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FALL 2015 PLUS! 2014 - 2015 Annual Report, page 27. Mission Statement Museum Staff The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is Ida Heelan, Events Coordinator, 4944 dedicated to preserving and exploring the President Fall 2015 Liza Ledford, Events Coordinator, 4978 contents history, environment and people of the Kristen L. Greenaway, 4951 Callie Pfeiffer, Communications & Special Events Intern Chesapeake Bay. Trish See, Executive Assistant & Human Resources Manager, 4955 Museum Values Guest Services, Development & Museum Store Preservation & Interpretation René Stevenson, Vice President of Constituent Services, 4950 Relevance. We provide meaningful and Jen Matthews, Major Gifts Officer, 4959 Pete Lesher, Chief Curator, 4971 accessible experiences to everyone who Debbie Collison, Membership Manager, 4991 Richard Scofield, Assistant Curator of Watercraft, 4966 5 14 1920 cares about our Mission—all of our Julie Barnett, Development Administrator, 4995 Kate Livie, Director of Education, 4947 communities and constituencies. Helen Van Fleet, Special Events Assistant, 4961 Allison Speight, Education Assistant, 4941 Ed Rowe, Guest Services Manager, 4945 Eric Applegarth, Exhibition Specialist, 4945 Authenticity. We seek genuinely to Stan Mathey, Dockmaster, 4946 Lynne Phillips, Collections Manager, 4972 represent the people and cultures whose Sara McCafferty, Museum Store Manager, 4963 Abby Heller, Education Intern stories we preserve and tell. Leah Brady, Assistant Museum Store Manager, 4982 Katie Gill, Curatorial Intern Stewardship. We value the priceless assets Boatyard Finance entrusted to us and accept their preserva- Jean Brooks, Vice President of Finance, 4958 Michael Gorman, Boatyard Manager, 4968 tion and enhancement as our paramount Craig Atwood, Director of Finance, 4985 Jennifer Kuhn, Boatyard Program Manager, 4980 responsibility—our collections, our campus Patti Miller, Staff Accountant, 4954 Joe Connor, Vessel Maintenance Assistant and facilities, our financial resources and John Jones, Finance Intern Brooke Ricketts, Shipwright Apprentice the volunteers and staff who perform our Jack Roesner, Shipwright Apprentice Operations Mission and make our Museum the rich Hans Wagner, Shipwright Apprentice Bill Gilmore, Vice President of Operations, 4949 enterprise it is. Jack Radcliffe, Small Craft Rental Assistant John Ford, Facilities Manager, 4970 , Small Craft Rental Assistant Sign up for our Navy Point News Ellen Benbow Lad Mills, Boat Donation Program Director, 4942 and stay up-to-date on all of the Communications & Special Events Todd Taylor, Boat Donation Program Manager, 4990 Alex Gadson, Boat Donation Program Assistant news and events at the Museum. Tracey Munson, Vice President of Communications, 4960 Sam Fairbank, Facilities Maintenance Assistant, 4969 Marie Thomas, Communications & Art Director, 4953 Email [email protected] to be Joseph Redman, Facilities Maintenance Assistant, 4969 added to our mailing list. Melissa Spielman, Director of Events & Volunteer Program, 4956 CONNECT WITH US: To contact any staff listed above, dial 410-745, and the number listed. To email, use first initial, full last [email protected]. Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum 2015 Board of Governors 213 North Talbot Street St. Michaels, MD 21663 Richard C. Tilghman, Jr., Chair Lelde Schmitz 410-745-2916 • cbmm.org James P. Harris, Vice Chair/Treasurer Alfred Tyler, 2nd Richard W. Snowdon, Treasurer-Elect Carolyn H. Williams HOURS: Richard J. Bodorff, Secretary Emeriti May to October, 9am–5pm Diane Staley, Officer at Large November to April, 10am–4pm Schuyler Benson Richard T. Allen Harry W. Burton CG Appleby On the cover: William B. Carter Howard S. Freedlander William S. Dudley Alan R. Griffith The Chesapeake Log David E. Dunn Margaret D. Keller CBMM’s log canoe Buffleheadunder sail on Dagmar D. P. Gipe Breene M. Kerr PRESIDENT’S LETTER LIFELINES CALENDAR the Miles River. Photo by Tracey Munson. 4 13 22 Leeds Hackett Richard H. Kimberly by Kristen L. Greenaway Volunteer Profile: Pat Shehan Watermen’s Appreciation Day, Annual Report, 2014-2015 Christopher A. Havener Charles L. Lea, Jr. by Callie Pfeiffer Charity Boat Auction, Boating CBMM volunteer Lloyd Devigne takes Kids Robert N. Hockaday, Jr. D. Ted Lewers, MD Club participants out on Winnie Estelle for Francis Hopkinson, Jr. Fred C. Meendsen CURRENTS Party, Mid-Atlantic Small Craft an ecology cruise. Photo by Bill Wilhelm. Fred Israel John C. North II 5 Three new exhibitions opened; FEATURE Festival, OysterFest, Woodworking Sumner Parker 14 Workshops, Waterfowling Cruise, Editors: Marie Thomas & Tracey Munson Richard J. Johnson new employees, interns and board Preserving Chesapeake Traditions Creative Director: Marie Thomas Peter M. Kreindler Robert A. Perkins Speaker Series, and more! members announced; campus on an Incoming Tide of Change Deborah Lawrence Joseph E. Peters by Dick Cooper Contributing Writers: Elizabeth S. Loker James K. Peterson maintenance; CBMM Friends Board; 27 ANNUAL REPORT Dick Cooper, Ann DeMart, Kristen Frank C. Marshall Norman H. Plummer and new this fall at the Academy The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Greenaway, Pete Lesher, Callie Pfeiffer, Donald L. Martin John J. Roberts ON THE RAIL for Lifelong Learning. 19 Museum’s Honor Roll of Donors Kate Livie, Tracey Munson, Richard Patrice Miller Tom D. Seip A Little Boat with a Big Name for fiscal year 2014-2015. Tilghman, Marie Thomas. Geoffrey F. Oxnam Henry H. Spire James E. Thomas CURATOR’S CORNER and a Bright Future The Chesapeake Log is a publication of Bruce A. Ragsdale 12 Benjamin Tilghman, Jr. Preserving a Shapely Log Canoe by Dick Cooper the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Charles A. Robertson Bruce Rogers Joan Darby West by Pete Lesher Donald G. Whitcomb 2 FALL 2015 THE CHESAPEAKE LOG & ANNUAL REPORT, 2014-2015 THE CHESAPEAKE LOG & ANNUAL REPORT, 2014-2015 FALL 2015 3 currents President’s Letter by Kristen L. Greenaway Three new exhibitions open at CBMM President’s Reception for More than a year after I started my tenure here at CBMM, I still begin my day with A Broad Reach: 50 Years a song in my heart. My family and I are hugely grateful to the entire community for of Collecting, May 22, 2015. The exhibition closes making us feel so welcome. I still smile when remembering one night some months February 28, 2016. ago coming home from an event at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, when our (top row, from left) then seven-year-old son remarked from the dark back seat, “I just love this new life Pete Lesher, Ethel North that I’m creating for myself!” and Judge John C. North. We have achieved much in this first year, and we have much to be proud of. Soon (right) The upstairs of after I joined CBMM, I gave a great deal of thought to ways the Museum could A Broad Reach features a better partner with its local and regional communities, and in turn become a real sail loft and Miss Freedom, among other items from social resource. Thus strengthening relationships with these communities is now the collection. a key focus, and I believe the partnerships that have evolved are testaments to the (second row, left) Bill Millar, benefits we can all create by working supportively and creatively together. Planning CBMM President Kristen for our 50th Anniversary—CBMM was founded in 1965—acted as a real catalyst, Greenaway, and and I take a great deal of pride in establishing a CBMM Friends Board—a group of Maxine Millar. 25 or so individuals who also have their local and regional communities at heart— (second row, right) John who are helping to guide the Museum in its endeavors to strengthen its partnerships Nielsen, Thelma Gretzinger, Norman and Ellen Plummer. and develop new ones. Also extremely rewarding has been developing a strong partnership with the (third row) Museum’s board, staff and volunteers. The board is fully engaged and hugely p-su Preview evening for portive of the plans we have for the future. My staff team and volunteer corps are Chesapeake Swan Song: outstanding. A key responsibility of mine and my development team is finding the From Commodity to resources we need to help staff and volunteers achieve their goals, whether that be Conservation, April 11, 2015. The exhibition delivering continuous Wi-Fi across campus, renovating the historic 1879 Hooper closes April 3, 2016. Strait Lighthouse (see page 9), building the three-log canoe Bufflehead—the first (left) Kristen Greenaway, since 1979 (read more on page 19)—designing and presenting highly professional Henry Stansbury and exhibitions (learn more starting on page 5), and feeding our resident Museum cat, Jim Deeter, of Guyette & Edna Sprit! Deeter, exhibition sponsors. Wherever I have lived, “home” for me has always been about a sense of place— how to discover the sense of place that a country or city has created for itself, and (bottom row) The Unseen Chesapeake: then developing my own sense of place in relation to that. Perhaps this is a part of Capturing the Bay’s Wild, being born and raised in New Zealand—a sense of place there is very strong: we Forgotten Landscapes, have a phrase—tangata whenua—the people of the land, a concept heavily imbued in June 25, 2015. The each Kiwi, and one I take with me where ever I have lived. And perhaps this is why exhibition closes November 20, 2015. I now feel so at home on the Eastern Shore and at CBMM—a very large part of our (left) CBMM Members and mission is working to preserve and explore the history, environment and people of the the public were invited to Chesapeake Bay—which is all about discovering a sense of place. the opening of the exhibition. It is our hope that through everything CBMM does—this publication, our (right) CBMM Director of upcoming programs and events (see page 22), our changing exhibitions, historic boat Education and curator for restorations, on-the-water and educational programming—that we can help you the exhibition, Kate Livie, embrace that same sense of authentic place, right here on the Chesapeake Bay. with Jay Fleming, whose photography is featured.