Share Home Remedies With Slackwater
The SlackWater Center at St. Mary’s College of Maryland would like to learn more about use of home remedies, in the past and in the present.
Memories of Maritime Village of Wynne
Although oyster shucking houses and steamboats have gone from the maritime village of Wynne, they live in memory.
Hoyer Praises John Glenn’s Many Achievements
Sen. John Glenn, 95, former naval aviator and astronaut and a source of local pride, died Dec. 8 at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital. He had been a test pilot at NAS Patuxent River in the 1940s.
Why Oysters Matter: An Ecologist’s View
Oysters are not the only filter feeders in the Chesapeake Bay. Fish, other mussels, plankton, and other invertebrates also filter food from the water. However, not all filter feeders are created equal.
SlackWater Explores Bay Oyster’s History
Once strictly utilitarian in value, these oyster cans — part of James Banagan’s collection — are now prized for their aesthetics and historic meaning.
Watershed Exhibition Opens at SMCM
Join the Atlantika Collective at its inaugural exhibition for The Watershed Project at the Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The exhibition will run until Nov. 22, 2016.
’70s in St. Mary’s: Formative, Transformative
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.
Slackwater’s Barn Prayer
The Slackwater Center installment offers an Ode to Tobacco Barns of the Past.
Everything Has Been Taken Over and Turned Into Something Else
While many people salute the preservation of the past and the rich history of St. Mary’s County that is told by the artifacts in the ground, and many others applaud the lack of development along the waterfront, there are still those who long for the way it used to be.
Knights of the Round Table
By the 1960s, the military had come to define Lexington Park. The new boom town became the center of new consumerism in St. Mary’s County.
