EASTON, MARYLAND — Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. Frederick Douglass Day returns to downtown Easton — the birthplace county where Douglass was born into slavery in 1818 and where the Frederick Douglass Honor Society says his early experience, for better and worse, helped form the character, intellect, and determination that later drove his abolitionist and equal-rights work.

The Honor Society’s site states Frederick Douglass Day 2026 will be held Saturday, Sept. 26, in downtown Easton, with a parade, welcome ceremony, entertainment, food, children’s activities, and a lecture, and asks visitors to return for updates. Its events page repeats the Sept. 26, 2026 date. Discover Easton, posting the Honor Society invitation, puts the day at 11 North Washington Street and says festivities start at 10:00 a.m. with a parade from Easton Elementary School to the County Courthouse; all Frederick Douglass Day events are free and open to the public. Talbot 250’s event page lists Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and frames the day as honoring Douglass in his birthplace. Discover Easton opens festivities at 10 a.m.; Talbot 250 lists 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Mid-Shore Going Purple Together is also Saturday, Sept. 26, at Moton Park (501 Port Street), 11 a.m.–2 p.m., about a mile from downtown. The two free public events overlap in hours. See Mid-Shore Going Purple Together Returns Saturday, Sept. 26, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. at Moton Park for recovery-month details.

This is the county’s annual public day for Douglass on the fourth Saturday in September during the Semiquincentennial year. The Honor Society’s own goal language keeps the hard frame — birthplace experience under slavery, a life aimed at ending that institution, oratory and influence through the Civil War and Reconstruction-era struggle.

Check frederickdouglasshonorsociety.com and Discover Easton for additions as Sept. 26 nears.