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Marietta House Museum and The Prince George's County Historical Society Lecture Series. Please join us for our Civil War Quilts lecture on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at 1pm. During the war, materials were hard to come by--what was the most popular material for quilts? How much family history was sewn into the quilts? Join us [...]
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Friends of Montpelier Lecture Saturday, April 8, 4–5:30 pm Historian John-Peter Thompson speaks on the history of herbals, from their beginning as collections of folk wisdom, to their influence on the medical sciences of today. FREE.
Find out moreThe Friends of Montpelier’s Spring history lecture features John Peter Thompson, Chair of the Prince George’s County Historic Preservation Commission, who will speak on the history of herbals, from their start as a collection of folk wisdom to the basis of many of the medical and pharmaceutical sciences of today. He will also speak on the [...]
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