Talbot History is Our History

St. Michaels will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary with a multi-week community celebration featuring patriotic events, historical programming, live music, waterfront festivities, and family-friendly activities from Memorial Day through July 5. Centered around Flag Day weekend, the initiative brings together local organizations, businesses, and residents to honor the nation’s semiquincentennial through community pride and shared history.

Celebrations for Talbot250 are already underway across the county as residents prepare to honor the land they love for the United States’ 250th birthday.

Suzanne Stoltenberg, a member of Working Artists Forum, was inspired by her love for Talbot County to start a paper quilt of memories. Stoltenberg has been working since March to collect memories — written down on paper shapes — from residents around the county.

In celebration of America 250, visitors taking the TALBOT COUNTY TOUR of the MARYLAND HOUSE & GARDEN PILGRIMAGE will experience an array of stellar homes, gardens and nationally significant historic sites on Saturday, May 9 from 10 am to 5 pm, rain or shine.

Suzanne Stoltenberg has been hauling this project all over Talbot County. There are paper triangles, poster board signs, prompts, pens, glue, tape, and the fabric backing that will eventually hold it all together. There is also Stoltenberg, sitting behind a table, convincing people they really do have something worth writing down.

Talbot County eighth graders poured out of school buses and onto the grounds of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum to explore the meaning of freedom.

The exhibit, “Bear Me Into Freedom: The Talbot County of Frederick Douglass,” opened March 5. The exhibition traces Douglass’ life from his birth and early years as an enslaved person in Talbot County, through his escape to freedom, and into his later returns to the region as a celebrated free man.