Congratulations Class of 2023!
05/19/2023
Congratulations! You did it!
- Class of 1973
- Class of 2023
- Commencement
- Archives
Washington's Dispatches
William J. Wallace, class of 1918, returned to deliver the commencement speech in 1948
05/16/2023
One night in January 1916 a young William Wallace looked out his dorm window to see William Smith Hall on fire and raised the alarm. Wallace was born in Church Hill, and after he graduated in 1918, he joined the United States Marine Corps.
- Alumni
- Commencement
- William J. Wallace
- Archives
Chestertown’s Revolutionary Tea Party
05/12/2023
Once the degrees have been handed out most Washington College students return home to enjoy their summer before returning to school or embarking on their next adventure. But for those who stay in Chestertown, there is an event filled with history and fun for them to experience.
- Chestertown Tea Party Festival
- The American Revolution
- Archives
Mrs. Kitching’s Crab Salad and Pickled Watermelon Rind
05/09/2023
In the southeast corner of the state of Maryland, 10 miles off the coast of Crisfield and straddling the Maryland/Virginia line, lies Smith Island, the last inhabited island in Maryland not accessible by bridge.
- Crab
- Life on the Eastern Shore
- Smith Island
- Archives
19th Century Dictionary Wars
05/02/2023
Dictionaries. Clifton Miller library has hundreds of them. There are dictionaries on law, costumes, and statistics. However, in the mid 19th century, the struggle was to become THE dictionary of the English language.
- Criticism
- Dictionaries
- Lexicons
- Archives
“Hey Hey, it’s the First of May…….”
04/28/2023
…. So begins a rhyme my mother remembered from her college days in the mid-1950s. “…outdoor (fill in the blank) is now okay!”
- May Day
- Washington College Traditions
- Archives
1788 Dedication of Washington College
04/25/2023
Washington College was established in 1782 but it took six years for a building to be constructed specifically for the college. Rakestraw and Hicks of Philadelphia created the plans for a four-story building with two wings, which would cost $28,000 to build.
- Commencement
- Dedication
- Original College Building
- Archives
Colonial Recipes
04/18/2023
From the outside, Washington College’s copy of “Colonial recipes from old Virginia and Maryland Manors” by Maude A. Bomberger is not much to look at. Sure, the font on the spine and cover is kind of neat, there’s a cute drawing of a country estate on the front, and the cloth is a nice shade of blue. But the wear and tear on the spine are evident, the binding is clearly loose, and who wants to eat like an American colonist, anyway?
- Archives
- Rare Books
- Recipes
A Middle Dutch Psalter
04/11/2023
A small oddity found in the rare book room at Miller Library has left us with a little mystery; It is a small book measuring only five inches by three and a half inches but with over four hundred hand-written pages.
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Medieval
- Netherlands
- Psalters
- Archives
Every Bookplate a Mystery - Eugene Field
04/04/2023
Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.
- Rare Books
- Bookplates