Recycle Your Oyster Shells! Potomac River Dory Boat with an Authentic Chesapeake Bay Waterman to Learn About This Very Hard Way to Harvest the Bay’S Oysters
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Special Activities & Demonstrations Must-See Boats INFORMATION BOOTH & FIRST AID: Located near the Waterfowl Building. Pick up a map and Chesapeake Bay 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 Oyster 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 oysters from tongers and dredgers aboard skipjacks, bugeyes 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 Chesapeake Bay deadrise 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 Skipjack 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 Oyster Stew 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 Seafood 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.