Historic London Town & Gardens

Living History Weekend: Celtic Weekend

Saturday - Sunday, August 10 - 11, 2019

10am - 4:30pm

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Celebrate our Celtic heritage all weekend! London Town had a significant Scottish population during the colonial period. Even William Brown (who built London Town's William Brown House, c.1760) is believed to be an immigrant from Scotland. 

 

Enjoy live music with Tweedsyde (Sunday) and the Devil’s Tailors (Saturday).

 

Check out black powder demonstrations, hearth cooking with the Appin Regiment, and woodworking with Seneca Creek Joinery. 

 

The Robert Burns Society of Annapolis wearing kilts and sashes, showing examples of tartan, and doing a poetry reading by Burns. 

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Appin Regiment and The Scottish-Gaelic School of Baltimore will performing a waulking demonstration. The Scottish-Gaelic School of Baltimore will give an introduction to Scottish Gaelic in their Language Village.

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Saturday

All Day: Tartan Display, Hearth Cooking, Wood Working, and Free Costume Rentals for Kids!

11:00 am- Garden Tour

11:00 am- Gaelic Song Demonstration 

12:00 pm- The Devil's Tailors Concert

1:30 pm- Musket Demonstration

2:00 pm- Poetry Reading by the Robert Burns Society of Annapolis

2:30 pm- Introduction to Gaelic Language

3:00 pm- Waulking Demonstration

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Sunday

All Day: Tartan Display, Hearth Cooking, Wood Working, and Free Costume Rentals for Kids!

10:00 am- Tweedsyde Concert

12:30 pm- Garden Tour

12:30 pm- Introduction to the Gaelic Language

1:30 pm- Gaelic Song Demonstration

2:00 pm- Poetry Reading by Robert Burns Society of Annapolis

2:30 pm- Gaelic Poetry Demonstration

3:00 pm- Musket Demonstration

3:00 pm- Waulking Demonstration

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Living history weekend included with general admission (AAA discount available)

Free for members and Active Military through the Blue Star Museums program

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