News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
For many Memorial Day weekend is associated with Chestertown and the Tea Party Festival that celebrates the town’s colonial past. It takes a great deal of planning and preliminarily work to put on the festival every year. Planning begins more than 6 months and when the decision was made to cancel the festival, for the […]
Continue ReadingIt is with regret that the Chestertown Tea Party Festival Committee has made the decision to cancel the 2020 Festival. So much remains unknown with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic. Experience from countries infected at a much earlier date than the United States suggests that infections could continue over a period of two to three […]
Continue ReadingEven without the Budweiser Clydesdales the Chestertown Tea Party Festival had great attendance. Last year with the attendance of the Clydesdales as part of the parade Chestertown Tea Party Festival saw record attendance. This year there wasn’t nearly as many, but still had a large crowd. And why not? The weather was delightful and there […]
Continue ReadingFor many Memorial Day weekend is associated with Chestertown and the Tea Party Festival that celebrates the town’s colonial past. In 1774 the town issued “The Chestertown Resolves” which was their answer to the British after learning of the Boston Tea Act, that was in retaliation for Bostonians dumping tea into the harbor. The fourth […]
Continue ReadingThe Chestertown Tea Party Committee is proud to announce that Captain Andrew McCown of Betterton is this year’s Honorary Grand Marshal and the 2019 Edna Ross Award for outstanding service to the community to Ralph Dowling, CEO/President of Peoples Bank. “Cap’n Andy” will be temporarily trading his customary perch atop a Tea Party Re-enactment barrel […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Edna E. Lockwood, the last historic sailing bugeye in the world and queen of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s floating fleet, will embark this May on a National Park Service partly-funded heritage tour around the Chesapeake Bay. Edna Lockwood recently underwent a two-year restoration of her nine-log hull at CBMM. She […]
Continue ReadingMain Street Historic Chestertown and the Chestertown Arts & Entertainment District have awarded cash prizes to three individual artists and two classes of art students at Garnet Elementary who decorated cotton “tea bag” tote bags as part of the Tea Party Festival celebration. Judges were Carla Massoni, owner of Massoni Art, and John Schratwieser, executive […]
Continue ReadingThis past weekend Chestertown held their Annual Tea Party Festival. Were you there? Relive the weekend with the photographs of ShoreToBeFun Photographs. If you missed it, see what you missed and plan for next year. The 43rd Chestertown Tea Party Festival will be held on 2019 Memorial Day Weekend. May 25 May 26 May 27 […]
Continue ReadingThe tale is that in May of 1774 that the town on the Chester, Chestertown had a tea party much like the one in Boston a few month earlier. That event is recreated each year in Chestertown during Saturday if Memorial Day weekend. If you haven’t been to the Chestertown Tea Party Festival, which is […]
Continue ReadingThe Chestertown Arts & Entertainment District and the Main Street Chestertown Design Committee announce the Tea Party Festival Tea Bag public art project for 2018. Artists, designers, students and creative spirits of all ages are invited to decorate cotton tote-bags with Tea Party or Chestertown themes and can compete for cash prizes. The tote bags […]
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