The Smithsonian Institution's Key Ingredients Exhibition

Dorchester County Historical Society 2/29/2008 - 4/12/2008
902-904 LaGrange Avenue Cambridge, MD


Key Ingredients Calendar a/o November 12, 2007
 

December

Sat. Dec. 1  5:00 PM Christmas Parade – DCHS Float “Christmas Dinner”

Weds. Dec. 5  7:00 PM “Food Lore: Folklore's Fascinating Role in Regional Cuisine” lecture     by Ed Okonowicz – author, professor University of Delaware

January

Weds. Jan. 2  Blue Plate Special Art Contest Begins - discs available from DAC

Fri. Jan. 25  Workshop for County 4th Grade Teachers

February

Fri. Feb. 1  12:30 Women's Club – Virginia Jenkins talks about “Key Ingredients”

Sat. Feb. 2  Exhibit Planning and Writing Workshop with Ceres Bainbridge

Sat. Feb. 9  “Making Exhibits on a Shoestring”  Workshop with Beth Hansen

Weds. Feb. 20  7:00 PM “Fighting Old Nep: The Food Culture of Enslaved Afro-Marylanders”     lecture by Michael Twitty, Director of Interpretation Menare Foundation

Fri – Sat. 22-23 National Outdoor Show – DCHS BOOTH

Sun – Tues 24-26 Small Museum Association Conference OC]

Weds. Feb. 27  Key Ingredients exhibit arrives at DCHS

Thurs. Feb. 28  Key Ingredients exhibit is unpacked and installed

Fri. Feb. 29  10:00 AM Docent Workshop
   Opening Night for Key Ingredients
    Panel on Local Canneries moderated by Elaine Eff

March

Sat. March 1  Blue Plate Special Art Contest Ends – entries displayed around town

Weds. Mar. 5  “Food for the Soul” - Delmarva Discussions at the Library 10 - Noon

Fri. Mar. 7  Family Night Food Film – Dorchester Arts Center

Sat. March 8

Weds. March 12 7:00 PM “Agriculture, The Environment, Our Food & Sustainability”
                              lecture by David Smith

Sat. March 15

Weds. Mar. 19 “Food for the Soul” - Delmarva Discussions at the Library 10 - Noon

Sat. Mar. 22  Easter Weekend

School Tours Late March

Weds. Mar. 26 Colonial Dames Meeting in Meredith House

Fri. Mar. 28  Family Night Food Film – Dorchester Arts Center

Sat. March 29

April

Weds. Apr. 2  “Food for the Soul” - Delmarva Discussions at the Library 10 - Noon

Sat. Apr. 5

Thurs. Apr. 10  Art Show set up at DCHS

Fri. Apr. 11  Art Show Judging

Sat. Apr. 12  Art Show and final day of Key Ingredients

Weds. Apr. 16  “Food for the Soul” - Delmarva Discussions at the Library 10 - Noon

Weds. Apr. 30  “Food for the Soul” - Delmarva Discussions at the Library 10 - Noon
 
 
 

TO BE SCHEDULED

LECTURES
David Smith   Agriculture, The Environment, Our Food & Sustainability

EVENTS/Demonstrations
DC Tourism Farm Tours
Garden Club – Planning and planting an herb garden
Joyce White – Bread making
Susan Place – Native American Foodways
Mother Daughter Tea Party with speaker on manners and Teas
Days of Taste