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…

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,…

August 2, 2024 - If these walls could talk, imagine what they'd tell us about the history of Sotterley and the people that lived in Manor House. Join us for this specialty tour led by Sotterley's Interpretive Programs Manager and a presentation by local architect Jim Ritter uncovering a series of architectural mysteries. Discover how…

August 7, 2024 - Nature photography is not the serene, life-prolonging experience most magazine articles say it is. In fact, it’s anything but the “Zen” experience they espouse. Come listen to Dean Newman, a nature photographer from our area, tell the “behind-the-scenes” stories of the images you see in publications. Dean has been bitten, scratched,…

August 24, 2024 - Day of Unity and Healing this year will focus on Descendants, historic sites, and communities working together to preserve and interpret our history transparently. We will have a variety of organizations present to increase awareness that in order to have a shared success we must learn from each other and work…

September 6, 2024 - From rolling hogsheads and whistling steamboats to roaring jets overhead, the Sotterley on the Patuxent specialty tour will cover how Sotterley’s location along the Patuxent River was key to establishing successful commerce and communication from the time of its very beginning until the close of the steamboat era. We will explore…

September 13 to September 15, 2024 - In honor of International Underground Railroad Month, Historic Sotterley is offering tours two days of tours with a special focus on The Pursuit of Freedom at Historic Sotterley, and will cover how struggles continued after the Civil War. Tours will be offered Friday through Saturday at 10:30, 11:30, 1:00,…

September 14, 2024 - Explore the water ecosystem at Sotterley with Master Naturalist and natural resources management teacher Dorothy Birch.  We will peek under the waves and use nets to catch, observe, and identify fish and other aquatic critters, extending the notes in the free nature notebooks that will be provided.  Come ready to get…

Dan will spend an evening discussing his family’s farming history from decades as tobacco-centric to small grains and currently to bourbon production. Topics will include the impact of the development of NAS Patuxent River on the farming community and his family, the tobacco buyout, the rise in popularity of bourbon – America’s spirit and the…