Preserving the Irreplaceable

From our Executive Director Nancy Easterling:

Yesterday, the world looked in horror as Notre Dame burned, and collectively our hearts grieved. We grieved not just for the loss of its beauty and its design, or even simply because of the age of the structure and the centuries it survived. We felt the loss to our core because of the lives that the structure represents - those who designed and built it in order to inspire the world, and the centuries of people who worshiped and visited there. Irreplaceable places have a real and lasting impact on us - they become part of our lives and help us establish a connection to our past while also creating a relevance to our lives today. We all hope that the up-welling of support for Notre Dame we are seeing across the globe can one day bring this place back to life, but for now we grieve.

While Sotterley is not as well as known as Notre Dame, for the past 14 years I have been honored to work at a site that is also both precious and irreplaceable. As with Notre Dame, the stories and lives it represents are the reason we strive to preserve it and share it with the world. It represents stories that are inspiring as well as those that are painful and difficult, but all aspects of these stories must be acknowledged and understood. At this moment, let each of us remember that losing the past is in fact losing part of ourselves, and that by collectively coming together to preserve the past, the irreplaceable, we will be in fact preserving ourselves.

Pre-Valentine’s Fly-In Farmer’s Market

Pre-Valentine’s Fly-In Farmer’s Market

sponsored by Historic Sotterley

Step up your Valentine’s gift giving game and shop at the Pre-Valentine’s Fly-In Farmer’s Market on Saturday, February 9th  between 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at the St. Mary’s County Regional Airport!

“Our first Fly-In Farmer’s Market took flight! With such an overwhelmingly positive response to our first event at the airport right before Christmas, we decided to go ahead with two additional winter markets,” stated Nancy Easterling, Executive Director of Historic Sotterley.

Visit this unique Fly-In Farmer’s Market on Saturday, February 9th and March 16th. “This is something that St. Mary’s County wants to support to showcase the great lifestyle we enjoy here while showcasing the high technology and aerospace capability for companies that are located here, or may want to move here” said Chris Kaselemis, St. Mary’s Director of Economic Development. He added that with a living museum such as Sotterley leading this event, it captures our past, present and future. Very few events embrace the rural characteristics of Southern Maryland while highlighting the role our region has had in developing our nation’s air and space technologies.

The Pre-Valentine’s Fly-In Farmer’s Market will feature:

· Battle Creek Beef - Full assortment of all “natural” beef and pork products.

· Blue Wind Gourmet - Local chocolate.

· Goose Creek Farm - Farm-raised Shiitake mushrooms. Fresh and dried.

· R&H Farms - Pork products from free range heritage pigs. USDA gourmet pork.

· Swamp Fox - Family owned small farm selling pastured raised chicken, duck & eggs.

· Olivin's - Maryland's finest aged & infused Fine Olive Oil & Vinegars.

· Port of Leonardtown Winery - Because what doesn't say love like a bottle of wine!

· Social Coffeehouse - Fresh Maryland coffee & “hot” Locavore Panini’s!

· Moonstruck Oysters - Local farm raised oysters from Hollywood, MD.

· Tobacco Barn Distillery - Highly-acclaimed Bourbon and Spirits!

· Just Loafin’ - Locally made artisan breads.

· Grandpap’s Honey - Locally sourced honey from Southern Maryland.

· Free State Cidery - Hard Apple Cider from the highest quality apples  harvested in Maryland.

RAFFLE!

You could win an airplane or helicopter ride for two people

(generously donated by S. Hunt Aero.)!
Tickets on sale at the Historic Sotterley table:
$5 for one ticket; $10 for three tickets; $20 for eight tickets.
(Some restrictions apply.)

SPECIAL GUEST!

The Captain from NAS Patuxent River will come out at noon to say a few words about our great community!