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CBC Chesapeake Maritime Museum Winter Lecture Series

When:
Thursday, January 23, 2020, 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Where:
Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park
723 Second Street
PO Box 3088
Annapolis, MD 2140
Lecture Website
723 Second Street
Annapolis, MD  21403

410-295-0104
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
Sue Bartlett
Category:
Dinner
Registration is required
Payment In Full At Event Only
Attendees pay for their own charges

We will meet at Boatyard Grill (Eastport) at 5 pm - separate checks.
The lecture is at the Chesapeake Maritime Museum in Eastport at 7
($10 pp at the door).

“The Happiest of All Showboat Stories”: The James Adams Floating Theatre

  • History of Showboats in the United States
  • A focus on The James Adams Floating Theater – origins, operations, eventual demise
  • How author Edna Ferber’s visit to the Adams Floating Theater became the novel, musical and movie “Showboat”

Presenter: Dr. Patricia Samford | Director of the Maryland

Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum

Dr. Patricia Samford is the Director of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum.  Prior to receiving her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was an archaeologist at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation for 13 years.  Samford is the author of Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia (2007) and is currently at work on a book about the archaeology of Baltimore.

Lectures are $10; FREE for AMM Members First Mate and above ($100). Pay at the door.