Close out the museum season with warmth, food, and history during Hearth & Home, taking place November 28 and 29, 2025, at Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC). This year’s theme, Breaking Bread, celebrates the power of food to bring people together—across tables, cultures, and centuries. Visitors are invited to explore how Maryland’s earliest residents—Indigenous peoples and English colonists alike—prepared and shared meals in the 1600s. Throughout the museum’s living history sites, costumed interpreters will demonstrate traditional cooking methods over open hearths and fires, filling the air with the inviting aroma of wood smoke. Learn how people in the past baked, roasted, and preserved their food, and discover how communal meals strengthened families and communities. In the spirit of sharing, visitors who bring a nonperishable food item or personal care product to donate will receive $1 off admission. All donations will support a local food bank, providing assistance to community members affected by the ongoing furlough and potential loss of SNAP benefits. Suggested items include canned goods, pasta, peanut butter, toiletries, and hygiene products. Maryland Food Bank offers a detailed list of suggested items. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, $6 for youth (ages 6–18), and free for children […]
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