Registration is now open for the Upper Eastern Shore Star-Spangled 200 Conference!
Ninth Maritime Heritage Conference
The 9th Maritime Heritage Conference will be in Baltimore on September 15-19, 2010. The call for papers is open until June 1st and the War of 1812 is one of the topics listed. To learn more or submit a proposal, visit the website.
Park Service launches quarterly Star-Spangled Banner Trail newsletter
The National Park Service is now publishing an e-newsletter with items and updates from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., related to the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail and the War of 1812 Bicentennial. This first issue (Winter 2010) is now available! Contact us if you want to be added to the mailing list!
Mixed Results for Museums in Federal Budget
See how the President's FY2011 budget will affect Federal grants.
MPT production to feature Maryland's SSB Trail
The Division of Tourism Film and the Arts is moving forward with Maryland Public Television (MPT) to produce a 60-minute travelogue on the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail in Maryland. Funded through a federal Scenic Byways grant, the production will highlight the events, people and places that made the Chesapeake Campaign such a pivotal part of the War of 1812. Today, the trail offers attractions that have national significance and locations where visitors can enjoy interpretation of the Star-Spangled Banner experience. MPT will also adapt this project as a prominent element on Thinkport – a resource-rich educational web site for teachers and families. Thinkport is the product of a partnership between MPT and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education.
Star-Spangled 200 Needs Your Help!
Learn how you can help with S. 653, the Star-Spangled Banner Commemorative Coin Act.
New water-trail plan to boost 1812 experience
A team of Maryland-based consultants – led by Environmental Resources Management in Annapolis – has received a contract from the Division of Tourism, Film and the Arts (TFA) to forge a plan that enhances the water portions of the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. The group will make recommendations for improving access, stewardship and interpretive opportunities along the trail – a route that spans the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries (the Anacostia, Patapsco, Patuxent, and Potomac rivers, among them).
A $100,000 federal grant awarded by the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network to TFA is a major source of funding for the project. The advisory group overseeing development of this plan includes: the National Park Service, the Maryland Departments of Natural Resources and Transportation, and TFA. The consultant team is made up of: Toole Design Group; Ayers Saint Gross; EDSA, Inc.; Frank Strategic Marketing; John Page Williams (Chesapeake Bay Foundation); and 1812 historian and author Ralph Eshelman.