Bernard L. Herman, Ph.D., the George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southerns Studies and Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hall, gives the second talk in Homewood Museum's fall architectural lecture series, discussing "Town House Terroir: The Flavor of Place in Baltimore's Vernacular Buildings."

The houses of early American and Atlantic world seaport cities, Baltimore among them, evolved through a complex and nuanced culture of local and international perceptions and relationships. Beginning with humble one-story wooden dwellings in Fells Point, Dr. Herman will explore the nature of those conversations through the metaphor of terroir, simply the taste of place, and how locale flavors not just the appearance of buildings but also how they are experienced and understood in the flows of everyday life.

Guests are invited to attend a 5 p.m. reception at Homewood Museum to see the related special exhibition A Winter's Residence: Charles Carroll of Homewood's Town Houses, 1800-1816, before the 6 p.m. lecture in Gilman Hall 50.