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Karen Hartman play is adapted from Euripides’ ‘Trojan Women’CHESTERTOWN – The Washington College Department of Drama will present “Troy Women,” Karen Hartman’s modern adaptation of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women,” at the Tawes Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 19-21, at 8 p.m.A b...

Deadline for Nominations December 2, 2009CHESTERTOWN, MD, NOV...

CHESTERTOWN – Award-winning poet Leslie Harrison will present a reading at Washington College’s Rose O’Neill Literary House on Thursday, November 19, at 4:30 p.m.Harrison’s "Displacement" was the 2008 Katherine Nason Bakeless winner in poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The work...

CHESTERTOWN – Sean Meehan, Assistant Professor of English at Washington College, will present “‘This is a Fragment of Me’: Emerson and the Poetics of Metonymy” at the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Tuesday, November 17, at 4 p.m.Dr. Meehan beg...

CHESTERTOWN – Harris Whitbeck, a member of Washington College’s Class of 1987 and now the host of a popular TV program, will give a presentation on his show, “The Amazing Race on the Discovery Channel: Latin America,” at Washington College’s Litrenta Lecture Hall on Thursday, November 12, at 7:30 p...

CHESTERTOWN – Award-winning novelist Debra Spark will read from her fiction at Washington College’s Sophie Kerr Room on Thursday, November 12, at 4:30 p.m.Spark is the author of the novels Coconuts for the Saint and The Ghost of Bridgetown and editor of the anthology Twenty Under Thirty: Best Sto...

Chestertown – Bruce Cole, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and current president and CEO of the American Revolution Center, gave a presentation at Washington College’s Casey Academic Center Forum on Monday, November 9, at 5 p.m. I...

WC's own John Conkling is one of four professors profiled in the cover story of this week's Washington Post Magazine. You can read the article at this link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102302137.htmlCongratulations, Dr. Conkling!

WC's Bryan Matthews has a great op-ed piece, "Retention Matters," published in "Inside Higher Ed." You can read it at this link:http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/11/02/matthewsCongratulations, Dr. Matthews!

Chestertown – Award-winning poet Taije Silverman will present a reading at Washington College’s Rose O’Neill Literary House on Wednesday, November 11, at 4:30 p.m. Tai...

Chestertown – The Center for Environment & Society (CES) at Washington College and the Town of Chestertown are pleased to announce that the Town has received a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust in order to begin implementation of the Town’s Community Forest Master Plan. T...

Chestertown – Martha Hanna, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will present “Husbands and Wives, Fathers and Children: Family Life and Military Service in France during World War I” at Washington College’s Litrenta Lecture Hall on Wednesday, November 11, at 5:30 p....

Chestertown – The exciting drum and song traditions of a vibrant musical culture will come alive on campus when the Washington College Afro-Cuban Ensemble performs in Hotchkiss Recital Hall on Wednesday, November 11, at 9 p.m. ...