Are you interested in exploring Foods and Recipes of the past? Would you like to learn historically accurate cooking techniques? Does cooking on an open fire appeal to you? ​ Then sign up today for this Hands-On Workshop and learn how to cook like our ancestors! Recreate recipes from 17th, 18th and 19th century sources. Taste everything you make in class. Class size is limited so sign up early. $185 per participant (includes all materials) Pre-registration required. Space is limited. Ages 16+

This month we'll join the northward migration of Maryland's songbirds. Join us as we explore their journeys, lives, and habitats through observations and games. ​ $8 for member children ages 6-12 (become one today!​) $10 for non-member children ages 6-12

This month we'll join the northward migration of Maryland's songbirds. Join us as we explore their journeys, lives, and habitats through observations and games. ​ $8 for member children ages 6-12 (become one today!​) $10 for non-member children ages 6-12

Exhibition curator John Verdi will provide insights on visionary and outsider artists in his lecture “Art Without Irony.”

In this family-friendly activity, participants will join a tour of the house and learn how animals symbolize different things in paintings, chairs, and everyday objects. Children will go on an Easter egg hunt in the garden of the Hammond-Harwood House and then paint the wooden eggs they find. Space is limited (10 children), for reservations, please call 410-263-4683×10 or email [email protected]

Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (3-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. This Week's Book: Night Catch Military families often deal with a parent who may deploy or receive an assignment taking them away from their families. This book shares the story of a soldier who helps his son with a creative way to deal with an upcoming...

Actor, writer, and historian, Annapolis' own, Chris Haley, will read poems by renowned poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Audre Lourde.  African American literature has existed and flourished throughout our nation's history. In spite of living through often oppressive and racially violent times, people of color penned their stories of love, loss, joy and pain, and the challenge and fight for equality. Haley, a nephew of famed author Alex Haley, will deliver poems which exemplify these themes as penned by some of America's...

Join members of the Mitchell Gallery Book Club for a discussion of Welcome to Marwencol by Mark Hogancamp and Chris Shellen, led by curator John Verdi. Free. Registration required. Contact the gallery for book purchase. Location to be announced.

Join us for a tour of Annapolis’s historic district, where early American painter Charles Willson Peale’s world has been preserved. The tour starts at the Old Treasury Building on the grounds of the Capitol.  Participants will also receive a half-price admission to the Hammond-Harwood House, which includes the special exhibition ”Ambition: Charles Willson Peale in Annapolis” featuring Peale’s Annapolis commissions chronologically with twenty-five portraits, including nine loans.

Join us on select Tuesday mornings for storytime and fun activities in the William Paca Garden, a secret treasure in the Historic District of Annapolis. Each program is designed for little ones (3-7 years) with a book reading, song, craft/art project, and free time in the garden. This Week's Book: Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn “Lola, Lola how extraordinary, how does your garden grow? With flower seeds and shells and beads and happy friends all in a row!” After Lola reads a book of garden poems, she desires to create her very...

Back by popular demand and because the community has asked! The presentation "A Historical Profile of Life on Churchton's Broadwater Creek: Tracing a family, their farms and their community" will be presented on Tuesday, April 19, 7pm at the Main Hall of the Ministry Center, Cedar Grove United Methodist Church in Deale, Md. Join us for this recently updated and expanded look at the history of the Deale Churchton area! AND The winner of the Green Wing Teal Duck Decoy by Deale's own Joe Caldwell will be selected following the...

Participants will enjoy a 90-minute guided tour of the house that compares the customs and social graces of the Loockerman family, who lived in the Hammond-Harwood House in the early 19th century, with those of characters in Jane Austen novels. Make it extra special with Tea and a Tour! Hammond- Harwood House is proud to partner with Reynold’s Tavern of Annapolis. Reynold’s Tavern offers an extensive afternoon tea menu – a perfect pairing to enjoy before or after the Jane Austen Tour. Tours and tea are booked separately.

Watermark and Historic Annapolis are excited to celebrate their respective 50th and 70th anniversaries in 2022. As two pillars of Annapolis, both organizations are eager to share this special year with the community that made their achievements possible. Enjoy a spring evening in the picturesque William Paca Garden to kick off a year of festivities with a toast to these incredible milestones. Partake in creative appetizers from the area's best caterers and enjoy a glass of bubbly as you stroll the hidden oasis of an English garden. All proceeds benefit...

From punches to bounces, syllabubs to juleps, colonists imbibed a wide variety of alcoholic beverages. At Colonial Cocktails, you’ll get to make and enjoy two historical drinks and learn about colonial tavern culture. In this session, we'll be getting ready for the races with two versions of juleps: strawberry & mint. Participants must be 21+ Pre-registration required. Space is limited.​ $25 for members (become one today!​) $33 for non-members

In partnership with the Inner West Street Association and the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater DC (EVADC), which is the local EV drivers’ group, our plan is to have a showcase of many types of EVs, exhibitors of related products, artists painting EVs, live music, and more. It will be an evening of information on how to live Green with EVs at the center.

Enjoy “A Day on the Farm” committed to family fun, entertainment, history, and wonder. Visit Goshen Farm’s 8th Annual Spring Open House on Saturday, April 23, from 10am to 4pm. Gather the family and drive to 1420 Cape St. Claire Road, Annapolis, 21409, to learn about the history of Goshen Farm, the last Colonial-era farm on the Broadneck Peninsula. Admission and parking are FREE. Donations are gladly accepted and benefit the preservation and restoration of historic Goshen Farm.

Join Senior Historian Glenn E. Campbell for a “Revolutionary Annapolis Walking Tour.”  Walk in the footsteps of patriot leader William Paca as you follow his dramatic personal and political story through the revolutionary era.  Learn how a promising young lawyer became a rebel, a revolutionary, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the Governor of Maryland through the course of less than 20 years. This 90-minute, 1.5-mile walking tour begins at the Museum of Historic Annapolis and ends at the Maryland State House, with stops at eleven other sites...

In this three part series, we will explore the influence of race on the Annapolis community from 1619 to today through public readings, youth presentations, group discussions, and a community mural project. Parts 1 and 2 of the series will be virtual events on April 23rd, 11:00am-1:00pm and May 25th, 6:00-7:30pm that feature youth presentations and public readings of excerpts from the #1 New York Times bestseller, The 1619 Project by Nicole Hannah-Jones. Through intergenerational group discussions after the readings, we will make connections from slavery to the segregation of...

Historic Annapolis is proud to possess a fine decorative arts collection. A traditional guided tour of the William Paca House offers peeks at some of these objects, but do you want to know more? Then this tour is for you! Join HA’s Curator of Collections, Robin Gower, for a curator-led tour of the William Paca House with a keen focus on the details of our special collections. Cost: $25 General Admission; $20 HA Members and Docents

Meet the GreenGive partners at this and the May Green Drinks. Hear about the important work these organizations are doing, and enjoy an evening of community. GreenGive is just around the corner on June 7-8. Take advantage of this early bird opportunity to get to know the GreenGive partners at both the the April and May Green Drinks.

Join Maryland Hall for a free Gallery Reception in the Chaney and Martino Galleries to celebrate the opening of the new exhibit Reception Women In the Arts - A Dialogue between Nature & Environment. Just as culture occupies a special place in life, women have always played an important role in this vast and beautiful area of human activity. Looking at the works of Yumi Hogan and Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki, we can understand and delight in the different ways in which these two women have embodied and defined nature through art....

Join us for a panel discussion as we revisit the 2020 critically acclaimed Banneker-Douglass Museum exhibit, The Black Vote Mural Project. During this panel discussion we will explore what was involved in the creation of the exhibit, current projects of some of the exhibit’s artists/curators, and how current social justice movements align with the 2020 art project.

Grand Opening! 2022 Beer Gardens! Come Enjoy the Beautiful Spring Weather at Whites Hall!! Join us for delicious food, refreshing drinks, lawn games, and live music.

Walk for the Woods is Scenic Rivers Land Trust's signature community event celebrating the joy of the outdoors and our local, protected woods. This beloved spring event is scheduled for Saturday, April 30, 2022, at Bacon Ridge Natural Area in Crownsville (rain date is May 1). Scenic Rivers will again partner with Anne Arundel County’s Department of Recreation and Parks to offer a wonderful opportunity to hike and explore this beautiful wilderness just minutes from downtown Annapolis. We anticipate a fantastic, safe day in our local, protected woods! Experts in wildlife,...

During Walk for the Woods 2022, local historian Janice Hayes-Williams will again host the "Say My Name" remembrance ceremony honoring the Crownsville State Hospital patients who were buried in the Crownsville Hospital Cemetery (located adjacent to Bacon Ridge Natural Area) with only numbers to mark their graves. To allow for more participation, the ceremony is being offered twice—at 10 am and again at 12 pm. Walk up attendance is available for this event.

Grand Opening! 2022 Beer Gardens! Come Enjoy the Beautiful Spring Weather at Whites Hall!! Join us for delicious food, refreshing drinks, lawn games, and live music.