HSMC Club to Feature Merideth Taylor Book
Historic St. Mary’s City’s community book club, “A Farthing for Your Thoughts,” will meet from 2 to 3:30pm August 14. Listen in and join the conversation around local author Merideth Taylor’s book, “Making a Way Out of No Way.”
From the publisher: “Making a Way Out of No Way” is “a richly imagined, photo-illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland. For more than 165 years, plantation owners in Southern Maryland depended on the labor of enslaved men, women, and children to bring in the tobacco crop. The photographs and stories in this book grew out of the author’s quest to understand how these people, who were subjected to a system that made every attempt to brutalize and dehumanize them, were able not only to survive but to build families and meaningful lives.”
The event will be held in the HSMC Visitor Center auditorium.
The book club is free and open to the public.
Those interested in joining the book club should get in touch with Iris Ford by emailing [email protected].
Also at Historic St. Mary’s City
HSMC will offer a John White watercolor workshop from 9:30am to noon August 17. Unleash your inner artist and create a masterpiece using 16th-century painter John White’s work as a reference.
This is being held in partnership with the Southern Maryland Folklife Center.
Registration required. $20 / HSMC Members $15. Payment in full is required at the time of registration.
Email [email protected]; call 301-994-4371 or 301-994-4372.
