PEM Talks Continue at Calvert Marine Museum
The Calvert Marine Museum's PEM Talks offer thoughtful discourse on the museum's three themes: Paleontology, the Estuarine Environment, and Maritime History in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and discovery. The 2011-2012 series, Lost Landmarks, has provided a fascinating glimpse into Southern Maryland's past and the evidence of that past that marks the landscape. Early talks focused on the one-room school house, the legacy of segregation, and the lost local tradition of wooden boatbuilding. All PEM Talks are free and open to the public starting at 7:00 p.m. in the museum auditorium.
The series continues on Thursday, February 16 with Jane Cox presenting the Lost Towns of the Chesapeake at 7:00 p.m. Cox serves as the Cultural Resources Planner for Anne Arundel County's Office of Planning and Zoning. An archaeologist by training, she is the assistant director for the Lost Towns Archaeology Project, a hands-on public archaeology program focused on discovering and sharing the rich archaeological past of the "Lost Towns" of Anne Arundel County. She has excavated nearly 100 archaeological sites and continues to rediscover the County's Lost Towns. The project has explored such sites as Providence (1649), Herrington (1660), and London Town (1683). Cox will share the most recent exploration, the villages of prehistoric Native Americans including Pig Point, a prehistoric site that was inhabited for over 8,500 years.
On Thursday, March 1, PEM Talks will welcome Laura Trieschmann highlighting Country Stores and their central role in past community life at 7:00 p.m. In the early 1990s, Trieschmann was hired by Calvert County to do a survey of country stores, both existing and lost. Her talk is based on her research showing how country stores played a major role as both a commercial and social center for generations, serving as a public meeting place and seamlessly melding with the domestic environment. With the arrival of the supermarket, department store, and gas station, the country store was abandoned and our sense of place disturbed. Trieschmann is a principal with EHT Traceries, Inc. is a women-owned research and consulting firm in D.C. specializing in architectural history and historic preservation.
In March the focus shifts to another important feature in past community life: The Age of the Steamboat Wharves. On Thursday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m., Ralph Eshelman will discuss how steamboat wharves and landings became the focal point of social and commercial activity on the waterfront. Working from his 1996 inventory of Calvert County steamboat wharves and landings, Dr. Eshelman is uniquely qualified to re-create the vibrant contribution these gathering places made to the communities along the river, both social and economic. With the move to automobiles and trains and consequent decline in steamboating, the social and commercial fabric of this region changed. But while the sounds, smells, sights and excitement of the steamboat are now gone and largely forgotten; some surprising vestiges of that time still survive.
The final talk in the series, scheduled for Thursday, April 19, features Harriet Stout, curator of The Railroad Museum, presenting The Chesapeake Beach Railroad & Amusement Park. Ms. Stout will share her intimate knowledge of the story of Otto Mears' dream to develop a shoreline resort, its heyday as the destination for people from Washington fleeing the heat, and its demise during the Great Depression. This railroad changed not only the lives of the residents in Calvert County, but also marked the landscape forever.
For more information about the Lost Landmark Series, visit the website at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com. All talks are free and open to the public.
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The museum is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Museum members and children under 5 are always admitted free. Admission is $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors and military with valid I.D., and $2.00 for children ages 5 - 12. For more information about the museum, upcoming events, or membership, visit the website at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com or call 410-326-2042. LIKE us on Facebook.
The Calvert Marine Museum's PEM Talks offer thoughtful discourse on the museum's three themes: Paleontology, the Estuarine Environment, and Maritime History in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and discovery. The 2011-2012 series, Lost Landmarks, has provided a fascinating glimpse into Southern Maryland's past and the evidence of that past that marks the landscape. Early talks focused on the one-room school house, the legacy of segregation, and the lost local tradition of wooden boatbuilding. All PEM Talks are free and open to the public starting at 7:00 p.m. in the museum auditorium.
The series continues on Thursday, February 16 with Jane Cox presenting the Lost Towns of the Chesapeake at 7:00 p.m. Cox serves as the Cultural Resources Planner for Anne Arundel County's Office of Planning and Zoning. An archaeologist by training, she is the assistant director for the Lost Towns Archaeology Project, a hands-on public archaeology program focused on discovering and sharing the rich archaeological past of the "Lost Towns" of Anne Arundel County. She has excavated nearly 100 archaeological sites and continues to rediscover the County's Lost Towns. The project has explored such sites as Providence (1649), Herrington (1660), and London Town (1683). Cox will share the most recent exploration, the villages of prehistoric Native Americans including Pig Point, a prehistoric site that was inhabited for over 8,500 years.
On Thursday, March 1, PEM Talks will welcome Laura Trieschmann highlighting Country Stores and their central role in past community life at 7:00 p.m. In the early 1990s, Trieschmann was hired by Calvert County to do a survey of country stores, both existing and lost. Her talk is based on her research showing how country stores played a major role as both a commercial and social center for generations, serving as a public meeting place and seamlessly melding with the domestic environment. With the arrival of the supermarket, department store, and gas station, the country store was abandoned and our sense of place disturbed. Trieschmann is a principal with EHT Traceries, Inc. is a women-owned research and consulting firm in D.C. specializing in architectural history and historic preservation.
In March the focus shifts to another important feature in past community life: The Age of the Steamboat Wharves. On Thursday, March 15 at 7:00 p.m., Ralph Eshelman will discuss how steamboat wharves and landings became the focal point of social and commercial activity on the waterfront. Working from his 1996 inventory of Calvert County steamboat wharves and landings, Dr. Eshelman is uniquely qualified to re-create the vibrant contribution these gathering places made to the communities along the river, both social and economic. With the move to automobiles and trains and consequent decline in steamboating, the social and commercial fabric of this region changed. But while the sounds, smells, sights and excitement of the steamboat are now gone and largely forgotten; some surprising vestiges of that time still survive.
The final talk in the series, scheduled for Thursday, April 19, features Harriet Stout, curator of The Railroad Museum, presenting The Chesapeake Beach Railroad & Amusement Park. Ms. Stout will share her intimate knowledge of the story of Otto Mears' dream to develop a shoreline resort, its heyday as the destination for people from Washington fleeing the heat, and its demise during the Great Depression. This railroad changed not only the lives of the residents in Calvert County, but also marked the landscape forever.
For more information about the Lost Landmark Series, visit the website at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com. All talks are free and open to the public.
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The museum is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Museum members and children under 5 are always admitted free. Admission is $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors and military with valid I.D., and $2.00 for children ages 5 - 12. For more information about the museum, upcoming events, or membership, visit the website at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com or call 410-326-2042. LIKE us on Facebook.
Contact:
Traci Cimini (401) 326-2042 ext. 17
Traci Cimini (401) 326-2042 ext. 17











