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"Life, Liberty, and Opportunity: The Struggle for Freedom in Tidewater Maryland, 1634-1865" June 19-24 and June 26-July 1, 2005 A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Landmarks of American History Program
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Session 2: June 26-July 1, 2005 Sunday, June 26, 20
Sunday, June 26 12 noon – 6 PM Participant check-in (Schaefer Hall lobby)
6:30 - 8 PM 6:30 PM Welcoming reception and crab feast, Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC) waterfront, at the Maryland Dove dock Board the Maryland Dove, an interpretive exhibit and seaworthy replica of a 17th-century pinnace, the type of sailing ship that accompanied Governor Leonard Calvert and the first Maryland settlers across the Atlantic in 1633-34.
Monday, June 27
8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast at The Great Room, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) Campus Center
9:00 – 10:30 AM Morning Lecture and Discussion, St. Mary’s College Library, Room 321 An Atlantic World: Opportunity, Risk, and the Intersection of Many Cultures in the Colonial Chesapeake
Henry M. Miller, Ph.D., Director of Research, HSMC John D. Krugler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Marquette University
See assigned readings for Day 1
10:45 – 11:45 AM Break-out sessions led by discussants to explore connections between historical themes, curriculum expectations, and contemporary issues
11:45 – 12:30 Lunch, The Great Room
12:30 – 2:00 PM Tour campus facilities (bookstore and coffee shop, athletic and recreational center, library)
2:15 - 4:45 PM Site Visits: St. Mary’s City in the 17th century Atlantic World
Smith’s Ordinary – a tavern constructed in the 1660s, now rebuilt on its original location. It offered food, drink and lodging to those who came to the capital to attend court, for sessions of the General Assembly, or to conduct business.
Cordea’s Hope – built as a mercantile storehouse and office by Mark Cordea, a French immigrant and naturalized citizen who served as the first mayor of St. Mary’s City.
Vansweringen’s Council Chamber – the partially reconstructed remains of an opulent lodging house, it served as a meeting place for the Governor and his appointed Council. Dutch immigrant and entrepreneur Garrett Vansweringen also operated a brewery, bakery, and the first coffee house in English America. This site is being developed and reinterpreted through a current NEH grant.
The 1667 brick chapel and cemetery – a meticulously authentic reconstruction is rising over the foundations of the original Catholic chapel in St. Mary’s City, which shelters and is surrounded by the graves of hundreds of Maryland’s founders.
St. John’s Freehold – the ruins of a 1638-1720s house in which Maryland’s early General Assembly met. Margaret Brent, the African freeman Mathias de Sousa, the slave Antonio, and Susquehannock Indian chiefs are among those who are associated with this site, soon to be developed as a major interpretive exhibit.
5:00 – 6:00 PM Dinner, The Great Room
Evening free
Tuesday, June 28
8:00 – 8:45 AM Breakfast, The Great Room
9:00 – 10:45 Indigenous Cultures and Immigrant Adaptation in the Chesapeake (Note: meet at HSMC Visitor Center on Rosecroft Road)
Helen Rountree, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, Old Dominion University
Jan Dabkowski, HSMC site supervisor, Woodland Indian Hamlet
See assigned readings for Day 2
11:00 – 12:15 Site visit, Woodland Indian Hamlet (walk from Visitor Center) The Indian Hamlet represents Yaocomaco Indian culture and lifeways at the time of contact with Europeans, as well as the 1634-35 occupancy of a former Yaocomaco village by the first English settlers.
12:30 - 1:15 Box lunch, Visitor Center picnic area
1:15 - 3:00 Site visit, Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation Dr. Henry M. Miller and Aaron Meisinger, HSMC site supervisor
The Spray Plantation represents the lives of a middling tobacco planter and his family and servants in St. Mary’s County during the 1660s. Based on research for the book Robert Cole’s World by Lois Green Carr et al, it depicts daily activities centered on growing tobacco, raising chickens, pigs, and cattle, and cultivating vegetables, fruits and herbs.
3:30 – 5:00 SMCM Library, Room 321 Master Teacher Workshop: Group Lesson Planning and Evaluation Barbara O’Connor, Chair, Social Studies Department, Conrad Weiser High School, Robesonia, PA Dorsey Bodeman, Director of Public Programs, HSMC Marylin Arrigan, Education Director, Sotterley Plantation
5:00 – 6:00 PM Dinner, The Great Room, SMCM
Evening Free
Wednesday, June 29
8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast, The Great Room
9:00 – 10:30 AM Morning Lecture and Discussion, SMCM Library, Room 321
Enslavement and African-American Identity in Tidewater Maryland, 1700-1860
Iris Carter Ford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Marylin Arrigan, Education Director, Sotterley Plantation
See assigned readings for Day 3.
10:45 – 11:45 Break-out sessions led by discussants to explore connections between historical themes, curriculum expectations, and contemporary issues
11:45 – 12:30 Lunch, The Great Room
12:45 PM Board buses at HSMC State House parking lot for site visit
1:15 – 3:15 PM Tour Sotterley Plantation on Patuxent River (well-documented and restored 18th-century manor house, slave quarter, outbuildings)
3:15 – 3:45 PM Board buses and return to SMCM
4:00 – 5:00 SMCM Library, Room 321 Master Teacher Workshop: Group Lesson Planning and Evaluation Barbara O’Connor, Chair, Social Studies Department, Conrad Weiser High School, Robesonia, PA Rod Cofield, Education Coordinator, HSMC Marylin Arrigan, Education Director, Sotterley Plantation
5:30 – 8:00 Meet at SMCM waterfront for box dinner and twilight river cruise on the Chesapeake Bay skipjack, Dee of St. Mary’s, with Captain Jack Russell
Thursday, June 30
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast, The Great Room
9:00 – 10:30 Morning Lecture and Discussion, SMCM Library Room 321 Whose History? Conflicting Memories and the Politics of Civil War Commemoration in Maryland
Anne Marshall, Ph.D., The University of Georgia Edward C. Papenfuse, Ph.D., Archivist, The State of Maryland Julia King, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director, SMCM Slackwater project
See assigned readings for Day 4
10:45 – 11:45 Break-out sessions led by discussants to explore connections between historical themes, curriculum expectations, and contemporary issues
11:34 – 12:30 Lunch, The Great Room
12:45 Board bus at HSMC parking lot to Point Lookout State Park
1:15 -3:15 Site visit, Point Lookout State Park Location of an important Civil War POW camp and hospital, and the focus of a current controversy over flying the Confederate flag
4:00 – 5:00 SMCM Library, Room 321 Master Teacher Workshop: Group Lesson Planning and Evaluation Barbara O’Connor, Chair, Social Studies Department, Conrad Weiser High School, Robesonia, PA Rod Cofield, Education Coordinator, HSMC Marylin Arrigan, Education Director, Sotterley Plantation
5:00 - 6:00 Dinner, The Great Room
Evening Free
Friday, July 1
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast, The Great Room
9:00 – 10:30 Morning Lecture and Discussion, SMCM Library Room 321
Liberty’s Legacy: “Liberty of Conscience” and Religious Toleration in Maryland
Michael Cain, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Jane E. Calvert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland John D. Krugler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Marquette University Zach Messitte, Ph.D., Director, Center for the Study of Democracy / Assistant Professor of Political Science, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
See assigned readings for Day 5.
10:30 – 11:30 Break-out sessions led by discussants to explore connections between historical themes, curriculum expectations, and contemporary issues. Workshop Summary.
11:45 - 12:00 Check out of rooms, load luggage in vans to return to airport, box lunch provided by The Great Room
Depart for airport.
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