Historic Easton Walking Tours

The Talbot Historical Society is happy to host Historic Walking Tours highlighting some of Easton's historic buildings. These tours are held on the 3rd Saturday of every month at 10 am and 12 pm and will leave from Hill Research Center.   There will be a limit of 10 people per the tour. To reserve your […]

A Date With History: Author James Foster

A Date With History - Lecture Series Featuring: James Foster Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer it is hard to imagine that, come January, icebreakers may be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay are iced up, the flow of commerce is impeded. At the […]

Historic Easton Walking Tours

The Talbot Historical Society is happy to host Historic Walking Tours highlighting some of Easton's historic buildings. These tours are held on the 3rd Saturday of every month at 10 am and 12 pm and will leave from Hill Research Center.   There will be a limit of 10 people per the tour. To reserve your […]

A Date With History: Pirates of the Chesapeake

POSTPONED. We will announce when we have a new date for the lecture. Thank you for your understanding and stay safe! The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy. From the Golden Age […]

A Date With History: Bill Messner, Ph.D. on Slavery to Freedom in Talbot County

The Talbot Historical Society and Easton Club East invited members to "A Date With History" lecture series featuring Bill Messner, Ph. D. in American History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After teaching history as a faculty member, Bill transitioned to administration and spent the last thirty years of his career as a college president […]

A Date With History: Kate Livie Lecture on the Adams Floating Theater

A Date With History Speaker Series Join Chesapeake author and historian Kate Livie for a presentation about the "Chesapeake's Showboat", The James Adams Floating Theater.  From 1914 to 1941, the James Adams Floating Theater enchanted riverside small towns and cities throughout the Chesapeake's tributaries with theater productions, musicals, and other entertainment. Long after its circuit […]