Calvert County House and Pilgrimage Tour
May 10, 2008

Join us on May 10, rain or shine, to tour eight wonderful homes in Calvert County, plus Annemarie Garden Sculpture Park with its stunning entrance gate and azalea gardens. Box lunches will be available by reservation at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Prince Frederick from 11:30am until 2:00 pm.

This year’s tour features historic and modern homes, waterfronts, sweeping estate settings, and gently rolling Calvert farmland -- plus the elegance of Annemarie Garden. Something for everyone to enjoy!

Tickets for the Tour are $30.00 in advance or $35.00 on the day of the event at the featured homes. Single house tickets will be $15.00 at the specific house. If you are from out of Calvert County and want to purchase your ticket in advance, please contact Mrs. Adele Maguire at 410-586-9353. Advance purchase tickets are available at these locations: Dunkirk Florist and Gifts, Town Center Blvd., Dunkirk; Second Looks Books, Fox Run Shopping Center, Prince Frederick; and Maertens Fine Jewelry & Gifts, HG Trueman Rd., Solomons.

Proceeds from this year’s Tour will benefit the Sensory Garden of the new Burnett-Calvert Hospice House.
A ham or crab cake box lunch is available for purchase. Please make a reservation for lunch by April 25, 2008. Click here for details.

For the complete description and directions for the House and Pilgrimage tour, please click here.

The Tour is sponsored by Calvert Garden Club with the assistance of Chesapeake Garden Club.
 

Civic Holiday Decorating

November 2008	Project: Hospice Christmas Tree
December 2008	Project: Greening of the Courthouse Square

From an article by Joseph Norris, The Calvert Independent - December-2003

Every year, the Calvert Garden Club descends on the county courthouse with boxwood, fruit-laden Della Robbia, wreaths, garlands and holiday decorations for the “greening” of the county seat. When the annual event first occurred some 40 years ago, it wasn’t unusual to see Calvert County Circuit Court Judge Perry Bowen Jr. up on a ladder helping to hang Christmas decorations.

“Then the county started paying a county employee to help us,” said Virginia Bowen, wife of the now-retired magistrate, who made the trip from the couple’s home in Jersey, VA Dec. 2 to help. “I guess they felt it wasn’t dignified to have a judge up on a ladder.”

The Calvert Garden Club formed in 1936 and held a flower mart and plant sale on the courthouse lawn. This year, 50 women who are members of that organization participated in the effort. The ladies hung 40 wreaths, 20 sprays on lampposts and hung wreaths on the large signs welcoming motorists into the county.

Bowen said that when the group first started with their holiday decorating efforts, they would assemble the wreaths and garlands in the basement of the courthouse. She added that the group originally made the wreaths from newspaper for the base.

Calvert Garden Club member Mary Ann Harms said it usually takes the members three days to make the decorations which hang on Main Street until the day after New Year’s Day.

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