Culture and History
Photo Courtesy Mount Olivet Cemetery
Heritage Frederick
Myths, Magic, Monsters
In honor of Harry Potter’s Birthday, we are talking about the monsters and myths of Frederick. Hogwarts is coming to Frederick! To celebrate the Boy Who Lived, listen to the tales of the monsters and myths of Frederick, presented by local cryptologist Sarah Cooper of the American Snallygaster Museum and Manic Pixie Dream Ghouls Podcast.
Revolutionary Tea Party
Join us for a tea party in our garden! The culmination of the “Etiquette Series” is a garden tea party to celebrate the nation’s birthday (And show off the new “high society” table manners we’ve all learned). Join us for tea and crumpets while we remember the Boston Tea Party, our nation’s rebellion, and its formation after seven years of war. This event will be open to all, even those who did not attend the Etiquette Series.
Learn more here: Heritage Frederick
Walking tour in Downtown Frederick with National Civil War Medicine Museum
Every Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 PM from April until October, docents from the National Museum of Civil War Medicine will explain how Frederick became “One Vast Hospital,” arguably the most trying moment in the city’s history came after the Battle of Antietam in the fall of 1862. The town’s population doubled when 8,000 wounded soldiers were delivered by ambulance to make-shift hospitals throughout Frederick.
Learn more here: National Civil War Medicine Museum
History tours with Mount Olivet Cemetery
Discover Frederick’s Past as we navigate through the labyrinth of graves, crypts, and monuments of Historic Mount Olivet Cemetery – one of Maryland’s Largest and most Beautiful Cemeteries, and the final resting place of Francis Scott Key, Maryland’s first governor and Civil War heroine Barbara Fritchie. Tour also includes intriguing facts about the cemetery’s origin, tombstone design, grave robbing, mass graves, plus stops at other distinctive burial plots, including the Key Memorial Chapel.
Learn more here: Mount Olivet Cemetery
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