The food and charming folkways of remote Smith Island, a four-century-old waterman's community in the Chesapeake Bay, is documented in Mrs. Kitching's Smith Island Cookbook. The book’s co-author, Club member Susan Stiles Dowell, was a reporter for MD Public Television when the frozen bay isolated Smith Island in the 1970s. The following spring, Susan produced

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Elizabeth Comer, archaeologist and president of the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, introduces us to a facinating project to connect the past with the present. In an effort to learn more about the legacies of twenty-seven African Americans who labored at Catoctin Furnace during the late 18th to early 19th centuries and who were buried in

Join Sheila Helgerson, executive director at Cornerstone Community Housing, and hear about CCH’s twofold mission to help men experiencing homelessness and to change attitudes toward homelessness through outreach and education. Sheila will introduce us to Earl’s Place, a transitional housing program that helps 30 to 35 men annually rebuild their lives and return to society