THE MASON FAMILY’s Author Christopher Tilghman

Talbot County Free Library Easton Branch 100 West Dover Street, Easton

Nationally-acclaimed author, Christopher Tilghman, will be discussing his process for writing the novels in his Mason Family series, and the source material. The central location of these stories is a fictionalized version of his ancestral family farm in Queen Anne's County. This event is one a series of public programs supporting the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition […]

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Bridge Toll: Impacts of the Bay Bridges on Eastern Shore Life

Talbot County Free Library Easton Branch 100 West Dover Street, Easton

The Oxford Museum hosts a free, public program about how the bay bridge effects life on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Bridge Toll is one a series of public programs supporting the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition Crossroads: Change in Rural Maryland, Maryland Humanities’ current Museum on Main Street exhibition (on view at St. Paul’s Church in Oxford October 29–December 16.)  Oxford […]

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Kicking the Can

Oxford Community Center 200 Oxford Road, Baltimore, MD, United States

Buying food in metal cans at the market is something we do without thinking much about how those time saving cans got there.  For hundreds of years before canning societies preserved foods through drying, smoking, sugaring, freezing, and salting.  The ability to safely store and ship food in glass and metal canisters dates only to […]

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