Trinity Church, St. Mary's City

I knew the visit to the Trinity Church in St. Mary's City would be one of the harder ones. I went to school at St. Mary's sometime last century and left after the suicide of one of my closest friends.

I had returned a few times after the Governor's Cup, a yacht race which started on Friday evening off of Annapolis, and finished sometime on Saturday at Church Point at St. Mary's.

Trinity Church didn't play a huge role in my life at SMC, but I was aware of it, and certainly knew Church Point,

which we always used as a starting and finish line for regattas, and the Garden of Remembrance adjacent to the Church's graveyard, where you could get a birds' eye view of the racing.

The first church on this site dates to the 1676, when St. Mary's was the capital of the state of Maryland. When it moved to Annapolis in 1694, the former state house building was used for the church.  

In 1829, construction on the present Trinity Church was begun, and the old State House, now beyond repair, was dismantled and the bricks used to build the present church. The old State House had been a church for 134 years, as compared to the 18 years it served the Province. 

St. Mary's College of Maryland is a public, liberal arts college in St. Mary's City, Maryland.

Established in 1840, St. Mary's College of Maryland is an honors college that claims to "offer an experience similar to that of an elite liberal arts college."

Sadly, because of the pandemic, I couldn't get inside the church. I actually didn't stay there too long as the ghosts from my past were too prevalent and along with the disruptions and the loss of our way of life as we knew it, it was all just too sad to bear.

Link to Medusa.

P.S. I had forgotten about this poem, written by Lucille Clifton, the Poet Laureate of St. Mary's. It was written to send off the sailing team, of which I used to be captain, and I think it's so appropriate now.