The Laurel Historical Society in the News

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Laurel Historical Society Press Releases

2022

 “What’s Cookin’ Laurel? Restaurants, Recipes & Community” Opens February 18, 2022


2021

McCeney March 2021: Sept 25 in Person Sept 26-Oct 1 Virtual

Laurel Museum ReOpens with Extended Hours

2020

Statement on the passing of Joseph Robison, Nov. 10

LHS Webinar: Archaeology of Howard County November 12th

LHS Community Collecting Days November 6, 10 and 15

Send Us Your Postcard!

(Virtually) Unpacking Laurel’s Past October 8: Artifacts Tell the Stories


McCeney March Goes Virtual

LHS awarded grants for summer camps and COVID-19 relief

Statement on Recent Events (June 6, 2020)

Traveling Womens History Museum

Unpacking Laurel's Past Exhibit Opening

2019

“Is There a Doctor in the House?”  Opens Feb. 3

Ann Bennett Completes HEART Program at the Smithsonian Institution

LHS Gala Pop Festival Honors Three

125 Years of University of Maryland Nursing

Archaeology Around Laurel April 11

Three Summer Camps at LHS

Still Time to Dig Summer Camp

Fourth McCeney March September 28

 A History of Behnke’s September 12

A Party for Poe at the Laurel Museum

Women's Wellness in Prince George's

Medical Battles of the Civil War November 14

LHS Holiday Open House Features Unique Laurel Gifts

Laurel Museum Hosts A Christmas Carol and an Early Victorian Christmas December 22

2018
Maryland's Mother of Civil Rights April 12

LHS Announces New Executive Director

McCeney March Scholarship Winner

Second Annual McCeney March

Honor Memorial Day: Send a Soldier a Letter from the Laurel Museum

February 5, Grand Opening of "Laurel's WW1: From Here to Over There"

Our News Coverage

LHS IN THE NEWS 2021

An Unusual Opportunity: Laurel Museum offers Edgar Allan Poe "funeral' exhibit
Laurel Leader/Baltimore Sun Nov. 11, 2021. Online Nov.  3 https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/laurel/cng-ho-poe-casket-20211109-xiwfjlfapzd27j7y4q5jkkv4ba-story.html.  Also Capital Gazette

Digging Summer Camp:Elementary, Middle-School Students Explore Laurel History at Archaeological Dig Site
Balt. Sun/LL Online August 3, 2021

Laurel Museum Reopens
June 29 - Final Local Laurel Leader


LHS IN THE NEWS 2020

 Passing of Joe Robison
November 12 Laurel Leader story

Postcard Project
October 9, 2020 Laurel Leader cover story 
October 9, 2020 Laurel Leader photo essay

McCeney March 
September 17, 2020 article
September 10, 2020 article
 
Laurel Museum Camps
Laurel Leader story 7/23/2020 [Did not appear online]
Laurel Leader Mary Sullivan 7/30/2020
 
Coronavirus/Museum Closure/Activities
April 23, 2020 article - Coronavirus Collection
March 26, 2020 article - Musuem keeping it together while social distancing
March 13, 2020 - Closures in Howard County and area

 June 23 Business Monthly Digital PROTESTS IN COLUMBIA
“Events throughout the United States have brought the issue of racial injustice to the public arena. Protests have animated communities including a recent public march in Columbia. Scott Ewart shared these photos with The Business Monthly. A recent statement from the Laurel historical society summed it up: “The past needs to be remembered. The present needs to change. The future needs to be better.”
 
Laurel 150th
 April 3, 2020 article

March Program
March 12, 2020 Baltimore Sun article
DelCo Times article
 
Exhibit Opening
 Laurel Leader, Cover + article
 January 30, 2020 article
 
January 2020
 
150th Kick off
 
January 13, 2020  WJLA 5 o'clock news segment interview with LHS Chair Karen Lubieniecki included

            WRC:  4:20 p.m.:  Live feed including LHS Executive Director Ann Bennett
 
January 16, 2020, 150th
 
January 16, 2020 - Old Town Column
 
Laurel TV:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWgF10ESIy8&t=2s