ST MICHAELS, MD – Katelyn Kean of Newtown, Conn., has joined the staff of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum as the registrar for its collection of more than 70,000 Bay-related objects. In this role, she will help to maintain this collection and its corresponding records, and facilitate access to it. In 2016, Kean completed her […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD – Audiences today generally know the career of Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) in three periods: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and “early Berkeley” periods of Abstract Expressionism; the Berkeley figurative/representational period; and lastly the famous Ocean Park and Healdsburg series of abstractions. Yet Diebenkorn’s earliest work remains very little known. The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Wednesday, February 27, 2019) St Michaels, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a Spring Boat Sale on Sunday, April 14, 2019 to help the public find their new boat ahead of the start of sailing season. Set for 10am–4pm, this one-day sale will bring more than 50 boats […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering five Maryland DNR-approved boater safety courses, beginning on select dates in April and continuing through August. Courses will be held April 3–4 from 5–9pm, May 4–5 from 9am–1pm, June 20–21 from 5–9pm, July 13–14 from 1–5pm, and Aug. 7–8 from 5–9pm. Each two-day course […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Small boats and big fun are in store for guests of all ages as the Model Guild of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Washington Ship Model Society host the 13th Maritime Model Expo on Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19 at CBMM in historic, waterfront St. Michaels, Md. […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – An exhibition showcasing many roles of women both in maritime industries and beyond will open at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., this spring. On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection features the work of Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld, who created the […]
Continue ReadingChestertown — As the new year begins, so do new hours for the Bordley History Center. The Bordley History Center, home to the Historical Society of Kent County, is located at the corner of High and Cross Streets in Chestertown’s Historic District. New hours are: Beginning April 6, First Friday in April, Thursdays and Fridays […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is offering a metal casting workshop in its working shipyard from Wednesday, April 10, through Friday, April 12, with an additional day on Sunday, April 14, 2019. Held from 9am-4pm on all four days, the workshop is for participants ages 16 and […]
Continue ReadingDOVER, DE – DNREC’s Brandywine Zoo assisted Chester County, Pa. law enforcement by taking into the zoo’s care a two-foot-long, juvenile American alligator that was found inside a Coatesville, Pa. home during a February 8, 2019 drug bust in the town some 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia The Brandywine Zoo agreed to house the alligator […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum had added two new Shipwright Apprentices to its team — Moses Dane of Albany, Calif., and Stephen North of New Hill, N.C. Dane comes to CBMM after spending the past decade in Olympia, Wash., working at South Sound Shipwrights on boat refit projects. Before that, he […]
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