Blogs: Everybody blogs these days, and heritage area sites and professionals are no exception. On this page we’ve tried to collect many of the blogs related to the Four Rivers Heritage Area and our mission. Please let us know if you have others that you recommend!
Historian Annapolis
Written by local history buffs, blogs on Historian Annapolis bring readers insider perspectives on the newest museum exhibits, centuries-old landmarks, preservation initiatives happening within our historic city, and spotlights on leading local historians. For local perspectives on Annapolis’ rich colonial, maritime, and African American history, check out Historian Annapolis.
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Annapolis Tapestries
Annapolis Tapestries is an historic community project providing social, cultural, artistic, and educational benefits for the citizens of Annapolis, project participants, and the City’s many visitors. Far more than mere pictures of the City’s history, Annapolis Tapestries’ needlepoint images weave together significant events and people that shaped the City’s development into one-of-a-kind, storytelling visuals.
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Anne Arundel’s Horses
This is an earlier Four Rivers Blog focused on our area’s horse-related history and heritage, sharing the fruits of several years’ research, with posts by research consultant Dr. Jean Russo; many thanks to this blog’s supporters!
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Archaeology in Annapolis
Archaeology in Annapolis is a partnership between the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Historic Annapolis Foundation. Begun in 1981, the Archaeology in Annapolis project has been concerned with promoting better understandings of Annapolis’ diverse past through the interpretation of material culture. Since 2000, Archaeology in Annapolis has also worked on Maryland’s Eastern Shore at William Paca’s 1792 plantation on Wye Island, as well as at Wye House, the home of the Lloyd family and where Frederick Douglass—at five or six years old—found he was a slave.
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Finding The Maryland 400
This blog records the activities of a Maryland State Archives research project to identify and prepare biographies for the men who served in the Maryland Line at the Battle of Long Island, as well as describing their experiences before, during, and after the battle as their service continued in the following months and years.
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Garden and Women’s History
Historian Barbara Sarudy has several blogs of interest. The geographic range for all of them is either the mainland British colonies or the present United States, but in addition to material drawn from local sources, much of the content deals with broad cultural topics that encompass this area. One focuses on 18th-century gardens and the other three on women in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
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Poplar Grove Project
Archives staff members charged with processing an important documentary collection from Poplar Grove, located on the Eastern Shore, blog about their work. Some of the posts have Annapolis-area connections and the blog itself is an interesting example of how collections can be interpreted for the general public.
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Reflections by Maryland’s State Archivist
Dr. Edward Papenfuse, Maryland’s former State Archivist, writes a blog on topics relating to the preservation of the past in its archival form, considering issues and challenges that concern anyone interested in interpreting or understanding our history.
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SERC Blog
A wide-ranging blog covering activities at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
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The Lost Towns Project Blog
Keep up with the Lost Town Project’s archaeologists as they uncover and discover Maryland history in Anne Arundel County sites like the former Chew Mansion, the Java site (at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center), and Pig Point.
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