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  • Creating our own Natural Brushes with Jami Faith

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

    May 23, 2025 - You don't need expensive brushes to create art, you can do it with things you forage around you! Creation Guide Jami will take us out on the grounds, as we walk about the garden and surrounding areas to gather leaves, twigs, pine needles etc. Once we have acquired our own items…

  • Create Artwork from Nature All Around You with Jami Faith

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

    June 6, 2025 - Create art at Historic Sotterley by using objects found in nature. Creation Guide Jami will provide small accordian 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 , gathering items -…

  • Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Jennifer Ritterhouse

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

    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…

  • Juneteenth Weekend Tours

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

    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…

  • Colorful Creative Collage Card with Jami Faith

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

    June 20, 2025 - Make a lovely collage card inspired by the nature around Historic Sotterley. Creation Guide Jami will walk with our guests through Sotterley's 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…

  • To Be Rescheduled – Pursuit of Freedom Specialty Tour

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

    **Due to unforeseen circumstances, this tour is being rescheduled. More information coming soon.**   July 18, 2025 - Historic Sotterley is offering a guided tour with a special focus on The Pursuit of Freedom at Historic Sotterley. Take a guided tour with our Interpretive Programs Manager for an in-depth look at how freedom evolved through…

  • Birding the Fields and Trails of Historic Sotterley

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

    September 20, 2025 - Join us for an excursion to this scenic and historic Patuxent River property, sponsored jointly by SMAS and Historic Sotterley. Bald Eagles, migrant songbirds and lingering meadowlarks and sparrows can be found via Sotterley’s trails and river views. The walk starts promptly at 9:00 am, please arrive 10-15 minutes prior in…

  • Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Franklin Robinson, Kathryn Barrett-Gaines, & Dorothea Smith

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

    September 24, 2025 - In 2012, a massive storm ripped through Charles County, ripping a tree and waterpipe from the ground on Serenity Farm in Benedict, Maryland. Years prior, the farm's family of owners had found a human skull buried in that same place, so the storm's damage presented an opportunity to deep dive into…

  • Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Victoria Christopher Murray

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

    November 12, 2025 - The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt…

  • Partner Event – Historically Speaking: ​​​​​​​George Plater: St. Mary’s Forgotten Patriot

    St. Mary's College of Maryland Daugherty-Palmer Commons 47720 College Dr., St Mary's City, MD, United States

    March 26, 2026 - David Brown, adjunct professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University With over thirty-three years as a Foreign Service Officer, David Brown unfolds the story of this largely unknown patriot. George Plater was born and raised at Sotterley Plantation and is counted among the earliest of Maryland's…

  • St. Mary’s County History Day

    Leonardtown Public Library 23630 Hayden Farm Ln, Leonardtown, MD, United States

    April 18, 2026 - St. Mary’s County History Day is a local contest affiliated with Maryland History Day and National History Day. It is a district-level contest for middle and high school students to do in-depth research and create unique projects about each year’s theme in one of five categories: paper, exhibit, documentary, website, or…

  • Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Michael Kent

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

    April 22, 2026 - When the international slave trade was outlawed in 1808, other methods were tried to fill the labor void in the South. Border States like Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky began to breed slaves from the enslaved people they already owned. One such enslaved person was Jacob Broom who was owned by the…