CHESTERTOWN, MD — Historian Patrick Spero, whose study of the 18th-century frontier is bringing a new perspective to the roots of the American Revolution, will give a talk on April 4 about the forgotten story of a band of rebels, known as the Black Boys, whose protests helped ignite the battle for American independence. Spero, […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr., whom Business Insider has called “one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in American business,” will be the speaker at Washington College’s 286th Commencement on May 19th. Strine, who became chief justice of Delaware’s highest court in 2014, will receive the honorary degree Doctor of […]
Continue ReadingThe Garfield Center for the Arts will be pulling out the popcorn this Friday, March 22nd for a 7pm screening of the film, A Star is Born. This will be the first film in the series of films shown at the theatre in 2019, with five more films planned for this year. Since the September […]
Continue Reading“If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready,” says Karen Slack. It is wisdom that has served her well in a career as an opera singer. Perhaps never so much so as when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut 13 years ago. The soprano will be featured in the National Music Festival’s next […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – On April 26th 2019 director Bee Betley will be opening a new show at the Garfield Center for the Arts; an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s famous children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are. A veteran director and actress at the Garfield, this will be Betley’s second full length production since she directed […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Washington College welcomes Katherine Grandjean, associate professor of history at Wellesley College, for the 2018-2019 Guy F. Goodfellow Memorial Lecture, “In the Kingdom of Devils: The Harpe Murders and the Legacies of the American Revolution.” Sponsored by the Department of History, the March 21, 2019 talk begins at 5 p.m. in Hynson […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—The Washington College Theatre Department is pleased to present its Spring 2019 schedule of performances, including Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Flick, and The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias. Unless otherwise noted, all performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in Tawes Theater in the Gibson Center for […]
Continue ReadingMarch has come in like a lion this year with a snow fall on the first. The 2nd day of March wasn’t much better with clouds and temperatures just above freezing. Even on a day like this, so long as you are dressed for the weather, one can still find that sitting on a bench […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, 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 ReadingAn announcement went out calling for artists to participate in the Chestertown RiverArts 10th Annual “Paint the Town”, taking place April 25-28; the fifty openings filled quickly. Talented artists will be coming from throughout the mid-Atlantic region and as far away as Connecticut and New Jersey to paint Chestertown and other local scenes in Kent […]
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