June 6, 2025 - Use local nature to inspire a piece of artwork! Creation Guide Jami will provide small accordion style books and guidance to our guests as we create prints from leaves and other natural elements. We will do a short walkabout on the grounds of Historic Sotterley and then return to the barn…
June 11, 2025 - When white newspaper editor Jonathan Daniels set out to "discover the South" in his stately black Plymouth in the summer of 1937, he especially hoped to find the land that existed somewhere between the mythical old plantation and the sharecropper's cabin, between Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Erskine Caldwell's…
June 19-22, 2025 - In honor of Juneteenth, Historic Sotterley will offer guided tours focusing on stories of strength and resilience. Learn about how over the centuries, the enslaved at Sotterley resisted against slavery, how they maintained strength and identity when it had been denied to them, how they built families and communities, and discover…
June 20, 2025 - Make a lovely collage card inspired by the nature around Historic Sotterley. Creation Guide Jami will walk with our guests through Sotterleys beautiful and colorful flower garden for our inspiration to create a beautiful collage card. We will use a variety of colorful paper ephemera as well as a variety of mark…