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Saturday May 17 11:00am - 5:00pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Southern Maryland Heritage Festival

May 17 & 18, 2025 – Historic Sotterley is excited to host the 2nd Southern Maryland Heritage Festival. Join us for an unforgettable two-day celebration of Southern Maryland’s rich history and culture, and the incredible people who make it unique. This festival promises something for everyone, so mark your calendars and get ready for an amazing experience! Heritage Demos & Exhibits – Check out demonstrations and exhibits from Southern Maryland businesses and organizations, such as blacksmithing, jousting, quilting, antique tractor pulls, and more!Food and Artisan Vendors – Shop one-of-a-kind hand-crafted goods made by local artisans, and enjoy fabulous food from local favorites!Music & Entertainment – Music is part of our heritage! Enjoy live performances on our outdoor stage – more info about our performers to come.Beer & Wine – Brews on tap and wine will be available at two locations on site. (Bring your ID!)Kids Corner – Your little ones can enjoy games and other family-friendly activities at our designated kids area.Wagon Rides – Take a scenic ride through Historic Sotterley on a tractor-pulled wagon ride.Open House Tours – Explore some areas of our Manor House and learn some history from our experienced docents. Don’t miss out on this vibrant celebration of Southern Maryland’s heritage. Bring your friends and family for a weekend filled with fun, learning, and community spirit! Event information will be updated as information becomes available. Ticket PricingTwo-Day Entrance (Adults): $18 in advance, $25 at the gate.One-Day Entrance (Adults): $10 in advance, $15 at the gateChildren (12 & under): FREE Boondocking at the Southern Maryland Heritage FestivalFor the first time this year, the Southern Maryland Heritage Festival will allow 2 nights of on-site RV camping (May 16 & 17)! Guests will be able to fully immerse themselves in the beauty of Sotterley and the festival experience.Camping Registration costs $100 and includes 2 adult two-day tickets to the festival. To reserve your spot, please reach out to [email protected] Tickets Here!Learn more about the Exhibitors, Vendors, Entertainment, Etc.!

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sunday May 18 11:00am - 5:00pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Southern Maryland Heritage Festival

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Wednesday May 21 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Lauren Zimmerman

May 21, 2025 – The Southern Maryland Wine Growers Cooperative (SMWGC) was formed in 2007 by a group of local farmers, of which several were transitioning away from tobacco production to begin planting grapes. 12 farms came together to form the SMWGC making it the first ......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Friday May 23 10:30am - 12:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Creating our own Natural Brushes with Jami Faith

May 23, 2025 – You don’t need expensive brushes to create art, you can do it with things you forage around you! Creation Guide Jami will take us out on the grounds, as we walk about the garden and surrounding areas to gather leaves, twigs, pine needles etc.Once we have ......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Friday June 6 10:30am - 12:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Create Artwork from Nature All Around You with Jami Faith

June 6, 2025 – Create art at Historic Sotterley by using objects found in nature. Creation Guide Jami will provide small accordian style books and guidance to our guests as we create prints from leaves and other natural elements. We will do a short walkabout on the grou......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Wednesday June 11 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Jennifer Rittenhouse

June 11, 2025 – When white newspaper editor Jonathan Daniels set out to “discover the South” in his stately black Plymouth in the summer of 1937, he especially hoped to find the land that existed somewhere between the mythical old plantation and the sharecropper’s cabin, between Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind and Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road. He succeeded. His published and unpublished accounts of his trip captured a panoramic picture of the South during the Great Depression. In Discovering the South: One Man’s Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s, historian Jennifer Ritterhouse follows Daniels on his journey to explore a wide range of interrelated topics, from the impact of the New Deal and the southern literary Renaissance, to the tragic Scottsboro case and planters’ and industrialists’ violent suppression of labor organizing. The questions at the center of Discovering the South are big ones: What was the true nature of the South and its problems, and who was trying to address them–in what ways, against what opposition, and with what results–during the Roosevelt years? More provocatively, why, in the late 1930s when Jonathan Daniels, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and a great many other Americans were “traveling,” did the destination of a more just and egalitarian South prove so impossible to reach? This is a FREE hybrid event, meaning you can join in person or virtually. Registration is required. In-person attendees are welcome to join us for a pre-reception at 6:15 pm. Registration coming soon. Jennifer Ritterhouse is Professor of History at George Mason University. She specializes in the history of the post-Reconstruction South, with emphasis on race and gender issues. She is the author of Discovering the South: One Man’s Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s (UNC Press, 2017) and Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race (UNC Press, 2006). She is the editor of a reprint edition of Sarah Patton Boyle’s autobiography, The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (UVA Press, 2001), and one of several co-editors of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New Press, 2001). Her current research focuses on the surprisingly southern history of the women’s rights projects of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the 1970s.

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Thursday June 19 through June 21

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Juneteenth Weekend Tours

June 19-22, 2025 – In honor of Juneteenth, Historic Sotterley will offer guided tours focusing on stories of strength and resilience. Learn about how over the centuries, the enslaved at Sotterley resisted against slavery, how they maintained strength and identity when i......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Friday June 20 10:30am - 12:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Colorful Creative Collage Card with Jami Faith

June 20, 2025 – Make a lovely collage card inspired by the nature around Historic Sotterley. Creation Guide Jami will walk with our guests through Sotterley’s beautiful and colorful flower garden for our inspiration to create a beautiful collage card. We will use a vari......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Wednesday July 16 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Dr. Tayzhuan Glover

July 16, 2025 – During the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children in the Chesapeake, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana were able to secure their freedom by offering aid to the British. Following the war, many of these freedom-seekers were resettled in Nova Scotia and Trinidad. This presentation will use American and British colonial archives to follow the journey to freedom of the enslaved men, women, and children from Historic Sotterley who were resettled in Trinidad in 1815, where they laid the foundation for Trinidad’s “Merikin” descendant community. This is a FREE hybrid event, meaning participants can join us in-person OR virtually. Registration is required.In-person participants are welcome to join us for a pre-reception at 6:15 pm.Register Here to Attend In-PersonRegister Here to Attend VirtuallyDr. Tayzhaun Glover received a Ph.D. in History from Duke University in 2024. He also received a B.A. in Africana Studies, Anthropology, and French from Franklin & Marshall College in 2017. He is primarily interested in the seaborne mobility practices of freedom-seeking enslaved men, women, and children in the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Eastern Caribbean, and the Americas, more broadly. He engages with questions about labor, geography, law, and European and Indigenous sovereignty to understand how enslaved people conceptualized refuge, liberty, and freedom based on their geopolitical knowledge of their worlds. His research has received support from Fulbright France, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Duke History and African and African American Studies departments, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is currently a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the National Park Service where he researches and interprets the legacy of enslaved people from the Chesapeake who joined the Colonial Marines during the War of 1812.

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Saturday August 23 All Day

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Day of Unity and Healing

August 23, 2025 – This year’s Day of Unity and Healing is extra special because we will be hosting it on the UNESCO Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. While we always commemorate this important observance at the event, it’s not every year that the ......More

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