

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Tavern Talk at Backwater Books 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 03:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join Friends &amp; Foundation of HCLS for Tavern Talks at Backwater Books, a lively event celebrating America250 by exploring how taverns once sparked ideas, debate, and community during the Revolutionary era.

Guests will enjoy a tasty charcuterie board appetizers and each ticket includes one alcoholic drink from the Bibliobup.
 
3:30 pm: Cocktails and Mingle
4-5 pm: Significance of Taverns talk
5-5:30 pm: Tabling by partner organizations Historic Ellicott City, Inc. and the Howard County Historical Society

Presentation:  Significance of Taverns in the Colonial Period

Explore taverns as vital sites of social-political activity in the mid-Atlantic during the Revolution, including the roles of Black bartenders and women tavernkeepers, or “Ordinaries,” in shaping public discourse. Talk will include specific revolutionary incidents on the mid-Atlantic seaboard. 

Speaker: JP Fetherston is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Maryland who is writing a dissertation about the history of African Americans and social drinking in early American history. Previously, he worked for a decade in Washington, D.C. as a nationally acclaimed bartender at a variety of renowned bars and restaurants. Most notable among them was the Columbia Room, winner of America’s Best Cocktail Bar in 2017. Mutual passions for storytelling and historical research drew him back to higher education to investigate why and how Americans have consumed alcohol in the past. 

All proceeds support initiatives at Howard County Library System for you to learn, grow and connect. Grab your tickets now before they sell out!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ellicott-city/tavern-talk-at-backwater-books/200029588305212
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/TheFriendsoftheHowardCountyLi/tavernstalk.html?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=ellicott+city-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Ellicott City
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Backwater Books, 8156 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD 21043
- **lat**: 39.26756
- **long**: -76.7971
- **full address**: Backwater Books, 8156 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD 21043, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Friends & Foundation of Howard County Library System (https://allevents.in/org/friends-and-foundation-of-howard-county-library-system/27415914)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 03:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Backwater Books, 8156 Main Street, Ellicott City, MD 21043, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Friends & Foundation of Howard County Library System
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** nonprofit, storytelling
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Tavern Talk at Backwater Books  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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