provoking program to the Eastern Shore.” says Gail Owings, the Executive Director of Stories of the Chesapeake Heritage Area.
Chesterville Graveyard: Revelations, also on view at the Raimond Center, is an art and poetry exhibit created by community members with pen and ink drawings by Stu Crawley with poems by Robert Earl Price is a complement exhibit to the Smithsonian exhibition.
For many reasons over the past century cemeteries have become lost, covered nature, and forgotten by many in rural areas. Each Crossroads partner creates its own exhibit to complement the Smithsonian’s exhibition. The Chesterville Graveyard: Revelations aims to bring attention to one of the “lost” cemeteries in the region.
Crossroads is the eighth Museum on Main Street project that Maryland Humanities has brought to small communities throughout the state. Each site hosts the exhibition for five to six weeks and develops a complementary exhibit highlighting their community’s heritage and histories.
Crossroads runs at Kent Cultural Alliance, 101 Spring Avenue in Chestertown, through May 31, 2023. The exhibition will be on view Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.
Learn more at https://storiesofthechesapeake.org. Contact info@storiesofthechesapeake.org. or call 410-778-1460 for further information.
Slide show of Photos from the Opening Reception on April 27, 2023 by SG (Steve) Atkinson – ShoreToBeFun Photography.