Easton, MD – The riveting, award-winning documentary, Moving Stories, screens Saturday, May 11 at 3 p.m. at the Talbot County Free Library, 100 W. Dover St., Easton, MD.  Moving Stories follows Battery Dance’s troupe in India, Romania, Korea, and Iraq as the professional dancers teach tools of choreography to at-risk youth through the Dancing to Connect program. The film captures the […]

May 4th, 1979.  Little did owner Linda Laramy think that Crackerjacks Toys and Children’s Books would still be around 40 years later.  As she says, “It seemed like a good idea at the time”.  Yes indeed, and so it began.  Forty years brings changes to all of us. Two of Laramy’s children grew up in […]

Easton’s First Friday in May event features a Spring Group Show at Troika Gallery. A reception with hor ‘d oeuvres and libations on May 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. will accompany the new masterpieces by the gallery artists. Proudly presenting the art of Jorge Alberto, Kenn Backhaus, John Ebersberger, Carolyn Egeli, Deborah Elville, Laura […]

Easton, Maryland is a finalist for USA Today’s “Best Small Town Cultural Scene.” Each small town chosen has a population of fewer than 30,000 people. Easton may be a small town, but it packs a “big cultural punch.” The Talbot Historical Society Museum, Academy Art Museum, and Avalon Theatre are mentioned as ambassadors of the […]

Over twenty-five vendors will feature a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, baked goods, flowers, dog treats, seafood (including oysters) kombucha, nursery plants and craft items at the opening of the historic Easton Farmers’ Market on Saturday, April 13th, from 8am to 1pm. The Avalon Foundation sponsors the successful Farmers’ Market. “The Easton Farmers Market is […]

Audiences today generally know the career of Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) in three periods: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and “early Berkeley” periods of Abstract Expressionism; the Berkeley figurative/representational period; and lastly the famous Ocean Park and Healdsburg series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorn’s earliest work remains very little known. The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942–1955, will be […]