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Friday, March 19
In Southern Anne Arundel County:
Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation (www.kintehaley.org), with Sojourner-Douglass College, 135 Stepney Lane, Edgewater
Exploring Your Genealogy: Trying to find that elusive great Aunt Betty who allegedly ran away in 1907 at the age of 13 to join the Circus? Or whatever happened to great-great-great-great Grandfather Tom’s brother Henry after the Civil War? Genealogists will be on hand to help solve your family tree mysteries. Children and adults will enjoy the opportunity to decipher old-fashioned handwriting and experience the fun of writing with old-style quill and ink pens. Find us on Maryland Day weekend on Friday, March 19th from 3 – 7 p.m. at Sojourner-Douglass College in Edgewater. Plenty of free parking and snacks. Sojourner-Douglass staff will also be on hand to answer your questions about adult learning opportunities. All free. For more info call 410-956-9090.
In Annapolis:
NEW ADDITION! -- Bates Legacy Center and Northern Arundel Cultural Preservation Society, The Wiley H. Bates Legacy Center, 1101 Smithville Street, Annapolis, MD 21401
The public is invited to visit the Bates Legacy Center, March 19 and 20, 10 am to 4 pm and witness the vast collection of history on display. See the historic gems in the Bates Legacy exhibition. Learn about the Bates community and its legacies. Sport the Bates colors, Purple and Gold! Prizes and surprises! FREE. For more information, call 410-263-1860.
Saturday, March 20
In Annapolis:
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Start off your day with our “Annapolis Heritage Stride” for FAMILY FUN! A one-mile stride through downtown Annapolis with games and prizes, sponsored by the Four Rivers Heritage Area. Play our "History Hop" game as we go along! Come in costume (think Maryland, think history) and join in the fun! (NOTE: There is no advance registration required, but if you plan to bring a group let us know so we can be prepared: call the Four Rivers office at 410-222-1805). Starts and ends at City Dock, FREE, 8 – 9 a.m.
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“Four Rivers Four-Mile Annapolis Heritage Run,” four-mile run at your own pace, prizes sponsored by local merchants, register at Fleet Feet Annapolis (318 Sixth Street). Sponsored by Fleet Feet & The Downtown Annapolis Partnership.
Register at Fleet Feet on Saturday between 8am & 4pm and enter your name in a drawing. You will be given the course and an entry form; run at your own pace. Race shirt to the first 50 to enter! Saturday all day.
AAACCVB Visitors Center (www.visitannapolis.org), 26 West Street, Annapolis (and City Dock Information Booth.)
Plan activities for your weekend adventures with help from the Visitors Center’s trained Volunteer Information Specialists. We can help guide your itinerary and offer suggestions for restaurants, hotels, and other activities to fill out your day. FREE, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Annapolis Maritime Museum (www.amaritime.org), 723 Second Street & Creek View Drive, Eastport
We invite you to discover Eastport’s rich, diverse history through the 14 stops on a series of docent-guided tours. Bring your dog or your bike, or ride an electric car and a Museum guide will help you discover our unique maritime heritage, African-American heritage, Colonial history or other themes. Eastport Walking Tours, $1 per person (Note: space will be limited on certain tours, please call the museum at 410-295-0104 for information) -- 10 a.m.: ECruiser electric car tour; 11 a.m.: Dog Walk; 12 noon: Bicycle tour; 1 p.m.: Walking tour. Eastport is the maritime neighborhood located across the harbor from Annapolis proper. Set on Horn Point Peninsula between Spa Creek and Back Creek, Eastport’s streets and street-end parks are perfect for exploring by foot, bike or small boat. While you’re here, stop by one of the neighborhood’s many restaurants, pubs, coffee shops or delis for refreshment as you go. Be sure to visit the Annapolis Maritime Museum for more information and to check out an audio guide (CD) of this walking tour that provides additional background in story and song. It’s located on the shore of Back Creek at the end of Second Street. You can also find more information on the Museum’s web site, www.annapolismaritimemuseum.org.
Banneker-Douglass Museum (www.bdmuseum.com), 84 Franklin Street, Annapolis
Learn about life on the Chesapeake Bay from the perspective of Maryland's Black Watermen of the Chesapeake. Join Vince Leggett, founder of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation, for a screening of a new documentary on the black watermen and then meet some of the people featured in the film for a panel discussion afterward. As a special treat for Maryland Day ONLY, Maryland fiber artist Dr. Joan M. E. Gaither's latest documentary story quilt, Black Watermen of the Chesapeake, will be on display in the museum's lobby area. This is the first time the quilt will be displayed in Maryland after being dedicated in December 2010. Saturday, March 20, 1 to 3 p.m.
NEW ADDITION! -- Bates Legacy Center and Northern Arundel Cultural Preservation Society, Wiley H. Bates Legacy Center, 1101 Smithville Street, Annapolis, MD 21401
The public is invited to visit the Bates Legacy Center, March 19 and 20, 10 am to 4 pm and witness the vast collection of history on display. See the historic gems in the Bates Legacy exhibition. Meet the Tour Guides-in-training on Saturday, March 20th. Learn about the Bates community and its legacies. Sport the Bates colors, Purple and Gold! Prizes and surprises! FREE. For more information, call 410-263-1860.
Charles Carroll House (www.charlescarrollhouse.com), 107 Duke of Gloucester Street, Annapolis
Scavenger Hunt in the Garden: Brush up on your hunting skills at the Charles Carroll House and Gardens! Learn about the history of the Carroll family and revolutionary Annapolis while you search for clues throughout the garden and along the seawall. The house and garden will be open for free tours on Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21 from noon until 4.
Chesapeake Children's Museum (www.theccm.org), 25 Silopanna Road, Annapolis
Maryland Had Dinosaurs! Find out which dinosaurs roamed this area long before humans. Make instant Fossils, measure out the lengths of different dinosaurs. Ages 2 and up. Admission $1. Saturday, March 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hammond-Harwood House, (www.hammondharwoodhouse.org), 19 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis
Hammond-Harwood House's changing exhibit, the video "The Jewel of Annapolis," and the garden are open to the public for Maryland Day weekend.
Historic Annapolis Hogshead (HAF), (www.annapolis.org), 43 Pinkney Street, Annapolis
MORE living history throughout the Maryland Day weekend at 43 Pinkney Street. Explore a traditional 18th-century middle-class house. Meet colonial frontiersmen and women who will delight visitors with stories of hunting, trapping, and news of the West—when the West was just much closer than today! Both Saturday and Sunday, March 20th and 21st. FREE, Noon to 5 p.m.
Jonas Green House, 124 Charles Street, Annapolis
Tour the home of Jonas Green and his wife, Anne Catharine Hoof Green, colonial patriots and printers for the government and publishers of the Maryland Gazette beginning in 1745. This private home is still the home of Green family descendants. Not usually open to the public except by appointment! Open for tours both Saturday and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
Maynard-Burgess House, 163 Duke of Gloucester Street, Annapolis
Stop by the Maynard-Burgess House and follow signs to the backyard, where interpretive panels developed by the Archaeology in Annapolis Program of the University of Maryland tell the house’s story. The weathered frame dwelling that stands at 163 Duke of Gloucester Street has a complex architectural history; the house is associated with two black Annapolis families and provides rare insight into the life of free African Americans prior to the Civil War. FREE, daylight hours.
Sands House (www.sandshouse.org), 130 Prince George Street, Annapolis
Centuries of History: Explore the origins of life—in early Annapolis, that is— at the Sands House, home of one family for nearly 240 years. Learn about archaeological discoveries that date to early colonists and even earlier Native Americans. Discover the stories this old house and its contents can tell about the changes in a family, a neighborhood, and a town from colonial days to the present. The Sands House will be open from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on both Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21. Admission is $1.00 per person.
United States Naval Academy, Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center (www.navyonline.com), 52 King George Street, Annapolis
Come into the Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center and ask for your FREE copy of this booklet: The Reincarnation of John Paul Jones: The Navy Discovers its Professional Roots (a Naval Historical Foundation publication). AND, on March 20 and 21, enjoy a 10% Maryland Day Weekend discount in the Naval Academy Gift Shop, where the shopping is tax-free! A picture ID is required for entry into the Naval Academy.
William Paca House and Garden (HAF) (www.annapolis.org), 186 Prince George Street, Annapolis
History comes to life! Meet costumed reenactors who will relate the political and social activities of 18th-century Annapolis. Hear first-hand their trials and tribulations of a harsh winter and their plans for a warm spring. Explore the William Paca Garden with a family-fun scavenger hunt and try your hand at some spring-inspired craft activities. Don’t be surprised if you discover some other historical folks joining you to enjoy the early-spring delights of the Paca Garden. Noon to 5 p.m. Admission is $1.00 per person. (Note: The Paca House opens for the season on Sunday, March 21st, with hour-long, docent-led tours; regular admission prices apply.)
In Southern Anne Arundel County:
Galesville Heritage Museum (www.galesvilleheritagesociety.org), 988 Main Street, Galesville
Get together with “Susan Mathiot Gale” and gain insight into a young woman's daily activities in the late
1850's. Susan was born in Baltimore in 1831 and married George Gale in 1856. George was much older
than Susan and died soon after they were married, leaving his young, pregnant wife to oversee the
estate. From readings of Susan’s own words, hear how the young Susan responded to life on the estate,
raising her daughter, visiting neighbors, traveling to Baltimore and writing in her journal; and learn how
the mature Susan’s views on religion and slavery affected her in later life. The setting in the Museum will
evoke a plantation parlor of the 19th Century. Visitors can ask questions of the “two Susans” from the
different periods of her life. Copies of the transcribed diary will be on hand for review, along with the copy
of the original diary. Light refreshments will be served at the end of each performance. The half-hour
program will be repeated on the hour from 1 to 4 p.m.; Museum open Noon – 5 p.m. FREE.
SPACES STILL AVAILABLE! Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (www.serc.si.edu), 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater
Two special hands-on programs for Maryland Day will be offered on Saturday, March 20: Join Outreach Coordinator Karen McDonald for a hands-on program for the whole family! Blue Crab talk with live blue crabs, 10 to 11; Jellyfish talk with live Jellies, 2:30 to 3:30. Each talk limited to 40, reservations are suggested; please call 301-238-2737. The Java History Trail will be open for hikers on Saturday as well! SERC is open to the public for FREE from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, March 20.
Sunday, March 21
In Annapolis:
AAACCVB Visitors Center (www.visitannapolis.org), 26 West Street, Annapolis (and City Dock Information Booth)
Plan activities for your weekend adventures with help from the Visitors Center’s trained Volunteer Information Specialists. We can help guide your itinerary and offer suggestions for restaurants, hotels, and other activities to fill out your day.
Charles Carroll House (www.charlescarrollhouse.com), 107 Duke of Gloucester Street, Annapolis
Scavenger Hunt in the Garden: Brush up on your hunting skills at the Charles Carroll House and Gardens! Learn about the history of the Carroll family and revolutionary Annapolis while you search for clues throughout the garden and along the seawall. The house and garden will be open for free tours on Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21 from noon until 4.
Hammond-Harwood House, (www.hammondharwoodhouse.org), 19 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis
Hammond-Harwood House's changing exhibit, video "The Jewel of Annapolis," and garden are open to the public for Maryland Day weekend.
Historic Annapolis Hogshead (HAF), (www.annapolis.org), 43 Pinkney Street, Annapolis
MORE living history throughout the Maryland Day weekend at 43 Pinkney Street. Explore a traditional 18th-century middle-class house. Meet colonial frontiersmen and women who will delight visitors with stories of hunting, trapping, and news of the West—when the West was just much closer than today! Both Saturday and Sunday, March 20th and 21st. FREE, Noon to 5 p.m.
Jonas Green House, 124 Charles Street, Annapolis
Tour the home of Jonas Green and his wife, Anne Catharine Hoof Green, colonial patriots and printers for the government and publishers of the Maryland Gazette beginning in 1745. This private home is still the home of Green family descendants. Not usually open to the public except by appointment! Open for tours both Saturday and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts (www.marylandhall.org), 801 Chase Street, Annapolis
ARTFEST!! Discover all that Maryland Hall has to offer at ARTFEST! Bring the entire family out for a day of artistic creativity, fun and exploration. The day will include performances, hands-on art projects, art demonstrations, open studios by Maryland Hall Artists-in-Residence, artist lectures and more. FREE, 1 - 4 p.m.
Maynard-Burgess House, 163 Duke of Gloucester Street, Annapolis
Stop by the Maynard-Burgess House and follow signs to the backyard, where interpretive panels developed by the Archaeology in Annapolis Program of the University of Maryland tell the house’s story. The weathered frame dwelling that stands at 163 Duke of Gloucester Street has a complex architectural history; the house is associated with two black Annapolis families and provides rare insight into the life of free African Americans prior to the Civil War. FREE, daylight hours.
Sands House (www.sandshouse.org), 130 Prince George Street, Annapolis
Centuries of History: Explore the origins of life—in early Annapolis, that is— at the Sands House, home of one family for nearly 240 years. Learn about archaeological discoveries that date to early colonists and even earlier Native Americans. Discover the stories this old house and its contents can tell about the changes in a family, a neighborhood, and a town from colonial days to the present. The Sands House will be open from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21. Admission is $1.00 per person.
United States Naval Academy, Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center (www.navyonline.com), 52 King George Street, Annapolis
Come into the Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center and ask for your FREE copy of this booklet: The Reincarnation of John Paul Jones: The Navy Discovers its Professional Roots (a Naval Historical Foundation publication). AND, on March 20 and 21, enjoy a 10% Maryland Day Weekend discount in the Naval Academy Gift Shop, where the shopping is tax-free! A picture ID is required for entering the Naval Academy.
In Southern Anne Arundel County:
Captain Salem Avery Museum (www.shadysidemuseum.org), 1418 East West Shady Side Road, Shady Side
Tour and Tea: On Sunday, March 21, 2010 the Captain Salem Avery Museum will offer two FREE tours of the historic Avery House, followed by an afternoon tea. The house tour will include a presentation by costumed docents on the history of tea and a demonstration of proper tea service. The tours will occur at 12:30 and 2:30. (Note: A "Mother-Daughter Tea" will take place in the Museum at 1:00 and 3:00 at a cost of $10 for a parent accompanied by one child. Other family members may join in for $2 per person. A variety of teas, hot chocolate, sweets and tea sandwiches will be served. Prepaid reservations are required to reserve seating for the Tea; please call 410-867-4486 to reserve your place).
Deale Area Historical Society (www.dahs.us), Historic Village at Herrington Harbour North, Tracey’s Landing
Life in Historic Deale: Visit with village residents as they go about their daily chores. Take a turn at the butter churn, talk with a tobacco farmer, or set a spell with Miss Ida as she does her crocheting. Children, attend class at the one room school or make a cornhusk doll. This free event will take place on Sunday, March 21, from 12:00-5:00 p.m. Refreshments by Herrington on the Bay Catering will be available.
Historic London Town and Gardens (www.historiclondontown.org), 839 Londontown Road, Edgewater
Come to Historic London Town and Gardens on Sunday, 21 March, from 12-4. Tours of the historic area, the William Brown House, gardens, and live demonstrations of hearth cooking. FREE admission this day only.
Southern Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce (www.southcounty.org), 5503 Muddy Creek Road, Churchton
Come to an Open House at the Chamber Building in Churchton for refreshments and pick up your coupon book for South County specials! FREE, Sunday, March 21st from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Participating businesses include: Watermark Tours, Capital City Colonials, The Westin Annapolis, Holiday Inn Express, the William Page Inn, the Inn at Horn Point, the Inn at Herrington Harbour, The Taylor House, Ram's Head Tavern, Reynolds Tavern, Atwater's, Fleet Feet, Wimsey Cove Framing and Art, and more! Special thanks to the City of Annapolis, Southern Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Annapolis Partnership!
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