Starting on August 7, 2020 the Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater will present “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” a thrilling drama about a man whose greed and ambition will cause him to do anything to further his career. Charming and ambitious art critic, James Figueras (played by Claes Bang), has fallen from grace. He […]
Continue ReadingDue to current coronavirus restrictions the Delaware Public Archives will be presenting its August First Saturday program in an online format only. Titled “Left Newport … Before Daylight and March’d to Chads Ford”: The Landscape of Conflict before the Battle of Brandywine, 1777, the program focuses on archaeology found at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Brandywine. […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The new Maryland Dove currently under construction by shipwrights at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will have a bit more of CBMM’s hometown in it thanks to a generous donation of wood from an Osage orange tree by St. Michaels, Md., resident Tracy Wagner. “I am happy and pleased that the […]
Continue ReadingEaston – The Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD is excited to announce the culmination of its $5+ million capital campaign which will open new doors to the arts and build a legacy for the Museum. The campaign will allow the Museum to build on its achievements by expanding the reach of its educational programs […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and its President, Kristen Greenaway, were honored to welcome Commodore David Gibbs of the Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand’s current Defence Attaché to the U.S., and his wife, Paula, for a visit to campus on July 23, 2020. As part of their visit, the Gibbs […]
Continue ReadingDear Friends of Sultana, It is with a heavy heart that we announce the cancellation of the Sultana Education Foundation’s 2020 Downrigging Weekend Festival. Since the success of last year’s event, Sultana’s Downrigging Committee – as well as our partner Tall Ships, vendors and musicians – have been hard at work planning for this year’s […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – After a temporary delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new exhibition in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Waterfowling building, Adze to Whittling Knife: Chesapeake Boatbuilders as Decoy Carvers, will open to the public on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Chesapeake Bay-area craftsmen produced boats—and decoys—that were regionally distinctive. Boatbuilding was often […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD – The Academy Art Museum in Easton is re-opening its newly renovated space on August 1, 2020 with two new exhibitions, New Photography II and Antonio McAfee: Legacy. “We are thrilled to share our newly renovated building with the public with these two new contemporary exhibitions. The new Mary Lou McAllister Courtyard entrance […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is inviting the public for a monthly tour of its working Shipyard in a new virtual program titled Coffee & Wood Chips. Scheduled for 10–11am on Mondays July 13, Aug. 17, and Sept. 14, Coffee & Wood Chips participants are invited to […]
Continue ReadingHow much do you actually know about what happened on and around July 4, 1776? We all know that July 4th is the birthday of the United States, but is it really? Events that lead up to the birth of the United States started in 1774 when 56 representatives from 12 of the British Colonies […]
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