ST MICHAELS, MD – Following a historic two-year restoration project, 1889 bugeye Edna Lockwood was relaunched into the Miles River during the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s annual OysterFest on Saturday, October 27, 2018. Edna, queen of CBMM’s floating fleet, has spent the past several years having her nine-log hull completely replaced by CBMM shipwrights and […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – Bistro St. Michaels chef Doug Stewart has been named the first place winner in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s 2018 oyster stew competition, held Oct. 27 during OysterFest. Bistro St. Michaels and Stewart earn bragging rights with the People’s Choice award. Votes were taken during blind tastings of the different stews, […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – On Sunday, November 4, 2018 from 2-4 pm, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a Maryland’s Four Centuries Project seminar featuring Maryland Dove Captain Will Gates presenting research and development for a new replica of Maryland’s first ship. The seminar is one of four in a series hosted around the […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – In partnership with the Frederick Douglass Honor Society and the Talbot County Free Library, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting Dr. David Blight on Saturday, November 10 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm for a talk on his newly released Frederick Douglass biography. Admission is free, but limited to 120 ticket […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Model Guild is offering a beginner’s model boatbuilding workshop from 9am-5pm on November 17 and 18, with limited participation and advanced registration needed. The weekend workshop includes instruction on carving a solid half-hull model of the historic Chesapeake Bay tugboat Delaware. This model is band-sawed from […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The public is invited to join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum for a relaxing, waterfront yoga class on Friday, Oct. 19, from 5:45–6:30pm. The class will be taught by certified instructor and CBMM staff member Howard Parks. At 6:30pm, participants are invited to join staff at Great Shoals Cellars in St. […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – On Saturday, October 27, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St Michaels, Md. will host two live stages of music and an oyster stew competition as part of OysterFest. Oyster stew competitors include Sunflowers and Greens and Milestone Catering of Easton, Md.; Bistro St. Michaels, Theo’s Steaks, Sides & Spirits and […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s newest waterfowling exhibition will travel to the 48th annual Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Md. on November 9-11, 2018, before returning to CBMM’s Waterfowling Building through March 2019. Festival ticket holders can see the exhibition at Easton High School. Kent’s Carvers and Clubs: Guides, Gunners and Co-Ops […]
Continue ReadingST MICHAELS, MD – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is hosting a two-day Family Boatshop program on Saturday and Sunday, November 10 & 11, 2018 from 10-3pm, when participants will join CBMM Shipwrights to create their own hand-crafted decorative light. The lights will be constructed out of natural woods and hardware, with participants learning basic […]
Continue ReadingThe Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s 18-acre waterfront campus now boasts an apiary garden, located next to the historic Mitchell House on CBMM’s Fogg’s Landing, thanks to the hard work of St. Michaels student and Boy Scout, Brandon Foy. Foy’s project includes the apiary garden, along with an oyster shell pathway, two benches, and a kiosk, […]
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