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On both Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1, the Historic Washington College Custom House will be open for free, multi-sensory audio tours from 2:00-5:00pm. One of the most eye-catching buildings on the Chestertown Waterfront, the ca. 1746 Custom House is home to a host of colorful stories about life in the 18th and 19th century Chesapeake Region. The Custom House is now home to Washington College’s CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Center for the Environment and Society and Public Archeology Laboratory.
Captains Forum - Interviews With the Ship Captains With Moderator Michael Buckley / Free Sunday, November 1 - 2:30-4:30pm
On Sunday afternoon November 1, Michael Buckley, program manager with the CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College and host of the popular radio show, "Voices of the Chesapeake Bay," will moderate an informal forum with several of visiting ship captains in town for Downrigging Weekend. The public is invited to attend, ask questions and learn a little more about what it’s like to command a tall ship in the 21st century. The forum will take place between 2:30pm and 4:30pm in the Washington College Custom House and will be recorded for the Voices of the Chesapeake Bay radio series to be broadcast the following Sunday between 7:00am and 10am on 103.1 WRNR-FMand on www.wrnr.com.
For more information about the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience visit www.starrcenter.washcoll.edu or call 410-810-7161.
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