The Heart of the Civil War

February 5

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine participates as one of about 80 shops, galleries and historic venues, celebrating our downtown historic district. The full museum is open, its usual hours from 11am-5pm at the usual admittance rates. From 5pm until 9pm the museum's first floor galleries are open to the public for free.

National Museum of Civil War Medicine
48 E Patrick Street
Frederick 21701

(301) 695-1864
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Friday, February 12

9am–2pm. Cost $35. Come join us to prepare via open hearth cooking a Civil War Valentine’s Day Dinner. A great “together day!” Step back in time to the warmth of the hearth, the aromas, then sit down to a delicious dinner that you helped prepare and take home a stash of recipes. You can try all these at home for that special someone. You will learn to cook over the open hearth using cast iron pots/dutch ovens for baking over the coals. The proper care and cleaning/seasoning of the cast iron pots will be included.

Carroll County Farm Museum
500 South Center St.
Westminster

(800) 654-4645
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February 12, 11am-Noon

Dr. Robert Slawson, MD, FACR opens the National Museum of Civil War Museums new lecture series, “Civil War Talk” on Saturday, February 12, 2011; with a lecture on “African American Surgeons in the Civil War”. Dr. Slawson is the author of “Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War”. The monthly lecture series feature distinguished speakers from 11am-Noon on the second Saturday of each month from February through September.

National Museum of Civil War Medicine
48 E. Patrick St.
Frederick 21701

(301) 695-1864
Website

February 16

Lecture by Dean Herrin, Ph.D. for Sharpsburg Historical Society, sponsored by the Hagerstown-Washington County Convention & Visitors Bureau. In 1849, Rev. James W. C. Pennington published an autobiography revealing his past as a fugitive slave on the Rockland Farm, located off the Sharpsburg Pike in Washington County. Against all odds, Pennington went from being a blacksmith to becoming an abolitionist, orator, writer, and one of the most distinguished African American leaders of his generation.

Sharpsburg Town Hall
106 East Main Street
Sharpsburg, MD

(301) 791-3246
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February 17

"The Wills House at Gettysburg" by Gary Miller. Lecture free, memberships available. 7:30-8:30pm

National Museum of Civil War Medicine
48 E Patrick Street
Frederick 21701

(301) 695-1864
Website

February 18, 19

The Frederick Historic Sites Consortium presents the twentieth annual Master Docent Series workshops on February 18 and 19 on the campus of Frederick Community College. This year's program opens on Friday night with Project Run-A-Way, a unique examination of the history of resistance to institutional bondage in America, and continues on Saturday with a variety of topics including an introduction to new area visitor centers and sessions related to the Civil War, local industrial history, and WWII-era spy training in Frederick County. While designed to meet the interests of local museum docents, the general public is invited to participate.

Jack B. Kussmaul Theater at Frederick Community College
7932 Opossumtown Pike
Frederick 21702

(301) 600-2888
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February 18, 7 p.m.

Take advantage of the opportunity to learn about servants, during a dynamic, interactive, multi-media theatrical production that will bring runaways to "life." As the characters, dressed just as the advertisements describe, enter the stage you will be swept up in dramatic and compelling stories of real people who ran away from slavery and servitude. Project Run-A-Way will enlighten and entertain audience members while dispelling myths about "typical runaways" and celebrating the progress and triumph of liberty in America. Free.

Jack B. Kussmaul Theater at Frederick Community College
7932 Opossumtown Pike
Frederick 21702

(301) 600-2888
Website