Christmas tree

Happy Holidays!

12/10/2024

Finals are complete and now it’s time to celebrate with friends and family. See you in the New Year!

  • Holidays
  • Snow
  • Winter
  • Archives
Maryland cookbooks

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/22/2024

Here is a peek into the Washington College Archives & Special Collections potluck Friendsgiving!

  • Cookbooks
  • Cooking
  • Holidays
  • Thanksgiving
  • Special Collections
Maryland Reference Collection

Genealogy Research with Library Resources

11/19/2024

With the Thanksgiving holiday break just around the corner, many of us will soon be spending time with our extended families. This is the perfect time to ask older relatives about their youth, and to talk about family stories: immigration stories, stories about hard times, birth and love stories, and ‘legends’ that have been passed down about family origins.

  • Ancestry
  • Databases
  • Family Research
  • Genealogy
  • Maryland Reference Collection
A Laugh A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

A Laugh A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

11/08/2024

Irvin S. Cobb’s ‘A Laugh A Day Keeps the Doctor Away’ was a great entertainment spectacle of the early 20th century. What makes the text uniquely sought after is that it was curated from a list of the humorous author’s favorite stories, with no intention other than to bring its reader joy.

  • Irvin S. Cobb. Humor
  • Rare Book Collection
  • Special Collections
Cater, Conable, and Bolling

Beyond the Presidential Horse Race

11/05/2024

This event billed as a “good old-fashioned debate” between Barber B. Conable, Jr., the Republican Representative from New York from 1965-1985, and Richard W. Bolling, the Democrat Representative from Missouri from 1949-1983, occurred on October 27, 1984, on the eve of the Regan/Mondale presidential election.

  • Audiovisual
  • Elections
  • Politics
  • Archives
Goldstein campaign pin

Election Fun: Campaign Buttons

11/01/2024

One of the more enjoyable parts of politics is campaign ephemera.

  • Campaign Ephemera
  • Elections
  • Louis Goldstein
  • Pins
  • Archives
Ghosts of Kent County Maryland

Local Haunts: Chester Cemetery

10/29/2024

Welcome to Halloween week, the time of year when we celebrate all things spooky and mysterious. In a town as old and full of history as Chestertown, whether or not you believe in ghosts, you can be sure that invisible memories are lurking around every corner. Is time linear, or is it happening all at once? In indoor and outdoor spaces, what exactly separates events in 2024 from events in the same space two or three hundred years ago?

  • Chester Cemetery
  • Ghosts
  • Halloween
  • Haunted
  • Maryland Collection