Contest Theme: "Getting Here From There: Early Maryland Maps and Travel Journals"

Write an essay or design a web site around imagining what it was like to be a traveler in Maryland in the 17th and 18th centuries. Use maps and travel accounts found in the public library, as well as at web sites such as American Memory, the Maryland State Archives, and the Maryland Historical Society. For example, you may wish to write, or develop an interactive web site about what you would see and how you would feel as a traveler in Maryland in the Colonial period, using the earliest narratives. Or you may want to write an essay about the importance of mapping and travel narratives to our understanding of the early history of Maryland. Following are some sources of maps and narratives that are available on-line:

• Library of Congress American Memory
• http://memory.loc.gov/
• Library of Congress American Memory: The Capital and the Bay. Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600-1925
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhcbhtml/lhcbhome.html
• Maryland State Archives
• http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/
• Maryland State Archives. Documents for the Classroom: Close Encounters of the First Kind
• http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/4198/html/0000.html
• Maryland Historical Society
• http://www.mdhs.org/

• Each student may enter either a written essay or a web site, or a class may develop a web site as a class project. One entry per student and one entry per class.
• Bibliographies and footnotes are required.
• Written essays must be at least 1000 words and no longer than 1500 words.
• Only one web site entry per class.
• Web site entries must be submitted with a paper copy with url address, if available.
• High school contestants must be students in Maryland schools in grades 9-12.
• Entries must be received no later than March 14, 2003. Send entries to:
The Maryland Colonial Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 16367
Baltimore, MD 21210
• Winners will be announced on March 25, 2003.
• Entrants must include with their entry the following:
• Name
• Home mailing address
• Age
• Grade and school
• Name of school principal
• The decisions of the judges will be final.
• All entries become the property of the Maryland Colonial Society and will not be returned to contestants.

Please call Lois Jones on (410) 889 4488 with any questions.

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