ST. MICHAELS, MARYLAND — Talbot Family Network opens its 2026–27 Conversations on Race season Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 213 North Talbot Street. Healthy Talbot lists the free program from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. under the title “What Stories Do We Tell About Ourselves?”

Participants explore CBMM’s Stories from the Shoreline exhibition in the Welcome Center from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m., then gather in the Van Lennep Auditorium from 5:45 to 7:30 p.m. for facilitated dialogue, a light meal, and refreshments. CBMM’s exhibition page describes Stories from the Shoreline as a long-term Welcome Center show, open since July 1, 2026, built from oral histories, photographs, and artifacts about shoreline life on the Bay.

Advance registration is required at bit.ly/oct26convo. A second fall session, "What History Do We Remember?", is set for Monday, Dec. 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Easton Meeting Room of the Talbot County Free Library. The Healthy Talbot headline still carries an older “Oct. 27 / United States Colored Troops” label; the dated body on that page is the Oct. 26 Stories program summarized here.