Music, Music, Music – from classical to contemporary – will fill the Charles Sumner Post #25 of the G.A.R. during the next two weeks, just as it did decades ago. Mark your calendar and join us at one or more of the following musical events: June 1, 8:00 pm Uptown Club at Sumner Hall: BEST […]
Continue ReadingThis past weekend Chestertown held their Annual Tea Party Festival. Were you there? Relive the weekend with the photographs of ShoreToBeFun Photographs. If you missed it, see what you missed and plan for next year. The 43rd Chestertown Tea Party Festival will be held on 2019 Memorial Day Weekend. May 25 May 26 May 27 […]
Continue ReadingAfter breakout performances at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Liberty City Radio Theatre is preparing to “transmit a big broadcast” from Chestertown, by way of Garfield Center veteran, Bill Arrowood, for just one thrilling night, Friday June 8, 2018 at 8pm. Liberty City Radio Theatre is a live “new-style, old-time” radio show, with actors on stage […]
Continue ReadingWashington College’s Center for Environment & Society (CES) announces the launch of a new summer conference for rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. July 17 through the July 21st, 2018 the Young Environmental Stewards Conference (YES) will introduce students to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through kayaking, wildlife habitat research, marine research and more. Easy […]
Continue ReadingCaroline Harvey, an English major and creative writing minor from Arlington, Virginia, whose writing frequently examines otherness through the perspective of the insect world, has won the 2018 Sophie Kerr Prize. National Public Radio book critic and author Maureen Corrigan announced the winner of the nation’s largest undergraduate prize, this year valued at $63,711, at […]
Continue ReadingMarcy Dunn Ramsey’s one-person exhibition – Tangles & Knots – opens at the Carla Massoni Gallery on Friday, May 18th and remains on exhibit through June 16th. Ramsey has been captivating art lovers and collectors at MassoniArt for over twenty-five years. She paints the river. And as those of us who live near water understand, […]
Continue ReadingChestertown Nurse Honored at UM Shore Regional Health’s Annual Nurse Excellence Awards Event Gail Dierker, staff nurse in the Same Day Surgery Center at UM Shore Medical Center at Chestertown, was among the honorees at UM Shore Regional Health’s 2017 Nurse Excellence Awards Celebration, which took place on Monday, May 8, 2018 at the Todd […]
Continue ReadingFive Washington College seniors today were named finalists for the 2018 Sophie Kerr Prize, the nation’s largest undergraduate literary award, this year worth $63,711. All will read from their work at an event this Friday, where author, journalist, and literary critic Maureen Corrigan will announce the winner. The finalists’ reading and the announcement of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Chester River Youth Choir will take you on a musical journey through the seasons on May 18th, with a concert at the Garfield Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. Under the direction Julie Lawrence, the choir will be accompanied on piano by Michelle Sensenig and Heidi Butler. The spring youth choir features the talents […]
Continue ReadingThe College Relations and Marketing team at Washington College has won two Awards of Distinction in the 24th Annual Communicator Awards for its collaborative campaign with BuzzFeed to increase WC’s awareness among college-bound teens. Judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program […]
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