Historic Sotterley
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Saturday June 8 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Habitat Scavenger Hunt
June 8, 2024 – Historic Sotterley and Southern Maryland Audubon Society are partnering to bring you a family-friendly morning of environmental learning. Learn about all the things birds and other animals in our ecosystem need to survive, and then set out on a scavenger ......More
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Wednesday June 12 7:00pm EDT
Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Patricia Samford
June 12, 2024 – Join us and Dr. Patricia Samford for a speaker event all about the James Adams Floating Theater. In the days before television and computers, residents of coastal Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina anxiously awaited the arrival of the James Adams for ......More
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Saturday June 15 through June 16
Father's Day Weekend - Dads get in FREE!
June 15 & 16, 2024 – Spend the day with Dad at Historic Sotterley for Father’s Day! To make the day extra special, Dads get their tours for free! Tickets can be purchased at Sotterley’s Visitor Center on the day of the tour. Tours over this weekend will have an extra fo......More
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Wednesday July 10 7:00pm EDT
Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Merideth Taylor
July 10, 2024 – Join us and author Merideth Taylor for a speaker event and book signing for her new book, “Making a Way out of No Way”. The photographs and stories in this book cover 150 years of slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland and the communities of......More
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Friday July 19 5:30pm EDT
Specialty Tour - Medical History at Historic Sotterley: Herbs, Lancets, Bone Saws, Vaccinations, Antibiotics, Oh My!
July 19, 2024 – What was it like to experience treatment of illness or injury in the past? How did the practice of medicine develop in our region? While touring the manor house, slave dwelling, and gardens, take the journey from medicinal herbs, blood-letting, patent me......More
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Friday August 2 5:30pm EDT
Architectural Mysteries of the Manor House - Specialty Tour
August 2, 2024 – If these walls could talk, imagine what they’d tell us about the history of Sotterley and the people that lived in Manor House. Join us for this specialty tour led by Sotterley’s Interpretive Programs Manager and a presentation by local architect Jim Ri......More
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Wednesday August 7 7:00pm EDT
Sotterley Presents: People and Perspectives with Dean Newman
August 7, 2024 – Nature photography is not the serene, life-prolonging experience most magazine articles say it is. In fact, it’s anything but the “Zen” experience they espouse. Come listen to Dean Newman, a nature photographer from our area, tell the “behind-the-scenes......More
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Saturday August 24 All Day
Day of Unity and Healing: Together We Can Make A Difference
August 24, 2024 – Day of Unity and Healing this year will focus on Descendants, historic sites, and communities working together to preserve and interpret our history transparently. We will have a variety of organizations present to increase awareness that in order to h......More
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Friday September 6 5:30pm EDT
Sotterley on the Patuxent - Specialty Tour
September 6, 2024 – From rolling hogsheads and whistling steamboats to roaring jets overhead, the Sotterley on the Patuxent specialty tour will cover how Sotterley’s location along the Patuxent River was key to establishing successful commerce and communication from the......More
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Wednesday October 16 7:00pm EDT
Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Don Shomette
October 16, 2024 – Towns and ports usually develop because of the practical aspects of the location and purpose, but in colonial Maryland, over the course of nearly a century, between 1658 and 1751 the governing powers sought to accelerate the process. During the course......More