CHESTERTOWN, MD — Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin will present elements of their collaborative photography/poetry book “Shale Play”—an immersion into the everyday world at the heart of fracking in Appalachian Pennsylvania—on November 21, 2019. Free and open to the public, the event begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Rose O’ […]
Continue ReadingIn 2001 the newly launched schooner SULTANA and the PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II paired up for a casual sail on the Chester River the weekend before both vessels “downrigged” for the winter. Nearly 20 years later the weekend has become one of the biggest Tall Ships Festival. Here are the two journeying up the Chester […]
Continue ReadingAuthor Monica Ferrell will be at Washington College on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 as part of the fall Literary House Series. The Literary House Press will be debuting its newest limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring Ferrell’s work at this event. The free and public reading will begin at 4:30 p.m. on the Literary House enclosed porch, […]
Continue ReadingSultana’s Downrigging Weekend (November 1-3, 2019) has become one of the largest Tall Ship rendezvous in the country. This year the event showcases the all-new Port of Chestertown Marina and is further enhanced by the addition of a three-day bluegrass festival. The Town of Chestertown will host the grand opening of the newly renovated Marina […]
Continue ReadingSULTANA WINS! The Schooner SULTANA Shares 2019 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race Victory with PRIDE OF BALTIMORE, II Can anybody say Déjà vu? For the second consecutive year – and the third time out of the past four, the schooner SULTANA, led by Captain Michael Fiorentino, was victorious in the 2019 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner […]
Continue ReadingThe Dixon Group and the YMCA of the Chesapeake are happy to announce that the YMCA is coming to Chestertown. The new Kent County Family YMCA will take over operations of the Kent Athletic and Wellness Center beginning January 1, 2020. Dixon believes the YMCA is better equipped to support the needs to the community […]
Continue ReadingChestertown RiverArts is actively seeking candidates for the position of ArtsAlive! Education Center Manager. RiverArts is an active and growing part of the lively arts scene in Kent County and the surrounding region, with the mission “to be the place where the arts meet the community.” The ArtsAlive! Center at 200 High Street in Chestertown […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – Main Street Chestertown still has vendor spaces available for the popular London Row attraction at the third annual “Dickens of a Christmas” festival. The vendor fair will take place on Saturday, December 7, 2019 from 11:00-4:00 in a heated tent in the 200 block of High Street in downtown Chestertown. Vendors offering […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Paul Robbins, a world leader in addressing rapid global environmental change, will present “Coffee, Frogs, and Workers: Conservation in the Anthropocene,” on October 30, 2019 at Washington College. Part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program, Robbins is the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — The Arab Spring ushered in a new era in politics in Egypt and Tunisia, emboldening citizens, through social media and other new platforms, who had previously lacked a voice. Professor Said Sadek from American University in Cairo, who has focused his recent work as an Egyptian political and social scholar on the […]
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