Special Activities & Demonstrations Must-See Boats INFORMATION BOOTH & FIRST AID: Located near the Waterfowl Building. Pick up a map and Retriever Marker Demonstrations: Members of the Chesapeake P.E. Pruitt: This 1925 Crisfield-built buyboat is owned by Kevin Flynn, Kevin is happy program, sign up for the Slurping Contest or stop by if you are in need of First Aid. Bay Retriever Relief and Rescue (CBRR&R) will be on-hand to discuss Maryland’s official to talk about the buyboat’s role as the middle-man, making the rounds to purchase dog and to demonstrate its retrieving ability. Demonstrations on the point near the At from tongers and dredgers aboard skipjacks, and other Chesapeake Play on the Bay Building at 11am, Noon, 1pm and 2pm. vessels before transferring them to a wholesaler or oyster processing house. Located at the end of Waterman’s Wharf dock. Cooking Demonstrations: Join local chefs as they prepare exciting oyster dishes. Muriel Eileen: Built in 1926, the Muriel Eileen is a wooden deadrise Chesapeake Bay Maritime Traditions 11:30am Chef Jason Huls-Miller & Owner Jon Mason of Town Dock Food & Spirits buyboat typical of many similar boats of that time. It has a mast and boom forward of Working Boat Shop: Learn about traditional boatbuilding skills at CBMM’s SPAT! Bringing Oysters back to the Chesapeake Bay 12:30pm Chef Daniel Pochron of the Inn at Perry Cabin by Belmond’s Stars the hold with the pilothouse aft of the hold and the hull decked over. It is 58.3’ long working Boat Shop and learn what it takes to keep our floating fleet floating! Maryland and its federal partners are spending about $30 million a year in oyster 1:30pm Chef Patrick Fanning from the High Spot Gastropub with a 18.1’ beam. Carefully restored by the current owner, the Muriel Eileen is now a restoration. Is the investment paying off? Do the strategies to restore oysters endanger Decoy Carving: Meet artist Douglas Gibson as he demonstrates the art of decoy 2:30pm Chef Eric Nunamaker from Mike & Eric’s Front Street beautiful family yacht. Stop by the last dock near the Steamboat Building. carving near the Boat Shop. the watermen who harvest them? Ecology and culture clash in an investigative report Craft Vendors: Start your holiday shopping early! The variety of handmade arts and Slackwater: Slackwater is a built in Deltaville, Virginia by about efforts to increase oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay. Airing in the Signboard Carving: Join Ed Thieler in the Boat Shop as he carves nautical motifs crafts include jewelry, ornaments, natural soaps, decoys, photography, fiber art, scarves, Alvin Sibley. Now lovingly owned by Cindy and Dale Genther out of Rock Hall, Maryland Steamboat Building Auditorium at 12:15pm and 2:45pm. (28 minutes) stained glass and more and provide great inspirations for gifts. with knives and gouges. The Gowe Girls: Oyster Harvesting Vessel-Tonging (Also called shaft tonging): Available throughout campus and inside the Small Boat Shed all day. Knot Tying Demonstrations: Join Don Willey on the deck of the Small Boat Shed Another Dawn: Tilghman in Transition Meet the Captain of this privately-owned vessel and learn more about this strenuous tradi- to learn about various knot tying methods. Like generations before them, Tilghman Island’s watermen get up every morning and Conservation Organizations: Learn more about the ongoing conservation efforts to tional way to harvest oysters. Docked between Waterman’s Wharf and Small Boat Shed. save the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Oyster Recovery Partnership & Dipnet Making: Join net makers Wilson Roe and Harvey Reed adjacent to the head out to wrest a living from the Chesapeake Bay; “it’s in their blood.” But increas- NOAA’s Potawaugh is Algonquin for porpoise. This NOAA sonar research vessel Tilghman Islanders Grow Oysters (TIGO) are here to inspire you to get involved! Near Welcome Center to learn more about this craft. ingly they find it a challenge to make a living. As the Bay’s bounty declines, regulation the Steamboat Building. assists in oyster restoration mapping support. Stop by the last dock near the Steamboat increases, and the cost of operating a workboat escalates, watermen turn to other Building to learn more. Meet the Author: Children’s book author Jeff Dombek, author ofHow the Oysters livelihoods and their wives find office jobs to supplement their family’s income and Saved the Bay will be on the deck of the Oystering Building throughout the day and will Films provide health benefits.Another Dawn: Tilghman in Transition picks up the water- also be offering book readings for children. Also, award winning travel author, Leslie Family Activities Blind Spots: Threats to the Chesapeake men’s story where it left off inGrowing up on Tilghman. How do they deal with all the Adkins will be signing copies of Backroads & Byways of Chesapeake Bay-Drives, Build-a-Boat: Use your hands to make a wooden model boat, decorate it anyway you’d Emmy award-winning documentary explores three current and alarming threats to changes? How do they adapt? What do they see as the future for this true watermen’s like and then sail it on our small boat pond. Located in front of the Bay History Building. $3 Day Trips & Weekend Excursions in the Museum store from 1-5pm. the Chesapeake Bay: phosphorus-laden silt trapped behind Conowingo Dam on the community? What remains clear through all of their words, however, is the generosity, Make a Jelly Fish: This fun activity has kids making jellyfish from recycled bottle caps Susquehanna River; household and pharmaceutical products in waterways that are ingenuity, and beauty that distinguish this special community. Airing in the Steamboat Model Sailing: Join members of CBMM’s Model Sailing Club as they race and yarn. Next to the Waterfowling Building. Free. Building Auditorium at 1pm and 3:30pm. (25 minutes) remote controlled model skipjacks on Fogg’s Cove at 11am and 2pm. In the water near altering the physiology of fish; and, polluted storm water runoff from roadways and Oystering building. Chesapeake Beach Balls: Using sand, crabs, seaweed, bathing beauties, and driftwood, construction sites. Airing in the Steamboat Building Auditorium at 11:30am and 2pm. create a Chesapeake scene in an ornament you can hang on this year’s Christmas tree! Free. (27 minutes) Oyster Slurping Contest: Sign up at the information booth near the Waterfowling Giant Oyster Reef Jenga: Oyster reefs are like Jenga—all the animals support each Building to join in the fun of CBMM’s Oyster Slurping Contest. Contestants will slurp six other. To play this game, families can build a reef, and slowly pull each piece out to see oysters to compete for a small gift and the bragging rights for “Slurp King or Queen!” how long it takes for your reef to topple. Next to the Waterfowling Building. Free The contests will be held at the Bandstand at 1pm, 2pm and 3pm. The winner from each of the first three contests will go on to compete in the final contest following the third Drainpipe: Crawl through the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s giant drainpipe model to get round at 3:15pm. Participation is limited. Start Slurpin’! a better understanding of runoff into the Bay. Located near the Oystering Building. Free. With special thanks to our generous sponsors at Maryland Public Television, Fordham Competition: Sample oyster stew from six restaurants and vote for your Face Painting: Express yourself with a freshly painted new look! Adjacent to the favorite! Cost is $6, which includes an oyster-themed mug. Competition begins at 11am Welcome Center on Navy Point. $3, $5, $7. Brewing Company, George’s Bloody Mary Mix, The Hambleton Inn Bed & Breakfast, and continues while supplies last. The People’s Choice winner will be announced and Fishmobile: What lives in the Chesapeake? Visit some of the Bay’s creatures at the posted at 1pm at the Steamboat Building. Participating restaurants include: Phillips Wharf Environmental Center’s Fishmobile! See live specimens including fish, Pepsi, and Kelly Distributors. terrapins, horseshoe crabs, blue crabs, oyster toadfish, oysters, eel, box turtles and Theo’s Steaks, Sides & Spirits, St. Michaels, MD (last year’s first place winner) much more! Near the Steamboat Building. Free. Roy’s Kwik & Korner Carry Out, Glen Burnie MD Bistro St. Michaels, St. Michaels, MD Story Telling: Jeff Dombek, author of the children’s book, How the Oysters Saved Inn at Perry Cabin by Belmond’s Stars, St. Michaels, MD the Bay will offer a special reading for children at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, and 3:30pm High Spot Gastropub, Cambridge MD on the deck of the skipjack, E.C. Collier inside the Oystering Building. Free. Victory Garden Café, Easton, MD Boat Rides Scenic Cruise: Step aboard the buyboat Winnie Estelle for a 25-minute scenic cruise Oyster Shell Recycling: Oyster shell is a limited ecological resource that provides down the Miles River. Departs from the Hooper Strait Lighthouse every half-hour begin- crucial natural habitat for new oysters to grow in the Chesapeake Bay. The Oyster ning at 10:30am, with last cruise departing at 3:30pm. Cost: $5 per person, children Recovery Partnership’s Shell Recycling Alliance will collect all oyster shells used today under 12 are free. Sign-up under the lighthouse. for the oyster setting process at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Hatchery. Near the oysters on the half-shell food tents. Skipjack Cruise: Join Captain Ed Farley aboard the H.M. Krentz at 10:15am, 12:15pm, and 1:45pm for a special skipjack cruise. Cost: $10 per person, children under 12 are PLEASE REMEMBER TO: free. Sign-up under the lighthouse. Oyster Harvesting: What are oyster tongs and how are they used? Join us aboard our Recycle your Oyster Shells! Potomac River boat with an authentic Chesapeake Bay waterman to learn about this very hard way to harvest the Bay’s oysters. Departs every half hour from the deck of the Small Boat Shed. Free. 30 17 Swamp Donkey 17 Swamp 16 Mike Kelly Roadhouse Clams 16 The Music 15 Tent/Seating 14 Ruritan’s Cook-o 13 Oyster Stew 12 Justine’s Ice Cream 11 Mike’s Concessions 10 Hooper’s Island Oyster Company Station 9 Beverage 8 Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls 7 Oyster Tent - Talbot Co. Assoc. Watermen 6 Milestone Catering 5 Rosie’s Tavern Pizza Shoppe 4 The 3 Mike’s Ice Cream Station 2 Beverage 1 Ruritan’s Cider Food & Drink 14 28 17 Fogg’s Cove 32

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45 Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland | cbmm.org/oysterfest 11 36 23 43 38 63 12 “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” –Jonathan Swift 42 60 41

36 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Carving 35 Nameboard Wooden School 34 Chesapeake Boat Builders & Rescue Bay33 Chesapeake Retriever Relief Bay32 Chesapeake Foundation Book Signings 31 Store Fishmobile 30 Philips Wharf Contest 29 Oyster Slurping 28 MPT Films 27 Model Guild Small Boat Pond Activity 26 Knot Tying Ball Activity Beach 25 Oyster Jenga & Chesapeake 24 Facepainting Activity 23 CBF Drainpipe Demonstrations Bay22 Chesapeake Retriever Marker 21 Cooking Demonstrations 20 Children’s Book Reading with Je Dombeck 19 Boat Ride Sign-ups | Lighthouse 18 Boat Ride Sign-ups | Oyster Tonging Trips & ProgramsActivities INFORMATION BOOTH & FIRST AID: Located near the Waterfowl Building. Pick up a map and

21 program, sign up for the Oyster Slurping Contest or stop by if you are in need of First Aid. 20 59 Hooper’s Island Oyster Company: Bay oysters raised through sustain- Music able aquaculture available on the half shell offered raw and grilled. Oyster shucking demos Roadhouse Clams |11am-4pm |Tolchester Beach Bandstand and information about the mariculture industry, near the Steamboat Building. Hailing from the fertile musical soil of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the Roadhouse

40 Justine’s Ice Cream: Justine’s will be serving eight selections, including seasonal Clams are fueled by sour mash whiskey and back road attitude, playing rootsy flavors of Jack & Jill’s premium ice cream which has been served for over 25 years in St. redneck Americana gems. Roadhouse Clam fans connect with a sound that’s Michaels. Near the Mitchell House building on Fogg’s Landing. pure juke joint, with devilishly clever lyrics, tight harmonies, and white-hot musicianship that rollicks along like a runaway tractor trailer. Whether stomping Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls: Maine Classic Lobstah Roll, Maine Lobster Salad Roll, through feisty original compositions or launching into their own high-energy Connecticut Lobstah Roll, Maryland Crab Roll, Shrimp Roll, New England Clam Chowda, country-infused cover versions of pop, disco, and classic rock hits, the Roadhouse Lobstah Bisque, Lobster Salad, Crab Salad, Chips, Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, Coffee, Iced Tea, Soda, Water, Lemonade, Root Beer. Located near the Corn Crib. 47 Seating Table46 Registration/Information Station 45 Port-a-Potties/Handwashing Station 45 Port-a-Potties/Handwashing 44 Member Hospitality Support 43 Deadrise 42 Chesapeake 41 Buyboat 40 Buyboat Visiting Vessels 39 Oyster Recovery Partnership 39 Oyster Recovery Oysters Grow 38 Tilghman’s Islanders 37 Roe and Reed Dipnet Making

Clams are all about a good time, for both band and audience alike. Learn more NOAA’s Potawaugh FIRST AID at roadhouseclams.com. Mike’s Concessions: Crispy Chicken Tenderloins, Boardwalk Fries, Beef Hot Dogs, RESTROOMS Black Angus Burgers, Clam Strips, Fried Shrimp, Soft Shell Crab Sandwich, Soda, Water.

58 46 Swamp Donkey Newgrass |10am-4pm | Steamboat Deck

Located near Fogg’s Cove.

Muriel Eileen P.E. Pruitt

Swamp Donkey is a high energy Electric Newgrass band. They are made up of a 18 mixed bag of musicians with extremely diverse musical backgrounds. Stretching FIRST AID Milestone Catering: Pit Beef, Pit Turkey, BBQ Beef Sandwiches, Hot Dog, Veggie the “grass” concept to the limit and offering a unique sound in the process has Burgers, French Fries, Sweet Tea, Soda, Water, Lemonade. Near the Corn Crib.

44 been the goal of the band from the start. They pride themselves on solid vocal

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& Oyster Stew: After the oyster stew competition is over, be sure to enjoy oyster stew 26

54 The Gowe Girls The harmonies and tight transitions in rhythm and tempo! Known to deliver a combi- from last year’s second place winner. Roy’s Kwik Korner Carry Out from Glen Burnie will 56 57 27 nation of original tunes and unique covers that stretch out across many genres, be selling their winning stew under tent on Fogg’s Landing beginning around 12:30pm, the band will have listeners hearing a “grassed up” version of something they until supplies last. can stomp their feet to. Learn more at swampdonkeynewgrass.com. 24 34 Rosie Parks Oyster Stout: In honor of our skipjack Rosie Parks, Fordham Brewing 6

48 Mike Kelly |10am & during set-breaks | Tolchester Beach Bandstand 47

5 Company’s Rosie Parks Oyster Stout is served on tap throughout the event at either of 53

37 Songwriter Michael Kelly weaves melodic guitar playing and soulful vocals into 55 the two beverage stations and Rosie’s Tavern. Containing Chesapeake Bay oysters and

16 each of his songs. Naptownmusic.net recently described him as “one of our new shells, it is designed to pair well with oysters. A portion of the proceeds from each sale favorites.” He will debut a new song, The Boatbuilder, about legendary crafts- Mitchell House 63 Mitchell Garden 62 Heirloom 61 Steamboat Building 60 Oystering on the Chesapeake 59 Waterman’s Wharf 58 Waterfowling Building Building 57 Bay History Crib 56 Corn 55 Tolchester Bandstand Beach Co. 54 Small Boat Shed/MD Crab 53 At Play on the Bay Building Pilot House 52 Thor Lighthouse 51 Hooper Strait 50 Boatyard 49 Museum Store 48 Welcome Center/Information Museum Exhibits

49 will be donated to CBMM. Visit fordhambrewing.com for more info. Caution, this beer

29 man Bronza Parks. Learn more at michaelkellytunes.com. 33 31 contains shellfish for those with shellfish allergies. 7 1 Rosie’s Tavern: Rum Rosies, Spiked Hot Apple Cider, Fordham Brewery’s Rosie Park’s 52 2 Food & Drink Oyster Stout and delicious Bloody Marys made with George’s Bloody Mary Mix. Join us

8 Members Hospitality Area: fireside for good music, good drinks and good food! 3 We cherish our members! Join us for refresh- 22 ments and snacks under the tent near the Corn Crib.

35 Ruritan’s Cider Cart: Hot Apple Cider, Hot Coffee, Cold Cider, Peanuts & Dog Biscuit

4 Beverages: Beer, wine, Pepsi products and water served by CBMM’s finest Wreaths. Near the Boatshop on Navy Point. Navy Point 45 19 volunteers! At the CBMM beverage tent on either side of campus. Beer and wine Talbot County Waterman’s Association: Offering fresh Chesapeake Bay wild oysters 51 sales begin at noon. on the half-shell. Be sure to talk with the shuckers while you’re there! 50 Easton Ruritans: Oyster Fritters, Clam Strips, Hot Dog, Hamburgers, Cheese- The Pizza Shoppe: Fried Oysters, Single Dipped Oyster Sandwiches or Baskets, Crab burgers, Pulled Pork BBQ, Chicken Tenders, French Fries, Peanuts, Coffee, Cider, Cakes, Oyster Stew, Cream of Crab Soup, Pizza, Funnel Cakes, Smith Island Cakes, Pepsi, Soda, Water. Near the Steamboat Building on Fogg’s Landing. Water and Fresh Squeezed Lemonade. Near the Boatshop on Navy Point.