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Friday June 6 10:30am - 12:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Create Artwork from Nature All Around You with Jami Faith

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 grou......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Wednesday June 11 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Jennifer Ritterhouse

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 Tobacco Road. He succeeded. His published and unpublished accounts of his trip captured a panoramic picture of the South during the Great Depression. In Discovering the South: One Man’s Travels through a Changing America in the 1930s, historian Jennifer Ritterhouse follows Daniels on his journey to explore a wide range of interrelated topics, from the impact of the New Deal and the southern literary Renaissance, to the tragic Scottsboro case and planters’ and industrialists’ violent suppression of labor organizing. The questions at the center of Discovering the South are big ones: What was the true nature of the South and its problems, and who was trying to address them–in what ways, against what opposition, and with what results–during the Roosevelt years? More provocatively, why, in the late 1930s when Jonathan Daniels, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and a great many other Americans were “traveling,” did the destination of a more just and egalitarian South prove so impossible to reach? This is a FREE hybrid event, meaning you can join in person or virtually. Registration is required. In-person attendees are welcome to join us for a pre-reception at 6:15 pm. Register for In-Person Attendance Here!Register for Virtual Attendance Here! Jennifer Ritterhouse is Professor of History at George Mason University. She specializes in the history of the post-Reconstruction South, with emphasis on race and gender issues. She is the author of Discovering the South: One Man’s Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s (UNC Press, 2017) and Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race (UNC Press, 2006). She is the editor of a reprint edition of Sarah Patton Boyle’s autobiography, The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (UVA Press, 2001), and one of several co-editors of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New Press, 2001). Her current research focuses on the surprisingly southern history of the women’s rights projects of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in the 1970s.

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Saturday June 14 through June 15

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Father's Day Weekend Tours - Dads get in FREE!

June 14 & 15, 2025 – Whether your dad is a history buff or just looking to do something new this Father‘s Day weekend, Historic Sotterley has something to offer!Historic Sotterley will be offering free guided tours to Dads on Saturday, June 14, and Sunday, June 15. Tick......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Friday June 20 through June 22

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Juneteenth Weekend Tours

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 i......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Friday June 20 10:30am - 12:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Colorful Creative Collage Card with Jami Faith

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 vari......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sunday June 22 2:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

From Legacy to Leadership: Answering the Call

June 22, 2025 – Join us in honoring a truly momentous occasion as Ms. Gwendoline Bankins becomes the first descendant of the enslaved at Historic Sotterley to be elected President of the Board of Trustees—and the first in the State of Maryland to serve in this distingui......More

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Wednesday July 16 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Sotterley Presents: People & Perspectives with Dr. Tayzhuan Glover

July 16, 2025 – During the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children in the Chesapeake, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana were able to secure their freedom by offering aid to the British. Following the war, many of these freedom-seekers were resettled in Nova Scotia and Trinidad. This presentation will use American and British colonial archives to follow the journey to freedom of the enslaved men, women, and children from Historic Sotterley who were resettled in Trinidad in 1815, where they laid the foundation for Trinidad’s “Merikin” descendant community. This is a FREE hybrid event, meaning participants can join us in-person OR virtually. Registration is required.In-person participants are welcome to join us for a pre-reception at 6:15 pm.Register Here to Attend In-PersonRegister Here to Attend VirtuallyDr. Tayzhaun Glover received a Ph.D. in History from Duke University in 2024. He also received a B.A. in Africana Studies, Anthropology, and French from Franklin & Marshall College in 2017. He is primarily interested in the seaborne mobility practices of freedom-seeking enslaved men, women, and children in the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Eastern Caribbean, and the Americas, more broadly. He engages with questions about labor, geography, law, and European and Indigenous sovereignty to understand how enslaved people conceptualized refuge, liberty, and freedom based on their geopolitical knowledge of their worlds. His research has received support from Fulbright France, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Duke History and African and African American Studies departments, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is currently a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the National Park Service where he researches and interprets the legacy of enslaved people from the Chesapeake who joined the Colonial Marines during the War of 1812 Are you interested in hearing more about human migration? Visit Lexington Park Library to view the exhibit World on the Move, 250,000 Years of Human Migration, from July 21 – August 22, 2025.

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Saturday August 23 All Day

Historic Sotterley, 44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD, 20636, United States

Day of Unity and Healing

August 23, 2025 – This year’s Day of Unity and Healing is extra special because we will be hosting it on the UNESCO Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. While we always commemorate this important observance at the event, it’s not every year that the ......More

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