ST MICHAELS, MD – At 2pm on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the historic buyboat Winnie Estelle with an illustrated talk. After shipping fish and oysters purchased from watermen to city markets or seafood packing houses for decades, Winnie Estelle moved south […]
Continue ReadingThe inaugural Good Beer, Good Bites event will take place at the Wicomico Civic Center on Saturday, October 3, 2020. This intimate seated tasting experience will feature dinner, three flights of craft beer, live music and tabletop games. Schedule & Menu 6 p.m.: Doors 7 p.m.: Warm-Up • Popcorn & First Flight 7:15 p.m.: Appetizers […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering another three-evening session of its virtual Maryland DNR-approved boater safety course on Mondays, September 14, 21 & 28, 2020, from 5–8pm. Led by CBMM educators, the boater’s safety course will be a live virtual offering, giving participants the opportunity to interact and engage with […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Throughout the month of September, families are invited to join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Rising Tide Program for afternoons of FREE fishing off of CBMM’s docks. Participants in Free Fishing Fridays, held from 5–7pm, are encouraged to bring their own fishing gear, with a limited supply available for those who […]
Continue ReadingEaston, MD – A key feature of the Chesapeake Film Festival (October 1-4) is the delightfully, quirky, homage to the typewriter, California Typewriter. According to a review in the New York Times (‘California Typewriter’: Preserving the Past, Key by Key by Jeannette Catsoulis, Aug. 17, 2017): “California Typewriter might center on a small, beleaguered typewriter […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – When Maryland’s Eastern Shore and surrounding regions look to rebound from the devastating economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., aims to serve as a leader in those efforts. “CBMM is a proven driver of our local economy,” said CBMM President Kristen […]
Continue ReadingEASTON, MD Academy Art Museum Reopens with Two New Exhibitions and a Variety of Classes in September New Photography II August 1 – October 7, 2020 New Photography II, a biennial juried competition, includes photographic artists at all stages of their career and will be open through October 7, 2020. The exhibition aims to highlight […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD is hosting another session of its virtual tool-sharpening workshop on Saturday, September 19, 2020 from 10am–noon. The workshop will focus on gouges and other oddly shaped edge tools. By using grinding wheels and stones to sharpen your tools, practice and just a […]
Continue ReadingBringing Our Festival to the World and the World to Our Festival For Free! Easton, MD – From films made around the Chesapeake Bay, to films produced on the West Coast, to films from across the ocean, our 2020 Festival promises to be the most diverse and exciting in the 13-year-history of the Chesapeake Film […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Forty years of images by documentary photographer David W. Harp will be on display this fall at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in a new exhibition titled Where Land and Water Meet: The Chesapeake Bay Photography of David W. Harp. Scheduled for September 25, 2020 through Sept. 20, 2021, Where Land […]
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