MARYLAND DAY WEEKEND: Friday, March 18 through Sunday, March 20, 2016
Maryland Day” is a collaborative event sponsored by Four Rivers: The Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town & South County. Whether you like historic sites, cultural activities, natural resources and conservation, or all of the above, Four Rivers Heritage Area has it all. Not to mention world-class dining and shopping! There is something for every member of the family to enjoy during this annual celebration of all things “Maryland.” For more details, click on www.marylandday.org
The U. S. Naval Academy Visitor Center is offering a $1.00 per person fee for Guided Walking Tours on Maryland Day Weekend. Print this coupon or show it to us on your smart phone to receive this special ticket price.
The US Naval Academy Visitor Center is offering a $1.00 per person fee for Guided Walking Tours on Maryland Day Weekend. The special rate is available on Friday, March 18 and Sunday, March 20, 2015. Print this coupon or show it to us on your smart phone to receive this special ticket price.
On Saturday, March 21, from noon to 3:00pm, the Visitor Center will have free children’s activities: Knot tying, tattoo painting, linoleum rubbing and the making of paper Admiral and sailor hats.
Please ask an Information Specialist for a free booklet on John Paul Jones, the Revolutionary War naval hero buried at the Academy. You will visit his crypt and see his sarcophagus on the Guided Walking Tour.
Maryland Day commemorates the formal founding of the colony of Maryland, when the newly-arrived colonists erected a cross on St. Clement’s Island, offered prayers and took “possession of this Countrey for our Saviour and for our soveraigne Lord the King of England.” According to one of the three versions of Father Andrew White’s account of the voyage of the Ark and the Dove, this event took place on 25 March 1634 at the colonists’ first landfall in Maryland. This became the site of St. Mary’s City, the colony’s first settlement. Marylanders began observing Maryland Day in 1903, when the State Board of Education designated it as a day to be devoted to the study of Maryland history. In 1916, the General Assembly authorized the celebration of Maryland Day as a legal state holiday.
