Maryland is a gorgeous state that is most sublime for their seafood. There are various events that take place in the month of February that celebrates Valentines as well as their shore heritage. On Thursday evenings, the Kyma restaurant features their Thursday Tasting Series. These are fun and informative events that highlight a beverage devotee guide to help you distinguish the nuances of each wine. administrative Chef Jose Picazo features signature dishes that complement the wine selections. located in Annapolis.
In Columbia you will enjoy the Irish Evening of Music and Poetry. This is an yearly event that hosts Irish poets, local Irish musicians, and members of the Narrowbacks and Celtic Thunder and step dancers. The event is held in the Jim Rouse Theatre at the Wilde Lake High School. For Valentine's Day, enjoy a Valentine evening meal Cruise in Baltimore City. The event features a buffet, beer, wine and soft drinks. They also have a Dj for dancing on this three-hour cruise.
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The Great Tastes Culinary Event is an yearly event that focuses on food and wine sampling. There are also celebrity chef appearances and cooking classes. Held in Baltimore City at the Baltimore institution Center. The Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton highlight a session of maple syrup tasting using the trees on the Ladew's nature walk. Visit Historic Ellicott City for the Mardi Gras MagniFique. This event is held at the Tersiguel's French Country restaurant and is a charity event that benefits the local historic preservation.
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He played piano with Cole Porter. He rode horseback in the Hollywood Hills with Clark Gable. He partied with Elsa Maxwell. He ate snails with the French writer Colette, in bed. It was all, as he often said, "perfectly delightful."
Few more colorful figures embellish American cultural history than the late Harvey S. Ladew, wealthy socialite, fox hunter, artist, traveler, and -- at his country estate outside Baltimore -- creator of the nation's most admired topiary garden.
In "Perfectly Delightful": The Life and Gardens of Harvey Ladew, Christopher Weeks offers an immensely readable, chatty account of Ladew's life and the glittering world he inhabited. When Ladew bought his Maryland farm in 1929, he had already lived a life few, if any, could equal: born into the upper stratum of New York society in 1887, he spoke French before he spoke English and took boyhood drawing lessons from Met curators. As an adult he gave decorating instructions to Billy Baldwin (the dean of American interior design), lived as the houseguest of the maharajah of Kapurthala, took a camel caravan across Arabia (with travel tips kindly provided by his good friend T. E. Lawrence), weekended at the stateliest of England's stately homes, lent his favorite horse to the Prince of Wales, matched wits with Edna Ferber, Noël Coward, Sacheverell Sitwell, Beatrice Lillie, and Dorothy Parker (in English) and with Jean Cocteau and Colette (in French), hunted fox in America, England, Ireland, and Italy, and (with Charlie Chaplin) saw off Gertrude Lawrence as she sailed from New York.
To this fascinating story of multicontinental revelry, Weeks attentively adds the background and development of Ladew's unique and wonderful Maryland garden, which attracts thousands of visitors each year, and his important role as an early environmentalist. When he began his garden in 1929, Ladew broke new artistic ground, for he was perhaps the first person in America to follow the tenets of English arts and crafts garden design. His achievements were featured in Town & Country, House & Garden, (and its French counterpart, Maison et Jardin), Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Garden clubs and gardening tourists from four continents strove to outdo one another in praise. This acclaim culminated in 1971, when the Garden Club of America gave Ladew its Distinguished Achievement Award.
To bring readers the remarkable story of Ladew and his gardens, Christopher Weeks draws on photo albums, scrapbooks, garden catalogs, thousands of pages of garden memoranda, an unfinished hand-scrawled autobiography, hundreds of letters, and guestbooks that read like a cross between Variety and Burke's Peerage. Photographs reproduced from Ladew's albums -- some taken by him, some by leading photographers of the day, including many by his friend Horst -- illustrate the text. Scores of interviews with Ladew's friends from New York to Florida help to illuminate this remarkable personality.
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In Baltimore City you will enjoy the yearly Baltimore Fine Craft Show. The event is the largest juried, indoor craft show in the country with over 700 crafts artists. The event is held in the Baltimore institution Center. The yearly Maryland State Police Deep Creek Dunk is held in Deep Creek Lake. The event features hundreds of dunkers as they brave the lake for the athletes of the special Olympics in Maryland.
The Rock Hall Expo is held in Rock Hall at the Rock Hall Fire House. Here you will find demonstrations and displays by the area's top nautical tradesmen. There is also entertainment, outdoor activities, lodging, arts, dining and more. The Wine Expo is an yearly afternoon of wine, hors 'd oeuvres and features 35 dissimilar wine companies. The event is held in Bel Air at the Harford society College Susquehanna Center. In Ocean City you will find the Eastern Shore's largest boat show. The Seaside Boat Show features boats, accessories, clothing, arts, crafts and more. Held at the Ocean City institution Center.
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