Events - 26 Oct 19

Treat the readers in your life—or yourself—to a book or two (or three!) from our signed book auction. Every book here has been signed by the author, editor, or illustrator. Fans of historical fiction, poetry, biography, YA, and graphic novels will all find something here. All proceeds support our literary programming. Browse and bid by [...]

The Cambridge Main Street  is the fourth of six Maryland sites to host Water/Ways, a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibition, brought to the state by the Maryland Humanities’ Museum on Main Street program. Water/Ways will be open to the public at Dorchester Center for the Arts in Cambridge for six weeks, from October 19 to November 30, 2019, [...]

Coffee and Books: A casual discussion about the 2019 OMOB selection: What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha. Library copies are available to take out. Coffee and tea will be provided. Ages 16+

Discuss the 2019 OMOB selection: What the Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha.

Follow in the footsteps of Baltimore’s literary luminaries and discover the elegant brownstone mansions and majestic cultural institutions built by Baltimore’s successful 19th century merchants and industrialists. Learn how a neighborhood of scholars, struggling artists and authors, newspaperman, philanthropists and social reformers offered rich opportunities to discuss and debate ideas and open new literary avenues. [...]

Tour the Wastewater Treatment Plant with Town Administrator Drew Bowen, and learn how water is managed in Middletown.

Learn about the important role that water, communication and community played on the Underground Railroad in Maryland. In conjunction with the Smithsonian Water/Ways exhibition in Cambridge, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center invites you to a special presentation, The Underground Railroad in Dorchester County: Community & Communication on the Water. For Harriet Tubman and [...]