SOMD Live
2026-07-25 16:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States
SATURDAY. JULY 25 at HISTORIC SOTTERLEY
Rain or Shine. Local artists. Variety of sounds.
Free parking. Vendors and food trucks.
For more info Go To: www.SoMDLive.com

Second Saturday Family Nights
2026-08-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States
August 8, 2026 – Second Saturday Family Nights at Historic Sotterley brings the perfect blend of summer fun, local flavor, and down‑home charm. Enjoy delicious eats from Bailey’s Food Truck, buy fresh local finds at the farmer’s market, and let the kids dive into farm games and wagon rides around Sotterley’s beautiful grounds. Starting at 6:00, kick back to the lively mix of country, western swing, California surf, and southern soul music from the Honky Tonk Cassanovas. Join us for an easygoing, family‑friendly evening that celebrates community, good food, and great music all in one unforgettable place.
Date: August 8, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Live Music: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Price: $10 per car
Location: 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636
Buy tickets in advance (ticket sales coming soon)
or pay at the door!
Attendees are welcome to bring blankets and chairs to spread out and enjoy the event. No outside food or drink will be permitted.
Second Saturday Family Nights at Historic Sotterley will continue throughout 2026 with a new band each event. Stay tuned for more announcements!

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Richard Bell
2026-09-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States
September 9, 2026 – An electrifying global history of a not-so local war.
When we think of the American Revolution, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. But this version of the story is only half the truth—and perhaps not even the most interesting half. In this riveting program, historian and author Richard Bell invites audiences to rediscover the Revolution as a world war that unleashed chaos, opportunity, and transformation across six continents. From the sugar fields of the Caribbean to the court of the King of Mysore, from refugee camps on the Canadian frontier to political uprisings in Sierra Leone and Peru, the war that gave birth to the United States was never simply America’s own. It was a seismic global event that redrew maps, toppled hierarchies, catalyzed migration, and accelerated new movements for liberty—and for empire.
In this program, Bell traces the far-flung reverberations of the war through the lives of the people it displaced, empowered, or destroyed. Participants will encounter a Native matriarch struggling to preserve a transatlantic military alliance, a Prussian officer reinventing himself in a foreign army, and a Boston schoolteacher shipwrecked thousands of miles from home. Along the way, Bell explores how the Revolution stirred a transoceanic refugee crisis, ignited antislavery activism, and inspired uprisings from Ireland to India. The program offers a bold new framework for understanding the Revolutionary War not as a tidy founding moment but as a sprawling, high-stakes struggle fought on land and sea, shaped by commerce, diplomacy, propaganda, and contingency. This is the American Revolution as you’ve never seen it before: complex, global, and astonishingly relevant to the modern world.

This is a FREE hybrid event. Registration is required.
All participants are welcome to join us to meet the speaker at the pre-reception at 6:30 pm with light refreshments.

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Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He is the author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. His new book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, published by Penguin, recently won the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award. He maintains a list of upcoming events at Richard-Bell.com.

Second Saturday Family Nights
2026-09-12 17:00 - 21:00 | Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States
September 12, 2026 – Second Saturday Family Nights at Historic Sotterley brings the perfect blend of summer fun, local flavor, and down‑home charm. Enjoy delicious eats from Bailey’s Food Truck, buy fresh local finds at the farmer’s market, and let the kids dive into farm games and wagon rides around Sotterley’s beautiful grounds. Starting at 6:00, get dancing to a blend of rock, country, and bluegrass favorites from Southern Maryland locals The Mudcats. Join us for an easygoing, family‑friendly evening that celebrates community, good food, and great music all in one unforgettable place.
Date: September 12, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Live Music: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Price: $10 per car
Location: 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636
Buy tickets in advance (ticket sales coming soon)
or pay at the door!
Attendees are welcome to bring blankets and chairs to spread out and enjoy the event. No outside food or drink will be permitted.
Second Saturday Family Nights at Historic Sotterley will continue throughout 2026 with a new band each event. Stay tuned for more announcements!

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Marc Schindler
2026-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual
October 7, 2026 – Details coming soon

This is a FREE virtual event. Registration is required.

Registration coming soon

Marc Schindler has spent more than 35 years advancing the well‑being of young people through leadership roles in youth justice, nonprofit management, advocacy, and philanthropy. His career includes serving as a public defender, a national civil rights attorney, Executive Director of the Justice Policy Institute, and a partner at Venture Philanthropy Partners. He has also taught at George Washington University and American University and authored more than two dozen research publications. Most recently, he served as Assistant Secretary and Chief of Staff for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, helping to steer the state’s youth justice system toward a more developmental, community‑centered model.
At the Georgetown Center for Youth Justice, Schindler is a Research Professor of the Practice and Senior Fellow and leads Forgotten Children, a new national initiative dedicated to restoring dignity to incarcerated youth buried in unmarked graves, while also supporting programs such as the Public Information Officers Learning Collaborative and the Transforming Juvenile Probation Certificate Program. Earlier in his career, he played a key role in reforming Washington, DC’s youth justice system as Interim Director, Chief of Staff, and General Counsel of DYRS. A Yale‑educated political scientist with a law degree from the University of Maryland, Marc lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and is the proud father of two college‑aged children.

Second Saturday Family Nights
2026-10-10 17:00 - 21:00 | Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States
October 10, 2026 – Second Saturday Family Nights at Historic Sotterley brings the perfect blend of summer fun, local flavor, and down‑home charm. Enjoy delicious eats from Bailey’s Food Truck, buy fresh local finds at the farmer’s market, and let the kids dive into farm games and wagon rides around Sotterley’s beautiful grounds. Starting at 6:00, get up and move to classic rock favorites from Southern Maryland stars The Copper Pennies. Join us for an easygoing, family‑friendly evening that celebrates community, good food, and great music all in one unforgettable place.
Date: October 10, 2026
Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Live Music: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Price: $10 per car
Location: 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636
Buy tickets in advance (ticket sales coming soon)
or pay at the door!
Attendees are welcome to bring blankets and chairs to spread out and enjoy the event. No outside food or drink will be permitted.
Second Saturday Family Nights at Historic Sotterley will continue throughout 2026 with a new band each event. Stay tuned for more announcements!
