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Join Talbot250 at select Avalon Summer Concert Series performances throughout the summer. Stop by our table for family-friendly activities, learn about upcoming Talbot250 events, and enjoy outstanding performances from some of the nation's premier military bands.
Upcoming Community Events
Bear Me Into Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for America’s Promise is a tribute to Talbot County’s native son, Frederick Douglass, made more poignant during America’s Semiquincentennial.
The exhibition is a 60-minute immersive experience, a video installation portraying the odyssey of Frederick Douglass from his birth and enslavement in the Eastern Shore’s Talbot County to his life’s work championing abolition, emancipation, and equal rights, and his triumphal return to the county as an elder statesman having become one of the most consequential figures of the 19th century.
Join Talbot250 at select Avalon Summer Concert Series performances throughout the summer. Stop by our table for family-friendly activities, learn about upcoming Talbot250 events, and enjoy outstanding performances from some of the nation's premier military bands.
Held in partnership with the Talbot Watermen Association since 2010, this annual celebration by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum honors the hardworking men and women who bring the Bay’s bounty to our tables.
Join Talbot250 at select Avalon Summer Concert Series performances throughout the summer. Stop by our table for family-friendly activities, learn about upcoming Talbot250 events, and enjoy outstanding performances from some of the nation's premier military bands.
Step into the Tilghman Island Watermen’s Museum brand-new Water Room exhibit, Tilghman Working, to meet and learn about the watermen currently working the Chesapeake Bay. Discover the unique methods Tilghman watermen use to make their living on the water through a stunning collection of photographs by Jay Fleming.
The Hammond-Harwood House, a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1774 and was the final work of architect William Buckland.
Ms. Lucinda Dukes Edinberg, curator of the Hammond-Harwood House, will speak about some of the highlights of the house’s decorative arts collection and their importance in the history of American decorative arts.
Join Talbot250 at select Avalon Summer Concert Series performances throughout the summer. Stop by our table for family-friendly activities, learn about upcoming Talbot250 events, and enjoy outstanding performances from some of the nation's premier military bands.
Discover the foods that sustained Marylanders from the earliest days of settlement through Annapolis’s 18th-century Golden Age. This program highlights how diet varied across class, wealth, race, and time, revealing the rich complexity of daily life in colonial Maryland. Registration required.
Each year, the Midshore Constitution Alliance hosts Constitution and Citizenship Week to celebrate the U.S. Constitution and promote civic engagement among the public.
Events will be held throughout Easton from September 12th to the 19th, including the Constitution Bowl, Constitution Day, and the Constitution Bowl Championship. See other events for specifics.
The second annual Midshore Constitution Bowl will begin at 9:00 am on September 12, 2026! The competition will be held at the Talbot County Free Library in Easton.
Modeled after the popular “It’s Academic” quizbowl format, high school teams from across the area will demonstrate their knowledge of civics, interact with local civic leaders, and have a chance to enter the national Constitution Bowl.
Bear Me Into Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for America’s Promise is a tribute to Talbot County’s native son, Frederick Douglass, made more poignant during America’s Semiquincentennial.
The exhibition is a 60-minute immersive experience, a video installation portraying the odyssey of Frederick Douglass from his birth and enslavement in the Eastern Shore’s Talbot County to his life’s work championing abolition, emancipation, and equal rights, and his triumphal return to the county as an elder statesman having become one of the most consequential figures of the 19th century.
Join the MidShore Constitutional Alliance for Constitution Day celebrations in Easton!
The event welcomes families to immerse themselves in living history events, many opportunities to learn about our founding fathers including with the 51 Steps to Freedom augmented reality experience, and reflect on the Constitution as the nation celebrates the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Talbot County Ice Skating Rink Ribbon Cutting,
November 4, 1979
