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I love sharing stories and my research with others. I've been doing it professionally for the past 35 years and take special pride in enlightening others with the history of not only their current surroundings, but commemorating the individuals who helped create and shape the Frederick County we know and love today.
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HSP/Chris Haugh
Upcoming 2025 CLASS & TOUR Dates (Scroll down to Full description/registration links section below these Calendar dates) |
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NOVEMBER
All-new 2025 "Unsettling Candlelight Tour" Saturday, November 1 7-9:15pm Key Chapel(MOC) "Indian Tribes, Explorers & Traders in Monocacy Valley" (Mondays) Nov. 3, 10 & 17 6-8pm Key Chapel(MOC) **"Frederick History 101" (in 2 Parts) through FCC ILR (Fridays) Nov. 21 & Dec 5 9:30am-3:30pm FCC Class #1 1700s/1800s Class #2 1900s-Present NOTE: Lecture Classes are underlined **Courses run by Frederick Community College's Institute for Learning in Retirement (55+) www.ILRFCC.org |
LECTuRE COURSES
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CHRIS HAUGH'S
"FREDERICK HISTORY 101" CLASS 
Frederick, Maryland's 275 year-old story is presented in four classes by award-winning historian and documentarian Chris Haugh. Students will learn about the city's 1745 founding in the backlands of the Maryland colony up to its standing today as one of the top residential and tourist destinations in the US. Based on his 1995 documentary "Frederick Town," Chris will lead a passionate exploration through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries with colorful storytelling and an array of multi-media elements. Participants are guaranteed to gain a better understanding and appreciation of Frederick and past citizens, while enjoying this immersive experience within the confines of one of the country's most historic and beautiful cemeteries-commonly referred to in earlier times as "Frederick's Other City."
*Next HSP session Special Edition for Woodlands of Urbana residents starts Monday, Oct 6 at 10am-11:45am. (Oct 6, 13, 20, 27 & Nov 3) (*Note: This class is specifically for Woodlands residents and friends.) "Frederick 101" at FCC-ILR
in 2 classes/parts Nov 21 & Dec 5 (9am-3:15pm) *See FCC ILR website to register (click link button below) PREHISTORICK FREDERICK
Based on the documentary entitled “Monocacy: The pre-history of Frederick County, Maryland,” this course will take students on a 1.2 billion year- journey to better understand and appreciate the cataclysmic events that shaped our present day landscape. The course will also explore the earliest lifeforms from marine organisms, dinosaurs to native-aboriginal man. Bite-sized portions of geology, meta-geography, biology, archeology, and anthropology will be introduced in layman's terms within a multi-media presentation of video excerpts, PowerPoint-lecture and touch object “show and tell.”
3 parts $59 *Next session:TBA "LEGENDS OF FREDERICK: Johnson, Key, Fritchie & Engelbrecht"
You've heard their names, and may know parts of their life stories. Participants will have the opportunity to hear about four individuals who certainly shaped Frederick history as we know it. All were born in the 1700s and lived through the War of 1812. Thomas Johnson, Jr. was a Revolutionary War hero with a most impressive resume. Francis Scott Key and Barbara Fritchie have songs/poems written about them in connection with the American flag being attacked by an enemy. Jacob Engelbrecht, a tailor and former mayor, kept a diary of Frederick events and opinions from 1819-1878 (the year of his death).
Next Session: Online via Zoom in January 2026 4 parts $59 (Discounted bundle price) or ala carte ($20/each) Group WALKING TOURSFREDERICK HISTORY MOUNT OLIVET WALKING TOUR (1700s-1800s)
This 1.3 mile walking tour of historic Mount Olivet Cemetery perfectly complements the content learned within Chris Haugh's "Frederick History 101" course. It features stops at the final resting places of several individuals introduced in our 101 (Frederick 101) course lectures. This version will focus on outstanding citizens and events of the 1700s and 1800s such as Francis Scott Key, Thomas Johnson and Barbara Fritchie among several others, as participants will experience the historic parts of the cemetery for this 2 hour+ experience. (bathroom break)
2.5 hour Walking Tour $20 "UP FROM THE MEADOWS"/ BLACK HISTORY WALKING TOUR OF MOUNT OLIVET CEMETERY
Participants will discover unique links to local, state and national Black (African American) history through visiting the grave sites of a collection of men and women buried in Frederick's historic Mount Olivet Cemetery--at one time a segregated cemetery before 1954. You will be pleasantly surprised with what you will learn. Scheduled for 2 hours, the route will be about 1.3 miles in length, mostly on macadam roadways with occasional walking on grass to access gravesites.
2+ hour Walking Tour $20 *TBA |
CHRIS HAUGH'S
"FREDERICK HISTORY 201" CLASS 
A full overview and great deal of information was covered in the "101" class, but here in "201" things are slowed down a bit for closer inspection and discussion of events and individuals that helped shape the Frederick we have today. This course will employ PowerPoint slides, along with video clips from the "Frederick Town" documentary. Best of all, we will feature a special guest historian each week who will drop by for a "one on one" talk with Chris on specific aspects of our rich history. (Recorded interviews with Christina Martinkosky, Tee & Theresa (Mathias) Michel, John Ashbury & Don Linton)
4 parts $79 Next HSP session TBA "INDIAN TRIBES, EXPLORERS and FUR TRADERS IN THE MONOCACY VALLEY"
Based on the video documentary entitled “Sugarloaf: The Quest for Riches and Redemption in the Monocacy Valley," this course features a historical journey into the once, "howling wilderness" of today’s Frederick County as it existed between three and four centuries ago. This period encompasses the European Contact and Colonial periods (1600s and early 1700s), and nicely bridges the pre-history of the region to the point of Maryland's 1634 founding and European habitation over the next century. The course will explore the American Indian tribes who lived here in the Monocay and Middletown Valleys, along with European explorers and fur traders who once travelled the area that would later become Frederick County in 1748. The course will be taught through film excerpts and PowerPoint-lecture.
3 parts $59 *Next session in November 2025 Key Chapel (Mount Olivet Cemetery) Monday nights 6-8:00pm (November 3, 10 and 17) "FREDERICK & THE WILD WEST"
At the time of its creation, Frederick town was on the western frontier of Maryland and American European settlement. Over the next century and a half, westward expansion would reach across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. Frederick has several ties to this important story through past residents, subtle roles in national events such as the Lewis & Clark Expedition, California Gold Rush, Indian Wars and the US Cavalry and visits to town by legendary "Wild West" icons such as Buffalo Bill Cody. I guess you could call it "Frederick's Manifest Destiny."
Class # 4 will consist of a 2-hour "Wild West"-inspired walking tour of Mount Olivet Cemetery focusing on individuals talked about in class and buried here. Next Session: TBA FREDERICK HISTORY MOUNT OLIVET WALKING TOUR (1900s-Present)
This 1.3 mile walking tour of historic Mount Olivet Cemetery echoes content learned within Chris Haugh's "Frederick History 101" course. It features stops at the final resting places of individuals introduced in our (101) course lectures. This tour will focus on outstanding citizens of the 1900s up through the present with stops at the gravesites of banker Joseph D. Baker, fashion designer Claire McCardell, Hood College president Joseph Henry Apple, inventor Harry Lebherz and those buried under the World War II Memorial among several others. Participants will traverse the newer part of the cemetery.(bathroom)
2.5 hour Walking Tour $20 MOUNT OLIVET CEMETERY
CIVIL WAR TOUR 
This insightful walking tour features former residents who participated in and experienced first-hand the American Civil War. Mount Olivet was opened less than a decade before the conflict and possessed a contract with the federal government to bury here the dead of both armies who passed in Frederick's "one vast hospital." Many local veterans survived the horrors of war and came back to Frederick to continue their lives in peaceful times. They would be laid to rest here in family lots. Civilians like Barbara Fritchie, Rev. Daniel Zacharias and Glenn Worthington played unique roles in Civil War lore and they, too, repose here.
(Note: This tour can be taken ala carte or is already bundled as a special FREE bonus to go with the 3-week Frederick in the Civil War ONLINE course being taught via Zoom (Aug.27-Sept. 10-See Course offering) 2+hour Walking Tour $20 *Wednesday, September 17 @6pm |
"UP FROM THE MEADOWS":
FREDERICK BLACK HISTORY CLASS 
Established in 1748, the north-central Maryland environs of Frederick County is a perfect case study for African-American cultural history, as it once represented “a border county within a border state” during the American Civil War, being situated below the Mason-Dixon Line and Pennsylvania to the north, and the Potomac River and Virginia to the south. Chris Haugh produced the 1997 documentary/film entitled “Up From the Meadows: A History of Black Americans in Frederick County, Maryland.” As the title suggests, this program includes an interesting study of Frederick County Black history through the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, covering the time periods from slavery to emancipation, and segregation to civil rights equality within a divided Maryland. “Up From the Meadows” features an esteemed group of former residents as on-camera commentators including Kathleen Snowden, William O. Lee, Jr., Lord Nickens, Arnold Delauter and Dr. Blanche Bourne-Tyree to name a few.
4 parts $79 *Next session in mid-Sept 2025 Key Chapel (Mount Olivet Cemetery) Tuesday nights 6-8pm (September 23, 30 and Oct 7, 14) FREDERICK, MARYLAND IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
(NOTE: Online course via Zoom)
Chris Haugh oversaw the production of an Emmy® award-winning film entitled “Maryland’s Heart of the Civil War." The documentary debuted in 2012 and was produced by MPT (Maryland Public Television), airing on PBS stations nationwide. In this 3-part course, Chris will offer a detailed recap of events that tied Frederick, both city and county, to the greatest political and physical struggle fought to preserve or destroy the young United States of America. Through the use of illustrated PowerPoint presentations, diary entries and anecdotes from newspapers/history accounts and clips from the “Maryland’s Heart of the Civil War” documentary, this course will explore the three major campaigns that came through our area and the direct impact the Civil War had on the local landscape and citizenry. As a very special bonus, participants of this class are invited to take a 2-hour "Civil War-inspired" walking tour of Frederick's Mount Olivet Cemetery with Chris focusing on Civil War veterans buried here, along with local citizens of note. This is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 6pm. 3-part class $59 *Online session via Zoom Wednesday nights 7-9:00pm (August 27, September 3, 10) THE "UNSETTLING" CANDLELIGHT WALKING TOUR OF MOUNT OLIVET
This is not a ghost tour, although we will talk about one or two. Instead, the name of this "walking excursion" includes stories reverently told and guaranteed to leave you with an uncomfortable and "unsettling" feeling. This will include sorrow, compassion and empathy for the decedents whose graves are visited on our sojourn, and their surviving families. Many of these tales have been featured in Chris' popular"Stories in Stone" blog series found on FaceBook and MountOlivetHistory.com.
Scheduled for 2 hours, the route will be about 1.5 miles in length, mostly on macadam roadways with occasional walking on grass to access gravesites. Participants should be 16 years of age or over as much of the subject matter is intended for more mature audiences. Dress appropriately including proper footwear, and feel free to bring a drink and a flashlight, or your own lantern. Rain or Shine (unless extreme weather conditions in which contingency plans will be made for make up tours). Parking and meet time/place info given later. 2+ hour Walking Tour $20 (All New) 2025 Edition Offerings: Thursday, Oct. 23rd @7pm Saturday, Oct. 25 @7pm Friday, Oct. 31(Halloween) @7pm Saturday, Nov. 1 @7pm Give the Gift of History!
Purchase a History Shark Productions gift certificate for a Christmas, holiday or birthday gift for that special relative, friend or co-worker.
Gift certificates can be bought at the $100, $80, $60, $40 and $20 range levels, and can be utilized for purchasing both history lecture and walking tour classes, the latter running $20/each. Mix and match tours and classes as well! A physical, numbered certificate will be sent out to the buyer (or the recipient if instructed), along with instructions on how to specifically register for 2025 classes with this certificate. Contact Chris with any questions: [email protected] |
Private Walking Tours
Contact Chris at: [email protected] to discuss