UPCOMING EVENTS *NOT* IN QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY Mid-September to Mid-October 2014 These events take place in counties other than Queen Anne’s. To view events that will take place in Queen Anne’s County, go to the Libretto webpage on the SV Website and click on “Current Libretto.” EASTERN SHORE Chesapeake Ghost Walks: The Eastern Shore’s Haunted History: select dates, through early November: Berlin, Cambridge, Crisfield, Denton, Easton, Marion Station, Ocean City, Pokomoke City, Princess Anne, Salisbury, Snow Hill, and St. Michaels (coming soon: Chincoteague and Oxford): Chesapeake Ghost Walks ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY The Colonial Players of Annapolis present “The Rocket Man”: select dates, September 5-27: Theatre, 108 East Street, Annapolis: The Colonial Players “Overheard”: Wednesday, September 17: William Paca House and Garden, Annapolis: What's Up? Magazine - "Overheard" The Taste of the Chesapeake: Thursday, September 18: Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis: Taste of the Chesapeake Hospice Cup XXXIII (sailing for Hospice Care): Saturday, September 20: Bert Jabin Yacht Yard, Annapolis: What's Up? Magazine - Hospice Cup 5th Annual Wooden Sailboat Rendezvous and Race: September 20-21: National Sailing Hall of Fame, Annapolis: Rendezvous and Race 10th Annual Boatyard Beach Bash: Saturday, September 20: Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis: What's Up? Magazine - Beach Bash Open House: Smithsonian Science on the Bay: Saturday, September 20: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater: SERC Open House Maryland Avenue and State Circle Fall Festival: Sunday, September 21: downtown Annapolis: Maryland Avenue Events Canines & Cocktails for a Cause (to benefit Animal Legal Defense Fund): Friday, September 26: Loews Annapolis Hotel, Annapolis: Cocktails for a Cause Page 1 of 7 Light the Night Walk (to benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society): Saturday, September 27: Park Place, Annapolis: Light the Night Annapolis Opera presents the 4th Annual Singable Feast: Saturday, September 27: Lowes Hotel, Annapolis: Singable Feast 30th Annual Homestead Gardens Fall Festival: Saturdays and Sundays, September 27 – October 26: Davidsonville: Homestead Gardens 25th Annual AAMC Foundation Golf Classic: Monday, September 29: The Golf Club at South River, Edgewater: Golf Classic “Blazers, Bourbon, and Cigars”: Tuesday, October 7: William Paca House and Garden, Annapolis: What's Up? Magazine - Blazers, Bourbon, and Cigars 43rd Annual United States Sailboat Show: October 9-13: Annapolis City Dock: Sailboat Show Boat Show Bash (to benefit CASA for Kids and the EYC Foundation): Saturday, October 11: Eastport Yacht Club, Annapolis: What’s Up? Magazine - Boat Show Bash Hearth Cooking and Family Program “Colonial Construction”: Saturday, October 11: Historic London Town and Gardens, Edgewater: Family Program 43rd Annual United States Powerboat Show: October 16-19: City Dock, Annapolis: Powerboat Show CAROLINE COUNTY Adkins Arboretum Events: Go to Adkins Arboretum Calendar to see a listing of upcoming events or call 410-634-2847 “Sunset Series: Hawks!”: Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m.: Tuckahoe State Park, Lake Pavilion, Queen Anne: 410-820-1668: Free: DNR Calendar “Campfire Cuisine”: Thursday, September 18, 6:30 p.m.: Martinak State Park, Denton: 410-820-1668, pre-registration required: $5 per person: DNR Calendar 6th Annual Alpaca Festival and Open House: September 20–21: Preston: Alpaca Festival Crab Feast and Casino Night: Saturday, September 20: Denton Volunteer Fire Company, Denton: Shore Home and Garden (September issue, page 33) Page 2 of 7 Heritage Day at the Museum: Saturday, September 20: Federalsburg Area Heritage Museum, Federalsburg: Shore Home and Garden (September issue, page 58) End of Summer Celebration (to benefit the Chesapeake Culinary Center): Saturday, September 20: Chesapeake Culinary Center, Denton: Attraction Magazine - End of Summer Celebration “Sunset Series: Rain Barrels and Rain Gardens”: Wednesday, September 24, 6:30 p.m.: Tuckahoe State Park, Lake Pavilion, Queen Anne: 410-820-1668: Free: DNR Calendar “Campfire Cuisine”: Thursday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.: Martinak State Park, Denton: 410-820-1668, pre-registration required: $5 per person: DNR Calendar 6th Annual 5K Run and 2-Mile Historic Walk (to benefit Caroline County Habitat for Humanity): Saturday, September 27: Denton: Caroline Habitat for Humanity Events Antique and Art Festival: Saturday, October 11: Historic Linchester Mill, Preston: Caroline County Historical Society Events DORCHESTER COUNTY IRONMAN Maryland: Saturday, September 20: Cambridge and surrounding area: IRONMAN Maryland Summer Send-Off “Blues, Brews, and BBQ”: Saturday, September 20: downtown Cambridge: Cambridge Main Street Crabtoberfest: Saturday, September 27: downtown Cambridge: Crabtoberfest Choptank Heritage Skipjack Race: Saturday, September 27: Long Wharf, Cambridge: Skipjack Race 8th Annual St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance (to benefit the Mid-Shore Community Foundation): Sunday, September 28: Cambridge: Concours d'Elegance Horn Point Laboratory Open House: Saturday, October 11: Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge: Horn Point Laboratory 4th Annual Nantikoke River Jamboree: Saturday, October 11: Vienna: Nanticoke River Jamboree Page 3 of 7 KENT COUNTY 8th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta: Saturday, September 20: Wilmer Park, Chestertown: Waterfront Festival 8th Annual Waterfront Festival: Saturday, September 20: Wilmer Park, Chestertown: Waterfront Festival Sultana Education Foundation’s Gala “Hidey Hidey Ho!” - an evening with the Cab Calloway Orchestra (to benefit the Sultana Education Foundation): Saturday, September 20: Clovelly Farm, Chestertown: Annual Gala 15th Biennial Antiques Seminar and Appraisals: Thursday, September 25: Unitarian Church of Chestertown, Chestertown: Kent Tourism Chestertown Harry Potter Festival (to benefit Garfield Center for the Arts): September 26-27: Chestertown: Harry Potter Festival Chester River Crab Chase – a 5K Race (to benefit the new Alzheimer’s and Memory Care Unit at the University of Maryland Shore Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chestertown): Saturday, September 27: Wilmer Park, Chestertown: Crab Chase, 410- 810-5661 Colchester Farm’s 2nd Annual Oktoberfest: Saturday, October 4: Colchester Farm, Galena: Kent Tourism 5th Annual Apple Butter Fall Festival: Saturday, October 4: Kent Museum, Kennedyville: Apple Butter Festival Historical Society of Kent County presents “The Chestertown House Tour”: Saturday, October 4: Chestertown’s Historic District: House Tour Chestertown Walk to End Alzheimer’s: Saturday, October 4: Wilmer Park, Chestertown: Kent Tourism Family Fall Festival: Saturday, October 4: Knock’s Folly Visitors Center, Sassafras Natural Resources Management Area, Kennedyville: Kent Tourism St. Martin’s Ministries’ 8th Annual Fall Arts Dinner and Auction: Friday, October 10: Chesapeake Room at the Rock Hall Fire House, Rock Hall: Arts Dinner 4th Annual Taste of the Sassafras: Friday, October 10: Kitty Knight House, Georgetown: Taste of the Sassafras 17th Annual Rock Hall Fall Fest “Celebrate the Oyster”: Saturday, October 11: Main Street, Rock Hall: Fall Fest Page 4 of 7 SOMERSET COUNTY Dock Day on the Bay: Saturday, September 27: Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield: Somers Cove Marina Crisfield Outdoor Expo: Saturday, October 11: Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield: Somers Cove Marina TALBOT COUNTY Corn Maze: Friday – Sunday, August 29 – October 31: Breckenridge Adventures, Vienna: Corn Maze & Shore Home and Garden (September issue, page 41) St. Michaels Street Fair (“Art A Fair” on Friday, and “2nd Annual A Fair on Fremont” on Saturday): September 19-20, rain date September 21: Friday: Muskrat Park, and Saturday: Fremont Street, St. Michaels: St. Michaels Street Fair 7th Annual Chesapeake Film Festival: September 19-21: various venues in Easton: Chesapeake Film Festival Karisafication Inc. Golf Tournament (to benefit Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma research): Saturday, September 20: Harbourtowne Golf Resort, St. Michaels: Golf Tournament Model Sailing Club Race with Solomon’s Island Club of Calvert County: Sunday, September 21: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels: CBMM Calendar Community Conversations: “State of the Crab”: Sundays, September 21 and 28: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels: CBMM Calendar St. Michaels Oyster Crawl: Thursday, September 25: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, and St. Michaels Historic District: CBMM Calendar: Must pre- register by Monday, September 22 Frederick Douglass Day: Saturday, September 27: downtown Easton: Frederick Douglass Day Screening: “Twelve Years a Slave” (part of Frederick Douglass Day): Saturday, September 27, 6:30 p.m.: Premiere Cinemas, Easton: Free Oxford Library’s 38th Annual Book Mart: Saturday, September 27 (rain date Sunday, September 28): Oxford Library, Market Street, Oxford: 410-226-5727 Page 5 of 7 Fall Rummage Sale: Saturday, September 27: Oxford Volunteer Fire Company, Oxford: 410-226-5110 Chesapeake Fall Home Craft & Expo: September 27-28 (Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.): Talbot Community Center, Route 50, Easton: Fall Home Show ($1 off coupon at Coupon) 6th Annual Easton Airport Day (a celebration of flight to benefit Talbot Mentors): Saturday, September 27, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Easton Airport: Attraction Magazine - Easton Airport Day Tailgate Party Fundraiser (to benefit Bryan Brothers Foundation’s “Building Dreams for Youth”): Sunday, September 28: Talbot Ag Center, Easton: Attraction Magazine - Tailgate Party St. Michaels Police Department Golf Tournament