We're planning another great show for 2010! Check back this Summer for updates!

Interested in exhibiting? Contact us at:

 Chestertown Wildlife Exhibition & Sale
PO Box 883
Chestertown, MD 21620

info@chestertownwildlife.org
410-810-4898

 

2010 Schedule of Events

Friday, October 15: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 16: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

To give you an idea of what our event is like, below find the 2009 Schedule
of Events. Times and activities will be different for 2010. Please check
back for updates this Summer!

2009 Schedule of Events

More than 40 carvers, painters, photographers and artists set in historic downtown Chestertown draped in Autumn’s Splendor

 

Preview Party
Friday Evening 5:00 to 7:00

Get to know our exhibitors personally and see their work first
Click here for more information.

Featuring:
Hors d’oeuvres by Occasions Catering
 Music by the Lions of Bluegrass
Maryland Eastern Shore wines

Click here for tickets

Event opens free to the public
7:00 to 9:00 Friday evening
Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Free admission

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16
 
5:00 P.M. –
7:00 P.M.
Preview Party – Parish Hall, Prince Theatre
  Click here for tickets
Or call 410-810-4898
Hors d’oeuvres by Occasions Catering
Hors d’oeuvres service by the students of the 
Kent County High School Culinary Arts Program
Wines of Maryland’s Eastern Shore Wineries
Eastern Shore & Delmarva Beers
Music by the Lions of Bluegrass
Silent Auction Opens in Parish Hall
 
7:00 P.M. –
9:00 P.M.
Exhibition Opens Free to the Public
  Exhibitors in Parish Hall, Prince Theatre
Visitors Center, Downtown Banks, Shops, Offices
Sam Guthridge & Friends play music on High Street
 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
       
9:30 A.M. –
4:30 P.M.
Exhibitors in Above Locations
  Tours of the Echo Hill Outdoor School Skipjack Elsworth
and Buy Boat Annie D. at the foot of High Street
Touch Tank & Delmarva Wildlife Curriculum - Sultana Center
Artist-signed Exhibition Posters at the Information Booth $5
Old Decoy Identification by Vernon Bryant – Parish Hall
Kent County Quilt Documentation Project Display – Parish Hall
 
9:30 A.M. -
3:00 P.M.
Silent Auction of Artists’ work – Parish Hall
       
9:30 A.M.   “An Intimate Portrait of an Eastern Shore Red Fox Family” Slide Show
      Filmed in Centreville, Maryland by artist Jean Higgins - Town Hall
       
10:00 A.M.   Build a Maryland Wood Duck Nesting Box - Fountain Park
       
10:00 A.M. -
 3:00 P.M.
Live Raptors – Liz Smith “Raptors Eye” – Courthouse Lawn
       
10:30 A.M.   Rebecca Pitre & Friends Music & Sing-Along – Fountain Park
       
10:30 A.M.   Chop Out Decoys as Your Fathers Did – Warren Saunders – Parish Hall
       
11:00 A.M.   Painting What You See – Kurt Plinke – Prince Theatre
       
11:00 A.M. -
12:00 Noon
Make & Take GREEN Workshop; $10 materials fee
      Purchase tickets at Information Booth – Town Hall
       
11:00 A.M. -
2:00 P.M.
Tour Washington College’s Custom House Archaeology Lab
       
11:30 A.M.   Creating Realistic Feathers – John Day – Parish Hall
       
11:45 A.M.   “An Intimate Portrait of an Eastern Shore Red Fox Family” – Town Hall
       
1:30 P.M.   Knifing Out Decoys – Vernon Bryant – Parish Hall
       
1:45 P.M.   “An Intimate Portrait of an Eastern Shore Red Fox Family” - Town Hall
       
2:00 P.M.   Chris Cerino’s songs of the Eastern Shore – Fountain Park
       
2:30 P.M.   Combing & Stippling Techniques – John Day – Parish Hall
       
2:45 P.M.   “An Intimate Portrait of an Eastern Shore Red Fox Family” - Town Hall
       
3:00 P.M.   Silent Auction Closes – Parish Hall
       
4:30 P.M.   Exhibition Closes in all locations
       
5:00 P.M.   “An Authentic Eastern Shore Dinner” in the Sultana Shipyard
      Advance reservation required
    Click here for tickets
      Or call 410-810-4898

 

 

Get your limited edition 30th Anniversary Commemorative poster signed by the artist Jocelyn Beatty at the Information Booth - only $5

 

 

Cap off your Weekend with
An Authentic Eastern Shore Dinner

Saturday, October 17 – 5:00 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE:
The dinner has moved to the Sacred Heart Church Hall,
508 High Street in downtown Chestertown.

With music by the Lions of Bluegrass

Hot & Cold Oyster Bar with all the fixings
Chesapeake Bay Jumbo Lump Crab Imperial
Served in Bread Bowls
Scalloped Tomatoes
Green Salad with Simple Vinaigrette
Homemade Corn Bread
Warm Apple Pie with Cinnamon Ice Cream

$40 per person
Includes two glasses of wine or beer

Spend the weekend and take advantage of all
Kent County has to offer

Visit www.kentcounty.com for information on lodging and area activities

 

 

 

DIRECTIONS:

From New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Wilmington
Take I-95 South to 896 South (Exit 1, Middletown, Delaware). Follow 896 to Route 301 which brings you into Maryland. Take the Route 291 exit towards Chestertown. Travel approximately 15 minutes to the intersection with MD 213 South and and turn left. Pass Washington College and proceed to the traffic light at Cross Street where you will turn right. This brings you into downtown Chestertown, the location of the Wildlife Exhibition & Sale.


From Washington D.C., Baltimore and Annapolis
Take Route 50/301 East across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Bear left at the split to continue on MD 301 North. You will exit in about five miles onto MD 213 North towards Centreville/Chestertown. Proceed through Centreville and continue for about 18 miles, crossing the Chester River Bridge. At the first light, turn left onto Cross Street. This brings you into downtown Chestertown, the location of the Wildlife Exhibition & Sale.


From Salisbury, Cambridge and Easton
Take 50 East through Easton continuing past Route 404 to Route 213 North to Centreville. Proceed through Centreville and continue for about 18 miles, crossing the Chester River Bridge. At the first light, turn left onto Cross Street. This brings you into downtown Chestertown, the location of the Wildlife Exhibition & Sale.

 

 
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Chestertown Wildlife Festival is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.  Charlie Campbell Photos courtesy of the Kent County News