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