Homewood’s 2023 Architecture Lecture features features an illustrated lecture on the architecture of Homewood’s privy by professor Michael Olmert of the University of Maryland.
Border City, Border War: Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Baltimore
Commemorate the 159th anniversary of Maryland’s Emancipation Day (November 1, 1864) at Homewood with a talk by professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, College Park.
Mediums, Magicians, and the Ouija Board: A Spiritualist History of Baltimore
Learn about spirit mediums, the Spiritualist origins of the Ouija board, and Baltimore’s group of amateur magicians, the Demons Club from Enoch Pratt librarian Julie Saylor!
(Re)Valuing Black Baltimore Exhibition Opening & Talk with Christine Iko
Celebrate the opening of (Re)Valuing Black Baltimore at Homewood!
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in the Stacks
Celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio with a special performance by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company at Evergreen!
JHU Museums Festival of Dogs 2023
Enjoy a fun-filled afternoon of canine competition to benefit Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library!
A History of Hoes Heights
Join us for a discussion on the history of Hoes Heights, with special guests Joanne Kent and Eleanor Matthews, descendants of Grandison Hoe, the farmer and freedman who founded the neighborhood in the 1830’s.
Book Talk: Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore By Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D.
Lawrence Jackson, Ph.D., will read and discuss his 2022 memoir Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore, which is at once a nuanced biography of an American city and a lyrical memoir-in-essays.