Examine Maryland’s rich heritage of wooden shipbuilding over the course of more than three centuries developed with regionally specific designs, materials, and techniques. Review the regional aspects of this once-vital industry and shed light on the significance of the construction of the Maryland Dove, the vessel that accompanied the first Maryland colonists to the new world in 1634. Presenter: Pete Lesher | Chief Curator at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Pete Lesher is chief curator at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where he has served on staff since 1991 and now...

Online Lecture by Joyce M. White, food historian through Zoom. Join Joyce White as she travels through time from the earliest days of settlement of Maryland in the seventeenth century up through the nineteenth-century in a discussion covering the more popular spirited drinks early Marylanders enjoyed. This talk focuses on drinks such as cider, perry, beer, Sampson, whiskey, brandy, punch, toddy, shrub, and bounce, among other curious historic spirited drinks. Registration is required.

If you try cooking grass-fed meat like conventional meat, you could end up with a dry hockey puck instead of a hamburger. But when you do it right, you unlock the tremendous flavor of grass-fed meat! Grass-fed steaks, burgers, and roasts are even more delicious than you thought possible. CBF, in partnership with Go Grass-fed and Future Harvest CASA, presents Kosmas "Tommie" Koukoulis of Cafe Mezzanote for an online cooking demonstration featuring grass-fed beef and lamb from CBF's very own Clagett Farm. Learn how eating grass-fed meat can benefit you,...

Join the Maryland Federation of Art to meet narrative found object assemblage sculptor Linda Popp! Popp is a Baltimore artist, art educator, and is currently supervising art education student teachers at Towson University. Popp creates narrative found object assemblage sculptures using artifacts and symbolic objects to convey stories about relationships with family, place, love, faith, and self. Come watch to learn about her inspirations and artistic process. This event is free to attend.Wil Talk with Linda Popp

The William Paca House is famous for its reconstructed eighteenth-century garden. A place for leisure, experimentation, artistry, and the production of food and medicine, William Paca’s garden—and gardens elsewhere in Annapolis and the British Atlantic World—were integral to everyday life. Join Bethany McGlyn as she explores several eighteenth-century Annapolis gardens, their construction and design, and the stories of the enslaved and servant gardeners whose expertise maintained them. Registration required. Cost: $15 per household for General Admission; $10 per household for HA Members and Volunteers

Join Annapolis Green for our environmental book club, Annapolis Green Reads, to grow your appreciation for the environment while benefiting from the collective wisdom of many authors who write about our natural world and to connect with others. The book for this month is Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by E.O. Wilson.

For millennia, the oyster has been a linchpin in the Bay’s ecosystem. For centuries, the oyster has impacted the politics and economy of the State of Maryland. Learn about the impact of aquaculture on the wild fishery, supplying more oysters to market. Focus on the Chesapeake Oyster Alliance that is dedicated to helping recover the Bay’s oyster population by putting 10 billion oysters in the Bay by 2025. Presenter: Jesse Iliff | Riverkeeper of South, West, and Rhode Rivers Jesse Iliff is an attorney who obtained his juris doctor from...

The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces those whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles. Her talk will focus...

Our Nation’s newest National Marine Sanctuary, which encompasses more than 100 vessels constructed by the civilian U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. during WWI. Discuss the importance of the area to the First Nation’s peoples, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, WWI and WWII, and the Great Depression. Review history of Mallows Bay commercial fishing through the centuries. Uncover the many reasons to visit this peaceful enclave just 30 miles south of the nation’s capital, including excellent fishing and birdwatching. Presenter: Dr. Susan Langley | Maryland State Underwater Archaeologist  Susan Langley...

Join MFA and art historian Wil Scott as the Maryland Federation of Art sits down with Allen Hirsh. Hirsh uses his own software to generate mathematically altered images of the physically world, creating surreal art with startling structures. This event is free to attend.