Annual Luncheon Meeting
SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 28, 2021
DEADLINE 10/20/21 for tickets |

All proceeds from this event support the Beach to Bay Heritage Area.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Kate Clifford Larson. We are honored and excited to present Dr. Kate Clifford Larson as the 2021 Keynote Speaker. Dr. Larson is a New York Times bestselling author of three critically acclaimed biographies: Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2004); Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (2015); and The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (2008).
She has consulted on film scripts (most recently the Harriet movie starring Cynthia Erivo), documentaries, museum exhibits, animation and augmented reality productions, numerous publications, and public history initiatives, including Maryland’s Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State and National Historical Park, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and All-American Road on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York.
Dr. Larson is frequently interviewed by local, national and international radio programs and media outlets and has appeared on national and international television broadcasts including BBC, PBS, and C-Span, cable networks, and CBS Sunday Morning. She is currently writing a biography of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer entitled Walk With Me, due out from Oxford University Press in 2021.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Kate Clifford Larson. We are honored and excited to present Dr. Kate Clifford Larson as the 2021 Keynote Speaker. Dr. Larson is a New York Times bestselling author of three critically acclaimed biographies: Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2004); Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (2015); and The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln (2008).
She has consulted on film scripts (most recently the Harriet movie starring Cynthia Erivo), documentaries, museum exhibits, animation and augmented reality productions, numerous publications, and public history initiatives, including Maryland’s Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State and National Historical Park, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway and All-American Road on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York.
Dr. Larson is frequently interviewed by local, national and international radio programs and media outlets and has appeared on national and international television broadcasts including BBC, PBS, and C-Span, cable networks, and CBS Sunday Morning. She is currently writing a biography of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer entitled Walk With Me, due out from Oxford University Press in 2021.
LOCATION:
We are hosting this celebration in an exciting new venue: University of Maryland Eastern Shore's Henson Center.
Directions once you get to the campus:
Upon coming on to campus, you will make a right on to backbone road, and then make a left into the first parking lot, beyond the Student Service Center. Continue to your right and come down into the second parking lot, the Richard A. Henson Center will be ahead of you.
Directions once you get to the campus:
Upon coming on to campus, you will make a right on to backbone road, and then make a left into the first parking lot, beyond the Student Service Center. Continue to your right and come down into the second parking lot, the Richard A. Henson Center will be ahead of you.