The history of Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse (TPSL) including the rise of the port of Baltimore, the early lighthouses on the peninsula, and the construction of the screwpile on the shoal. A look at noteworthy TPSL keepers and an overview of the current state of the lighthouse. Presenter: David Gendell | Author, Sailor, and Co-founder of SpinSheet and PropTalk Magazines David Gendell is a lifelong Annapolis sailor. He is the co-founder of SpinSheet Magazine and PropTalk Magazine. In 2004, he was the emcee of the transfer ceremony that shifted ownership...

Two hundred fifty years ago, Annapolis had been Maryland's capital for 75 of the province's 136 years. No one knew it yet, but the countdown was already on to the end of the colonial era, the start of the Revolutionary War, and the rise of an independent American nation. Glenn E. Campbell, Senior Historian of Historic Annapolis, tells the story of Annapolis in 1770, a year when, as William Eddis wrote, "a spirit of discontent and opposition universally predominant in the colonies." Registration required. Cost: $15 per household for General Admission; $10...

Hosts: Presented by The Maryland State Archives in collaboration with The Enoch Pratt Free Library and The Maryland Four Centuries Project Speaker: Timothy D. Baker, State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents Location: Online Event, View Stream Information Registration: Encouraged, but not required. Register Here

History of waterfowl in the Bay from the time of Captain John Smith to the present-day as they compete with humans for optimum habitat. Discuss Chesapeake Bay studies of the Canvasback, King of the Bay, and latest tracking studies of Seaducks using satellite telemetry. Explore how species such as mute swans, Canada geese, and snow geese, are destroying habitat for other waterfowl species. Presenter: Dr. Matthew C. Perry | Scientist Emeritus, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Dr. Perry’s love of birds was a constant throughout his life and resulted in a...

Join us for a lunchtime conversation on the importance of preserving the signage and other memorabilia created during the largest social justice movement of our time. We will explore methods for preservations and provide attendees with some ideas on successfully archiving these pieces of history.

Planting an Empire is the only modern, comprehensive history of the Chesapeake colonies, but writing it wasn’t a simple task. While two colonies shared a geographic region, they differed in a number of fundamental ways, yet together they formed a prosperous and politically important region in British North America. Trying to balance two dissimilar narratives proved to be a challenge. A cautionary tale for would-be authors! Registration required. Cost: $15 per household for General Admission; $10 per household for HA Members and Volunteers

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

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...