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PORT SOUNDINGS EVENT
Traveling Smithsonian Exhibit Makes Its Way Across State
There are still opportunities to see the exhibit.
The Oxford Museum in Talbot County will host it from July 13 through Aug. 24 at 101 S. Morris St. in Oxford. Water | Ways treks across the state
to the Washington County Historical Society, 135 W. Washington St., Hagerstown, from Aug. 31 to Oct. 12. Then it’s back to the Eastern Shore from Oct. 19 to Nov. 30 at Dorchester Center for the Arts, 321 High St., Cambridge.
J. Miller Tawes Museum, 3 Ninth St., Crisfield, hosts the exhibit from Dec. 7 to Jan. 18, 2020, before Water | Ways’ final stop at Calvert Library, 850 Costley Way, Prince Frederick, from Jan. 25 to March 7, 2020. 􏰀
BY CHARLES SCHELLE
A traveling Smithsonian exhibit that touches on the impact of waterways on population and culture is making several stops in Maryland in the year ahead.
Water | Ways is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program, bringing special exhibits to small towns across America. Each Maryland stop has its own local exhibit and programming produced
by the host institution. The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA)
and Baltimore Propeller Club were supporting sponsors of the Baltimore County stop.
The Historical Society of Baltimore
County (HSBC) in Cockeysville hosted The Smithsonian exhibit during its 60th anniversary year at its Historic Almshouse. The Cockeysville exhibit closed July 6.
HSBC’s accompanying local exhibit touched on the founding of the port on Whetstone Point as a port of entry for tobacco trade with England. The display also addressed the flour boom in the 1750s, shipbuilding at Fells Point, ironworks at Sparrows Point, immigration and slavery. Mr. Trash Wheel was featured in another part
of the exhibit about environmental concerns, along with dam removals and oyster replenishment.
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For more information, visit www.mdhumanities.org/programs/ museum-on-main-street/water-ways.