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DNREC’s First State Heritage Park’s Lantern Tours to Light up Fridays this Spring

April 2, 2018Across Our Desk

DNREC’s First State Heritage Park will offer lantern tours of The Green and three historic Dover cemeteries at 8 p.m. Friday evenings from April 6 through June 1, 2018. Take a walk through Dover’s history by the light of a lantern on one of the four different evening tours offered by the park: · Lantern […]

Maritime Arts in St. Michaels June 15-17, 2018

March 31, 2018March 30, 2018Across Our Desk

This Father’s Day weekend, more than 60 juried maritime artists and craftspeople from around the country will be showing and selling their beautiful works of art along the Miles River and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. The June 15-17 Arts at Navy Point is part of the 31st Annual Antique & […]

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum welcomes four new staff members

March 30, 2018March 30, 2018Across Our Desk

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., has announced four recent additions to its staff. Joining the team are Barry Raymond as Assistant Guest Relations Manager, Laurel Seeman as Programs Administrative Assistant, Tom Shephard as Charity Boat Donation Program Associate, and Taylor Williams as Shipwright Educator. A current Easton resident who grew up […]

Sumner Hall April Events

March 28, 2018March 28, 2018Across Our Desk

Sumner Hall, one of two existing African American G.A.R. buildings still standing in the United States located in Chestertown, MD, announces their April 2018 events: MLK History Harvest April 4th, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Share and record your memories of MLK’s life, death, and legacy. Washington College students will be “stand by ready” to […]

Family Boatshop program offered in May, August

March 16, 2018Across Our Desk

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering two more sessions of its Family Boatshop program, on Saturdays, May 12, and August 4, 2018. Participation is limited, with advanced registration needed. Held from 10am–4pm, participants are invited to join Jenn Kuhn, CBMM’s shipyard programs manager, in the Boatshop for a family experience […]

Easter brings sunrise service to Miles River

March 7, 2018Across Our Desk

The public is invited to attend Easter Sunrise Service on the Miles River at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. Coordinated and led by Bay Hundred Covenant Churches, the service is scheduled to begin at 6:45 a.m. on Sunday, April 1, 2018 at the historic Tolchester Beach Bandstand, as shown here. Officiating […]

Delaware Art Museum Presents Major Exhibition of Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin

March 5, 2018Across Our Desk

“Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating,” wrote British critic and artist John Ruskin. Nearly one hundred years later, Brandywine Valley artist Andrew Wyeth advised artists to simply, “hold a mirror up to nature. Don’t overdo it, don’t underdo it.” Even though Ruskin came of age during the Industrial Revolution, […]