Events and Programs
at the
Historical Society of Talbot County
Movie: “Captain Blood” starring Errol Flynn Pirates of Talbot: Dinner, Auction and Other Swashbuckling Fun! Silk Show Preview Night to Benefit HSTC Mother or Grandmother/Daughter Colonial Tea Annual Meeting Easton Kitchen & Garden Tour Father or Grandfather/Daughter Colonial Tea
Fair Plays Vintage Base Ball Team Especially for Schools and Youth Groups Longwoods One-Room School Program Traveling Trunk Program
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Saturday February 6
7 pm
Historical Society Auditorium, 17 S. Washington St. Easton
Prepare to Swashbuckle! No one could wield a sword like Errol Flynn, and he does his finest wielding in this 1935 classic. A peaceful
physician forced into slavery and then turned pirate, Captain Blood is the perfect larger than life bucaneer. See this classic movie on real film in our Auditorium.
$7
Saturday March 13
6 pm
Talbot County Country Club
Once you've been inspired by Errol Flynn, come and live out your pirate fantasies at our Pirate Night. Dress up in your finest stolen booty and put a parrot on your shoulder.
Exciting advantures will be available at our auction, so don't miss the boat!
Sponsors
Avon Dixon and Bill & Barbara Lane
PNC Bank
Vito & Patricia Spitaleri
Tilghman Family
Lane Engineering
Wye Financial & Trust
Martha Horner
Bo & Amy Lewis
Parker Counts & Melton
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$90 members/$100 non-members
Tuesday April 13
5-7 pm
at the Inn at 202 Dover, Easton
Anita Ford, the designer and creator of a line of fine silks, will be on hand to give a short talk at approximately 5:45PM on the silks and how they are woven. She will also bring some beautiful Thai jewelry to accompany the silks.
10% of any sales that evening will be donated to the Historical Society. For more information, call 410-822-0773
Admission free
Saturday May 8
2 pm
Enjoy a girls' day out at the Mother or Grandmother/Daughter Tea Party. Party guests will enjoy colonial-era afternoon refreshments and tea prepared over an open hearth fire in the replica colonial home on the museum property. Food will include “flummery,” a favorite of Felicity, heroine of the American Girl book series, and “Shrewsbury Cakes,” cookies made with currants.
Dolls are invited to attend, also.
$20 per person, or $15 for HSTC members (dolls are free). Pre-registration is required
Tuesday May 18
All members and the public are invited to the annual meeting of the Historical Society of Talbot County. We will review the past year, vote on board members and officers, and present the Heritage Awards.
Then we adjourn to the garden for a party among the flowers.
Saturday, May 22
from 11am-5pm
The Historical Society of Talbot County and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maryland, are pleased
to announce the first Kitchen and Garden Tour. The tour will include ten homes in downtown Easton. The tour will start at the Historical Society Auditorium, and guests will return to the Historical Society garden for tea after the tour.
For further information please contact the Historical Society at 410-822-0773, or chairman of the tour Katie Moose at 410-820-9915.
Tickets are $20 if purchased in advance, or $25 the day of the tour.
On Saturday, June 19
2 pm
Celebrate Father's day a little early at the Father or Grandfather/Daughter Tea Party. Dads, grandfathers, and uncles are all invited to bring the girl they adore, no matter how old she is.
$20 per person, or $15 for HSTC members (dolls are free). Pre-registration is required
Play Base Ball the old-fashioned way. Our team plays April - October.
Click on the photo below to go to the team's webpage.
Field Trip for Schools and Youth Groups
The little red schoolhouse at Longwoods is once again filled with children. "A Day at a One-Room Schoolhouse" is a new field trip option for fourth grade students. The Historical Society of Talbot County has been working with the Talbot School District to create a day in the year 1900 that also meets modern state curriculum standards. Funding for this project was provided by the Talbot County Garden Club.
To schedule a field trip, or for more information, contact the Curator at 410-822-0773 or email to curator
The Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) and the Historical Society of Talbot County are partnering to bring traveling trunks to the Eastern Shore!
Filled with reproduction primary source artifacts and documents, lesson plans, activity suggestions, worksheets, and audiovisual materials, these kits are excellent resources for teaching Maryland and United States history!
For only $30, teachers may rent our Growing Up in Maryland (K-3), Tools of the Historian (4-12), or A Stitch in Time: Quilts (K-8) for three weeks. Teachers must pick the trunks up from and return them to the Historical Society of Talbot County in Easton (trunks are also available for round trip shipping from MdHS for $85). Don’t miss this great opportunity!
To book a trunk, please call Gayle Shank, Education Programs Assistant, at 410-685-3750 ext. 334 or email her at gail.
Please see the Maryland Historical Society website for more information on the trunks and images of trunk contents.
Teacher comments:
Growing Up in Maryland - My kindergarten students loved the trunk. The lesson plans were great. We made larger prints of the paper dolls and my students cut out the dolls. Most of them have never seen paper dolls. Even the boys loved the dolls.
Tools of the Historian - I best liked artifacts related to Baltimore Fire, high level of questions, variety of artifacts.
A Stitch in Time: Quilts - I liked the template quilt block game – students were creative and loved it!
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