Save the date — we’ll be joined by representatives of the Chesapeake Heartland Project at our Club meeting on the evening of March 17. The project’s website (https://chesapeakeheartland.org/about-chesapeake-heartland) includes the following, and much more:
Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project is an innovative new collaboration between Washington College, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and a broad array of community partners in Kent County, a rural area on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The project’s name derives from the Chesapeake region’s identity as the heartland of African American history and culture since the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown in 1619. Kent County, where Washington College is located, is in many ways a microcosm of that history, with its own rich and diverse African American heritage dating back nearly four centuries. Through the Chesapeake Heartland Project, Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and its local partners – including the public schools, religious communities, and other nonprofits – will preserve, share, curate, and interpret a broad array of material that documents the many facets of Kent County’s African American history and culture.