The Guild for Life Bibliographies

Andrew G. Truxal Library compiles monthly a bibliography for the The Guild for L.I.F.E. to accompany members to their trips and/or tours. Each month the Guild for Life visits museums, parks, gardens, art galleries and factories from the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information, please visit: The Guild for Life.

This archive of past trips is a great resource to identify special places to visit in our region. Browse by year to to see trips that are all day trips from AACC. 

"The mission of the National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) is recognizing inventors and invention, promoting creativity and advancing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship."  Source: NIHF website. 2020.  www.invent.org/about-us 

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) It is a Museum dedicated to engineers and patent inventors founded in 1973 by H. Hume Mathews from the office of  the National Council of Patent Law Associations (now the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations)

The C & D Canal stands for the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal which is a 14 mile-long deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with the Chesapeake Bay.  The Canal is run by the US Army Corps of Engineers and as a landmark it sets the northern limit to the Delmarva Peninsula.

Ladew Topiary Garden is located in Monkton, Maryland.  The garden is a Topiary and  displays the work concerned with the trimming, shaping and training of ornamental plants to give them attractive shapes and figures.

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens was the Georgian style house of philantropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. Among its collections has collections of French Art and also Russian Art. One famous exhibits at the estate is the Romanov's Faberge Eggs collection.

Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens is located in Washington, D.C.

The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum is located at  the Martin State Airport in Middle River, Maryland.  It is themed on the life of Glenn L. Martin and it is about aviation with descriptions on the Glenn L. Martin Company and the more recent, Lockheed Martin Company. 

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine has information about the surgeon tools and military hospital ward in the area of Frederick, Maryland. The approximate dimensions of the Museum are about 650 square meters in which you can see the tools used in an army camp of that era.