Sumner 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 […]
Continue ReadingBeginning on the Summer Solstice (Sunday, June 20) until June 26, ShoreRivers will host a new kind of Solstice Celebration that offers something for everyone. Instead of one evening under the tent, the week-long celebration will include small-group expeditions, an online auction, and a free livestream concert with Philip Dutton and the Alligators. ShoreRivers is […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – In a plan to bring back live performances to their stage, the Garfield Center for the Arts has announced a season of theatrical programs for 2021 that includes 2 full length plays, another installment of Short Attention Span Theatre, and a musical to finish the season. Opening the season is the previously […]
Continue ReadingIt doesn’t matter where you may travel there will be monuments and memorials. As I continue my Chesapeake County Road series I’ll talk about ones I’ve photographed on my travels between Chesapeake City and Kent Island. These are a few of them. On the MD20 on the way to Rock Hall, Maryland, is one of […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD – ShoreRivers proudly presents its annual State of the Rivers online via Zoom on Friday, May 7, 2021 from 5:00-6:15 pm. Nancy Cordes, CBS News chief White House correspondent, will emcee the live presentation, which will include the official release of the 2020 River Report Card and a Q&A session with the Choptank, […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – For most of 2020, the pandemic kept the Garfield Center for the Arts closed to the public. Only their initial production of Greater Tuna made it to the stage before the pandemic closed everything down in March. The GCA remained active, though, offering free weekly streamed programs under the banner of GCTV: […]
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