Name: Larmore Fellow Lecture—”In Our Time but Not of It”: Race, Memory, & Profit on MD’s Eastern Shore
Start: 2025-04-12T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-12T12:30:00-04:00
Location: 610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21201

$Larmore Fellow Lecture\u2014\u201dIn Our Time but Not of It\u201d: Race, Memory, & Profit on MD\u2019s Eastern Shore$

People have been living and working along the Chesapeake Bay for thousands of years. Why does public memory of the Bay dwell on the lives of twentieth-century watermen, and obscure the many other people who have always depended on the water for their livelihoods? Drawing from the H. Furlong Baldwin Library’s rich collections, Seth Bruggeman, PhD, 2024–2025 Larmore Fellow, explores how collective memory of the Bay was largely built by postwar powerful players and their visions of conservation, tourism, and real estate development. Registration is required. Light reception to follow.
Support for this event is generously provided by the Larmore Fellowship.
Register at https://shorturl.at/iJoAR

Image: Oyster Tonging, photograph by the Hughes Company, ca. 1920. Maryland Center for History and Culture, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Hughes Photograph Collection, PP8.547