Talbot Historical Society

Exhibit: "Talbot People"
2024-02-09 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-10 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-14 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-15 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-16 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-17 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-21 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-22 10:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) and 6 more dates
Talbot People
Photographs and book by Steve Lingeman

“Talbot People” the new exhibit and book by photographer, Steve Lingeman, is now open at the Talbot Historical Society. This photographic exhibit highlights people of Talbot County – Easton, Oxford, St. Michaels Trappe and places in between. It’s about all of us and our families, ethnicities, ages, affiliations, religions and professions. This is a project of diversity and the extraordinary collective of people who live in and contribute to Talbot County.
There will be two groups of photographs displayed in throughout the duration of this exhibit. The current group of photographs will be displayed until the end of February. The next group of photographs will be on display for March and April.
Exhibits are open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 3pm.
Location: The Denton Extended Museum and Hill Research Center
25 S. Washington St. Easton, MD 21601

If you have any questions,
please contact the Talbot Historical Society at
410-822-0773 or email kaylaw@talbothistory.org

Frederick Douglass Remembers Talbot County
2024-02-09 17:00 - 19:00
Frederick Douglass Remembers Talbot County
with Nathan M. Richardson
author, performance poet and Frederick Douglass historian
Friday February 9, 2024 at 5pm
Asbury United Methodist Church
18 S. Higgins Street, Easton MD
Talbot Historical Society and Asbury United Methodist Church welcome author, performance poet and Frederick Douglass historian Nathan M. Richardson on Friday February 9, 2024 at 5pm. The congregation of Asbury United Methodist Church was established in 1836. Upon his return to Talbot County, Douglass dedicated the church in 1878. Please join us in this historic house of worship for a very special evening with Nathan Richardson as Frederick Douglass.
Date: Friday February 9, 2024
Location: 18 S. Higgins St., Easton MD
Free Admission
To make a reservation please contact the Talbot Historical Society at
410-822-0773 or email kaylaw@talbothistory.org

Potomack Appraisal Day
2024-02-22 11:00 - 16:00
Talbot Historical Society is thrilled to hold another Appraisal Day with The Potomack Company on Thursday February 22, 2024 from 11am to 4pm at the Denton Extended Museum (25 S. Washington St., Easton). Share your art, jewelry, antiques, documents and objects with Potomack’s specialist team. Your donation of $25 for three items will benefit the Society.
View a video about The Potomack Company here: Potomack Appraisal Day 2-22-24
Reservations are required.
To attend, please RSVP to Kira Greene at kira@potomackco.com or 703-684-4550. If possible, send Kira a photo in advance of anything you would like the specialists to evaluate.
Date: February 22nd, 2023 11am-4pm
Location: The Denton Extended Museum and Hill Research Center
located at 25 S. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland
Price: $25 per 3 items
Reservations are required

CONVERSATION AND HOMECOMING WITH CAROLE & JEFFERY BOSTON WEATHERFORD
2024-02-24 14:00 - 16:00
Carole Boston Weatherford and Jeffery Boston Weatherford’s ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history there extends more than three hundred years, but as with the genealogical searches of many African Americans with roots in slavery, their family tree can only be traced back five generations before going dark. And so from scraps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal. Carole’s poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery’s evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother’s homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. Shaped by loss, erasure, and ultimate reclamation, this is the story of not only Carole and Jeffery’s family, but of countless other Black families in America.
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024 @ 2:00pm
Location: Avalon Theatre, Easton
Free and Open to the public
For More information, visit Avalon Theatre’s website: https://avalonfoundation.org/event/conversation-and-homecoming-carole-and-jeffery-boston-weatherford
Presented by Talbot County Free Library , The Country School , Talbot County Public Schools, Talbot Historical Society, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Monica Davis, Easton Economic Development Corporation, Frederick Douglass Honor Society, Maryland Public Television, WHCP FM 91.7 Music Discovery & NPR for the Mid-Shore, Academy Art Museum, ShoreRivers, Avalon Foundation, Talbot Arts, Dock Street Foundation, Talbot County Economic Development and Tourism, Dorchester County Tourism

Exhibit: "Talbot People"
2024-03-07 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-08 10:00 - 15:00
Talbot People
Photographs and book by Steve Lingeman
“Talbot People” the new exhibit and book by photographer, Steve Lingeman, is now open at the Talbot Historical Society. This photographic exhibit highlights people of Talbot County – Easton, Oxford, St. Michaels Trappe and places in between. It’s about all of us and our families, ethnicities, ages, affiliations, religions and professions. This is a project of diversity and the extraordinary collective of people who live in and contribute to Talbot County.

There will be two groups of photographs displayed in throughout the duration of this exhibit. The current group of photographs will be displayed until the end of February. The next group of photographs will be on display for March and April.
Exhibits are open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 3pm.
Location: The Larry Denton Extended Museum and Hill Research Center
25 S. Washington St. Easton, MD 21601

If you have any questions,
please contact the Talbot Historical Society at
410-822-0773 or email kaylaw@talbothistory.org

Closed - To Install New Photographs for Talbot People Exhibit
2024-03-09
We will be closed Saturday, March 9th to install the next group of photographs from Steve Lingeman’s collection for this project.
New photographs will be on display on Wednesday, March 13th through the end of April, 2024.
Location: 25 S. Washington Street, Easton MD 21601
at the Larry Denton Extended Museum
Please contact THS with any questions 410-822-0773

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS - Talbot People Exhibit
2024-03-13 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-14 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-15 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-16 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-20 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-21 10:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-22 10:00 - 15:00
New photographs will be on display starting on Wednesday, March 13th through the end of April, 2024.
Location: 25 S. Washington Street, Easton MD 21601
at the Larry Denton Extended Museum
Please contact THS with any questions 410-822-0773
Talbot Historical Society office/research/exhibit hours are:
Wednesday through Saturday 10am-3pm

Meet & Greet and Book Signing with Steve Lingeman
2024-03-15 17:00 - 19:00
Meet & Greet and book signing with Steve Lingeman

Steve Lingeman will be back for another Meet & Greet and book signing on Friday, March 15th from 5pm to 7pm
Light refreshments will be provided
We had a fantastic turn out for the first meet & greet in January and we are looking forward to another great evening!
Mr. Lingeman has been working for over two years to complete his book of 100 outstanding photographs of people who live and work in Talbot County. The book includes all races, ethnicities, backgrounds and even a few pets.
The exhibition includes 24 of the his photographs, printed in large format black and white. Come and enjoy an evening with the artist while experiencing his beautiful portraits.
His book will be available for purchase.
Date: Friday, March, 15th from 5-7pm
Location: 25 S. Washington Street
Please contact THS with any questions
410-822-0773

Historic Walking Tours
2024-03-16 11:00 - 13:00
Historic Walking Tours
Saturday March 16th, 2024
11am and 12pm at 25 S. Washington St.
Join us for an hour-long historic walking tour of beautiful downtown Easton. Do you recognize any of these buildings? How many times have fires spread throughout downtown Easton in the past? These questions and many more will be answered through wonderfully enriching stories about Easton’s past.
First tour: Starts at 11am
The tour guide will take you to various buildings within the historic district of downtown and explain the importance of the buildings in Easton’s history.
Second tour: Starts at 12pm (noon)
The tour guide, Prof. Mike Olmert, will take you to historic buildings on the Talbot Historical Society’s campus and downtown Easton while explaining the significance of the architecture of those historic buildings.
ALL TOURS MEET AT
25 S. Washington Street
Easton, MD 21601.
the Larry Denton Extended Museum and Hill Research Center
There are 10 spots available.
Please contact us for reservations
or if you have any questions:
410-822-0773 or email kaylaw@talbothistory.org
Talbot Historical Society office/research/exhibit hours are:
Wednesday through Saturday 10am-3pm

A Date with History: Ink, Paint, Bricks with Prof. Mike Olmert
2024-03-20 13:00 - 14:00
A Date with History Lecture Series
“Ink, Paint, Bricks: Intention & Ambiguity in the Arts”
Wednesday, March 20th , 2024 at 1pm
See below for reservation details
This lecture, presented by Professor Michael Olmert, is based on his forthcoming book Ink, Paint, Bricks: Intention & Ambiguity in the Arts.
Similar to the first two lectures in this mini-series, this illustrated talk will cover one painting, one building, and one poem. The painting: JMW Turner’s 1840 oil, entitled Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon Coming On, is an important moment in both the Abolition movement and the history of British art. The most famous passage in John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1852) covers Turner’s record of this nightmare. Art criticism would never be the same. The building: Homewood (1801-09), a classic 5-part Tidewater home built by Charles Carroll, Jr., son of a signer of Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll. It’s plainly meant to be seen as an Italian villa, perhaps even by Andrea Palladio (1508-80), overlooking the burgeoning industrial and maritime town in Baltimore. The poem: T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, concentrating on the 4th Quartet, entitled Little Gidding (1942). It’s about making sense of an impossibly insane world. “We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.”
Overall, Olmert’s new book is to do with intention, interpretation, and meaning in writing, art, and architecture. The book will have ten chapters, each covering one building, one painting and one novel, play or poem.
Professor Olmert has been teaching Shakespeare and drama at the University of Maryland English Department for 37 years. This is his third THS lecture based on this forthcoming book. He’s also spoken at THS on “Easton’s NeoClassical and NeoGothic world” and “The Invention of Colonial Williamsburg.”
His books include The Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg (1985-2016), The Smithsonian Book of Books (1992), Milton’s Teeth & Ovid’s Umbrella (1996), and Kitchens, Smokehouses, & Privies (2009). His television writing has won three Primetime Emmys. He’s written 80 TV documentaries, as well as 5 books, 7 plays, 3 feature films, an IMAX film, and over 200 articles, essays, and reviews. In 2005, he was inducted into the University of Maryland Alumni Hall of Fame.
Date: Wednesday March 20th, 2024 at 1pm
Location: 25 S. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland Admission: $10 for non-members, FREE for THS members, students and children
Reservations are required and the cost is
FREE for THS members and $10 for non-members.
If you have any questions or wish to sign-up,
please contact the Talbot Historical Society at
410-822-0773 or email kaylaw@talbothistory.org
