Since the start of the 2017-2018 academic year, Kent School students have engaged in several projects that support the Kent County Food Pantry. Through this sustained effort in fundraising and food collection, Kent School students have been able to donate several hundred pounds of food which has served dozens of families in our area for […]
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STARS FROM WICKED AND RENT PERFORMING AT THE GARFIELD The board of directors at the Garfield Center for the Arts are proud to announce the theatre’s 2018 annual gala fundraiser; Broadway by the River! Hosted by New York’s drag queen sensation, Marti Gould Cummings, and featuring an evening of intimate performances and conversations with cast […]
Continue ReadingWashington College President Kurt Landgraf is pleased to announce that Michael Nettles, a national leader on educational assessment and equity, will take part in a Kent County community meeting on March 28, 2018 to talk about progress in Kent County schools. Nettles, the Senior Vice President and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair of Education Testing […]
Continue ReadingShort fiction writer and journalist Amy Hempel will be reading at the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. The event, which is a part of the spring Literary House series, is free and open to the public. Hempel is the author of four short story collections. Her Collected Stories […]
Continue ReadingFor anyone who wants to live a greener, more sustainable life, there’s no lack of products and information you can purchase to tell you how to do it. But where did the curious idea of buying one’s way to sustainability come from? And how do the tensions between capitalism and environmentalism resolve, or not? Those […]
Continue ReadingWashington College’s talent and creativity will be on display in the Kohl Gallery’s annual student exhibition “100 Proof,” which runs March 23 through April 9, 2018 with this year’s theme of “Expand Space/Share Place.” Students will welcome guests at a free, public opening reception on March 23, 2013 from 5-7 p.m., and will talk about […]
Continue ReadingContinuum Dance will perform its spring concert All Connected at several Eastern Shore venues this March and April. All Connected will take the stage of the Garfield Center for the Arts at Prince Theatre in Chestertown on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 3pm, and at the Oxford Community Center on Saturday, April 7 at 7pm […]
Continue ReadingSean Rapelyea ’08, who has worked for the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and now Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker, will return to campus on March 26, 2018 as part of the Goldstein Program’s Young Alumni Series. Rapelyea’s talk, which begins at 5 p.m. in Hynson Lounge, will encompass his burgeoning career in politics, […]
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Compass Regional Hospice’s residential Hospice Center located at 100 Brown Street in Chestertown is now open for patient care. Compass Regional Hospice leases a unit on the third floor of the University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown from University of Maryland Shore Regional Health. Patient care is provided by the staff of Compass […]
Continue ReadingPhilip Sicker, professor of English and author of literature on the work of Henry James, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and others, will speak at the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. The event, which is part of the annual Sophie Kerr Lecture Series, is entitled “In the Eyes of God: Surveillance […]
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