April 25, 2024

Sotterley to Host Common Ground Film Screening

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Historic Sotterley and St. Mary’s County Library invite the public to join them virtually at 7pm Wednesday, March 29, for a screening of “Talking and Walking Common Ground.”

UCAC Committee to Join Sotterley Event

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Historic Sotterley will present People and Perspectives on February 9, 2022, with a panel featuring the Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions Education Committee.

Sotterley Project Earns Recognition

Historic Sotterley has received the 2021 Underground Railroad Free Press Prize for Leadership for its Common Ground Initiative and Descendants Project that has brought together Black and White descendants of people who lived at Sotterley Plantation in the era of slavery.

Common Ground Program Earns Grants

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Historic Sotterley was awarded grants from Maryland Humanities and Maryland Heritage Area Authority for its Common Ground programs.

Common Ground Program Continues at Sotterley

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Historic Sotterley continues its 2021 Common Ground program with a virtual event at 7 pm Wednesday, March 31, featuring John B. King Jr. and “Looking to the Past to Reclaim Our Future.”

Sotterley Continues Common Ground Program

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Historic Sotterley continues its virtual programming with author William G. Thomas III as he speaks about his book, “A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.” The event will be held at 7 pm March 3, 2021.