Thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the Sin and A Secret series since April. Unfortunately, this is our last story and recipe for the series. We are grateful to all of you who have followed along. Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. Mother and Child, Jacques Francois Amand, 18th

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. In 1755, William Logan was one of two King’s officers given control of the Ruby for a whole month. The ship had just finished a voyage and was tied off in East London, England. In control of the ship, Logan took advantage to sell its muskets and

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. In honor of Mehitable's many business talents, here are a selections of women from Marcellus Laroon’s "Cries Of London," 1687. See more of them here. Mehitable (Holland) Pierpoint; neé Larkin Mehitable was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland c

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. In April of 1756, a man named Edward Marriott used a hooked stick to smash the kitchen window of John Reed on Arundel Street in the Strand, a crowded sailor’s neighborhood in London. Marriott was spotted by James Cooper. Cooper may have been a B

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. The Burning of the Peggy Stewart, Francis Blackwell Mayer, 1896, Courtesy of the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property Did you know that Annapolis had its own tea party, much like the famous one in Boston? Our story begins with two London Tow

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. The Addictive Pleasures of Sugar in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic This is the last week that we're switching up A Sin and A Secret to rebroadcast a lecture on sugar in the colonial period given by Dr. Steve Lenik, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Anthropol

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. Women and Taverns in Colonial Maryland We're again switching up this week's A Sin and A Secret to rebroadcast a lecture on women and tavern culture given by Rod Cofield, Executive Director at Historic London Town and Gardens (You should also che

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. Something to Depend On: Tobacco Culture(s) of the 18th Century We're again switching up this week's A Sin and A Secret to rebroadcast a lecture on tobacco culture given by Paul Lovelace, Director of Agriculture at the Accokeek Foundation's Natio

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. Read more in the series here. Gaming the Law: Gambling Despite Laws Against It in Early America We're switching up this week's A Sin and A Secret to rebroadcast a lecture on gambling in colonial America by Dr. Kenneth Cohen, PhD, Curator of American Culture at the Smithsonia

A quick hit of a story about "Thirsty Martha" and an appropriately boozy drink: The Blenheim

We have some cautionary tales of about those who were besotted with liquor in the wintertime, to their detriment - paired with Rumrousal

Tonight we offer The Mysterious Hail Storm... and a drink by the same name!

A quick story about missing sheep from London Town and the perfectly paired cocktail, Lamb's Wool!

Today's story asks who was really the victim in a 1747 tavern fight between two women and gives a recipe for a cocktail with plenty of punch

In 1747, John Flack borrowed a horse and disappeared. His hands were tattooed and "under his right Breast he has... Adam and Eve..."

Making cherry bounce Normally we provide a story along with our colonial-inspired drink recipe, but for today’s #ASinAndASecret, we’re going to dive into the history of cherry bounce. Last July, the staff of Historic London Town and Gardens began making cherry bounce in our reconstructed colonial village. Cherry Bounce is a cordial with cherries (of course!), brandy, sugar, and spices. It was a popular drink during the colonial period. Look at all that sugar over those cherri

Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. A Midnight Modern Conversation, March, 1732, William Hogarth Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/401582 The Quarrelsome Tavern Keeper If you saw the last A Sin and A Secret post on the luckless Jacobites, you may remember William Grant, a Jacobite who was

Flip Welcome back to another "A Sin and A Secret." Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every week. William Grant was a remarkably unlucky man. He was a Scotsman who happened to get caught up in the Jacobite Uprising of 1715. The Uprising began after James Francis Edward Stuart attempted to take the British throne from the recently crowned King George I. Thousands sup

Mix yourself a drink based on a colonial recipe and then curl with a completely true, completely salacious story. Enjoy a new #ASinAndASecret post every other week. On September 15, 1747 in London, England, James Ward’s wife pointed out a young man, in a crowd outside his shop. “He is the Person we suspect that stole our first Glass from us.” Two weeks earlier, the man had stolen an expensive, gilt-framed mirror from Ward’s shop. Ward’s wife saw him “put the Glass under his C