2nd Annual Tipple and Toast Benefit Evening

The Friends of the Rising Sun Inn will host an an evening of food and fun as we raise money to support the ongoing preservation projects at the pre-Revolutionary Rising Sun Inn located on the famed Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route, Generals Highway, in Crownsville, Maryland. The Tipple and Toast Benefit Evening will be on May 5, 2018, from 5 – 9:30 p.m., at Baldwin Hall, 1358 Millersville Road, Millersville, Maryland. Admission for Friends of the Rising Sun Inn is $35 per person, non-members are $42.00 and children, 12 and younger, is $20.00. The evening includes hors d’oeuvres, a buffet dinner, cash wine bar, the Annapolis Town Crier, historical interpreters from Colonial Tours of Annapolis and SPAM time and returning performers harpist Jan Holland the Annapolis Chorale’s Women’s Ensemble, Cantori. The dress is informal and the benefit will include a charity auction, wine and spoon pulls, and a raffle. Additionally, the 1840 School House and the Cora Anderson Dulaney Library located on the grounds of Baldwin Hall will be open during the evening for tours. For information or to purchase tickets for the event contact Kris Jenkins at 410-365-4489 or by email [email protected]. All proceeds raised will support the much need repairs and the ongoing preservation and restoration of the Inn to include painting the Inn and exterior woodwork restoration. The Friends of the Rising Sun Inn is a non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable organization established to provide funding for the preservation, restoration, repair, maintenance, and operation of the Rising Sun Inn and property as an historical site and museum. The Rising Sun Inn, a colonial era farmhouse and tavern located in Crownsville and listed with the National Registry of Historic Places, was built by Edward Baldwin, circa 1753, and is a rare surviving example of a pre-Revolutionary framed farmhouse.