Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Donald Barber, David Brown, and Janice Walthour

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

May 8, 2024 - Historic Sotterley’s next Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives event will introduce a new book, The Barber Family: From Slavery, Through Segregation, and The Civil Rights Movement, by Donald Barber and David Brown. The Barber family are Sotterley Descendants, and the book tells their story against the backdrop of their challenges with…

Women of Sotterley Specialty Tour

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

May 10th, 2024 - In honor of Mother's Day weekend, we are offering a tour focusing on the lives and legacies of ten remarkable women who lived at Sotterley over the course of 300 years. Learn about the lives of the women of Sotterley including Rebecca Bowles, Elsa Bond, Mabel Ingalls, and Agnes Kane Callum.…

Mother’s Day Weekend Tours – Moms get in FREE!

May 11 & 12, 2024 - Looking to spend time with your mom this Mother’s Day? Spend the day at Historic Sotterley! Historic Sotterley will have an extra focus on the women of Sotterley on Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12. To make the day extra special, Moms get their tours for free! Tickets…

Learn How To Bird – SMAS Class on Birdwatching

May 18, 2024 - Come learn about identifying birds, how your smart phone can make you an identification expert and how to properly use your binoculars. Immediately following the presentation, Dean Newman, an avid wildlife photographer, speaker and veteran bird guide, will lead a walk around the Historic Sotterly grounds helping you put into practice…

Habitat Scavenger Hunt

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

June 8, 2024 - Historic Sotterley and Southern Maryland Audubon Society are partnering to bring you a family-friendly morning of environmental learning. Learn about all the things birds and other animals in our ecosystem need to survive, and then set out on a scavenger hunt to locate those things here at Historic Sotterley. Afterwards, there…

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Patricia Samford

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

June 12, 2024 - Join us and Dr. Patricia Samford for a speaker event all about the James Adams Floating Theater. In the days before television and computers, residents of coastal Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina anxiously awaited the arrival of the James Adams for an evening of diverting musical and theatrical entertainment. An inspiration…

Father’s Day Weekend – Dads get in FREE!

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

June 15 & 16, 2024 - Spend the day with Dad at Historic Sotterley for Father's Day! To make the day extra special, Dads get their tours for free! Tickets can be purchased at Sotterley’s Visitor Center on the day of the tour. Tours over this weekend will have an extra focus on the history…

Art in the Gardens

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

June 21, 2024 - Art in the gardens! Participants will meet at the gorgeous Sotterley Colonial Revival Gardens where we will explore, sketch flowers and plants, and then walk to the Barn to create a beautiful painting using watercolor pencils.  Creation Guide Jami will provide assistance and instruction on using the watercolor pencils and will…

Clean the Bay Day – Cancelled!

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

June 22, 2024 - After great consideration, tomorrow's clean up day has been CANCELLED. Due to the weather forecast and heat warning for tomorrow, we have decided to cancel for the safety of our incredible volunteers. We are looking to plan a make-up date for sometime later in the year, if possible. Please know how…

Art Inspired by Birds

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

June 28th class- Art inspired by birds! Participants will meet at Sotterley’s historic Warehouse where we will discuss some of the colorful Maryland birds found in the area of Historic Sotterley. Creation Guide Jami will give some tips and show some FUN techniques to create pop-up cards and/or a small booklet made of materials including…

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Merideth Taylor

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

July 10, 2024 - Join us and author Merideth Taylor for a speaker event and book signing for her new book, "Making a Way out of No Way". The photographs and stories in this book cover 150 years of slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland and the communities of men, women, and children who…

Specialty Tour – Medical History at Historic Sotterley: Herbs, Lancets, Bone Saws, Vaccinations, Antibiotics, Oh My!

Historic Sotterley 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, United States

July 19, 2024 - What was it like to experience treatment of illness or injury in the past? How did the practice of medicine develop in our region? While touring the manor house, slave dwelling, and gardens, take the journey from medicinal herbs, blood-letting, patent medicines, lessons of sanitation learned during warfare, crude surgical techniques,…