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Matinee Twelfth Night Duo Seraphim – Concert

Hammond-Harwood House 19 Maryland Ave, Annapolis, MD, United States

Join us for an afternoon of music, poetry, and merrymaking as we celebrate this annual tradition! This year’s Twelfth Night concert will feature joyous baroque duets by Monteverdi and Vivaldi along with a selection of everyone’s favorite traditional carols. The setting is the historic candlelit ballroom of the Hammond-Harwood House. Critically acclaimed sopranos Elissa Edwards and Laura Choi Stuart join forces with Wade Davis, cellist, and Thomas Sheehan, harpsichordist. The performance will be punctuated with dramatic poetic recitations by Professor Katrina Atsinger of the Naval Academy. Artist-in-residence Elissa Edwards is...

Hands-On History Day: The Civil Rights Movement

Museum of Historic Annapolis 99 Main Street, Annapolis, MD

Visit the Museum of Historic Annapolis on the second Sunday of every month for Hands-On History Days. Drop in any time between 10 am and 2 pm for special family activities - a new theme each month means you and your family will want to visit again and again! Activities are included with Museum admission, which is 1/2 price on second Sundays. In January, join us to learn about the Civil Rights Movement. Explore the Museum and interact with community members who participated in protests during the Civil Rights Movement in Washington D.C. and Annapolis...

Odenton Heritage Society Open House

Odenton Heritage Society Historical Center 1367 Odenton Road, Odenton, MD

On Sunday, January 8, 2023 the Odenton Heritage Society will open a display spotlighting the failed Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad.  A plan to build a railroad through Anne Arundel County to southern Calvert County captivated industrialists from the 1860s to the 1920s. The railroad was never completed, but organizers repeatedly tried to finance and build a line that would funnel freight to a new port near Solomons.  Enjoy photographs of still-existing right-of-way that workers graded near Severn Run and Gambrills in the 1880s.  Learn about audacious plans to rival...

Lunch & Learn: Maryland’s Jews & Military Service

One of Maryland few Jewish Revolutionary War veterans, Elias Pollock was a successful businessman in Baltimore during the early 1800s until his son-in-law bankrupted him. Over the course of his life, Pollock took great pains to identify himself as a Jew at a time when doing so was a political act. The story of Jewish settlement in Baltimore in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is typically told through the lives of the city's most prominent residents. This talk explores Pollock's military career and the history of Jewish settlement...

Winter Lecture – Growth of City Dock and the Surrounding Marketplace

Annapolis Maritime Museum 723 Second Street , Annapolis, MD, United States

The Annapolis Maritime Museum holds its annual Winter Lecture Series over eight consecutive Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. from mid-January through early March. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on diverse topics including maritime history, local history, science, and maritime art. The 2023 series will be held in person at the Museum Campus (723 Second Street Annapolis, MD 21403). Pre-registration is strongly suggested as space is limited. Registration fee of $10 per person at the door – first come, first served. Free admission for...

The Rise and Fall of Fashion 1750 to 1850

Rising Sun Inn 1090 Generals Highway, Crownsville, MD, United States

Join us at the Rising Sun Inn, in Crownsville, on January 15, 2023, at 1:00 p.m., for our Tavern Talk and Tour Series. This installment will feature Heather Hook. Heather started historic reenacting in 1990. Wanting to be as authentic as possible, she ran across her first original ladies Civil War dress in an antique shop and purchased it to study. She was immediately drawn into the world of collecting originals. The Heather Hook originals collection consists of men, women and children's clothing and accessories from the years 1750-1980. The...

Virtual Lecture – The Crowning Crime

The title is taken from a handbill published and distributed by an abolitionist organization included a poem that called the Trans-Atlantic slave trade the "Crowning Crime of Christendom." After the United States declared the importation of slaves illegal in 1808, the U.S. Navy was charged with the mission of enforcing the law. As a result of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, the U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy began patrolling the waters of the coast of West Africa to interdict ships carrying human cargo to the Western Hemisphere. The most...

2023 Winter Luncheon Series – Sally Ride, an American Hero

Captain Avery Museum 1418 E West Shady Side Road, Shady Side, MD, United States

Sally Ride, an American Hero Mary Ann Jung, Award-winning Actress and Smithsonian Scholar  Mary Ann Jung has been recreating history’s most fascinating women for over thirty years with her audience-participation shows. This show features Dr. Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut and its youngest. Learn about her journey and its challenges, and play a fun game of “Who Wants to be an Astronaut?” Lectures are Wednesdays at 11:30 AM and run about an hour with Q & A. Lunch and dessert follow. Members $125 for Series; $25 for individual luncheons....

Winter Lecture – Stronger Than Steel: Civil War Voices of Eastern Shore Women

Annapolis Maritime Museum 723 Second Street , Annapolis, MD, United States

The Annapolis Maritime Museum holds its annual Winter Lecture Series over eight consecutive Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. from mid-January through early March. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on diverse topics including maritime history, local history, science, and maritime art. The 2023 series will be held in person at the Museum Campus (723 Second Street Annapolis, MD 21403). Pre-registration is strongly suggested as space is limited. Registration fee of $10 per person at the door – first come, first served. Free admission for...

Virtual Lecture – The Newer World: The American Revolution and the Odyssey to Australia

The loss of thirteen American colonies turned Britain’s empire upside down, shutting off a transatlantic passage that the British government had used to dump convicted criminals in the Chesapeake colonies in huge quantities before the war. In the wake of independence, that government urgently began to search for a site for a new penal colony somewhere else. After seven tries and seven failures elsewhere in its empire, the ministry eventually established a new penal colony near Botany Bay, New South Wales, in 1788. With those first 736 convicts and forced...