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Author/Artist Event - Marcy Dunn Ramsey
The Bookplate is continuing their 2024 season of author events with a special local celebration on Friday, Oct. 4. Guests are welcome to join local artist and author, Marcy Dunn Ramsey and the Bookplate staff for a Friday evening birthday party, reading and book signing at 6pm in the shop on Cross Street. As anyone who grew up on the Eastern Shore in the 1990s can attest, Ramsey illustrated their childhood. Bringing to life the stories of Priscilla Cummings, Jennifer Keats Curtis, Jeffrey Holland, Janie...
The unsung heroines of the Book Plate
I appreciate being remembered with a near apocryphal story about my early involvement with Tom Martin and the beginnings of The Book Plate. I find it hard to believe it has been twenty years. Now I am moved to add the names of the unsung heroines to the story. These are the folks that have maintained, worked and contributed in many unseen ways to the store’s success. And it is a remarkable success at that. Witness the recent State Comptroller Mr. Franchot recognizing Tom and the store for being a Chestertown an anchor business. There is no doubt that Tom...
Cecil Cares will begin Saturday, end next Friday
ELKTON — Cecil Cares begins Saturday and Krista Gilmore, spokeswoman for the organizers, said some of the 16 projects will be done that day, while four others will be completed Oct. 11. “We gave people the option,” Gilmore said, adding there are still spaces on most projects for people to volunteer. Head to volunteercecil.org and look for the Cecil Cares page. Gilmore said the page is easy to find and...
Busload of Books to visit Garnet
CHESTERTOWN — Children’s author/illustrator team Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr are bringing the second phase of their national literacy access and awareness initiative Busload of Books to H.H. Garnet Elementary School, the first step of an ongoing partnership with Kent County Public Schools in which the duo will visit each of the district’s three elementary schools twice over the next six years. Swanson and Behr will be at Garnet Thursday, Oct. 3. There will be two in-school assemblies for students and a parent night from...
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