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Jerusalem Mill Village to Present Talk by College Park English Lit Professor
Dr. Michael Olmert, an Emmy Award-winning writer and English professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, will deliver a talk on the recently restored Lee Mansion kitchen at the historic Jerusalem Mill Village.
The village is located at 2813 Jerusalem Road, on the banks of the Little Gunpowder Falls in Harford County, near Kingsville, Maryland.
The talk will be given in the Lee Mansion kitchen while historical reenactor Betsy Keithley demonstrates hearth cooking. A lunch will be held after the lecture.
A Talbot County resident who was born and raised in Washington, D.C., Dr. Olmert is the author of “Kitchens, Smokehouses, & Privies” (Cornell University Press). He has taught Shakespeare and drama at College Park for for 37 years.
His writing for the Discovery Channel has won three Primetime Emmys. Dr. Olmert has written more than 90 TV documentaries, five books, three feature films and seven plays.
One of his plays, “Shakespeare and Doctor Lopez,” is about Roderigo Lopez (1517-1594), who served as physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I.
A Portuguese converso (or New Christian of Jewish ancestry), Lopez may have inspired the character of Shylock in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.”
