Nabb Center Presents 'The Families of San Domingo' Thursday, February 3

Tuesday January 25, 2011

SALISBURY, MD---San Domingo, a community located in northern Wicomico County between Mardela Springs and Sharptown, was founded by free African-Americans in the early 1800s.

Lifelong residents Rudolph Stanley and Newell Quinton discuss the history of this community during the panel discussion “The Families of San Domingo, Wicomico County” 7 p.m. Thursday, February 3. The event is at Salisbury University’s Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture Gallery in the East Campus Complex, 190 Wayne Street.

Stanley is a Wicomico county educator and lay minister at Zion United Methodist Church. Quinton is a U.S. Army veteran and former director of the Baltimore regional office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Their discussion is part of SU’s annual African-American History Month celebration.

Sponsored by the Nabb Research Center, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-6312 or visit the center’s Web site at http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu.