Posted by Lexi Leader on April 18, 2024 · Leave a Comment
A public art project installed on the grounds of the Church of the Ascension in Lexington Park will be unveiled at 7pm Friday, April 19. The public is invited to gather to celebrate the lighting of the Hopeful Project sign.
Posted by Tom Watts on July 20, 2021 · Leave a Comment
The Music From Poplar Hill series in Valley Lee will feature flutist Ceylon Mitchell in concert on Sept. 17, 2021.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Features · Tags Annmarie Garden, Art Park, ArtsPark, Ceylon Mitchell, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, Music from Poplar Hill, St. Mary's County Arts Council, The Jo Ricks Music Series, Tom Watts
Posted by Tom Watts on April 22, 2019 · Leave a Comment
In the heart of the “Instant City” that became Lexington Park, the historic Maryland Bank & Trust Building is in tiptop condition and available for rent or sale. The MB&T Bank Building is at the corner of Great Mills Road and S. Shangri-La Drive in Lexington Park, MD.
Category Leader Exclusives, Lexi Leader · Tags Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, ArtsPark, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, Lexington Park MD, Maryland Bank & Trust, Tom Watts
Posted by Lexi Leader on April 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The blooms of the Yoshino cherry trees are temporal, a trait bestowing a not inconsiderable amount of the species’ cachet. This year they bloomed early.
Category Leader Features · Tags Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, ArtsPark, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, Lexington Park Business & Community Association, Lexington Park cherry blossoms, Lexington Park civic association, Lexington Park MD, LPBCA, Mark Pinekenstein, Pride in Park, Showtime Deli, St. Mary’s County Community Development Corporation, Tom Watts, viki volk
The 1970s in St. Mary’s County: These years were fundamentally formative and even transformative, and the landscape we negotiate today is the landscape born of that era.
Category Leader Features, Lexi Leader · Tags Andrea Hammer, Charlie Hewitt, cultural renaissance, Julia King, kay daugherty, oral history, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's Creative Arts Forum, Susan Fletcher, The Slackwater Center
Posted by Tom Watts on August 23, 2016 · 1 Comment
The stunningly successful opening of the Kay Daugherty Gallery with Charlie Hewitt’s “The Banquet Years” show drew old friends and artists and buyers.
Category Leader Exclusives · Tags Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, ArtsPark, Charlie Hewitt, Creative Arts Forum, katie watts, kay daugherty, The Banquet Years, Tom Watts
Posted by Tom Watts on August 8, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Charlie Hewitt graduated from Great Mills High School and spent formative years in St. Mary’s County, MD. His work will be shown in the new Kay Daugherty Gallery at Annmarie Garden beginning Aug. 12. “The Banquet Years” runs through Sept. 25.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags AMG, Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, Charlie Hewitt, Gerry D'Wynter, katie watts, kay daugherty, Tom Watts, Walt Sawyer
Posted by Tom Watts on July 27, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Once upon a time a cultural renaissance cloaked St. Mary’s County, a brief decade over by 1985, that seems both quite a long time ago and just the other day to Katie Watts as she muses about the mezzanine gallery — the Kay Daugherty Gallery — at Annmarie Garden named after her mother, and its opening exhibition, “The Banquet Years,” by Charlie Hewitt.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags AMG, Annmarie Garden, Annmarie Gardens, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, annmarie-sculpture-garden-art-center, Art Park, Charlie Hewitt, Gerry D'Wynter, katie watts, kay daugherty, Tom Watts, Walt Sawyer
When the town was full of bars and slot machines and drunken sailors … Lexington Park was the belly of a noble beast, says Charlie Hewitt.
Category Art at the Bottom, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Art Park, Charlie Hewitt, Julia A. King, Julia King, oral history, Slackwater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Art Park, The Slackwater Center, Tom Watts
Posted by The SlackWater Center on September 2, 2012 · 3 Comments
If you can’t find a beloved community, Charlie Hewitt says you should create it.
Category Business, Leader Features · Tags Andrea Hammer, Art Etcetera, Charlie Hewitt, community, Creative Arts Forum, Julia King, oral history, Southern Maryland Sailing Foundation, St. Mary's College of Maryland, The Slackwater Center, Tom Watts
