CHESTERTOWN, MD — Jane Coaston, a senior politics reporter for Vox and a journalist and writer based in Washington, D.C., will give a talk on contemporary American politics and culture on Thursday, March 7, 2019. Sponsored by Washington College’s Richard Holstein Program in Ethics, which promotes ethics education in the classroom, across campus, and in […]
Continue ReadingFREE PRESENTATION “The Forgotten Women of the Lincoln Assassination” Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. Delaware Public Archives – 121 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. N. – Dover, DE 19901 www.archives.delaware.gov Presenter: Kathy Canavan Among the persons this presentation will focus upon are the first female theaters owner in America, the First Lady who […]
Continue ReadingA new exhibition in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Waterfowling building, Deconstructing Decoys: The Culture of Collecting, will open to the public on Saturday, April 13, 2019. What makes a decoy “collectible”? How do you distinguish a Susquehanna Flats duck from a Chincoteague carvers’ work? Buying and selling carved and painted wooden waterfowl—once used simply […]
Continue ReadingQueen Anne’s County Centre for the Arts is pleased to present the first in our Eastern Shore Heritage & History Series. “A Place Called Home” is a shared experience of three writers, each with their own perspective on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Brent Lewis has deep Eastern Shore roots. His books include Remembering Kent Island: Stories […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Washington College’s Andrew Oros, Professor of Political Science and International Studies and author of Japan’s Security Renaissance, will be at the Rose O’Neill Literary House for a faculty tea and talk on Monday, February 11, as part of the spring Literary House Series. The event at 4:30 p.m. is free and open […]
Continue ReadingPlease join the Historical Society of Kent County on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 5:30 pm, as we present Plantations, Slavery & Freedom on Maryland’s Eastern Shore African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland became a slave society in colonial […]
Continue ReadingDenton, MD – Join local history enthusiasts and community leaders to celebrate the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial at the Caroline County Public Library in Denton, on February 9, 2019 at 1:30pm. Local historian John Muller will offer a special presentation detailing a previously unknown visit Douglass made to Caroline County in the fall of 1883. Don’t […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — A second-year English faculty member and an alumna who is now assistant director at the Rose O’Neill Literary House each have earned two top national literary awards in poetry. Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, assistant professor of English and creative writing, has won the 2018 Akron Poetry Prize for her first full-length collection, A […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Paul Ortiz, an expert in the fields of African American history and Latino studies, will visit Washington College on October 2, 2018 discussing his book An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Sponsored by Black Studies Program, Latin American Students Association, and the William James Forum Fund, the event […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—David Wallace, professor of English and author of literature on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer and other medieval writers, will speak at the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 The event, which is part of the annual Sophie Kerr Lecture Series, will start at 4:30 p.m., and is free and open […]
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