Art is Tasty Friday, February 7 | Noon – 1 pm Join us for a 30-minute discussion of Howard Pyle’s Flying Dutchman followed by with a delicious lunch in the Thronson Café. $12 Members, $14 Non-Members. (Café lunch voucher included in price). Register. Inside Look Sunday, February 23 | 2 pm Friday, February 28 | […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Shipwrights from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., have gone international in their efforts to ensure the construction of a historically accurate and truly authentic new Maryland Dove. In October 2019, CBMM’s Lead Shipwright Joe Connor and Rigger Sam Hilgartner traveled overseas to learn from professional boatbuilders at […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is looking for new volunteers to support all aspects of the museum, with free training offered for new and current volunteers throughout the spring and summer. “CBMM would not be the success it is today without the generous commitment of our incredible […]
Continue ReadingDelaware Art Museum’s new Winter Hours Museum Hours: January 1 – March 31 Wednesday – Sunday: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Monday and Tuesday: CLOSED If you are planning a visit to the Museum on a Thursday this winter, please note our winter hours. From January 1 through March 31, the Museum will close on […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is inviting the public to get hands on with its restoration of 1912 river tug Delaware this winter and spring through its Apprentice for a Day Program. Participants will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with CBMM shipwrights and learn the fundamentals of boatbuilding by taking […]
Continue ReadingAs 2019 comes to a close it’s time to begin looking at what’s happening between the Bays in 2020. Here are 12 upcoming events to put on your 2020 calendar. Winter is usually a quiet time on the Delmarva Peninsula. Some though are embracing the winter and there are two Fire and Ice Festivals coming […]
Continue ReadingDover, DE – Submarine Operations during World War II were some of the most dangerous and clandestine operations of the war, that provided warfare commanders unmatched capability in anti-shipping, mining, insertion/support of Special Forces, intelligence & warning, search & recovery, anti-submarine warfare, and reconnaissance that helped turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic […]
Continue ReadingSt Michaels – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., will begin its Winter Speaker Series on Thursday, January 30, and continue on select dates through Thursday, February 25, 2020. All sessions take place in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium, and advance registration is encouraged. This year’s Winter Speaker Series will explore the Chesapeake […]
Continue ReadingSt Michaels – This winter, shipwrights at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., will take on the restoration of a subject they’re all too familiar with — a Chesapeake Bay sailing log canoe. Part of CBMM’s small craft collection, Glide is a three-log canoe believed to have been built c. 1864 at […]
Continue ReadingQueenstown, MD – Lauren Monroe, author of The Maryland Shores women’s fiction series will greet book-buying customers, looking for last-minute gifts on Monday, December 23, 2019 at Book Warehouse/Queenstown, all afternoon/evening. Monroe, who in real life is Loriann Oberlin, therapist and non-fiction author, has written two books in her series thus far, which is popular […]
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