JASNA MD

December Birthday Meeting
2023-12-16 11:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Kelsey’s Restaurant, 8480 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City, MD, 21043, United States
Serendipity in Jane Austen’s Fiction
Presented by Maria Frawley, Professor and Chair, English Department The George Washington University.
Kelsey’s Restaurant, Ellicott City

Price: $45 for members and $50 for non-members
Deadline to register is Dec 8th 9:00pm
Doors open at 11:45am
Come prepared for our Merchandise Table (credit, cash & check), Silent Auction & Cash Raffle*
Bring an item for the Raffle Table and get 5 tickets

Registration button will not work after December 8th deadline.
If you would like to help cover bank processing charges by adding $2.50, please choose the + donation option from the drop drown box.
*Raffle will support a JASNA MD Book Box grant. Silent Auction will support the 2025 AGM.

AGM Recap Maryland & DC Joint meeting
2023-11-19 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Did you attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Denver or attend virtually? Share stories, thoughts and highlights.
Not able to attend the AGM? Learn what it was about and take notes on speakers and topics you want to hear in the future.
Register for the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocOirrjopHdBhql3N3ZJeZhx6DoYMu0Ln

Annual General Meeting (AGM), Denver
2023-11-03 - 2023-11-05 | MD
Pride & Prejudice: A rocky Romance
Presented by Denver/Boulder Region
November 3–5, 2023
Visit the AGM website for more information: https://jasna.org/agms/denver2023/home.php

Confidence Men: Transmitted Dialogues between Men - Virtual Meeting
2023-08-13 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Jane Austen rarely represented dialogues between men when no woman is present, opting instead to have male characters report such interaction. This presentation considers how the novels construct grounds for belief in such transmissions of male conversation, situating credibility in alignment with character and context. After discussing recounted dialogue in Emma, Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice, this talk turns to the one sustained unmediated exchange between men — a pair of letters in Lady Susan — to come to speculative conclusions about Austen’s choice not to represent private masculine dialogues.
Presented by Tara Ghoshal Wallace, Emerita Professor of English at George Washington University
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July Virtual Meeting
2023-07-16 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Commemorate Jane Austen by testing your knowledge in our Trivia Game. No prizes but bragging rights galore! Register for the Zoom link:
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Box Hill Picnic
2023-06-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Manor Mill, 2029 Monkton Road, Monkton, MD, 21111, United States
There will be a JASNA MD picnic prior to Jane Austen Day at Manor Mill. We are working in partnership with Manor Mill in Monkton, MD on this event.
BYOP – Bring your own picnic (doesn’t have to be period appropriate – bring your favorite picnic food)
11:00am-12:00pm
All JASNA Members and their guests are welcome to attend. So we can have name tags and know how many people to expect, please fill out the RSVP form below.
There is no cost for the picnic but please visit the event page for Jane Austen Day at Manor Mill for details and pricing for that part of the day.
Regency Dress is encouraged but not required.
6/12/2023 RSVP form is closed. If you still wish to attend, email rc@jasnamd.org.
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Jane Austen and the Theatre
2023-04-16 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Presented by Deborah C. Payne, American University
As 15 years of scholarship has chronicled, Jane Austen very much liked the theatre. Letters to her sister, Cassandra, reveal trips to London playhouses and occasional outings in Bath. Austen’s enjoyment, however, was perhaps more that of an eager fan hoping to glimpse her favorite star than a novelist looking to imbibe literary inspiration. She was keen to see Kean (Edmund, that is) but was not especially interested in his role as Shylock or in The Merchant of Venice. In that regard, Austen was a product of her time. Regency Theatre was very much an “actor’s theatre,” and plays were tailored for the stars everyone hankered to see. This talk thus pushes (gently) against the notion that highbrow dramatic literature influenced Austen’s writing; rather, it reconstructs the many delights of the Regency stage to suggest that she was more captivated by celebrity and spectacle than Shakespeare.
Deborah C. Payne is a professor in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C., who specializes in the history of performance and the theatre. In addition to providing dramaturgical expertise to theatre companies in Washington, Professor Payne has published extensively on topics ranging from Restoration actresses, Shakespeare authorship, Samuel Pepys, and Jane Austen’s theatrical spectatorship. Among her publications are The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge University Press); Four Libertine Plays from the Restoration (Oxford University Press); and Revisiting Shakespeare’s Lost Play: Cardenio/Double Falsehood in the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan). Professor Payne has forthcoming two books: The Business of Restoration Theatre, 1660 – 1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and The Shakespeare Theatre Company, 1986 – 2021 (Bloomsbury, 2024), which she is co-authoring with Drew Lichtenburg, Literary Manager for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Her next project will attempt to reconstruct English acting styles across the seventeenth century, looking especially at the demise of the old “Blackfriars” style by the 1690s.
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Jane Austen & Gardens
2023-02-26 14:30 - 16:30 | MD
Jane Austen’s love of gardening is apparent in several of her novels. The English love their gardens and, luckily, exported that love to America. We will discuss Austen’s garden, the plants that she grew and those she wrote about, as well as some of her influences. How can we re-create the Austen gardens grown from 1800 to 1820? Where are there gardens here in Maryland and the mid-Atlantic area that will inspire us to grow some of Austen’s favorite plants? And, where can we find the plants, start the seeds and re-create some of the magic in our home gardens?
Carrie Engel, Greenhouse Manager
Carrie began working at Valley View Farms in 1972, and is well known in our area. Carrie appears weekly with meteorologists Tony Pann and Ava Marie on the WBAL TV’s Sunday Gardener. She enjoys writing, speaking about gardening, photography, the Orioles, and spending time with her extended family. Carrie also enjoys traveling, especially road trips, where she looks for what is new in plants and gardening everywhere she goes.
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December Birthday meeting
2022-12-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey’s Restaurant, 8480 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City, MD, 21043, United States
Shopping with Jane Austen in Fact and Fiction
Presented by Dr. Ann Wass
Jane Austen’s letters and novels contain numerous references to shopping for textiles,
clothing, and accessories from 1798 to 1815. Dr. Ann Wass supplements Austen’s references with contemporary newspaper advertisements, fashion illustrations, and other period sources to present a timeline of fashion for this period.
Kelsey’s Restaurant, Ellicott City

Price: $40 for members and $50 for non-members
Deadline to register is Dec 13th 9:00pm
Doors open at 11:30am
Come prepared for our Merchandise Table (credit, cash & check) & Cash Raffle
Bring an item for the Raffle Table and get 5 tickets

Registration button will not work after December 13th deadline

A Day at Goucher College
2022-10-29 10:00 - 15:00 | Goucher College Athenaeum, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, 21204, United States
We are partnering with Goucher College for a special in person event
Registration info is at the bottom of the page.
Regency dress is encouraged!
Batza Room,* Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, MD 21204-2794
10:00 am-11:00 am
“Sense and Sensibility As You’ve Never Seen It Before”
Juliette Wells and Grace Fischbach
Juliette Wells and Grace Fischbach will reprise their extensively illustrated Special Interest Session from the 2022 JASNA AGM in Victoria. Juliette Wells will begin with an overview of the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher. Goucher is the home of JASNA’s archives and the only repository anywhere to hold first, rare, and illustrated editions of Austen’s novels, translations of Austen’s novels into dozens of languages, adaptations, and period publications on landscape, architecture, and fashion, as well as 20th-century ephemera relating to Austen. Next, Grace Fischbach will share discoveries from her semester-long exploration of Sense and Sensibility in the Austen Collection, including a gallery of cover images illuminating how artists around the world have depicted the Dashwood sisters.
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Sense and Sensibility In Person, Plus New Acquisitions
Tour Goucher College’s Austen collections
This year’s AGM theme of Sense and Sensibility comes alive through a display of rare and illustrated editions, translations, adaptations, and Alberta Burke’s amazing scrapbooks. Also on view will be recent additions to the Austen Collection which have never before been publicly shown, including portions of JASNA founder J. David “Jack” Grey’s personal Austen collection; archival material donated by founding JASNA member Juliet McMaster; and the 1833 Philadelphia edition of Emma, the gift of JASNA member Sandra Clark, which completes Goucher’s set of the first full American edition of Austen’s novels.
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch
Pre-ordered boxed lunches $15 or Bring your own
You are welcome to bring your own lunch or order a boxed lunch. The boxed lunch option will be available until 10/14. Make sure to choose the option when registering and then go to the Emporium Page to pay.
If you have dietary concerns, it may be best to bring your own lunch.

Mozzarella, tomato, basil and basil pesto sandwich on baguette
Roasted turkey breast sandwich with brie, arugula and cranberry aioli on french baguette

Both served with Green salad with balsamic dressing, Chips, Cookie & Drink
1:00 pm-3:00 pm Meeting & Program
The Many Colors of Austen
Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield
To some readers, the novels of Jane Austen present “enduring whiteness” and cater to a nostalgia for Olde English culture. Our talk will look at Austen adaptations from the past few years that effectively reflect the diverse world of her current readers and address issues relevant to the present day.
Bio’s of our Speakers
Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies in the Department of Visual, Literary, and Material Culture at Goucher College. The author of three histories of Austen’s readers, all published by Bloomsbury Academic, and the editor of two Penguin Classics editions of Austen, she will guest co-curate a major, international Austen exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York in 2025. Forthcoming in 2023 is A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist, which centers on visionary writers and collectors who, from the 1880s to the 1980s, advocated for Austen’s literary significance, broadened her readership, and preserved artifacts vital to her legacy. Reading Austen in America (2017) offers a vivid account of how an appreciative audience for Austen’s novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen’s international fame. Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (2011) explores the importance of Austen to readers and fans today. All these books highlight Goucher’s exceptional Jane Austen collection and its creator, alumna Alberta H. Burke. For Penguin Classics, Dr. Wells created reader-friendly 200th-anniversary editions of Austen’s novels Persuasion (2017) and Emma (2015). Her more than thirty-five articles and book chapters include examinations of Austen’s novels and adaptations, as well as essays on Austen pedagogy. An acclaimed speaker to popular and scholarly audiences, she was a guest on Jane Austen & Co.’s spring 2021 “Race and the Regency” series and regularly gives lectures to national and regional meetings of JASNA.
Grace Fischbach graduated from Goucher in May 2022 with a major in Professional & Creative Writing and minors in Literature and Biological Sciences. A 2022 recipient of Goucher’s Kratz Summer Writing Fellowship, she traveled to her family’s ancestral village in Sweden to explore her heritage and family through a series of chronological poems. Since May 2022, she has been working part time in Goucher’s Special Collections & Archives.
Sayre Greenfield is from Eugene, Oregon. He is now Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg (without an H), near Pittsburgh (with an H). He authored The Ends of Allegory (U of Delaware P, 1998) and co-edited Jane Austen in Hollywood (UP of Kentucky, 2nd ed., 2001) with Linda Troost, with whom he has written numerous articles on Austen. Recently, he co-edited Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) with Anne Milne and Brycchan Carey.
Linda Troost is originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, and now is Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College in the far reaches of western Pennsylvania. She edited the journal Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Works, and Culture (AMS Press, 2001–2011) and co-edited Jane Austen in Hollywood (UP of Kentucky, 2nd ed., 2001) with Sayre Greenfield, with whom she has written numerous articles on Austen. She has also published articles on Gilbert and Sullivan, musical theatre in eighteenth-century England, and the Robin Hood tradition. She is also on the board for the North American Friends of Chawton House.
Linda and Sayre have been married for a few decades (they met in grad school in Philadelphia) and are life members of JASNA.
Deadline to order boxed lunch is 10/14. Link will be removed after that date.
click here to register – bring your own lunch

* The Batza Room is in the Ungar Athenaeum which also houses the Hyman Forum Library and Silber Art Gallery, Building 2 on the campus map available at https://www.goucher.edu/contact-and-directions/

AGM Recap Maryland & DC Joint meeting
2022-10-16 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Did you attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Victoria or attend virtually? Share stories, thoughts and highlights.
Not able to attend the AGM? Learn what it was about and take notes on speakers and topics you want to hear in the future.
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Annual General Meeting (AGM), Victoria
2022-09-30 - 2022-10-02 | MD
Sense & Sensibility in the City of Gardens
Presented by JASNA Victoria, BC, Region
September 30–October 2, 2022
Visit the AGM website for more information: https://jasna.org/agms/victoria/home.php

Storms, Tempests and ‘Visions of Romance’ - August virtual meeting
2022-08-21 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Storms, Tempests and ‘Visions of Romance’: Jane Austen and the Weather
Katie Halsey, University of Stirling, will discuss some of the many ways in which Jane Austen uses the weather in her novels: to structure plot, to set the mood, and finally to engage with the philosophical ideas of her time. Focusing mainly on Northanger Abbey, she will explore Austen’s use of two storms to structure that novel – and particularly the way Austen uses them to distinguish her heroine’s journey from superstition to rationality.
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A Certain Step Toward Falling in Love - July virtual meeting
2022-07-17 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
‘A Certain Step Toward Falling in Love’: Dance in the Works of Jane Austen
Susan de Guardiola is a dance historian, teacher, and caller from Connecticut. She will entertain us with a discussion of how Austen uses dance and dancing in her novels.
Following the presentation there will be a brief overview of mourning in the Regency and a toast in memory of Jane.
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Encore presentation on zoom - Jane Austen and the Menageries of London
2022-07-09 19:00 - 20:00 | MD
If you were unable to attend the June 11th in person meeting, our former RC Rita Baker-Schmidt has graciously agreed to do a virtual encore of her presentation.
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June Meeting - In Person Outdoor
2022-06-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Maryland Agricultural Center, 1114 Shawan Road, Cockeysville, MD, 21030, United States
Please fill out the RSVP form by June 5th at 9pm.
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Sense and Sensibility Play
2022-04-30 14:00 - 16:00 | 315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
We are arranging a group outing to The Everyman Theatre in Baltimore for a matinee viewing of Kate Hamill’s version of Sense and Sensibility. https://everymantheatre.org/sense-and-sensibility-0
3/6/2022 Our ticket block is all sold. If you are going on your own and would like to join us for dinner afterward, please contact treasurer@jasnamd.org by April 23.
An optional dinner will follow at Forno Restaurant and Wine Bar around the corner from the theater. When registering, please add in the notes if you plan to attend dinner so we can make a reservation. Dinner is not included in the ticket price and due to restaurant restrictions on group payments, we request that you bring cash.
Per the Theatre: Please be aware that everyone entering the building, patrons, staff, vendors, etc., will be required to wear a mask at all times other than when eating and drinking in the designated areas. NOTE: Actors will NOT be wearing masks. Also, patrons must show proof of being fully-vaccinated before entering the theatre. Visit our website at everymantheatre.org/safety for details.

Brunch at Chawton: A Jane Austen Musicale - Virtual Meeting
2022-03-20 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Enjoy brunch or a late lunch alongside an encore performance of Stephen Alltop and Josefien Stoppelenburg from the Chicago AGM.
From the AGM website: “Stephen Alltop is music director and conductor of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra at the University of Illinois and music director of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, and Green Lake Festival Choral Institute. He has served since 1994 as a member of Northwestern University’s conducting and keyboard faculties. Josefien Stoppelenburg is known for her dazzling vocal agility and passionate and insightful interpretations. She has performed several times for the royal family in her native Netherlands and currently tours widely as a concert singer, soloist for oratorio performances, and specialist in baroque music. Together, Alltop and Stoppelenburg will delight us with a concert that features compositions mentioned in Austen’s writing.”
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Program Planning March meeting
2022-03-15 18:00 - 19:00 | MD
We are meeting virtually to continue to work on planning 2022 events. Please email rc@jasnamd.org for the link to attend.

Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Federal Era Maryland
2022-02-27 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Explore the work of Joshua Johnson (ca. 1763‒1824) with Dr. Fulco as he discusses one of the nation’s first professional African American portraitists in the context of the Federal period. Johnson achieved a remarkable degree of success in his lifetime by painting affluent patrons in his native Baltimore. His subjects consisted of politicians, lawyers, doctors, clergymen, merchants, and sea captains. Given the artist’s background and the era in which he lived, Johnson was impelled to overcome many racial and social hurdles in pursuing his profession, and the fact that we continue to study his work today is a testament to his perseverance.
Daniel Fulco serves as Agnita M. Stine Schreiber Curator at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. He is the curator of the exhibition Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore and edited its accompanying catalogue, both of which were supported by grants from the NEA, ADAA Foundation, and other donors. Dr. Fulco received his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was Distinguished Fellow from 2007‒2010. He is a scholar of European and American art from the 17th to the 19th centuries and has authored a book, numerous edited volume chapters, and articles.
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Program planning committee – online meeting
2022-02-06 14:00 - 15:00 | MD
Help plan our virtual and in-person events. Contact rc@jasnamd.org for log on details.

Jane Austen is for Everyone
2022-01-30 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
We welcome Georgie Castilla to our next virtual meeting. He recently presented “’Anything Slovenly’: Adapting Austen to Comics” at the 2021 Chicago AGM and will discuss how Jane Austen is for Everyone.
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Birthday Meeting 2021
2021-12-04 12:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey’s Restaurant, 8480 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City, MD, 21043, United States
Deadline to register is November 30, at 12:59 p.m.
(Note: Birthday Meeting will no longer be an option to add to your cart after this time)

Price: $40 for members, $45 for non-members

Cash Raffle for Austen items!
Merchandise Table (cash, check or charge). There are no supply chain issues at JASNA MD – shop for the holidays!
Doors open at 11:45 a.m., lunch served at 12:30 p.m.

-We will abide by all restaurant, county and state requirements. Vaccines are not required. If unvaccinated, we ask that you wear a mask to be considerate of others. If vaccinated, it is your choice. This is subject to change.
-Registration will be limited to ensure adequate spacing. If you have a seating request, email rc@jasnamd.org.
-We do not want anyone coming ill, so refunds will be issued upon request if you cannot make it due to illness.

Annual General Meeting (AGM) recap - Maryland and DC Regions
2021-11-21 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Did you attend the AGM in Chicago? Share stories, thoughts and highlights.
Not able to attend the AGM? Learn what it was about and take notes on speakers and topics you want to hear in the future.
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Annual General Meeting (AGM), Chicago
2021-10-15 - 2021-10-17 | MD
Jane Austen in the Arts
Presented by Greater Chicago Region, Chicago, IL
Visit the AGM website for more information: http://jasna.org/agms/chicago2021/home.php

The Adam Family
2021-09-19 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
The Adam Family: The Scottish Architects Who Changed the World
Presented by Curt DiCamillo, Curator of Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society
Originally broadcast: July 10, 2020
Curt DiCamillo, whose heart beats to a Neoclassical rhythm, brings the sublime beauty of the Adam Style in all its permutations to life. The Adam brothers reigned supreme in Britain during the last half of the 18th century as the ultimate arbiters of taste and style, designing everything from lavish country houses and London townhouses to theaters, bridges and government buildings.
Video shown courtesy of the American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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One Very Superior Party
2021-08-15 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
“One Very Superior Party: In Which Mrs. Elton Shows the Inhabitants of Highbury ‘How Everything Ought to Be Arranged’”
Presented by Kim Wilson

In Jane Austen’s Emma, snobbish Mrs. Elton criticizes the society parties held in Emma’s village of Highbury and plans to host “one very superior party” to show how a truly elegant party should be held. This informative talk, accompanied by amusing illustrations of Regency-era parties, games, foods, and table settings, will show participants what Regency parties would have looked like and how they can easily re-create one at home.
Kim Wilson is a writer, speaker, editor, tea lover, gardening enthusiast, and culinary historian, and is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She is the author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. She is currently having fun using very large quantities of butter, sugar, and cream while testing the recipes for the new book she is writing, Entertaining Mr. Darcy. She regularly speaks to groups in-person and virtually, including at many Jane Austen festivals, JASNA AGMs, and regional JASNA events.
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August Promenade
2021-08-01 - 2021-08-31 | MD
Dress in your Regency finest, grab a bonnet, and take a stroll outdoors. Go out on your own or meet a friend. Snap a picture of you enjoying the outdoors and email it by September 10th to rc@jasnmd.org.
Photos will be featured on our website gallery and Facebook page and may be sent to JASNA News (please be sure to include in the email that it is ok to share your image).
Note: Check ahead that your chosen outdoor venue allows costumes and photography.

The First Ladies Man
2021-07-18 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Join us for an entertaining and educational afternoon with Andrew Och, author of “Unusual for Their Time: On the Road with America’s First Ladies” (Volumes One & Two), an award-winning television and multimedia producer and University of Maryland alumnus.
Women have been partners in the development and leadership of our country from the very beginning. American First Ladies are some of the most powerful unpaid and unelected women in the world. They have been paying it forward since before “pay it forward” was a catch phrase. They didn’t do it because they had to or were expected to. They did it because it was the right thing to do. Much of their efforts and many of their accomplishments have gone unrecognized. The sooner we realize that women are an integral part of the success of our country and the modern world, the sooner we can all move forward together as one and create a better future for all of us.
To order signed copies of Andrew’s books, please visit https://firstladiesman.com/store. You will receive the books directly in the mail.
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Georgian Picnics: A Virtual Box Hill Experience
2021-06-13 14:00 - 16:00 | MD
Dan Macey, Dantasticfood stylist and food historian, will discuss Georgian picnics and receipts.
Participants will receive some easy Georgian receipts to make for their own picnic and to show off during the event.
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