Out of the Shoe Box: How to Improve Your Family Archive's Storage Come talk to the professional conservation staff at the Maryland State Archives about the best ways to preserve your family treasures. This free hands-on workshop will give a basic overview of the best ways to house, organize, and handle your precious papers and photos. Practice materials will be available for you to try out your new skills, and you can take home what you learn to apply to your own precious collections. It's time to bring those memories...

Celebrate American Archives Month this October with the Maryland State Archives. Guest Speaker, Austin Kibler Conducting Research at the Archives:  How the presence and absence of records drives a historical argument Austin Kibler is a Research Librarian at Williams and Connolly, LLP. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a MLIS and a MA in History. His thesis, “Maryland, the Marine Hospital Service, and the Medical Relief of Chesapeake Oyster Dredgers, 1870-1900,” looks at the important role played by newly professionalized bureaucracies in developing public policy through its examination...

Building off the success of their presentations in 2016, Visit Annapolis & Anne Arundel County has asked the Symmetry Agency to help create a monthly series that highlights specific, educational topics for their partners. Free. Senator John C. Astle Conference Room. October 26 –  Blogs with speaker Darin Gilliam

All new salacious stories for 2017! ​Pirates, murder, and scandal aplenty await you on this adults-only, after-hours tour of Historic London Town and Gardens. Explore the dark underbelly of London’s history. Walk the streets of the long dead seaport, discovering its more salacious stories. Learn about the pirates who prowled the South River, an eighteenth-century bar fight, a spy who dined with the rich of our town, and a runaway sailor with ribald tattoos! Bring back alive the tavern atmosphere with alcoholic drinks and refreshments, included in the price. ​$20...

Looking for ghost tours in Maryland? This year, instead of heading to the usual Haunted House full of unconvincing tricks, come with Watermark on a special haunted ghost tour of Annapolis during the festive month of October. Special Historic Hauntings takes guests inside one of Annapolis’ most notoriously haunted houses! Step back into time and hear the tales of the spirits that linger inside the dimly lit mansion. Only our ghoulish guides have access to bring you inside this haunted structure after dark. No visit to Annapolis is complete without...

Explore the world of medical care in early Maryland by speaking with interpreters specializing in surgery and medicine of the colonial era. Saws, pills, and more to cure all that ails you! Included with general admission and free for members.

Looking for ghost tours in Maryland? This year, instead of heading to the usual Haunted House full of unconvincing tricks, come with Watermark on a special haunted ghost tour of Annapolis during the festive month of October. Special Historic Hauntings takes guests inside one of Annapolis’ most notoriously haunted houses! Step back into time and hear the tales of the spirits that linger inside the dimly lit mansion. Only our ghoulish guides have access to bring you inside this haunted structure after dark. No visit to Annapolis is complete without...

Keeping History Above Water: Annapolis is an international gathering hosted by the City of Annapolis in partnership with the Newport Restoration Foundation.  Conference discussions will examine the increasing and varied risks posed by sea level rise to historic coastal communities, their built environments and traditional lifeways. Leaders in the fields of historic preservation, business, culture, tourism, economics, urban planning, environment, sustainability, design, engineering and public policy will participate in symposia, workshops, roundtables and tours that focus on practical solutions and community engagement. Given Annapolis’ leadership on sea level rise planning with its Weather...

Open to all levels, these classes are a refreshing way to begin your Sunday morning. Zen provided by the gardens overlooking the South River, instruction provided by various talent from the area, and yoga mat provided by you! Each week is a new theme. Event is rain or shine. Free with a suggested donation of $10 per person

Explore the world of medical care in early Maryland by speaking with interpreters specializing in surgery and medicine of the colonial era. Saws, pills, and more to cure all that ails you! Included with general admission and free for members.