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Dec17Monday: 9:45 am – 10:45 am
New Exhibit at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
“The Literature of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman-The Yellow Wall-Paper”
In the late nineteenth century, at a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, medical and scientific experts drew on notions of female weakness to justify inequality between the sexes. Artist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story titled “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” The famous tale served as an indictment of the medical profession and the social conventions restricting women’s professional and creative opportunities.
“The Literature of Prescription,” a traveling exhibition, developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, will be exhibited in the second floor gallery of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and is available with the regular price of admission to the Museum.
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Jan1Tuesday: Jan 1 (all day)
The Museum will be closed on Tuesday, January 1, 2013, to celebrate the New Year. The Museum will reopen on Saturday, January 5, 2013, 10am, after the Museum’s annual cleaning days.
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Jan2Wednesday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
The Museum will be closed to the public January 2-4, 2013, for its annual cleaning and up-keep.
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Jan5Saturday: Jan 5 (all day)
Drink It In: Refreshments of the Civil War
At the National Museum of Civil War Medicine’s
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Civil War Medicine… it’s not what you think.
On Saturdays during the month of January, The Pry House Field Hospital Museum, at Antietam National Battlefield, will treat visitors to a bit of winter hospitality! Each Saturday, the Pry House will feature a hot winter drink that was popular during the 1860s as well as today. Guests can warm up by partaking of a hot beverage period to the Civil War, as well as something to nibble on! Staff at the Pry House will talk about how coffee, hot cocoa, mulled cider, and other warming drinks were important to soldiers and civilians, North and South, throughout the war.
January 5: Hot Chocolate
January 12: Coffee
January 19: Tea
January 26: Mulled Cider
Museum Exhibits will be open as normal. A donation of $3.00 is suggested when visiting Pry House.
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Jan8Tuesday: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Emancipate your taste buds!
Join us at Brewer’s Alley Restaurant & Brewery for Happy Hour! Executive Director George Wunderich will read the Emancipation Proclamation and discuss this history making event. Brewmaster Tom Flores will be there to talk about the beer and it’s historic flavor.
Proclamation Porter is our homage to a classic English robust porter. It is a deep ruby colored beer with a desirable level of warmth and balance. Honest Abe would have noticed the overall flavor of smooth malty and coffee-like notes, with a little bit of a fruity aroma. The mouthfeel is full bodied and the overall finish is slightly dry, without any overbearing sweetness. There is an obvious hop bitterness as well. This beer will free your taste buds as Lincoln freed a nation!
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Jan12Saturday: Jan 12 (all day)
Drink It In: Refreshments of the Civil War
At the National Museum of Civil War Medicine’s
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Civil War Medicine… it’s not what you think.
On Saturdays during the month of January, The Pry House Field Hospital Museum, at Antietam National Battlefield, will treat visitors to a bit of winter hospitality! Each Saturday, the Pry House will feature a hot winter drink that was popular during the 1860s as well as today. Guests can warm up by partaking of a hot beverage period to the Civil War, as well as something to nibble on! Staff at the Pry House will talk about how coffee, hot cocoa, mulled cider, and other warming drinks were important to soldiers and civilians, North and South, throughout the war.
January 5: Hot Chocolate
January 12: Coffee
January 19: Tea
January 26: Mulled Cider
Museum Exhibits will be open as normal. A donation of $3.00 is suggested when visiting Pry House.
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Jan17Thursday: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Clara Barton Finds Her Role: the Missing Soldiers Office.
Presented by Susan Rosenvold, Superintendent of the Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office
The meeting will be held on the Museum’s second floor in the Conference room, we look forward to seeing you there! For more information on the Frederick County Civil War Roundtable, please visit them at www.frederickcountycivilwarrt.org.
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Jan26Saturday: Jan 26 (all day)
Drink It In: Refreshments of the Civil War
At the National Museum of Civil War Medicine’s
Pry House Field Hospital Museum
Civil War Medicine… it’s not what you think.
On Saturdays during the month of January, The Pry House Field Hospital Museum, at Antietam National Battlefield, will treat visitors to a bit of winter hospitality! Each Saturday, the Pry House will feature a hot winter drink that was popular during the 1860s as well as today. Guests can warm up by partaking of a hot beverage period to the Civil War, as well as something to nibble on! Staff at the Pry House will talk about how coffee, hot cocoa, mulled cider, and other warming drinks were important to soldiers and civilians, North and South, throughout the war.
January 5: Hot Chocolate
January 12: Coffee
January 19: Tea
January 26: Mulled Cider
Museum Exhibits will be open as normal. A donation of $3.00 is suggested when visiting Pry House.
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Feb2Saturday: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Join us every Saturday this month at The Pry House Field Hospital Museum at Antietam National Battlefield will host popular music from the Civil War Era. Each Saturday different musicians from around the region will serenade visitors in the exhibit gallery with songs and instrumentals from the 1860s. Staff at the Pry House will talk about the importance of music to soldiers in the field and in hospitals, as well as civilians on the home front. In a time before recorded music, 19th century Americans placed high importance on public performances, intimate singing circles, and individual musical skill. All performers have donated their time and talent to Music Month at the Pry House. Guests are encouraged to talk with the musicians and ask questions.
February 2: Mr. Cory Rosenberg, of Gettysburg, PA, will play the banjo and other period instruments as he sings popular minstrel songs of the Civil War Era.
February 9: Evergreen Shade, a musical duo from central Virginia, will perform a range of period pieces with a theme on Abraham Lincoln in honor of his 203rd birthday.
February 16: Mr. George Wunderlich, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and world-renowned scholar and maker of early banjos, will entertain on his favorite instrument.
February 23: Mr. Wes Merchant, of Frederick, MD, will play from his impressive repertoire of popular and traditional selections on the fiddle.
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Feb9Saturday: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Join us every Saturday this month at The Pry House Field Hospital Museum at Antietam National Battlefield will host popular music from the Civil War Era. Each Saturday different musicians from around the region will serenade visitors in the exhibit gallery with songs and instrumentals from the 1860s. Staff at the Pry House will talk about the importance of music to soldiers in the field and in hospitals, as well as civilians on the home front. In a time before recorded music, 19th century Americans placed high importance on public performances, intimate singing circles, and individual musical skill. All performers have donated their time and talent to Music Month at the Pry House. Guests are encouraged to talk with the musicians and ask questions.
February 2: Mr. Cory Rosenberg, of Gettysburg, PA, will play the banjo and other period instruments as he sings popular minstrel songs of the Civil War Era.
February 9: Evergreen Shade, a musical duo from central Virginia, will perform a range of period pieces with a theme on Abraham Lincoln in honor of his 203rd birthday.
February 16: Mr. George Wunderlich, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and world-renowned scholar and maker of early banjos, will entertain on his favorite instrument.
February 23: Mr. Wes Merchant, of Frederick, MD, will play from his impressive repertoire of popular and traditional selections on the fiddle.
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Feb9Saturday: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Evolution of Military Medicine: The Letterman Plan 1862 to 2012 by Greg Susla
NMCWM Docent Greg Susla reviews the process for the handling and care of the wounded implemented by Jonathan Letterman, M.D., during the American Civil War. The types of wounds that soldiers experienced, battle field surgeries, use of anesthesia and the evolution of the military hospital system will be discussed. Medical practice during the Civil War will be compared and contrasted with the modern day management of battlefield casualties.
Second Saturday of the month lectures series, February–August 2013. The program fee is included in the Museum admission fee. Free to Museum members. Re-admittance to the Museum the day of talk is welcome.
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Feb16Saturday: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Join us every Saturday this month at The Pry House Field Hospital Museum at Antietam National Battlefield will host popular music from the Civil War Era. Each Saturday different musicians from around the region will serenade visitors in the exhibit gallery with songs and instrumentals from the 1860s. Staff at the Pry House will talk about the importance of music to soldiers in the field and in hospitals, as well as civilians on the home front. In a time before recorded music, 19th century Americans placed high importance on public performances, intimate singing circles, and individual musical skill. All performers have donated their time and talent to Music Month at the Pry House. Guests are encouraged to talk with the musicians and ask questions.
February 2: Mr. Cory Rosenberg, of Gettysburg, PA, will play the banjo and other period instruments as he sings popular minstrel songs of the Civil War Era.
February 9: Evergreen Shade, a musical duo from central Virginia, will perform a range of period pieces with a theme on Abraham Lincoln in honor of his 203rd birthday.
February 16: Mr. George Wunderlich, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and world-renowned scholar and maker of early banjos, will entertain on his favorite instrument.
February 23: Mr. Wes Merchant, of Frederick, MD, will play from his impressive repertoire of popular and traditional selections on the fiddle.
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Feb20Wednesday: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us for a special presentation!
Baptism in Blood and Disease: The 145th PVI Burying the Dead at Antietam and Dying from Disease at Harpers Ferry by George Deutsch
Historian George Deutsch will explore one regiment’s ordeal in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam. The newly minted 145th PVI was spared the slaughter of America’s bloodiest day, only to be detailed the gruesome task of burying Antietam’s dead on the battlefield, a nightmarish introduction to war. The regiment spent the next several cold, rainy weeks on Bolivar Heights without tents, proper equipment, or adequate medicine, losing more than half their men to disease.
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Feb21Thursday: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Science of Civil War Photography
Presented by Garry Adelman, Director of History and Education, Civil War Trust and longtime Gettysburg National Military Park Battlefield Guide.
The meeting will be held on the Museum’s second floor in the Conference room, we look forward to seeing you there! For more information on the Frederick County Civil War Roundtable, please visit them at www.frederickcountycivilwarrt.org.
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Feb23Saturday: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Join us every Saturday this month at The Pry House Field Hospital Museum at Antietam National Battlefield will host popular music from the Civil War Era. Each Saturday different musicians from around the region will serenade visitors in the exhibit gallery with songs and instrumentals from the 1860s. Staff at the Pry House will talk about the importance of music to soldiers in the field and in hospitals, as well as civilians on the home front. In a time before recorded music, 19th century Americans placed high importance on public performances, intimate singing circles, and individual musical skill. All performers have donated their time and talent to Music Month at the Pry House. Guests are encouraged to talk with the musicians and ask questions.
February 2: Mr. Cory Rosenberg, of Gettysburg, PA, will play the banjo and other period instruments as he sings popular minstrel songs of the Civil War Era.
February 9: Evergreen Shade, a musical duo from central Virginia, will perform a range of period pieces with a theme on Abraham Lincoln in honor of his 203rd birthday.
February 16: Mr. George Wunderlich, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and world-renowned scholar and maker of early banjos, will entertain on his favorite instrument.
February 23: Mr. Wes Merchant, of Frederick, MD, will play from his impressive repertoire of popular and traditional selections on the fiddle.
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Feb23Saturday: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
African American Men and Women in Medicine during the Civil War by Robert Slawson, M.D.
Dr. Slawson, author of Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era, will share his fascinating stories of African American men and women who practiced medicine during the American Civil War, including research on the graduates of medical schools and the African American men commissioned as Civil War medical officers.
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Mar5Tuesday: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Join us at Brewer’s Alley Restaurant & Brewery for Happy Hour!
Enjoy Happy Hour Pricing on First Draught Beer from the Sesquicentennial Beer Series! Happy Hour will now be held in the downstairs bar.
Please join the National Museum of Civil War Medicine (NMCWM) and its Executive Director George Wunderlich at Brewer’s Alley in downtown Frederick for our next Happy Hour. George will speak about the first draft of the United States Army and Master Brewer Tom Flores will talk about the new First Draught beer.
First Draught
A Rich Man’s Beer… A Poor Man’s Fight
This Belgian Dubbel style beer uses candi sugar and specialty malts to commemorate the Enrollment Act of March 3, 1863, the first draft held in the United States. Any men between the ages 20 and 45 were eligible, but those with means could buy their way out for $300. The complex aroma of the beer includes caramel and toast. The medium to low hop bitterness disappears into the finish – unlike the bitterness of the poor man who is forced to fight.
Bring a friend, bring the office and share in an actual Civil War experience – drinking beer!
Corporate Exposures will provide a raffle wheel (draft wheel) and you will receive a ticket for a chance to win prizes. Giveaways will include pint glasses, t-shirts, museum membership and more NMCWM Memberships and Merchandise will be available!
Please R.S.V.P to reservations@civilwarmed.org or on Facebook
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Mar9Saturday: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Second Annual Civil War Medicine Living Historians Workshop
All-day symposium on the skills, knowledge and resources necessary to provide quality living history programs at historic sites. Resource notebook, lunch and refreshments included. Pre-registration required. Presenters include: George Wunderlich, NMCWM Executive Director; Betsy Estilow, NMCWM President; and Mark Quattrock and Jackie Greer, co-founders, Blue & Gray Hospital Association. Topics included: Tools of the Trade, and Nurses and Nursing in the Civil War.
Deadline to register is March 3, refunds for cancellations made after February 25, 2013.The workshop fee includes a non-refundable $15.00 booking fee. Registration includes workshop materials and a box lunch. Please specify your sandwich preference when registering; choices include chicken salad, turkey, ham, roast beef and vegetarian. All box lunches include fruit or fruit cup, chips, cookies and assorted beverages.
At this time registration for this event is closed. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Museum at 301-695-1864, Ext. 17.
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Mar21Thursday: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
The Gilmore and Mosby Train Robberies
Presented by Steve French, teacher, author and Civil War historian
The meeting will be held on the Museum’s second floor in the Conference room, we look forward to seeing you there! For more information on the Frederick County Civil War Roundtable, please visit them at www.frederickcountycivilwarrt.org.
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Mar31Sunday: Mar 31 (all day)
The Museum will be closed on Sunday, March 31, 2013, for Easter Sunday. The Museum will reopen on Monday, April 1, 2013.
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Apr6Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Bell and History Days
The Museum is one of a dozen participants in this Frederick County Historic Consortium event dedicated to inspiring visitors by the vision, hard work, and dedication of the founders of Frederick and their descendants who built the community we cherish today. Mark Quattrock, co-founder of the Blue & Gray Hospital Association and Confederate Surgeon living historian, will display and interpret his expansive collection of Civil War-era medical accoutrements, both original and reproduction from 11am-4pm.
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Apr13Saturday: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Mid-Nineteenth Century Wars and Military Medicine by James F. Tent, P.h.D
Dr. Tent will examine the military medical systems that were responsible for the care of soldiers in the Crimean War (1854-56), the War of Italian Unification (1859-60), the American Civil War (1861-1865), the brief Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). The sixteen year span of time was not long, but the evolution of military medicine in that brief time frame was by any standard revolutionary. However, the picture was hardly one of uniform advancement and improvement. There were many instances in which military care for combatants went retrograde, wars in which soldiers on the ground and their medical establishments refused to accept advances that would otherwise have save many lives. Even so, the medical infrastructures that confronted the wars of the mid-nineteenth century had met a basic challenge. They continued their steady advance in treating the soldiers who entered the hostile environment.
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Apr17Wednesday: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Certified Tourism Ambassador Training
April 17, 2013
8:30am – 12:30pm
$49 Registration fee includes pre read materials
Sign up today at http://www.ctanetwork.com/sign-up-for-a-class/.The Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA) Program is a groundbreaking, nationwide certification program that serves to increase tourism by training and inspiring front-line hospitality employees and volunteers to work together to turn every visitor encounter into a positive experience. The Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG) CTA Program goes well beyond basic customer service training; it:
- Gives you the opportunity to build upon your knowledge of your community and the entire JTHG National Heritage Area;
- Enhances your skills in serving customers;
- Increases your awareness of information resources; and
- Provides you with freebies & discounts to attractions, hotels & restaurants in the JTHG National Heritage Area
For more information, call Esther M. Turner or Michelle Kellogg at 540.882.4929.
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Apr18Thursday: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Frederick County Civil War Roundtable Meeting
Speaker: Marc Thompson, historian, Chancellorsville National Battlefield Guide. Topic: Battle of Chancellorsville. We look forward to seeing you. Please bring a friend. Lectures are free. Location is easily accessible. For more information on the Frederick County Civil War Roundtable, please visit them at www.frederickcountycivilwarrt.org.
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May4Saturday: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
2013 Cigar and Whiskey Night
Share in an authentic Civil War experience — smoking cigars and sipping whiskey. National Museum of Civil War Medicine Executive Director George Wunderlich will bring his knowledge, his storytelling talents and his banjo. George will personally pick the cigars for the evening, drawing on his vast experience as a cigar aficianodo. Smooth Ambler Spirits and Catoctin Creek Distillery will provide tastings and samplings of whiskey and bourbon from their small, organic and exceptional line of spirits. Expect generous rounds of a signature drink.
Light fare will be provided. Bring your sleeping bag and plan on spending the night if you wish under our large tent. Email for further details. Funds go directly to the operation and improvement of the Pry House Museum and the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
An exclusive experience that will transport you back in time. A unique Sesquicentennial event.
Registration for this event is closed. Thank you for your interest please subscribe to our google calendar to stay informed about upcoming events.
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May11Saturday: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
The staff of the Pry House invites you to help them add new plants to the medicinal and kitchen garden. Grab your gloves, shovels and dress accordingly. Don’t want to get dirty? Stop by and learn about the different plants and how they were used during the Civil War. Light refreshments will be served.
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May11Saturday: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Mending Broken Soldiers Presented by Guy Hasegawa, Pharm.D.
Dr. Hasegawa’s research into efforts to assist Civil War amputees led to the publication of his latest book, Mending Broken Soldiers-The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs, which explores the era’s innovative and intensely competitive limbs industry and wartime programs established in both North and South to supply prostheses to the thousands of soldiers and sailors returning home with an empty pant leg or empty sleeve. The lecture will include a brief Q&A session and an opportunity for the author to sign copies of his books.
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May16Thursday: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Gettysburg’s Bloody Wheatfield
Presented By Kay Jorgensen, Civil War historian, author, lawyer and Municipal Court Judge
We look forward to seeing you. Please bring a friend. Lectures are free. Location is easily accessible. For more information on the Frederick County Civil War Roundtable, please visit them at www.frederickcountycivilwarrt.org.
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