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Have your celebration reception  at beautiful Historic London Town and Gardens.  Many prime summer dates available including May 1 and May 8, 2010.

Check out our website www.historiclondontown.org

Phone Patsy 410 - 222- 1919 or email events@historiclondontown.org

The storm over the last weekend dropped nearly 20 inches of snow at London Town.  While the white blanket is beautiful, it has made navigating the site slippery and dangerous.  Due to the icy conditions Historic London Town and Gardens will be closed until December 29th.  Thank you for your interest and Happy Holidays!

London Town is a little more festive this year thanks to Mrs. Wentz and her fourth grade class at Bayside Elementary in Stevensville, MD who reconstructed London Town using gingerbread.  With the assistance of  David Perry the class made the gingerbread, baked it in the school ovens, measured and cut all pieces to scale, and with the assistance of parents constructed the William Brown House, the Carpenter Shop, the Rumney-West Ordinary, and the Lord Mayor's Tenement.

This project came about after the fourth grade's annual field trip to Historic London Town and Gardens.  Each year they select a site to reconstruct in gingerbread, this year it was London Town!  The students donated their work to us, and is on display in the Pavilion.  London Town volunteers marveled at the kids work at our Annual Holiday Party.  In fact, Frank Marzucco, director of Anne Arundel County Recreation and Parks was so impressed with their work that he decided to feature the gingerbread town on the county's website www.aacounty.org/recparks . 

A special thank you to all the students, Mrs. Wentz, and Mr. Perry for all of their hard work and creativity! 

Students working on the Lord Mayors Tenement

Students working on the Rumeny-West Ordinary

Students working on the Carpenter Shop

Students working on the William Brown House

The finished town on display

 

The William Brown House is decorated for the Holidays with the preparations for a holiday party. Entertainment will include dancing in the tavern room, cards and games in the River Room, supper and desserts, and plenty of drinks. One guest will not be joining in the fun, however. Poor Mr. Black is laid low with an ague (perhaps the flu) and has taken to his bed. The doctor will soon come and bleed him if the other medicines he had left have had no effect.

Visitors to our Native American Cooking demonstration today (Friday, November 27, 2009) avoided the shopping malls while learning about the various foodways the English colonists adopted from the local Woodland Indians during the colonial period.  Young and old alike helped grind corn, cook (sweet) potatoes, roast chestnuts, and chop wood.

Three of our education docents, Elly, Carole, and Barbara, as well as two of our junior docents, Perry and Lexie, worked hard and gave our visitors many excellent hands-on opportunities.  Below are some pictures of our docents in action and the food prepared on-site.

Above: Visitors learning about Native American foodways.

Below: Corn, dried apples and pumpkins, and other good food.

 

On Saturday and Sunday, October 31 and November 1, we had our annual Market and Trades Weekend.  Though the weather didn't really cooperate, all who were involved (volunteers, staff, re-enactors, and visitors) thoroughly enjoyed the living history, cannon fire, bread baking, hearth cooking, and workshops offered throughout the weekend.  Our next large living history day is our Revolutionary London Town event on Sunday, July 11, 2010 from 12:00 - 4:00.

Below are some images from the weekend.

Above: Oldton's Company of Baltemore Rangers in our Lord Mayor's Tenement

Above: Caldwell's 2^nd Fife and Drum Corps

 

Above: Ship's Company and their cannon

 

And of course, the mud.

Last minute party. It's not too late, book your Holiday Event now.

Historic London Town and Gardens - the perfect place for your special occasion.

events@historiclondontown.org

 

Best kept event venue secret in town - Historic London Town and Gardens in Edgewater, minutes from Annapolis.

Book your next event here. The Glass Pavilion Building over looking the gardens and South River accommodates 85 seated guests. Rental fee includes tables, chairs, kitchen, decks, gardens and on site parking. You should plan now for your office party, luncheon, meeting, anniversary/birthday party or even a winter wedding. Contact Patsy 410 - 222 - 1919 x203 or events@historiclondontown.org

Check out our website www.historiclondontown.org

Every fall we make a trip to a NJ specialty nursery in search of new magnolia cultivars  to offer at our fall plant sale.  This year we brought home fifteen varieties  including the native cultivars, M. virginiana 'Plena' and M. acuminata 'Skyland's Best', as well as a number of yellow-flowered hybrid forms. 'Elizabeth', 'Sunsation', 'Butterbowl' and 'Hattie Carthan' are some of the lovely cultivars that get their yellow "genes" from a Magnolia acuminata parent.  Magnoliaphiles will want to come early to the plant sale on Saturday, September 12, 2009 , to get the best selection as quantities are limited.  We hope to see you then!

School is about to begin in just a few short weeks.  We are booking field trips for the Fall and Spring seasons.  We are doing our best to accommodate each individual school and teacher's schedule and objectives.  Please call soon to book your field trip! 

All of our programs are hands-on, allowing kids to experience Maryland's colonial history, participate at one of Maryland's largest on-going archaeological excavations, learn about colonial foodways, explore the interdependence of plants and animals in our 8-acre Woodland Garden, and learn how we know what we know about the African Americans who lived and built London Town.