Betterton is a small town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore of around 400 on the Chesapeake Bay. Looking at it today one would hardly guess that it was once a major Victorian summer resort at the end of the 1800s through the 1st half of the 20th century. It was a major stopping point for ships […]
Continue ReadingThe organizers of the Chestertown HP Festival Weekend regret to announce that the festival has been canceled for this year. Ordinarily, organizing volunteers and fundraising for the event would have started at the beginning of the year. With the ongoing pandemic and uncertainty of future health regulations it has been difficult to secure volunteers and […]
Continue ReadingChestertown RiversArts created a New Paint the Town for 2021 that celebrates artwork and painting with their Plein Air, Paint the Town Plus. On Friday, June 4, 2021 they had Tented Exhibit in Fountain Park, Chestertown of Plein Air Artists. The Artists picked the Best of Show. The winning Artist was Carole Cowie with “Life […]
Continue ReadingFor the past 5 years, Create art.craft.design has been a showcase for artists from the crème de la crème of American Craft. Patti and Dave Hegland, Carla Massoni, Faith Wilson, Marilee Schumann, Bob Ortiz and Rob Glebe formed a partnership and built one of the most beautiful gallery/retail spaces in Chestertown, if not the whole […]
Continue ReadingFor many Memorial Day weekend is associated with Chestertown and the Tea Party Festival that celebrates the town’s colonial past. It takes a great deal of planning and preliminarily work to put on the festival every year. Planning begins more than 6 months and when the decision was made to cancel the festival, for the […]
Continue ReadingSumner Hall will honor military veterans on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31st at 10:00 am in Chestertown’s Memorial Park. A short ceremony featuring song and the spoken word will be conducted by Sumner Hall’s board members with participation from young members of the Rising Sons, GLOW and Minary’s Dream Alliance. This event carries on the […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – As part of its efforts to reopen to public performances, the Garfield Center for the Arts is planning an outdoor summer edition of its popular annual Short Attention Span Theatre (also known as SAST). The location for the performances is still being finalized, but the performances are set for July 23, 24, […]
Continue ReadingJustin Thomas Nash, a 22-year-old from Smyrna, Delaware, has won the 2021 Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary prize in the nation. He was among six finalists considered for the prize, worth $65,580 this year. Named after an Eastern Shore author who made her fortune in New York writing women’s fiction during the 1930s […]
Continue ReadingChestertown RiverArts is putting a new twist on its annual Plein Air festival this year. On Friday and Saturday, June 4-5, 2021 come to historic Chestertown to enjoy Paint the Town Plus, a festive atmosphere celebrating the art of the outdoors in the outdoors. Works from the festival will be hung in the RiverArts Gallery […]
Continue ReadingBeginning in the 1920’s automobiles became popular and it was common for people to start taking trips. To provide the travelers with regional history roadside makers began sprouting up. In 1933 the Maryland State Roads Commission launched a statewide marker program. There are approximately 800 State markers on Maryland roadways. People often speed by without […]
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