Educational Activities
02/10/2010 - Nature-friendly Valentine’s Day
Pickering Creek Audubon Center - 11450 Audubon Lane, Easton, Maryland - Leader: Kristina Catanese
This Valentine's Day show your love for the earth by making nature-friendly Valentine's Day gifts! Use natural materials to make and decorate cards, picture frames, wreaths, and more
Please register in advance by calling 410/822-4903. Pre-registration is required. Children are considered ages 15 and under.
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02/11/2010 - Marvelous Maryland Birds
Talbot County Free Library - 100 West Dover Street, Easton, Maryland - Where do birds live? Birds live in a LOT of places - but, there are a few special habitats in Maryland that are home to some of the most endangered bird species.
Come learn about the Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow, the coastal Piping Plover, and colorful warblers from the forest. Ages 4 and up with accompanying adult.
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02/11/2010 - Voices: Those Who Wore the Shoe
Guerrieri University Center, Wicomico Room, Salisbury University of Maryland - Explore slavery and its aftermath in America through the words and music of those who actually experienced the reality of being physically owned by another human being.
This multimedia "staged documentary" incorporates music, dance and archival photographs (along with much of the slaves' own testimony) to recreate this neglected part of American history. Two actors speak directly to the audience.
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02/21/2010 - Eastern Shore Ghost Tours - Haunted Crisfield
Crisfield Visitor Center - 3 Ninth Street, Crisfield, Maryland - Eastern Shore Ghost Tours invites you to come join us for a driving tour that takes you past legendary haunted sites in Crisfield, Maryland - formerly known as the “seafood capital of the world.” This historic, waterman’s town is home to many stories of ghosts and haunted places. Click here for reservation form
Mindie Burgoyne – author of Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales from East of the Chesapeake will give a short talk and presentation at the Tawes Library, then escort guests on a bus tour that will carry them through the City of Crisfield and its outskirts, driving past many of the places mentioned in the presentation. From the bus, she will recount some of the scariest stories on the Eastern Shore.
Sites will include the Ananias Crockett House, McCready Hospital, Corbin Library and the Ira Todd House. Tour will also include commentary from two Crisfielders who will recount their own experiences with haunted houses and sites. We look forward to seeing you there!
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02/22/2010 - Students on Strike
Wicomico Room, Guerrieri University Center, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland - Book signing. Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown and Me - In his moving memoir, John Stokes recounts his experiences growing up in the oppressive conditions of the Jim Crow South.
He reveals the workings of a student committee that planned and executed a strike that made Stokes a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education.
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03/03/2010 - David Orvis - Shakespeare’s Queer Marriages
Sophie Kerr Room, Miller Library, Washington College - Chestertown, Maryland - David L. Orvis, a 2002 graduate of Washington College, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Arizona.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate in Women's Studies at Appalachian State University. He is working on his first book, tentatively titled Performing Queer Marriage on the Early Modern Stage, as well as a collection of essays on Psalms in the Early Modern World, co-edited with Linda Phyllis Austern and Kari Boyd McBride.
Sponsored by The Sophie Kerr Committee
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03/03/2010 - Lecture: Author-Illustrator Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Holloway Hall, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland - This event is co-sponsored by the Eastern Shore Regional Library. Seeger is an Emmy Award winning artist and the critically acclaimed author and illustrator of First the Egg.
Her books include The Hidden Alphabet, Lemons Are Not Red, Walter Was Worried, and Black? White! Day? Night! All were named ALA Notable Books and Child Magazine Best Books of the Year. Her most recent work, First the Egg, was a Caldecott Honor book.
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03/05/2010 - Historic Chestertown Exhibit
Art Works, 306 Park Row, Chestertown, Maryland - Beginning Friday, March 5, Artworks will host a month-long show featuring images of historic Chestertown, the scenic Chester River, and the unique characteristics and events that make it special. The show is open to all local artists and photographers, and selected images from exhibition will be featured on banners displayed along High Street.
The colorful banners will brighten up downtown and promote the many annual events that draw visitors and revenue to the region. The exhibition is sponsored by Main Street Historic Chestertown (MSHC),dedicated to promoting and preserving the unique historic character of downtown Chestertown. MSHC was formed in 2008, when The National Trust for Historic Preservation and the state of Maryland designated Chestertown as an official "Main Street America" site. MHSC will produce and display the colorful outdoor banners throughout the coming year. Gallery open Wednesday thru Friday 12-3pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm.
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03/06/2010 - Seminar: The World and Works of Jane Austen
Technology, Education and Technology Center, Room 179, Salisbury University of Maryland - Adventures in Ideas - Humanities Seminar, with Dr. Lucy Morrison. Discuss whether Austen condemns, pities or liberates Willoughby from the harsh marriage market of her fictional universe.
Figure out just why Darcy is right for Elizabeth Bennet and how and why Anne Elliot waited-and whether or not he was worth it.
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03/09/2010 - Habib Koité & Bamba
Holloway Hall, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland - Koité descends from a line of griots (traditional troubadours) who provide wit, wisdom and entertainment, and his charisma and magnetism translates across cultures in a way few others have achieved.
Featured in the critically acclaimed Acoustic Africa Tour alongside fellow Africans Vusi Mahlasela and Dobet Gnahoré.
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03/10/2010 - African-American Soldiers in WWI
Nabb Center Gallery - Salisbury University - Salisbury, Maryland - Particular mention will be made of Salisbury's Sgt. William A. Butler, "Maryland's Greatest Hero." Presented by Dr. Stephen C. Gehnrich.
Learn how and why African-Americans joined the U.S. Army during the first World War, and how their service was viewed in post-war America.
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03/10/2010 - The Alash Ensemble
Holloway Hall, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland - The Alash Ensemble is a quartet of master throat singers from Tuva, Central Asia. Throat singers can produce two or three, sometimes even four pitches simultaneously.
Alash has performed at the Kennedy Center and appeared as guest artists with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
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03/15/2010 - Woodcocks at Pickering Creek Audubon Center
Pickering Creek Audubon Center - 11450 Audubon Lane, Easton, Maryland - Leader: Mark Scallion
The American Woodcock is one of only a handful of "shorebirds" who lives in an upland habitat. Seneca Indian myth says that the gods created the Woodcock from the leftover parts of all the other birds.
Woodcocks are most frequently encountered at dusk or dawn between late February and the end of March. Male Woodcocks establish "singing grounds", which they defend against other males, in small clearings or young trees and shrubs. At dusk the male woodcock spirals into the sky, creating a trilling sound with its wings. Then he descends, fluttering, warbling and zigzagging back to the spot he began.
Pickering Creek's warm season grass meadows provide ideal habitat for this annual late winter event. Although Woodcocks are one of the top ten game birds in North America, few people have heard of them, even fewer have seen them. Dress warmly; bring a flashlight.
Please register in advance by calling 410/822-4903. Pre-registration is required. Children are considered ages 15 and under.
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03/18/2010 - Sounds of Spring
Talbot County Free Library - 100 West Dover Street, Easton, Maryland - Learn how and why different animals make sounds when winter is behind them. You might even learn to recognize and identify an animal just by the noise it makes! Ages 4 and up with accompanying adult.
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03/19/2010 - Home Condo & Garden Show - Art & Craft Fair
40th Street and the Bay - Ocean City, Maryland - Ideas on decorating, remodeling, building or accessorizing your home! An opportunity to see what is new in all aspects of home and garden, all under one roof. Artists showcasing their most creative and unique crafts, gifts adn decor for your home or condo complement the Home & Condo Show. Useful accessories and fun items you will love to have!
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03/26/2010 - Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket
Decker Theatre, Gibson Center for the Arts, Washington College - Chestertown, Maryland - Daniel Handler is the author of the literary novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and, most recently, Adverbs.
Under the name Lemony Snicket he has also written a sequence of books for children, known collectively as A Series of Unfortunate Events, which have sold more than 53 million copies and were the basis of a film starring Jim Carrey.
His intricate and witty writing style has won him numerous fans for his critically acclaimed literary work and his wildly successful children's books.
Handler has worked intermittently in film and music, most recently in collaboration with composer Nathaniel Stookey on a piece commissioned and recorded by the San Francisco Symphony, entitled "The Composer Is Dead," which has been performed all over the world and is now a book with CD. An adjunct accordionist for the music group The Magnetic Fields, he is also the author of Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography, The Beatrice Letters, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, and two books for Christmas: The Lump of Coal and The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: a Christmas story.
He is the screenwriter of the film Rick, a revamp of the Verdi opera Rigoletto, and the film adaptation of Joel Rose's novel Kill the Poor, and has written for The New York Times, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, Chickfactor, and various anthologies, and was the chair of the Judging Panel for the National Book Awards in Young People's Literature, 2008. His current projects include a fourth novel for adults, a picture book in collaboration with Maira Kalman and the script for the long-awaited
second Snicket movie.
"Daniel Handler something like an American Nabokov."- Dave Eggers
"One of our most dazzling literary conjurers."- Michael Chabon
"Sentence by sentence, Handler dazzles, teases the unwary with unforeseeable perceptions."- San Francisco Chronicle
Sponsored by: The Sophie Kerr Committee and The Rose O'Neill Literary House
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04/07/2010 - An Abundant and Fruitful Land
Guerrieri University Center, Wicomico Room, Salisbury University of Maryland - An Overview of human use of the Chesapeake through history lecture, Dr. Henry J. Miller.
Presenting the 2010 Wilcomb Washburn Distinguished Lecture in American History. Using evidence ranging from fish bones to shipping records, this lecture evaluates human use and impact on the Chesapeake Bay from the perspectives of archaeology and history.
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04/10/2010 - Classical Guitar Festival
Holloway Hall, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland - Participants may take part in master classes, the Festival Ensemble and a playing competition for two age categories.
The afternoon concludes with a lecture-recital by Larry Snitzler, and a concert, open to the public, featuring performances by Towson University guitarist Troy King and the participants' ensemble.
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04/12/2010 - In Spite Of My Own Nature
Sophie Kerr Room, Miller Library, Washington College - Chestertwon, Maryland - Eric S. Mallin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England (University of California Press, 1996) and Godless Shakespeare (Continuum, 2007), as well as numerous articles and reviews.
His lecture on King Lear is part of a book in progress called Perverse: The Hidden History of the Normal.
Sponsored by: The Sophie Kerr Committee
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04/28/2010 - The Class
Technology, Education and Technology Center, Salisbury University of Maryland - The screening and discussion celebrate Pereboom's new book, History and Film: Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past.
Moving pictures have had a great influence on human culture, and this book focuses on using moving images as historical evidence. The film examines the challenges at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. Discussion, book signing and reception follow.
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04/30/2010 - 77th Dover Days Festival
Dover, Delaware - Mark your calendars and plan to visit Dover, Delaware, the Capital of the First State, for the 77th Dover Days Festival, set for April 30, May 1 and 2. As in previous years, there is no admission to the event which is one of Delaware's longest-running festivals celebrating First State history. Special weekend lodging packages are now available.
New in 2010, is a three-day countywide historic house tour, "The Houses of Kent," featuring more than 40 17th and 18th century homes and buildings featuring Georgian Revival, Victorian, English Gothic and Federal style architecture.
The Dover Days festival begins Friday afternoon with a free concert on the First State Heritage Park's Legislative Mall, an open-air park surrounded by stately older buildings including the Old State House, the Biggs Museum of American Art and Legislative Hall. The evening's activities will also include carnival rides for children, food vendors and a car show of street rods, hotrods and antique cars. It will coincide with the annual Dover Mile, a running and walking event sponsored by the Colonial Rotary Club of Dover.
Saturday, the largest day of the festival, features a large Dover Days parade; Maypole dancing with children in colonial attire; costumed and judged pet parade; free admission to numerous museums, historic sites and Woodburn, the Governor's mansion; 150+ artisans and crafts vendors; outdoor entertainment stage; public auction of locally-made Amish quilts; energy village with information about new and emerging technologies; carnival rides for children; Kids' Zone with street murals, wood pile construction and more; Colonial artisans; Civil War and WWII encampments; Native American Indian village; and an antique tractor show.
Sunday's events will include the Dover Symphony Orchestra’s annual Dover Days concert at the Schwartz Center for the Arts in Dover, as well as the Houses of Kent historic house tours.
In addition, you can register for a free Girlfriend Getaway sweepstakes featuring a trip for four women to visit Delaware's Capital Region during Dover Days weekend. The giveaway includes lodging and meals, gas card, spa visit, free slot play and tickets to the historic house tour. To register, visit http://www.visitdover.com. Entrants must be 18 and no purchase is necessary to enter.
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