Shore Things | March 2010
Lunch and Learn
Three media gurus to speak at St. Martin’s Ministries’ Authors’ Luncheon
Former CBS News chief Washington correspondent Roger Mudd, prolific
regional commercial photographer Roger Miller, and Time magazine’s
assistant managing editor Michael Duffy are the presenters at the 13th
Annual Authors’ Luncheon to benefit St. Martin’s Ministries on Saturday,
March 6, at the Chesapeake Bay Beach Club in Stevensville. Beginning at 10
a.m., the event includes a reception, silent auction, and book signings prior to
the 12 p.m. luncheon and authors’ presentations. Tickets cost $80. Visit
Stmartinsministries.org for more information or to request a mail-in RSVP
card.
The Cutting Edge
Talbot Figure Skating Team hosts yearly free exhibition
Figure skaters from across the Mid-Shore
region exhibit their talents at the Talbot
County Community Center on Friday,
March 5, from 5:30–7 p.m. Displays
include individual skaters as well as the
2009–2010 Synchronized Skating Team,
which is composed of 20 juvenile
skaters. For more information, visit
Talbotfigureskatingteam.org.
Get Out and Dine
Twenty restaurants participate in inaugural Talbot County Restaurant Week
Offering two-course lunches for $20.10 and
three-course dinners for $30.10 at some of
Talbot County’s finest restaurants from
March 21–28, the Talbot County
Department of Tourism has created its first
Restaurant Week in the image of successful
promotions in larger cities. For more
information on participating restaurants
and additional events during the week, see
“
What’s the Buzz?”.
A Fortunate Event
Author of popular A Series of Unfortunate Events speaks at Washington College
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, whose popular children’s book series has sold over 53 million copies and launched a film adaptation starring Jim Carrey, speaks at Washington College on Friday, March 26, from 4–5 p.m. Also author of the acclaimed literary novel The Basic Eight and a series of short stories titled Adverbs, Handler is speaking at the college as part of its prestigious Sophie Kerr Lecture Series.
Clay Mates
National Geographic Museum brings China’s Terra Cota Warriors to D.C.
For 2,000 years the Terra Cotta Warriors guarded China’s first
emperor, buried deep below ground. Their discovery in
1974 is regarded as one of the greatest archaeological
finds of the 20th century. And now you can see them
eye to eye at the National Geographic Museum in
Washington, D.C. through March 31st. A special
collection of the life-sized clay figures is on loan from
the tomb complex outside the city of Xi’an. Visit
Nationalgeographic.com/terracottawarriors or call
202-857-7588 to plan your visit.
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