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December 7, 2025

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Who Just Pulled Up in a Bugatti

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The Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, recently had an amazing Bugatti: Reaching for Perfection Exhibition that ran from December 6, 2024, to April 13, 2025. This undated Bugatti Convertible photo was recently discovered in the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection. Can you help us identify these two men who were enjoying a breezy ride!

Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos and purchase our collections photos. Comment, Like our page and join the Talbot Historical Society!

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Concert in the Gardens with the Mid-Shore Community Band

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Saturday October 12th, 2024 @ 2pm Entrance to the Gardens between 25 and 29 S. Washington St., Easton

Bring your lawn chairs to spend the afternoon with us!

The Mid-Shore Community Band will play a free outdoor concert in the Talbot Historical Society Gardens on Saturday, October 12th at 2 pm. The band, which was founded in 2009, is composed of volunteer musicians from across the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The band was formed to allow musicians of all ages and experience to practice and perform music. The band continues the tradition of town bands in the Middle Eastern Shore of Maryland. This concert will include a variety of pieces ranging from march classics, favorite movie themes, and spooky tunes perfect for the autumnal season. This concert is free and open to the public, with donations gratefully accepted. A portion of MSCB funding is received from Maryland State Arts Council, Talbot Arts, Dorchester Center for the Arts, and Choptank Arts and Culture Exchange. For more information about the Mid-Shore Community Band, visit the band’s website, www.mscb.org.

Please contact us if you have any questions: 410-822-0773 or email [email protected]

Talbot Historical Society office/research/exhibit hours are: Wednesday through Saturday 10am-3pm

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A Date with History Lecture Series

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Our “Date with History” speaker series is pleased to present “Sit. Stay. Heal: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond and its Healing Power” on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 1pm. The Talbot Historical Society will host Meg Delay Olmert at the Talbot County Free Library.

Meg Daley Olmert is a world-renowned expert on the neurobiology of the human-animal bond and its therapeutic effects. Her ground-breaking book, Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond, published in 2009, was the first to trace the evolution of this ancient bond to the emerging neuroscience that underlies this most powerful interspecies phenomenon. She is a subject expert, author and lecturer on the therapeutic effects of the human-animal bond. Her two TEDx talks have been viewed by tens of thousands. She currently serves as science advisor and proud board member of The Comfort Dog Program of Northern Uganda. Meg also was a co-creator of Warrior Canine Connection’s Mission Based Trauma Recovery Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Speaker presentation by Meg Olmert will begin at 1:00 PM.

This is presented by the Talbot Historical Society in partnership with the Talbot County Free Library and will take place at the library located at 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD 21601. The lecture is free to the public, but reservations are required.  Please contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected].

If you have any questions or wish to sign-up, please contact the Talbot Historical Society at

410-822-0773 or email [email protected] Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 10a – 3pm

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History Shared Through Music

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The Talbot Historical Society, in partnership with the Talbot County Free Library, is pleased to present Easton-based music group Ampersand for its July 17, 2024 “Date with History” lecture series. Ampersand delights in sharing early American traditional music with a modern audience, drawing connections between colonial sensibilities and current-day topics and interests.

Called the “Swiss army knife of folk music,” this group brings a variety of stringed instruments, including guitar, mandolin, banjo, cello, and hammered dulcimer, as well as penny whistles and percussion to underscore their rich vocal harmonies on parlor music from the 1700s and 1800s.

One of the band’s founders, Beth Lawton, notes that many songs reflect a modern sensibility even when they use old-fashioned language.  For example, “Bonnie Portmore” is an 18th-century love song to a piece of property similar to a modern-day money pit.   “Rye Whiskey” is a perfect lullaby for easing young ones to sleep – even as the song tells of diving into a river of whiskey and drinking “ten thousand bottles.”  With voice, various percussion instruments, newly-adopted cello, and penny whistles, multi-instrumentalist Topher Lawton focuses on even earlier tunes and songs, such as the lively “Bear Dance” (15th century) and the title song of the new CD, “Love Will Find Out the Way.”

This is presented by the Talbot Historical Society in partnership with the Talbot County Free Library and will take place at the library, 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD 21601. The lecture is free to the public, but reservations are required. Please contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected]. The program will begin at 1 p.m. on July 17th.

If you have any questions or wish to sign-up, please contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected] Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 10 am – 3 pm.

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Filling Up the Tank in Trappe

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This Talbot Historical Society Laird Wise Collection photo was taken off the corner of Main Street and Maple Street in Trappe, Maryland, decades ago! The gas station and Corkran’s General Store are no longer visible today. The signage reads, “ Atlantic Gasoline” and “ C. Hughlett Pocket Billiards.” Mamma Maria’s is currently in the building on the left!

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Talbot Historical Society Lecture by Paul Callahan Set for October 4

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The Talbot Historical Society is hosting a new lecture series called “A Date with History”. The upcoming lecture titled “When Democracy Fell” by Paul Callahan is set for October 4, 2023, at 1pm. Callahan, an author and historian, will discuss Maryland’s constitutional crisis during the U.S. Civil War, challenging some common views and bringing new information to light.

The event will be held at the Talbot Historical Society, 25 S. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland. It’s free for THS members and $5 for non-members. Reservations are required. For more information or to sign up, contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected].

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A Date with History Lecture Series on July 12

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A Date with History Lecture Series “Letters of Matthew Tilghman Goldsborough Earle” July 12th , 2023 at 1pm.

Join Annabel Earle Lesher and her husband, Ronald Lesher, as they read excerpts from three letters of Matthew Tilghman Goldsborough Earle. The letters, written from Urbanna, Virginia in 1931 to his son, John Goldsborough Earle, describe various business ventures in Easton, Maryland in the 1880’s. M.T.G. Earle was the son of Dr. John Charles Earle, one of the founding physicians of Memorial Hospital here in Easton, who lived on a farm, Brooklets, at the southern edge of the town of Easton. In 1883, upon the death of his brother, James, at the railroad crossing on Goldsborough Street, M.T.G. Earle returned from Baltimore to try his hand at various businesses – selling coal and lumber, managing a property insurance agency, delivering ice for the iceboxes in homes and businesses in Easton, and working as the cashier of the Talbot Savings Bank on Dover Street. He was joined in those ventures by William Dawson, who would become his brother-in-law in 1888.

Annabel Earle Lesher and Ronald Lesher

Location: 25 S. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland

Reservations are required and the cost is FREE for THS members and $5 for non-members. If you have any questions or wish to sign-up, please contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected].

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Taking the Ferry to Trappe

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Thanks to Genevieve Townsend we have this wonderful photo. Does anyone remember when bananas were a treat? “Steamboat “Dorchester” that stopped at wharf in Windy Hill, MD to pick up apples and peaches from local orchards. Remember my grandmother bought bananas when the boat came down.

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Shedding a Tear in Wye Mills

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The Wye Oak at Wye Mills, Maryland was believed to have germinated in the 1500’s! The Wye Oak held the title of the largest white oak in the United States since the American Forestry Association began it’s contest in 1940! On June 6, 2002 the Wye Oak’s massive trunk collapsed during a severe thunderstorm! Facts: dnr.Maryland.gov. This Talbot Historical Society Collection photo was taken shortly after it had fallen!

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“A Date with History” Lecture Series Presents “Romancing the Stone” with Terry Crannel

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Terry Crannel

“Romancing the Stone” will be centered on the evolution of searching for Native American artifacts from the 1960’s to the present. Topics will include factors that have affected artifact hunting from farming practices to regulations and laws concerning collecting. This will be about one man’s experiences and obsession throughout his life, some of the adventures and artifacts found, and the hurdles that today’s collectors go through. Crannel says, “It’s been a passionate and unforgettable journey throughout my life’s adventures.”

Terry was one of the founding members of South Dorchester Folk Museum over 20 years ago along with Pat Neild, Dave Robbins, and Tom Flowers, as well as past president. He has been curator of Dorchester County Historical Society’s Native American department for 16 years, spearheading at least 15 yearly artifact exhibits and many other programs and talks, some as far away as Columbus, Ohio. Terry has hosted tours for many archaeologists such as Dr. Dennis Standford, Director of Paleo research at the Smithsonian Institute. He was also past president of the Mid-Shore Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Maryland, founder and administrator of the Mid-Shore Archaeology Club and Facebook page.

February 22nd, 2023 at 1 pm. Location: 25 S. Washington Street, Easton, Maryland

Reservations are required and the cost is FREE. THS members and $5 for non-members. If you have any questions or wish to sign-up please contact the Talbot Historical Society at 410-822-0773 or email [email protected]

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