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Printed in China PROPERTY here else but in AnnapolisOF TWIN can one hail aLIGHTS water taxi PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS W and dine with a panoramic sunset dipping behind colonial waterfront buildings and a spectacular State House dome? Compelling photos and narrative reveal what locals already know: this is an intriguing, vibrant place, where residents go about their lives amidst living history in the original city plan, circa 1695, of circles and radiating streets. A short walk from City Dock is a town of beautiful contrasts: elegant Georgian PROPERTYmansions and rows of colorful OF doors TWIN adorned with LIGHTS fresh flowers PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS neighbor modern coffee shops, B&Bs, nautical enterprises, and the U.S. Naval Academy. Sailors breeze past wooden sandbag- gers and luxury yachts on the harbor. Shipping, oyster packing, boatbuilding, and sailing are part of Annapolis’ proud maritime culture, celebrated today with everything from Schooner races and lighthouse tours, to international sailing championships. Annapolis, Maryland’s capital, has long been a lively political PROPERTYand social hub. Prosperous OF merchants TWIN built elaborate LIGHTS homes PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS for entertaining and the historic district, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, has more original 18th-century structures intact than any other city in America. For more than 300 years Annapolitans have opened their doors with Chesapeake hospitality. The city hosts world-class sail and powerboat shows, races and regattas, and a wide array of cultural and recreational events. PROPERTYAnnapolis: A Photographic OF Portrait TWIN is an insider’s LIGHTS glimpse, from PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS the bow of a skiff, strolling wooden piers, brick-lined streets, to gardens and mansions, and celebrates the character and beauty of this remarkable city.

PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Sandbagger Twins Wooden sandbagger twins, Bull and Bear, catch the morning light at the National Sailing Hall of Fame pier. Popular in the 19th century, sandbagger sloops used sandbags as ballast to help trim their vessels. The twins race in classic boat regattas in PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSAnnapolis. PUBLISHERS

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Ego Alley (top) Market House City Dock (bottom) Kunte Kinte Alex Haley Memorial This waterway earned its local Housing a variety of merchants, (above and right) nickname for the many boaters who the Annapolis Market House is an Located at City Dock, this memorial enjoy being seen as they cruise into indoor market space offering treats commemorates the place where port. Once lined with Chesapeake that range from delectable Mary- Kunte Kinte, arrived as a slave at the workboats, today the harbor’s land crab cakes, to smoothies, to port city aboard the Lord Ligonier in maritime use is geared to pleasure sandwiches, and more. Serving the 1767, as told in Alex Haley’s book, craft and a daily parade of luxurious community since 1788, it’s the per- Roots. Ed Dwight’s sculpture depicts PROPERTYyachts, sailboats, skiffs, kayaks, andOF fect TWIN place to grab aLIGHTS bite to eat, sit PUBLISHERS PROPERTYHaley reading to children of differ- OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS even paddle boarders. on the dock, and enjoy the view. ent ethnicities.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS City Dock Panorama (top) City Dock to State Circle (bottom) El Galeón Andalucía St. Mary’s and St. Anne’s churches The view from the Annapolis Water- A celebration of maritime crafts- and the State House are prominent front Hotel’s rooftop includes intimate manship, visiting ship El Galeón skyline features. Seen from Eastport, streets that fan out from Church Andalucía is a replica of a 16th- their spires and dome are a historic Circle and State Circle, where the century Spanish galleon. With backdrop to the changing commerce State House is the seat of govern- masts more than 100 feet tall, the at City Dock: From tea and tobacco ment. George Washington admired 496-ton ship cost some $5 million trading in colonial times, oyster and the city’s urban design so much that to build and is deemed to be the PROPERTYfisheries harvesting, and commercial OF he TWIN had Pierre L’Enfant LIGHTS incorporate it PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS onlyPUBLISHERS galleon-class vessel sailing the and recreational maritime pursuits. into the nation’s capital. world today.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Pride of Baltimore II (above and left) El Galeón Andalucía (above and right) Known in ports around the world, Constructed in 2009, Andalucía is a Pride II hosts some 100,000 visitors one-of-a-kind replica galleon class annually and is “Baltimore built” in ship. Constructed of fiberglass and the style of the city’s War of 1812 lined with wood, crews of between topsail schooners. A waterfront 15-35 people have manned her museum, its mission is to promote around the world visiting various historical maritime education, ports and offering a glimpse into PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS advancePUBLISHERS tourism, and represent the PROPERTY16th-century maritime life. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS people of Maryland.

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L’Hermione (above and left) L’Hermione is a replica of the 1779 French frigate that ferried the Mar- quis de Lafayette to the U.S. to aid American revolutionaries. Its maiden sail in 2015 was to Yorktown, Vir- ginia. From there it called on more PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS thanPUBLISHERS a dozen ports along the east PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS coast before arriving back in France.

Old Guard (opposite) The U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps welcomed L’Hermione to the city of Annapolis. Created in 1960, the regiment marches in Colonial style red-coat uniforms, tri- corn hats, and powdered wigs while PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS playingPUBLISHERS patriotic music and perform- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS ing precise drills.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Woodwind (top and left) Wednesday Night Races Locals and visitors alike delight in Since 1959, the Annapolis Yacht sailing from the decks of the twin Club has hosted Wednesday Night 74-foot schooners, Woodwind and Races. Today, more than 125 yachts Woodwind II. The schooners set sail compete in the midweek festivities daily and offer breathtaking views in a variety of handicap and one- of the port of Annapolis, Greenbury design classes. Point, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS andPUBLISHERS beyond. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse Annapolis Skyline (top) Bay Bridge Fishing (bottom) Bay Bridge Sunset (pages 18–19) In 1877, ice plowed into this light- A thriving shipping industry attracted A diverse estuary that mingles Ferries were the chief mode of trans- house causing a lantern to spill 200 great wealth to the colonial port of fresh and salt waters, the Chesa- portation across the bay until the gallons of oil. The keeper, a Civil Annapolis and prosperous mer- peake Bay is home to more than first span of the Bay Bridge, com- War veteran, managed to escape in chants built mansions, many with 300 species of fish and numerous pleted in 1952, connected Annapo- a rowboat. Today, visitors can explore formal gardens and grand rooms shellfish. Anglers have favorite spots lis with Kent Island and the eastern his vigils through rough Chesapeake for lavish entertaining. Today, to fish for striped bass, American shore. It is notably tall to accommo- weather and automated technologies Annapolis has more original 18th- eel, Atlantic menhaden, perch, and date shipping lanes for ocean-going PROPERTYthat make this lighthouse a NOAA OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYcentury structures still standing thanOF otherTWIN species. LIGHTS vessels,PUBLISHERS historic tall ships, and tank- weather station. any other city in the United States. ers from around the world.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Wednesday Night Races (above) Bay Bridge Spans (opposite) Evening light illuminates a sail- The influx of travelers to the east- boat’s spinnaker as the skipper sails ern shore led to the construction in toward the finish line on Spa Creek 1973 of a three-lane second span in front of the Annapolis Yacht Club. of the Bay Bridge. Both bridges Wednesday Night Races begin in curve so that their main spans cross April and go through September the bay’s shipping channels at a and are a fun way to celebrate the 90-degree angle, as required by the PROPERTYmid-week. OFU. TWIN S. Army Corps ofLIGHTS Engineers. PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Annapolis Harbor Moorings (top) Miss Anne (bottom) Chesapeake Buyboats The “front forty” mooring fields Passengers explore hidden gems Wooden buyboats recall an era between Spa Creek Bridge and the along the shoreline of Spa Creek when oyster harvesting flourished U.S. Naval Academy are the most and Annapolis aboard Miss Anne. on the bay. In the 1900s, buyboats popular of the city’s many moor- The snug launch offers tours that transported produce and catch to ing fields. Sailors, like these U.S. weave stories past and present market at ports on the Chesapeake Sailboat Show visitors, can stay here about the city’s intriguing people Bay. Visitors can see classic wooden and hail a water taxi or motor a skiff and events. buyboats when they are moored at PROPERTYto a town landing. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS thePUBLISHERS maritime museums in Annapolis and St. Michaels.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Annapolis Harbor (above) Yacht Basin (opposite top) Harbor Queen (opposite bottom) Thanks to the city’s preservationists, Established in 1937, the Yacht A familiar fixture at the end of City visitors arriving by boat can view Basin Company is Annapolis’ oldest Dock, the 300-passenger Harbor the Annapolis skyline as it has been privately owned marina. It is home Queen blasts her horn as she seen for centuries: rows of 18th-cen- to 100 fixed slips and three deep- embarks on cruises on the Severn tury buildings punctuated by church water slips that can accommodate River and Chesapeake Bay. Passen- steeples and the distinctive domes vessels up to 240 feet. The annual gers enjoy libations and narrated of the State House and U.S. Naval slip-holder wait can take years given tours of the Annapolis’ maritime PROPERTYAcademy. OFthe TWIN basin is just steps LIGHTS from historic history.PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS downtown and Eastport.

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Annapolis Yacht Club (above and left) The Annapolis Yacht Club began in 1886 as an informal canoe club and by 1888 a clubhouse for the “Severn Boat Club” was built on oyster shells at the foot of Duke of Gloucester Street. AYC launched PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSWednesday night PUBLISHERS and frostbite rac- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS ing traditions and hosts international and North American events. AYC Keel & Wheels (opposite top and bottom) Aficionados of classic cars and wooden boats display their collections, adorned with their AYC bur- gees, at the Annapolis Yacht Club. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSThis annual autumn PUBLISHERS event is open to PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS the public.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS SS Sophie (above and right) After moving to Eastport in 1947, the legendary John Trumpy & Sons Inc. built several yachts before clos- ing in 1973. The luxurious 80-foot SS Sophie is one of about 100 Trumpys that remain. Trumpys are prized for their craftsmanship, clas- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYsic designs with elegant interiors, OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS graceful bows, and flat sterns. Spa Creek Covered Slips (top and bottom) Kayakers on Spa Creek Covered slips are a rarity in mari- (pages 30 – 31) nas and they occasionally dot the Paddling a kayak to town is a breeze shorelines of Spa Creek and other in the quiet areas of Spa Creek. The waterways to protect boats from the lush grounds of the Charles Carroll elements. In its heyday, Sarles Boat- House and St. Mary’s Church slope yard and Marina, founded in 1907 down to one of the few remaining PROPERTYon Spa Creek, included 21 covered OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYareas along the creek’s shoreline OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS slips and specialized in wooden boats. that is free of piers and marinas.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Stanley Norman at City Dock (above) Main Street (opposite top and bottom) Each year some 3,000 students board At the foot of Main Street a French the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s flag waves in honor of visiting ship Stanley Norman, a floating class- L’ Hermione. Lining the brick paved room where they learn about Ches- street are 18th- and 19th-century apeake watermen. Built in 1902, buildings that offer visitors a glimpse she is a single-masted sailing vessel into Annapolis’ history. The city has designed to harvest oysters with a more than 1,500 historic structures PROPERTYpair of dredges that are dragged OF dating TWIN from 1675 toLIGHTS 1930. PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS across the bottom of the bay.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS U.S. Naval Academy (above and left) Bancroft Hall (top) USNA Sailing (bottom) Established in 1845, the academy is Midshipmen line up for lunchtime The Midshipmen receive training situated on 338 acres on the former formation outside Bancroft Hall, aboard these matching Navy 44s in grounds of Fort Severn where the considered the largest single dormi- ocean sailing, seamanship, naviga- Severn River flows into Chesapeake tory in one building in the U.S. The tion, leadership, and teamwork. Bay. Welcoming more than one Beaux-Arts structure has its own The Naval Academy has the largest million visitors annually, the campus zip code, is home to the brigade of offshore sail training fleet for col- is a blend of historic and modern 4,000 midshipmen, and contains legiate sailing in the United States PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS buildingsPUBLISHERS and features numerous PROPERTY OF someTWIN 1,700 rooms LIGHTS and 4.8 miles andPUBLISHERS hosts many of intercollegiate monuments and memorials. of corridors. sailing’s big boat regattas.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Blue Angels USNA Dress Parade (above) U.S. Naval Academy Bridge During Commissioning Week, the The midshipmen present formal (pages 38 – 39) Blue Angels air show draws huge dress parades that are open to the The domes of the State House and crowds to watch the Navy-trained public. On Worden Field, the bri- U.S. Naval Academy come into view pilots perform graceful, high-speed gade performs the manual of arms, on the crest of this bridge over the maneuvers, including the four-jet renders honors to the senior officer Severn River. In 1994, the winning Diamond and the Delta formation. or civilian dignitary present, and entry from a design competition They fly above the Severn River, and passes in review before the official replaced the former bascule bridge PROPERTYviewing is best at Ingram Field, Far-OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF partyTWIN and guests. LIGHTS andPUBLISHERS was named in honor of the Naval ragut Field, and Hospital Point. Academy’s 150th anniversary.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS USNA Football (top and bottom right) USNA- Marine Corps Stadium USNA Billy The U.S. Naval Academy football (bottom left) Navy’s fierce mascot, Bill the goat, team played its first season in 1879, This newly renovated facility is the leads the team’s football rivalry with and today they are spirited competi- home field of the Navy midshipmen Army. As legend has it, in 1893 a tors in the NCAA Division I confer- football team, the men’s lacrosse live goat made its debut as a mascot ence. With decorated blue and gold team, and the Chesapeake Bayhawks at the fourth Army-Navy game when horns, a live goat has been the lacrosse team. Since 2013, it has also the USS New York dropped anchor team’s mascot since 1893. been the home of the college football off Annapolis and the ship’s mascot PROPERTY OFMilitary TWIN Bowl and hosts LIGHTS a number of PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS camePUBLISHERS ashore. regional and international events.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Still on Patrol Monument (above) A Mark XIV torpedo, a main arma- ment of World War II submarines, honors the 374 officers and 3,131 men who lost their lives during World War II and are still on “patrol.” The torpedo is cradled on a 15-foot blue granite base with the engraving, PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY“Courage Runs Deep.” OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS USNA Tecumseh (right) Submarine Force Centennial Replicated from the figurehead of Sculptor Paul Wegner designed this Native American chief Tamanend bronze and marble memorial to from the USS Delaware, which sunk commemorate 100 years of sub- in the Civil War, this statue was later marine usage by the United States renamed Tecumseh by the acad- Navy. Dedicated in 2000, the sculp- emy’s midshipmen. Today, midship- ture depicts a submarine breaching men cover him in war paint before the surface during an emergency competitions and throw pennies PROPERTYblow. Within the surrounding waves OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYaround the base for OF good luck TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS are human faces and dolphins. during exam week.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS USNA Officers Quarters (top) USNA Chapel (bottom and opposite) Known as “Captains Row,” these This Annapolis landmark has a historical homes along Porter Road noted pipe organ and Tiffany win- are for senior officers. Considered dows. Peter Marshall, pastor and the most prestigious area in which to future chaplain to the U.S. Senate, live, they were designed in 1905 by spoke here hours before the Japa- noted architect Ernest Flagg. Flagg, nese attack on Pearl Harbor. His known for his Beaux Arts style, sermon is credited in part for the PROPERTYdesigned other USNA buildings suchOF class TWIN of 1942 graduating LIGHTS in 1941 PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS as the Chapel and Bancroft Hall. to support the war.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS USNA Model Ship Museum USNA Bone Ship Models (opposite top) (above and opposite bottom) These miniature ship models are The Class of 1951 Gallery of Ships a testament to the resilience of the is a collection of exquisitely crafted human spirit. French prisoners of warship models from the 17th, 18th, war incarcerated in England carved and 19th centuries. In some cases, these ships mostly from the bones of these models are the only complete their beef rations during the Anglo- surviving physical record of ships French Wars of 1756 -1815. The PROPERTYbuilt during the classic Age of Sail. OF majority TWIN of these works LIGHTS were created PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS during the Napoleonic Wars.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS USNA Museum USS Constitution USNA Museum Civil War Exhibit USNA Museum Admiral Farragut Exhibit (opposite top) (opposite bottom) (above) Located in Preble Hall, the museum The museum brings the past to Exhibited here is the long career of showcases two floors of exhibits life for more than 100,000 visitors Admiral Farragut. Commissioned including ship models, paintings, annually through vivid displays of in the Navy in 1810 at age nine, uniforms, and more. This wooden every major American war, includ- he fought during the War of 1812 model of “Old Ironsides” is a pre- ing this Civil War display. The exhibit and the Civil War. In the midst of cisely crafted version of the legendary highlights how important the Union battle on the USS Hartford in 1864 PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYUSS Constitution. Visitors can explore OF andTWIN Confederate naviesLIGHTS were to the hePUBLISHERS famously proclaimed, “Damn the her 200-hundred-year history. outcome of the war. torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS WWII Memorial Between Morning and Night Overlooking the Severn River (top and bottom) and the U.S. Naval Academy is The Maryland Fire Rescue Memo- an amphitheater with 48 pillars rial, Between Morning and Night representing the 48 states at the by sculptor Rodney Carroll, honors time of World War II. The names of the fallen and those who continue the more than 6,000 Marylanders to selflessly serve. A firefighter and who died in the war are inscribed EMS provider ascend the “staircase PROPERTYon the memorial’s columns and OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS ofPUBLISHERS time” while figures reach out to granite slabs. console and say goodbye.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS James Senate Office Building (top) Chief Justice Taney The William S. James Senate Office A statue of Roger B. Taney, Chief Building, renovated in 2001-2002, Justice of the Supreme Court, hon- is home to 35 Maryland state sena- ors the Marylander who is known tors and restored ceremonial rooms for casting the 1857 decisive vote that are used to host dignitaries. Two in the Dred Scott decision, which of the rooms hold silver candelabra denied African-Americans the rights chandeliers from the 1930s. The of citizenship. This statue teaches an PROPERTYsplendid Victorian fountain is on OFthe TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS importantPUBLISHERS lesson in history. grounds of the Governor’s House.

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Maryland State House (above and right) PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYAn iconic Annapolis OF landmark, TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS this is the oldest state capitol still in continuous legislative use and is the only state house to have served as the nation’s Capitol. During that time, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Con- tinental Army and the Treaty of Paris was ratified, ending the Revolution- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYary War. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Capital Dome (opposite) Annapolis architect Joseph Clark designed what is today the largest wooden dome of its kind in the U.S. Completed in 1794, it is held together by wooden pegs. The “Franklin” light- ening rod, constructed and grounded to Benjamin Franklin’s specifications, is seen by some as an expression PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYof the young nation’s OF ingenuity TWIN and LIGHTS PUBLISHERS independence.

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Louis Goldstein (above) One of the longest-serving state officials in U.S. history, this legendary politician and comptroller of Maryland PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSserved for 40PUBLISHERS years. At the time of his PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS death in 1998, he became Maryland’s first elected official to lie in state under the State House Rotunda.

Water Witch (left) In colonial times, firefighting was every citizen’s duty. By 1839, the city’s first volunteer fire department was formed. By 1886, the Annapo- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSlis Water WitchPUBLISHERS Hook & Ladder PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Company was built. The existing 1913 historic structure is the second firehouse at this location.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS City Hall (top) Old Treasury Building (bottom) Treasury Building (opposite) Assembly rooms, circa 1760s, Located on the grounds of the State Named after Comptroller of the burned during the Civil War after House, the Old Treasury, circa Treasury Louis L. Goldstein, this is being taken over by Union troops. 1735–36, is the oldest public build- the home of the Treasurer’s office. In Today, City Hall’s Italianate structure ing in Annapolis. This one-story Maryland, the Treasurer is elected by includes surviving walls of the origi- Flemish bond brick structure was a joint ballot of both houses of the nal assembly rooms. This National built to serve the office of the Com- General Assembly, a tradition begun Historic Landmark is home to the missioners and only later was it used following the Constitutional Conven- PROPERTYMayor’s office, City Council Cham- OFas TWIN a treasury. LIGHTS tionPUBLISHERS of 1851, at which the Board of PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS bers, and changing art exhibitions. Public Works was created.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Lawyers Mall (opposite top) Old Post Office (opposite bottom) Justice Marshall (above) Marylanders often rally for the Since 1901, Annapolitans have A statue of Baltimore-born Thurgood causes they care about at Lawyers been posting letters and socializing Marshall, the first African-American Mall — also called State House at the Old Post Office building on Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, is Square — especially during the Church Circle, steps from the State steps from the former site of the court legislative session. Today’s state House, Governor’s Mansion, and St. building. Here, the young attorney legislators meet for 90 days each Anne’s church. The post office has argued discrimination cases leading year to act on more than 2,300 bills closed but the Georgian Revival- to his victory with Brown v. Board of PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYaffecting Marylanders. OF styleTWIN building, purchased LIGHTS by the EducationPUBLISHERS, a decision that desegre- state, survives. gated public schools.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS State Circle (above) One of two circles in historic Annap- olis, intimate brick-lined streets radiate from State Circle, a conflu- ence of activity that includes the seat of the legislature and bustling shops. This well-preserved, photo- genic area has often been cordoned off for camera crews filming major PROPERTY OF TWINmotion LIGHTS pictures. PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Robert Johnson House (left) Governor Calvert House Annapolis is notable for its abun- This 51-room historic inn, festooned dance of Georgian-style homes. with holiday greens, was the home The land beneath this house once of two former Maryland governors belonged to an Annapolis barber, and the site of an archeological Robert Johnson. In 1773, Johnson’s dig in the 1980s and early 1990s. grandson built this Georgian-style Historic Annapolis Inc., the National brick home at 23 State Circle. Endowment for the Humanities, and PROPERTY OF TWINToday, LIGHTS it is one of several boutiquePUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS otherPUBLISHERS institutions financed the exca- historic inns in downtown Annapolis. vation of the Calvert House.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS GovernmentPUBLISHERS House Conservatory PROPERTYGovernment House (above) OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS (above) This home of Maryland Governors There are seven public rooms in the since 1870 is alive with historic fur- Government House and each plays nishings, paintings, and works of art an important role as the Governor from around the world. A portrait and his family greet guests from by Charles Wilson Peale of George around the world: the Entrance Washington hangs in the Drawing Hall, the Conservatory, the Victorian Room. There are furnishings by Library, the Reception Room, the Potthast, eminent 19th-century Parlor, the Drawing Room, and the Baltimore furniture makers, and PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS StatePUBLISHERS Dining Room. PROPERTYPeabody Art Collection works. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Government House Parlor (left) The elegant parlor of this Georgian Government House Dining Room style home features the Thomas (right) Johnson clock by well-known cabi- The State Dining Room, a gracious netmaker, John Fessler. Johnson was setting for distinguished guests, Maryland’s first governor. Some of features a portrait of the Governor the notable guests to the mansion in Horatio Sharpe and his family, circa the past have included Mark Twain, 1754, by Gawen Hamilton. Sharpe PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS QueenPUBLISHERS Elizabeth, and Sugar Ray PROPERTYwas provincial governor of Mary- OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Leonard. land from 1753 to 1768.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Museum Store (above) Rebuilt after fire damaged much of this block in 1790, merchants set up shop in this former bakery. Today, the shop features wares inspired by the Chesapeake region. Proceeds from purchases support the Historic Annapolis Foundation and its mission to preserve Annapolis for future PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYgenerations. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Maynard-Burgess (top) Peggy Stewart House (bottom) Brice House (right) The Maynard-Burgess House was In 1774, merchant Anthony Stewart James Brice, an aide-de-camp of continuously owned by African-Amer- made the mistake of paying the Brit- George Washington during the icans from about 1850 to 1980 — a ish tax on a cargo of tea. Angry citi- American Revolution, had this timeframe spanning slavery, the Civil zens forced him to burn his ship, the elegant five-part plan home built in War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Peggy Stewart, which was named the Georgian style between 1767 Born a free African-American, John after his daughter. The event later and 1773. Built for entertaining in Maynard purchased and freed his became known as the “Annapolis town, some called it a “town home.” PROPERTYwife, her daughter, OF and mother-in- TWINTea LIGHTSParty.” His Georgian stylePUBLISHERS house PROPERTYIt is one of the most well-preserved OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS law between 1834 and 1845. was nicknamed after his ship. colonial homes in the country.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PacaPUBLISHERS Garden (above) PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS The two-acre garden, restored to its original splendor, is an exquisite refuge with a summer house, native and heirloom plants, and an urban kitchen garden. The brick walls enclose formal parterres charac- teristic of colonial gardens in the Chesapeake region.The Paca House and Gardens is a National Historic PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS Landmark.PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Paca House Bed Chamber (left) William Paca House (above and right) The Paca House and Gardens, circa William Paca, a patriot, signatory of 1763-1765, welcomes visitors into the Declaration of Independence, the 18th-century life of lawyer and and a three-term governor of Mary- patriot William Paca. Guests can land, designed much of his Georgian see a restored one-story office and mansion. It is a grand example of a kitchen pavilions, and their con- five-part Palladian-plan house. On necting hyphens, public and private its upper floor, the Paca family could PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS quarters,PUBLISHERS and behind the-scenes PROPERTYview the garden, entertain guests, OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS operations of the mansion. and enjoy cool breezes.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Waterfront Warehouse Shiplap (above and right) (above and left) The Shiplap House, circa 1715, On Pinkney Street is a rare surviving was a tavern and shop in the 18th example of the small warehouses that century. One of the oldest surviving dotted the Annapolis waterfront in the houses in historic Annapolis, it is 18th and early 19th centuries. Tobacco named for shiplap — the random- growers brought their crops to mer- width flush wooden boards used as chants’ warehouses to be inspected siding on its rear façade. The large, PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSand stored until a large PUBLISHERS enough cargo PROPERTYwide planks OFwere likely TWIN hewn from LIGHTS PUBLISHERS was ready to ship to England. mature trees.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Hammond Harwood House Hammond Harwood House (above) (opposite, top and bottom) This exquisite structure, circa 1774, This National Historic Landmark is is one of architect William Buckland’s a striking five-part Anglo-Palladian masterpieces. It features some of the design. It features furniture by nation’s finest woodcarving and cabinetmaker John Shaw, including plasterwork. Its Doric-order arched an elegant sideboard, an original entryway has perfectly proportioned Harwood family piece, and a tall columns and pilasters. Much of PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF clock.TWIN Paintings by LIGHTS Charles Wilson Annapolis’PUBLISHERS Georgian splendor is Peale are original to the house. attributed to Buckland’s influence.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Hogshead (above) Hogshead’s Modest Interiors This early 19th-century gambrel- (opposite top and bottom) roofed building is similar to the Through an interactive experience, frame structures that housed many colonial reenactors dramatize the colonial Annapolis families and daily life of the lower and middle served as barracks for new military classes in early Maryland. This one- recruits during the Revolutionary and-a-half-story frame house rests War. Most of these men stayed only on a brick foundation typical of PROPERTYa few days or weeks before ship OF- modest TWIN 18th-century LIGHTS dwellings. PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS ping out.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Banneker-Douglass Museum (above) Named for Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass, this distinctive museum is dedicated to preserving Maryland’s African-American heritage. It is housed in the historic Mt. Moriah A.M.E Church, which served as the meeting hall for the first African Methodist Episcopal Church, PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS originallyPUBLISHERS formed in the 1790s. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Chase Lloyd House (left) St. Anne’s Parish (above and right) This three-story Georgian mansion, St. Anne’s Parish was the only circa 1769–1774, has a beautiful church in colonial Annapolis, aside staircase with floating treads canti- from a private chapel for Roman- levered from adjacent walls. It was Catholics in Charles Carroll of Car- built for Samuel Chase, a Declara- rollton’s home. Today’s church was tion of Independence signatory and built in the Romanesque Revival style an Associate Justice of the Supreme after an 1858 fire. A stained-glass PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS Court.PUBLISHERS The main floor and gardens PROPERTYwindow by Tiffany Studios shows OF St. TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS are open for tours. Anne with the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS CharlesPUBLISHERS Carroll House and PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS St. Mary’s (above and opposite) Once the seat of the Catholic Carrolls of Annapolis, this was the home of Charles Carroll, the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Indepen- dence. His heirs donated the land for St. Mary’s Church to the Redemptor- ists. The church, circa 1858–1860, has a Gothic high altar, exquisite fres- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS coes,PUBLISHERS and stained-glass windows. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Reynolds Tavern (left) William Reynolds, a hatter and tavern keeper, built this structure in 1737, which later became a tavern. Its beautiful entrance porch dates back to 1812 and was the work of prominent cabinetmaker John Shaw. Located on Church Circle, the tav- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS ern’sPUBLISHERS colonial ambiance makes for a PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS special dining experience.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Historic London Town and William Brown House (bottom) Lord Mayor’s Tenement (top) London Town Militia (bottom) Gardens (top) By the 1720s, London Town rivaled Named for self-proclaimed Mayor of The colonial militia re-enactment Located just 18 miles from Annapo- Annapolis as a transportation and London Town David Mackelfish, this is an annual event that includes lis, London Town was created in trade center. The port teamed with reconstructed tenement house dates musket fire and cannons. Visitors 1683 by the Maryland legislature industry as merchants, planters, car- back to the early 1700s. Although see firsthand the roles the militia and soon became a major tobacco penters, and coopers were important none of the original tenement dwell- played during colonial times and port in the colonial trans-Atlantic to the tobacco trade. With dramatic ings survived, it is believed that experience living history at London trade network. Colonial militia fire a views of the South River, the William ninety-five percent of colonial Mary- Town by exploring the grounds and PROPERTYvolley from their muskets aimed OF at TWINBrown House isLIGHTS one of two buildings PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OFlanders TWIN lived in small dwellingsLIGHTS like buildings. PUBLISHERS the South River. from colonial London Town. the Lord Mayor’s Tenement.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Quiet Waters Sculpture Quiet Waters At Quiet Waters, native plants, Annapolitans hike, bike, and paddle bridges, gazebos and outdoor this 340-acre oasis between the sculptures, such as Blue Herons in South River and Harness Creek with Flight, offer a serene retreat. The more than six miles of trails, sce- Native Plant Garden near the Blue nic overlooks, and picnic pavilions Heron Center is full of seasonal along its wooded shoreline. The delights, with fountains in warm park hosts outdoor concerts, art fes- PROPERTYweather and an ice rink in the OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS tivals,PUBLISHERS boat rentals, and a dog park winter. that is popular on Sunday mornings.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS St. John’s Bell (opposite top) St. John’s vs. USNA (opposite bottom) St. John’s College (above) In 1950 the U.S. Treasury Depart- The Annapolis Cup, an annual cro- Founded as King Williams School ment cast in copper 48 reproductions quet match that pits the Midshipmen in1696, St. John’s is a liberal of the Philadelphia Liberty Bell. This against the Johnnies, is a cherished arts college located in downtown replica on the front lawn of St. John’s rite of spring. Spectators in Great Annapolis. Known for its distinctive College celebrates the founding Gatsby-style attire host champagne curriculum, Francis Scott Key, who fathers’ “principles of freedom.” The picnics during this spirited rivalry. penned the National Anthem, is one pediment for the bell was erected Each year the midshipmen wear cro- of many of its prominent alumni. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYwith the pennies donated by the chilOF- quetTWIN whites and the LIGHTS Johnnies unveil PUBLISHERS dren of Anne Arundel County. surprise uniforms.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS May Day Businesses (left and right) May Day State Circle The May Day tradition of displaying Harry Brown’s, an Annapolis icon, floral arrangements on windows, welcomes patrons with flowers and porches, and doors began as a wine. For more than 50 years Anna- Garden Club of Old Annapolis politans have decorated the doors Towne beautification project in of historic shops and homes for May 1956. Today, residents and business Day with artful fresh-cut arrange- owners compete for winning ribbons ments and ribbon-laced flowers. PROPERTYand an invitation to the Garden OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Club’s Annual Tea.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS May Day Maryland Avenue May Day at Helly Hansen (left and right) Adirondack chairs and a festive red On May Day, judges from the City’s bike beckon pedestrians to pause Garden Club stroll the historic and take in the fragrant May Day district and Murray Hill neighbor- flowers and sparkling skies on Main hoods to award winners in many Street. This storefront is hoping to categories. To be considered in the earn a coveted winning ribbon. judging, all baskets must be hung PROPERTYby 10 a.m. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS

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McGarvey’s Saloon (above) Ram’s Head On Stage (above) A long-time community gathering Located next to the Ram’s Head place, patrons savor tidewater spe- Tavern, the Muehlhauser family cialties, including fresh oysters and purchased the historic site in 1989. Maryland crab soup, at this saloon Today, some of the country’s finest that neighbors historic colonial tav- musicians perform in this intimate PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS ernsPUBLISHERS that line Market Space. PROPERTYvenue where patrons OF enjoy dining TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS while listening to headliner acts. Westgate Circle (left) The Annapolis Art in Public Places Ram’s Head Tavern (right) Commission selected Bobby Dono- Since the late 1700s, patrons have van’s sculpture Shoals for this gate- gathered at Ram’s Head for pub way circle in Annapolis’ Arts District. food and drink. In the 18th century, Many describe it as fish swimming it was called “The Crown and Dial” above the ribs of a sunken ship. and “Sign of the Green Tree.” Today, Constructed of oak, this artwork the pub is known for its selection of PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS paysPUBLISHERS homage to the city’s maritime PROPERTYbeers, dog friendly café,OF and liveTWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS roots. music.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Visitors Center (top) King George Street Residence A red plaque identifies this struc- (opposite) ture as 18th-century vernacular, a This private residence nestled on perfect setting from which visitors the corner of King George and East can discover Annapolis. Located in streets has a bronze plaque, which the heart of the historic district, this signifies an 18th-century building is “Grand Central” for tours. A satel- of national importance. The Historic lite visitor information booth at City Marker Program highlights more PROPERTYDock is open from March through OF than TWIN 240 properties LIGHTS of the historic PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS October. district.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS May Day Doors (above, left, and opposite) The doors of Annapolis are awash in color on May Day with whimsical and inventive floral arrangements and brightly colored ribbon-laced baskets. Rain or shine, Annapoli- tans regard May Day as one of the PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTScity’s most beautiful days PUBLISHERS and a PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS welcomed tradition.

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Cantler’s (above) Once a well-kept secret, word has gotten out about Cantler’s fresh seafood and tranquil setting where diners arrive by car or boat, or even on foot, to walk the docks and peek at peelers in floats on Mill Creek. The Cantler family has worked in PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYthe seafood industry OF for fiveTWIN gen- LIGHTS PUBLISHERS erations. Flag House B&B Steps from the City Dock and Gate 1 Chez Amie B&B (right) of the U.S. Naval Academy, this With architectural roots dating to the intimate inn offers a personal touch. late 1800s, this little gem of an inn Upon arrival, guests are welcomed is located in the heart of the city’s by their state or national flag flying downtown. Before becoming a B&B, from the porch. Originally two Vic- it served the Fleet and East Street torian townhouses, this 1870 home neighborhoods as Sam’s Brothers PROPERTYwas restored in the 1990s and is OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYGroceries store OF from the earlyTWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS known for its ambiance. 1900s through 1970s.

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Gibson’s Lodging (above) In 1681, this building was assigned to the First Naval Officer of the Port of Annapolis. The original structure, called “The Old Courthouse,” burned in 1691. The existing 18th-century PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSGeorgian-style PUBLISHERS home was renovated PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS in 1905 and in 1980, Gibson’s Lodging opened as an inn. Georgian House B&B (left) Annapolis is unique in the large number of Georgian homes in the historic district, many with distinctive brickwork. This B&B proudly displays a basket of flowers and ribbons for PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSMay Day. PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Zimmerman Wilson House (opposite) Charles Zimmerman, U.S. Naval Academy bandmaster and choir director from 1887–1916, ordered this ornate Queen Anne style house with spindle work and fish-scale shin- gles from a mail order catalogue. In 1906, as organist at St. Mary’s PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSChurch, he composedPUBLISHERS the music for PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS the Navy song, Anchors Aweigh.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Annapolis City Marina East Street A familiar landmark for boaters Annapolis has more colonial struc- and landlubbers, the Annapolis City tures than any other location in Marina is a popular water taxi stop, the country. Color-coded plaques connecting City Dock and Eastport. on historically significant build- Boaters find refuge at the full-service ings lead visitors through centuries fuel dock and more than 80 fixed- of architecture and preservation. pier, in-water slips. These plaques, along with Ameri- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS can,PUBLISHERS Maryland, and Naval Academy flags, are seen throughout the city.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Aerial of Annapolis Liberté (above and right) While shipping trade and commerce The 77-foot Liberté schooner is eventually shifted to the deeper privately owned and based on Spa harbor in Baltimore, Annapolis has Creek and Cape Cod, Massachu- grown as an international center for setts. Available for private themed recreational and competitive boat- charters, this two-masted gaff- ing, with world-class racing, boat rigged schooner is intended as a PROPERTYshows, and nautical services. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYheavy but fast offshore cruiser. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Maritime Museum’s Lighthouse Annapolis Maritime Museum The Annapolis Maritime Museum Recently renovated, this museum is offers educational programs that at the site of McNasby Oyster Co., explore the ecology and maritime on Back Creek, near marinas, sail- history of the Chesapeake Bay. It is makers, yacht designers, boat bro- one of four partners in a consortium kers, and chandleries. It celebrates that owns the Thomas Point Shoal the Chesapeake’s maritime heritage Lighthouse, and its tours offer a rare with exhibits and lectures, commu- PROPERTYglimpse of the keeper’s life at this OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS nityPUBLISHERS events, concerts, art shows, and offshore beacon. educational programs.

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Osprey (above) Nesting ospreys on channel markers and pilings are one of the first signs of spring on the Chesapeake Bay. While feeding almost exclusively on PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYfish, these large raptors grow upOF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS to 2 feet in length and can have a Spa Creek Bridge wingspan of up to 6 feet. Connecting Annapolis with Eastport, this bascule bridge only has a 17 Blue Heron (right) foot clearance, thus requiring its The great blue heron is a slender keeper to draw it open about 3,800 wading bird with a graceful bill and times a year. Spa Creek is the main neck. It can be seen year-round thoroughfare to the city’s neighbor- throughout the Chesapeake Bay hoods for all boaters. region, along the shoreline, riprap, PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTYand in wetlands — often silently OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS hunting for food.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Wednesday Night Races (top) Chart House (bottom) Boatyard Bar and Grill (top) Boatyard Mural (bottom) The Annapolis Yacht Club’s Wednes- Eastport’s maritime history includes An environmental steward of the Local artist Cindy Fletcher created day Night Races, a summer tradi- the Annapolis Yacht Yard, which built Chesapeake, the Boatyard is a two murals along Fourth Street in tion since 1960, draw spectators torpedo boats during World War member of One Percent for The Eastport. The owner of the Boatyard to the club, the nearby Spa Creek II, and Trumpy Yacht Yard, which Planet, a group of businesses who Bar and Grill commissioned this drawbridge, and to City Dock’s bars built presidential yachts like the USS donate more than one percent of work in 2013 and the Eastport Civic and restaurants. Skippers navigate Sequoia. Today, the former Trumpy’s their annual sales to environmental Association commissioned the other the harbor’s mooring fields before is the Chart House restaurant where preservation. The Boatyard has mural, Great Wall of Eastport, which PROPERTYcrossing the finish line. OF TWINpatrons enjoy LIGHTS harbor views, boat PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OFreceived TWIN the Annapolis Environmen-LIGHTSwas the PUBLISHERS first in the city. races, and the EYC Parade of Lights. tal Stewardship Certification.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Eastport Yacht Club Severn Sailing Association With spectacular views of the Bay (top and bottom) Bridge, Greenbury Point, Annapolis For more than 50 years SSA, located Harbor, and the U.S. Naval Academy, on Annapolis Harbor, has hosted the Eastport Yacht Club was founded major regional, national, and in 1985. Today, it is a community- international championship sailing gathering place full of activity on and events. SSA offers an active junior off shore, including championship sailing program, a spring through PROPERTYregattas, a junior sailing program, OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS fallPUBLISHERS season of racing, and a winter charity events, and cruising. frostbiting series.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Sock Burn Oyster Roast (above) Pirate Adventures (opposite) Annapolitans celebrate spring and Notorious pirates roamed the Ches- the start of the boating season with apeake in the 17th century. Today, a ceremonial sock burning event. As piracy is fun and this adventure boat legend has it, a local boat builder delights children with the magic of invited colleagues to join him as he searching for buried treasure. With lit his socks on fire. After he moved a mischievous crew, children learn in 1994, the Eastport Yacht Club about maps, discover a message in a PROPERTYand Annapolis Maritime Museum OF bottle, TWIN and more. TheLIGHTS ship sails daily PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS continued the tradition. from Eastport during the summer.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Eastport Tug of War (above and left) Memorial Day Parade (top and bottom) This enduring rivalry between the Annapolis honors members of the Maritime Republic of Eastport and military who have given their lives the citizens from the other side serving their country with a host of of Spa Creek is an annual rite of events, including an annual parade autumn that benefits local chari- beginning on Amos Garrett Boule- ties. Warrior teams from pubs and vard, traveling along West Street, taverns from both sides of the creek Church Circle, then down Main PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS competePUBLISHERS for a coveted trophy. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS StreetPUBLISHERS to the Market House.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Whitehall Bay Sandy Point (above) Back Creek (pages 118–119) Boaters on this scenic bay near the Beachgoers at this state park view the Early birds savor the peaceful quiet Bay Bridge and Sandy Point, a few panorama of ocean-going tankers, of a sunrise on Back Creek. By late miles from downtown Annapolis, recreational anglers, and the daily morning the creek will be busy as often raft-up with fellow cruisers or stream of vehicles that cross the Ches- boaters cruise into eclectic Eastport, explore by boat sites, such as the apeake Bay Bridge. Sandy Point State where original cottages are perched lovely Whitehall Manor house, circa Park, the last exit before the bridge next to refined residences, maritime 1764, located on the peninsula toll, hosts the Maryland Seafood Fes- enterprises, and the occasional live- PROPERTYbetween Whitehall Creek and Mer- OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF tival,TWIN Bay Blues Festival, LIGHTS Lights on the a-boardPUBLISHERS moored at one of the many edith Creek. Bay, and the Polar Bear Plunge. marinas.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Wednesday Night Races Annapolis Newport Race A-2 Class sailboats unfurl their The 475-mile biennial Annapolis- spinnakers as they head downwind. Newport race connects two historic Spectator boats follow racers after seaports on a route that includes the the start, and then head back to Chesapeake Bay, one of the nation’s watch the finish in front of the AYC largest estuaries, and the Atlantic clubhouse, where skippers and crew Ocean. Two Navy skippers — the gather for a post-race party at the sails are easy to spot — join the race. PROPERTYclub. OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Schooner Race Schooners hauled cargo on the bay, competing for the best prices by beating others to the ports of Baltimore and Portsmouth/Norfolk. Their historic rivalry is rekindled each autumn during the Chesa- peake Bay Schooner Race, which PROPERTYstarts south of the Bay Bridge near OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Annapolis.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS U.S. Sailboat Show (above and left) U.S. Powerboat Show In October, sailors convene on exten- (above and right) sive display docks for the largest and For more than 40 years, boaters oldest in-water sailboat show in the have attended the oldest in-water world. Visitors can board most new powerboat show in the world at City models on the market, make side- Dock. Exhibits range from luxurious by-side comparisons, and explore motor and ocean-going yachts and navigational equipment, high-tech “down east” trawlers to high-per- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS electronics,PUBLISHERS boating accessories, and PROPERTYformance powerboats and offshore OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS nautical services. fishing vessels.

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PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS EYC Light Parade (top and bottom) Fireworks (opposite) Spectators and skippers join the jolly Boaters moor in Annapolis Harbor revelry on the second Saturday in and pedestrians line piers from the December as dozens of sailboats Eastport Yacht Club to Spa Creek and powerboats illuminate the Bridge to watch Independence Day night, cruising on Spa Creek decked fireworks. The city takes great pride out in holiday light displays. The in its patriotic display and delights Eastport Yacht Club Light Parade is a onlookers again with fireworks on PROPERTYsignature Annapolis event. OFNew TWIN Year’s Eve. LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS

126 127 PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Lisa Masson is an award-winning commercial and fine art photographer with a wide range of experience, from international location shoots to diverse studio work. Since 1986, her clients have included upscale hotels, architectural firms, noted interior designers, magazines, and advertising agencies. Lisa’s fine art photography appears in hotels, numerous PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERSprivate collections, and at her gallery in Eastport. PROPERTY Since the early OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS days of her career in a small studio on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Lisa has created compelling images with dramatic lighting. After spending 10 years working out of her 3,000 square-foot studio in Arlington, Va., Lisa discovered sailing, the Chesapeake Bay and moved to Annapolis. In addition to creating stylistic images for her commercial clients, she has been photographing Annapolis and its hidden gems ever since. Her fine art photography, displayed at Lisa Masson Studio Gallery on Fourth Street, features her original PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERSmuseum-quality imagery. To learn more about Lisa’sPROPERTY work please OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS visit www.LisaMassonPhotography.com Annapolis native Patricia Dempsey is a sea- soned communications professional with a flair for storytelling. She has extensive experience as a journalist, media relations director, and editorial consultant and works closely with authors, photog- PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERSraphers, and subject matter specialists. PROPERTY As a regu- OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS lar contributor to the Washington Post Magazine, she interviewed intriguing, well-known subjects about their work and authored travel essays on destinations near and far. Her feature on Chesa- peake lighthouses remains especially popular. A former “Traveling Gourmet” columnist and magazine editor, she criss-crossed the region to showcase Chesapeake culture, places, and people. Her stories have also appeared in national publications such as More magazine. She has a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERSUniversity and is a member of the American Society PROPERTY of Authors OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS and Journalists.

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