Some news cycles are lighter than others, and that was just as true 250 years ago as it is today. Of course, some 21st-century media work...

I’ve written before (see my November 5, 2020, November 26, 2020, and January 14, 2021 blog entries) about Governor Robert Eden’s...

Two months had passed since a group of Baltimore merchants called for a meeting in Annapolis to consider whether Maryland should continue...

Maryland’s last proprietary governor, Robert Eden, was nothing if not predictable. Early in his administration, he established a pattern...

Following her husband Samuel’s death in August 1770, Anne Middleton assumed control of the family’s Annapolis tavern and ferrying...

By the autumn of 1770, serious cracks were appearing in the American colonies’ united front against unpopular British policies. More than...

Last month, I wrote about actress Nancy Hallam, who caught the eye of an Annapolis gentleman (most likely Rev. Jonathan Boucher, rector...

It is for a gentleman to whom I have done (as the Saying is) Ninety-nine good Turns..." I sometimes come across a notice in the Maryland...

In September 1770, more than a year into a partial economic shutdown, many Annapolitans were weary but still committed to seeing it...

The anonymous gentleman was smitten. He had just attended the American Company’s performance of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, King of Britain,...

These days, most news stories about public statues consider them as objects of destructive rather than constructive acts, but 250 years...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at the dispute between Annapolis merchants Williams and Company and the local Committee of...

In today’s technologically advanced and politically divided world, virtual skirmishes, battles, and full-blown wars play out in real time...

When the local Committee of Inspection published a harsh report against Williams and Company in the July 26, 1770 Maryland Gazette, the...

My June 11th blog introduced merchant Thomas Williams and his partners as new players to watch in the real-life drama of Annapolis 250...

My Fourth of July was a bit out of the ordinary this year. I’m usually at the William Paca House and Garden shortly after 6 am on...

No one knew it at the time, but on July 5, 1770, America was one day less than six years away from declaring independence. Looking back...

Earlier this month, I wrote about the June 1770 arrival in Annapolis of a ship from Rhode Island, where some residents had reportedly...

In last week’s episode of “Annapolis 250 Years Ago,” a ship had just arrived from Rhode Island, where it was reported “that the...

As Thomas Jefferson sings at one point in the musical Hamilton, “Can we get back to politics?” When we last looked at the British...