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Rock n' Roll with Josh Christina returns to Mainstay stage
ROCK HALL — On Friday night, May 31 the Mainstay is thrilled to welcome the rockabilly sounds of pianist Josh Christina and his band The Revivals. Pianist Josh Christina is a rock n’ roll trustee who puts his own original spin on Rockabilly while still staying true to its roots. He writes his own music, refurbishes the classics, and plays a mean piano with no holds barred. As one local reporter so aptly phrased it, “Think of a mix between Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley...
Plant sale proceeds lend beauty to Rock Hall
ROCK HALL — Saturday was a nice day to get out and buy plants and be greeted by people who love what they do. On Main Street, the Rock Hall Garden Club had a good turnout, selling perennial flowers and plants. “The wonderful thing is that 95% of the plants come directly from our gardens. Local plants, which are great for our land,” Daphne Howarth, flower sale co-chair said. All proceeds from the sale goes toward beautifying Main Street, decorating the 10 planter boxes as well as the welcome sign in Rock Hall. The Club also awards a $1,000 scholarship to a high school senior each year. The Garden Club of Rock Hall has served the community since 1962 and is dedicated to the beautification of Rock Hall and the promotion of local gardening.
Taiwanese tea master comes to Denton
DENTON — What was served at the Chesapeake Culinary Center on Thursday is not your mamma’s tired Lipton tea bag. About 15 women came to experience tea done right at the Tea Talk that afternoon, where a tea master brewed fresh loose Oolong tea from his Taiwanese farm. Joshua Wang owns Wang Family Team with his sister. He was the tea master brewing and frothing the tea up into bubbles...
Bookplate to welcome Sue Ellen Thompson May 29
The Bookplate is continuing their 2024 season of author lectures on May 29 with poet Sue Ellen Thompson for a 6 p.m. event at The Kitchen and Pub at The Imperial Hotel. As the title poem reminds us, “For each of us/ there is a place,/ a period of time,// a lover’s face/ that we must veer away from…”. Sea Nettles is a book of poems about what we are often reluctant to confront: the memories that still trouble us and the losses we would...
Poet Sophie Foster awarded $77k Sophie Kerr Prize at Washington College
CHESTERTOWN — Amongst a hushed and eager crowd, Washington College senior Sophie Foster was named the winner of this year’s prestigious Sophie Kerr Prize. Now in its 57th year, the prize continues to be the nation’s largest literary award for a college student and totals more than the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award combined. The 2024 award is valued at just over $77,000. Primarily a poet, Foster’s work largely tends to personal internality and inclinations toward the natural world. She read two poems at the evening ceremony in Washington College’s Gibson Center for the Arts, alongside four other finalists,...
Radcliffe Creek School students experience Monet in 3D
CHESTERTOWN — Fourth and fifth grade students from Radcliffe Creek School recently explored Washington, D.C. to, quite literally, step into the paintings of an artist they have been studying this year—Claude Monet. On Thursday, May 16, 24 students took a bus to the Rhode Island Center in D.C. to experience the immersive Monet exhibit, which included two-story projections of Monet’s most compelling paintings shown in three dimensions, including lights, sounds and VR technology. Following the visit to the digital art display, the students traveled to...
Student's showcase work at ArtScene
STEVENSVILLE — Kent Island High School recently held its annual ArtScene, a fun-filled night with food trucks and live music, celebrating students’ artistic talents and works. Hundreds of students, in grades k-12, had their pieces displayed at the event. Supervisor of Visual and Performing Arts at Queen Anne’s County Public Schools Michael Bell, and recent winner of the “2024 National Supervision & Administration Art Educator of the Year Award” by the National Art Education Association, created QACPS’ ArtScene in 2019. Bell wanted to allow students...
Get your fill of philosophy over coffee at the Socrates Café
Finding opportunities for unhurried, face-to-face discussion of life’s big questions can be challenging in today’s hyper-noisy, technology-driven world. Drawing on the Socratic tradition of lively, open-ended inquiry, Washington College’s Academy of Lifelong Learning’s Socrates Café is a forum for exploring questions that don’t have easy right-or-wrong answers. There are no assigned readings, and each session’s topic is selected by those in attendance. The only prerequisite for participation is a willingness to listen respectfully as others share their thoughts and experiences. There are two chances to join — May 21 and June 11. Both events start at 10 a.m. Register to attend here https://www.washcoll.edu/people_departments/offices/wc-all/2024/socrates-cafe/index.php
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