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CHESTERTOWN, MD—Town/gown relations will take center stage on Thursday, November 18 when geographer Blake Gumprecht, author of the widely-praised 2008 book The American College Town, comes to Chestertown to highlight a wide-ranging panel discussion about college towns and the people – young and not so young – who live in them. “The College Town: A Conversation” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Norman James Theatre on the Washington College campus, 300 Washington Avenue. View photos from the event. Comprised of both townsfolk and gownsfolk, the panel – which includes Gumprecht, three Chestertown residents and a city planner from Newark, DE – will explore some of the enduring questions about college towns. Is every community with an institution of higher learning a Read more

CHESTERTOWN—The Kohl Gallery exhibition “Marc Castelli: The Art of the Waterman, The Simison Collection,” originally set to close at the end of Downrigging Weekend, will remain open for the next two weekends, November 5-7 and 12-14. The exhibition features more than 20 paintings of working watermen and their boats by beloved Chesapeake Bay artist Marc Castelli. Seventeen of the paintings are on loan from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michael’s, which received them as a bequest of Tilghman Island collector Diane Simison. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Maritime Museum and the Center for Environment & Society at Washington College. The Kohl Gallery is located in the Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts on the Washington College campus, 300 Washington Read more