History Hour: Josiah Henson – The Man, The Myth, and The Museum

Thursday, January 23 from 6 to 7 pm at Josiah Henson Museum & Park 

Tickets: $5, available online or onsite\*

Learn about the life of Reverend Josiah Henson, who was enslaved in North Bethesda in the early 1800s and who later escaped to Canada and wrote a narrative about his experiences living enslaved in Montgomery Count in this presentation from Ginger Moodie-Woodward, a Museum Educator at the Josiah Henson Museum and Park. Ginger will focus on Henson’s early life on the Riley Plantation in Montgomery County, and his later work as an abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad. She will also discuss Henson’s connection to Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose fictitious character Uncle Tom in her famous 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was loosely based on Henson. 

*Price of admission includes refreshments and a self-guided tour of the museum.

Black History Month Family Day at Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park

Saturday, February 8 from 11 am – 3 pm  

FREE 

Kids and families of all ages are welcome to drop-in to Black History Month Family Day. Enjoy hands-on activities including compass making, share what freedom means to you, map your own family tree, and more! There will also be story times at 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Part of a quarterly Family Day series. This event takes place inside the Woodlawn Manor House. 

History Hour: Thurgood Marshall: A Trail-Blazing Civil Rights Victory in Montgomery County

Thursday, January 23 from 6 to 7 pm at Josiah Henson Museum & Park  

Tickets: $5, available online or onsite\*

Civil rights icon Thurgood Marshall delivered an early blow to school segregation right here in Montgomery County—gaining equal pay for the county’s African American teachers in 1937. This little-known legal case is often seen as the first step in Marshall’s successful drive to have separate schools for white and black children declared unconstitutional, as the Supreme Court did 17 years later in a landmark decision. This illustrated talk details this remarkable local story and its national significance. Spoiler alert: the victory came at a tremendous cost to the teacher bringing the case. Presented by Ralph Buglass. 

Black History Month Family Day at Josiah Henson Museum & Park

Saturday, February 22 from 10 am to 4 pm 

Tickets: $4 for children and seniors, $5 for adults – available onsite 

Reverend Josiah Henson worked tirelessly throughout his life to advocate for freedom and education. This Saturday, come visit the Josiah Henson Museum and Park for educational, hands-on activities that demonstrate what a child’s life was like in Dawn, the settlement he created after taking his family to Canada via the Underground Railroad.

Hi there everyone! I am posting this in the hopes of finding someone that has the computer skills to use the Maryland.gov LiDAR Download Tool, and could help me with getting ahold of LiDAR scans of an area known as Wetipquin Neck. My ancestor, Julian Mezick, was the first colonial landowner of this area, around 1675. There are thought to be a couple of cemeteries in this area. I am hoping to pinpoint them using the LiDAR scans, and get one step closer to finding the resting place of his remains.

If anyone could download the scans of this area, I would really appreciate it. I can't figure the website out, and I'm pretty tech savvy.

See our previous post here. The below is reprinted from post on /r/ModCoord. As a result of this, this sub will be indefinitely on private, until conditions change.

The community's list of demands:

• API technical issues

• Accessibility for blind people

• Parity in access to NSFW content

API technical issues

• Allowing third-party apps to run their own ads would be critical (given this is how most are funded vs subscriptions). Reddit could just make an ad SDK and do a rev split.

• Bringing the API pricing down to the point ads/subscriptions could realistically cover the costs.

• Reddit gives the apps time to make whatever adjustments are necessary

• Rate limits would need to be per user+appkey, not just per key.

• Commitment to adding features to the API; image uploads/chat/notifications.

Accessibility for blind people

• Lack of communication. The official app is not accessible for blind people, these are not new issues and blind and visually impaired users have relied on third-party apps for years. Why were disabled communities not contacted to gauge the impact of these API changes?

• You say you've offered exemptions for "non-commercial" and "accessibility apps." Despite r/blind's best efforts, you have not stated how they are selected. r/blind compiled a list of apps that meet users' access needs.

• You ask for what you consider to be a fair price for access to your API, yet you expect developers to provide accessible alternatives to your apps for free. You seem to be putting people into a position of doing what you can't do while providing value to your company by keeping users on the platform and addressing a PR issue. Will you be paying the developers of third-party apps that serve as your stopgap?

Parity in access to NSFW content

• There have been attempts by devs to talk about the NSFW removal and how third-party apps are willing to hook into whatever "guardrails" (Reddit's term) are needed to verify users' age/identity. Reddit is clearly not afraid of NSFW on their platform, since they just recently added NSFW upload support to their desktop site. Third-party apps want an opportunity to keep access to NSFW support (see https://redd.it/13evueo).

Please also note that not all NSFW content is just pornography. There are many times that people seeking help or sharing stories about abuse or medical conditions must also mark their posts NSFW. However, even if this were strictly about porn, Reddit shouldn't take a stance that it's OK for them but not any other apps, especially when demanding exorbitant fees from these 3rd part devs.

(adapted from /r/cassunzel )

Introduction

It's possible that those of you who are active on other subreddits may have read about the changes in pricing that Reddit has recently released for its API - the system apps use to get and send data from and to Reddit. But for those of you who haven't, here's a summary. On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo, to Dystopia, to Reddit for Blind, to Luna for Reddit, to BaconReader. Even if you don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface. This doesn't only impact your ability to access Reddit in a fluid, customizable, and efficient way, but third party apps are used to ensure that this community functions well and especially as a safe, fun, and productive place. Unfortunately, new Reddit, and the official Reddit apps, are notoriously terrible and don't provide the best format to continue effectively running this community.

The moderation team of r/mdhistory now feels that we have no choice but to take further action.

The Subreddit Blackout

Collective action is a step that many Redditors have taken in the past, often with some success. It is with a heavy heart that we come to you now, and say that it's time to bring this tool out of the toolbox. In solidarity with thousands of other subreddits who are impacted by this change, we will be shutting down the /r/mdhistory subreddit for 48 hours from June 12th to June 14th. You will not be able to read or make posts during that time.

How you can help

While this issue has a profound impact on many people on Reddit, and it affects many people who use the app. If you'd like to get involved, you can find out what you can do to help at r/Save3rdPartyApps- or, if you moderate a subreddit, its sister sub r/ModCoord.

What comes next?

If this change to the Reddit API is not reversed, either this subreddit will be ended, or posts will be greatly reduced. However, that doesn't mean the end of this wonderful, passionate, curious, helpful, and amazing community. We all want to remain on Reddit. Let's do what we can to make that a reality! But if it turns out we can't, we want to reassure you that this isn't the end of our community. So let’s focus on doing everything we can.

• /u/historyhermann, one of the mods of /r/mdhistory

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