June 4, 2026

SlackWater Explores Bay Oyster’s History

SlackWater Explores Bay Oyster's History

Once strictly utilitarian in value, these oyster cans — part of James Banagan’s collection — are now prized for their aesthetics and historic meaning.

Watershed Exhibition Opens at SMCM

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Join the Atlantika Collective at its inaugural exhibition for The Watershed Project at the Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The exhibition will run until Nov. 22, 2016.

What Happens In the Arctic Doesn’t Stay In the Arctic

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“The Arctic and Climate Change” will be the topic of the next program sponsored Oct. 27 by the St. Mary’s College Center for the Study of Democracy and The Patuxent Partnership.

’70s in St. Mary’s: Formative, Transformative

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The 1970s in St. Mary’s County: These years were fundamentally formative and even transformative, and the landscape we negotiate today is the landscape born of that era.

Slackwater’s Barn Prayer

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The Slackwater Center installment offers an Ode to Tobacco Barns of the Past.

Everything Has Been Taken Over and Turned Into Something Else

While many people salute the preservation of the past and the rich history of St. Mary’s County that is told by the artifacts in the ground, and many others applaud the lack of development along the waterfront, there are still those who long for the way it used to be.

Knights of the Round Table

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By the 1960s, the military had come to define Lexington Park. The new boom town became the center of new consumerism in St. Mary’s County.

Pax River Turns Its Gaze Skyward

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From The Slackwater Center’s 2009 archives: Local residents recall Patuxent River Naval Air Station’s role in the early years of the Space Race.

Photographic Project Comes to St. Mary’s

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A photography project, Water Memories, will focus on people near the water and be displayed using water. Call 240-462-6573.

In It To Win It

It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.