The Chesapeake Log, Winter 2012

A PUBLICATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM

The Chesapeake Log Winter 2012

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Aboard the Barbara Batchelder In the fall issue of The Chesapeake Log, “The Birthplace of Rosie Parks,” author Dick Cooper interviewed Irénée du Pont Jr. about his own skipjack, the Barbara Batchelder, also built by Bronza Parks in the mid-1950s. This past September, Museum President Langley Shook, Chief Curator Pete Lesher, Project Manager Marc Barto, and Shipwright Apprentice Jenn Kuhn were invited to sail on the Chester River aboard the Barbara Batchelder with Irénée and his wife Barbara, the skipjack’s namesake.

Mission Statement The mission of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is to inspire an understanding of and appreciation for the rich maritime heritage of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal reaches, together with the artifacts, cultures and connections between this place and its people.

Vision Statement The vision of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is to be the premier maritime museum for studying, exhibiting, preserving and celebrating the important history and culture of the largest estuary in the United States, the Chesapeake Bay.

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President’s Letter

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by Langley R. Shook

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Lecture Series, Member Nights,

from Education. Read about the new

Exhibit Explorations, and 2012

Oystering Legacy Tours, educational

Save-the-Date event listings.

New staff members welcomed,

outreach initiatives, the winter/spring

Sultana’s replica John Smith shallop

2012 lecture series, and more.

at the Museum, Tug Delaware

By Kate Livie

Meet the newest members of the

historic restoration underway, Rise

Academy for Lifelong Learning

Museum’s Perpetual Mariner’s

Up Coffee available in Welcome

announces winter semester.

Society, which recognizes supporters

Center, and event highlights.

By Esty Collette

who have included the Museum in

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Model tug Torrent restored.

On Deck with the Captain of

By Pete Lesher

the Rosie Parks.

12 Lifelines

By Dick Cooper Restoring Navy Point

Get to know boatyard volunteer John “Doc” Hawkinson, MD. Check out upcoming volunteer

By Langley Shook

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training sessions.

Updates from the boatyard:

By Katie Willis

Delaware, Edna E. Lockwood, and Rosie Parks plus photos from the Parks family reunion at OysterFest.

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What’s Fresh? Seasonal Selections

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Follow the Museum’s progress on historic Chesapeake boat restoration projects as well as updates for the Apprentice For a Day Program.

Chesapeakeboats.blogspot.com Check out Beautiful Swimmers, a general education forum and valuable resource of stories, links, and information for the curious of minds.

Beautifulswimmers.tumblr.com

25 Annual Fund Honor Roll

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Navy Point, PO Box 636 St. Michaels, MD 21663 410-745-2916, cbmm.org

their estate plans.

On the cover: “Delaware on the Rail,” by fine art photographer Jeff Nicklason of Grasonville, MD. See more of his photography in the Museum store and online at Nicklasonphoto.com.

Correction: On page 20 of the 2010-2011 Annual Report, we erroneously omitted Bob Traynelis in the listing of volunteers who received special recognition during the 2010-2011 volunteer appreciation ceremony.

Bob logged an incredible 792 hours of service to the Museum last year, for which we are extremely grateful. Our sincerest apologies for the error and heartfelt thanks to Bob for his dedication.

Editors: Tracey Munson & Marie Thomas Creative Director: Marie Thomas Copy Editor: Mariana Lesher

(top) The Barbara Batchelder looks very much the way it did when first built. (bottom left) Chief Curator Pete Lesher and Irénée du Pont. (right top) Project Manager Marc Barto at the helm with Museum President Langley Shook and du Pont. (bottom right) Shipwright Apprentice Jenn Kuhn takes a turn at the wheel with du Pont.

Contributing Writers: Dick Cooper, Pete Lesher, Kate Livie, Mike Gorman, Katie Willis, Esty Collet, Langley Shook, Tracey Munson, Marie Thomas The Chesapeake Log is a publication of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

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President’s Letter

by Langley R. Shook, President

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very one of us, as members and friends of the Museum, makes our own mark on the history, heritage, traditions, and culture of the Chesapeake Bay region. Our Museum is the book that safeguards these collective stories and shares their inspiration with the thousands of people who support and care about our work. Locals, tourists, watermen, and weekenders—the “come here’s” and the “from here’s”—all of us have a connection to this unique place.

Occasionally, the Museum is privileged to help assemble the elements that together preserve and enrich a particular family’s legacy. This November’s annual OysterFest will be remembered for more than just its record attendance of 2,500. Fifty-seven of our visitors were members of the Parks family, who came from as far away as New Mexico and Florida to celebrate the restoration of Bronza and Orville Parks’—and now the Museum’s—skipjack Rosie Parks. What began as a boat restoration project has evolved to help revitalize a family’s rich Chesapeake heritage and the legacies it carries forward.

Many of the Parks family in attendance had not seen each other in more than 40 years, and most of the great-great-grandchildren had never met. As the Museum’s Rosie Parks Project Manager Marc Barto said at OysterFest, “This shows that the Museum is not just about artifacts and old boats. We’re also about the people and stories behind every object in our collection. For Rosie, we’re not just restoring an old boat, we’re also reuniting a family. Now that’s pretty cool.”

OysterFest isn’t the only place we’re engaging people like you in Chesapeake cultures.

With the Elf Classic Yacht Race, Frederick Douglass Day, Watermen’s Appreciation Day, the St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance, Maritime Monster Mash, and the James L. Stewart Memorial Grand Prix, we are a Museum that isn’t for a certain age, gender, race, or class of people. At the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, you truly have a place where people from all walks of life can celebrate the Bay and the diverse people who have lived, worked, and played here for generations, and still do today.

This year, more than 1,000 people ventured out during a record-breaking, 103-degree heat wave to come to our signature event, the Chesapeake Folk Festival. The 1,000 guests at Watermen’s Appreciation Day barely skipped a beat during the torrential downpour, waiting it out under tents, eating steamed crabs and swapping stories about worse storms they’d weathered in years past on the Bay. The Museum has seen more members at our events this past year than any time in recent memory, and your unwavering support reaffirms the critical importance of how our work is enriching lives. Your support allows the Museum to share how all of these intriguing stories intertwine into a patchwork of history, connecting people who otherwise would have little in common, and bringing them together in celebration of this special place.

Coming up in 2012, we have an exhibition on Chesapeake tugboats in the works; our winter/spring 2012 lecture series, “An Abundant and Fruitful Land: Foodways of the Chesapeake, Now and Then”; highly-focused docent training; and, of course, a wide range of inclusive special events appealing to diverse audiences. (See our calendar of events on page 23). I hope your own story will continue to unfold here at the Museum, as you add a new chapter to Chesapeake history.

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Board of Governors 2011-2012

Museum Staff Administration Langley R. Shook, President, 4951 René Stevenson, Director of Development & Assistant to the President, 4950

CG Appleby, Chair Alan R. Griffith, Vice Chair Joseph E. Peters, Vice Chair Tom D. Seip, Treasurer Mark S. Nestlehutt, Secretary Paul Berry Richard J. Bodorff Harry W. Burton Frederic N. Cross William S. Dudley David E. Dunn Jocelyn W. Eysymontt Anna W. Fichtner Howard S. Freedlander Dagmar D. P. Gipe James P. Harris E. Brooke Harwood, Jr. Christopher A. Havener Francis Hopkinson Pamela Jana R. Douglas Jurrius Richard H. Kimberly Peter M. Kreindler William C. Millar Geoffrey F. Oxnam Bruce A. Ragsdale Henry H. Stansbury Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr. Richard C. Tilghman, Jr. Alfred Tyler, 2nd Barbara Viniar Langley R. Shook, President

Emeriti Richard T. Allen Margaret D. Keller Breene M. Kerr Charles L. Lea, Jr. D. Ted Lewers Fred C. Meendsen John C. North II Sumner Parker Robert A. Perkins James K. Peterson Norman H. Plummer John J. Roberts Henry H. Spire James E. Thomas Joan Darby West Donald G. Whitcomb

Museum Welcomes New Staff Members

Tracey Munson, Vice President of Communications, 4960 Marie Thomas, Communications Manager, 4953 Melissa Spielman, Director of Events & Volunteer Program, 4956

Ida Heelan, Events Coordinator, 4944

Breene M. Kerr Center for Chesapeake Studies Pete Lesher, Chief Curator, 4971 Richard Scofield, Assistant Curator of Watercraft, 4966 Rob Forloney, Director of the Kerr Center, 4959 Kate Livie, Director of Education, 4947 Eric Applegarth, Exhibits Specialist, 4945 Lynne Phillips, Collections Manager, 4972 Helen Van Fleet, Education & Reservations Assistant, 4941 Michelle Zacks, Museum Folklorist, 4961

Constituent Services Debbie Collison, Membership Team Leader, 4991 Katie Willis, Visitor Services Team Leader, 4993 Emilie Knud-Hansen, Membership/Development Assistant, 4955

Marty Smythe, Museum Store Manager, 4963 Victoria Alexander, Museum Store Associate, 4962 Gloria Condrell, Museum Store Associate, 4962 Megan Fisher, Museum Host, 4945 Anne Robling, Museum Host, 4945 Maggie Robar, Museum Store Associate, 4962

Boatyard Marc Barto, Rosie Parks Project Manager, 4967 Mike Gorman, Vessel Maintenance Manager, 4967 Don MacLeod, Vessel Maintenance Assistant, 4967 Dan Sutherland, Boat Yard Program Manager, 4968 India Gilham-Westerman, Shipwright Apprentice, 4967 Jennifer Kuhn, Shipwright Apprentice, 4967 Bud McIntire, Shipwright Apprentice, 4967 Ken Philips, Shipwright Apprentice, 4967

Finance Jean Brooks, Vice President of Finance, 4958 Brenda Faulkner, Director of Human Resources, 4948 Digie McGuirk, Accounting/HR Assistant, 4957

Operations Bill Gilmore, Vice President of Operations, 4949 John Ford, Facilities Manager, 4970 Lad Mills, Boat Donations Program Manager, 4942 Donna Fairbank, Facilities Custodian, 4969 Sam Fairbank, Facilities Maintenance Assistant, 4969 Joseph Redman, Facilities Maintenance Assistant, 4969

Jean Brooks of St. Michaels, MD, has joined the Museum as the new vice president of finance and administration. Before moving to St. Michaels a year ago with her husband, Jean had a 30-year career in the New York area in accounting, finance, and business development with, in reverse order, HewlettPackard Finance Services, CIT Group/AT&T Capital, Chase Manhattan Bank and Price Waterhouse. Brooks is a CPA with a degree in accounting, magna cum laude, from St. John’s University and an MBA degree in finance from Pace University. In addition to her responsibilities as the Museum’s chief financial officer, Brooks will oversee human resources, visitor services (including the marina), museum store and e-commerce development, and risk management. She also will coordinate and direct grants research, writing and administration. Brooks is an avid sailor and member of the Miles River Yacht Club where she serves on the finance committee.

Robert Forloney of St. Michaels, MD, has returned to the Museum as director of the Kerr Center for Chesapeake Studies. Forloney is the Museum’s previous director of education and returns after a leave of absence following the birth of his twin sons. Forloney’s responsibilities include developing partnerships with community organizations and cultural institutions, oversight of the Museum’s internship program as well as ensuring that the Museum’s research is incorporated into dynamic public programs and exhibits.

Debbie Collison of St. Michaels, MD, has joined the Museum as the new membership team leader. Collison’s responsibilities include enhancing the member experience through programming and outreach initiatives. She brings more than 30 years of management experience and community service to her position. Collison has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Chesapeake Center, Talbot Mentors, and Computer Literacy for Kids. She is a member of the Harbourtowne Ladies’ Golf Association, High Hopes Investment Club, and St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, and volunteers with Waterfowl Festival, Talbot Partnership, Habitat for Humanity Choptank, and the St. Michaels Annual Crop Walk. Collison earned her BA with honors in liberal arts from Hood College in Frederick, MD, and has lived along the Chesapeake since 1990.

To contact, dial 410-745, and the number listed.

To email, use the first initial, full last name @cbmm.org.

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14th Boating Party Gala Fundraiser India Gilham-Westerman of Port Townsend, WA, has joined the Museum as a shipwright apprentice.

Gilham-Westerman begins her apprenticeship working on the restoration of the skipjack Rosie Parks.

She worked over three Alaska fishing seasons aboard charter and commercial fishing vessels, gill-netting for salmon and charter fishing for halibut. She also worked on the restoration of Tres Hombres in Den Helder, Netherlands, before sailing the brigantine in the North Sea and Europe.

Gilham-Westerman holds an associate’s degree in wooden boatbuilding from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA, and a bachelor of science degree in math from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. During her one-year apprenticeship, Gilham-Westerman is living in St. Michaels.

Ken Philips of Port Townsend, WA, also has joined the Museum as a shipwright apprentice.

Philips recently earned his associate’s degree in wooden boatbuilding from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, WA. He holds a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire.

Prior to attending boatbuilding school, Philips worked in Philadelphia’s financial services district. He has sailed the Chesapeake aboard a 1978 Saber 28 since 2004.

Philips’ apprenticeship begins with the restoration of the tug Delaware. He currently resides in St. Michaels, MD.

Sultana’s Replica John Smith Shallop Now at the Museum

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ultana Projects’ replica John Smith shallop is now on display along the St. Michaels Harbor just outside the welcome center. Built in 2005, the John Smith shallop is a full-scale replica of the small open boat, or “shallop” used by Captain Smith to make the first detailed European exploration of the Chesapeake Bay in 1608.

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The 14th Annual Boating Party Gala Fundraiser “Dressing the Ship” welcomed more than 600 guests and raised $190,000 to benefit the Museum. Guests enjoyed dinner and dancing to the Freddy Cole Jazz Quartet (pictured left) and The Golden Gup. A special thanks to co-chairs Amy and Paul Berry (pictured above, center) and the Boating Party Committee for their dedication and tireless efforts. (right) The first Candy Backus award was presented by Vice Chairman of the Board Joe Peters to Bob and Kay Perkins for their leadership and in appreciation for Candy’s own devotion and hard work to make the Museum’s Boating Party a success.

The original shallop was a small, shallow-drafted kit boat, made in two halves that could be pulled out of the hold of a larger ship and quickly put together to explore the creeks and rivers of the New World.

The two-part replica shallop, constructed of oak and Osageorange (also in two parts), went on to make a full retracing of John Smith’s 1608 voyage as part of Sultana Projects’ Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project.

The shallop crew, made up of 12 men and women, rowed, sailed, and lived in the open vessel during the reenactment, as Smith’s crew would have in 1608.

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currents Despite heavy rain, more than 1,000 people came to the 2nd annual Watermen’s Appreciation Day to support the Talbot County Watermen’s Association (TCWA).

Tug Delaware’s Historic Restoration Now Underway

(left) The boat docking contest draws a big crowd. (below, from left) Brothers Guy and Joe Spurry, (owners of Bay Hundred Seafood and Chesapeake Landing Restaurant) sponsors of the event, helped to serve steamed crabs. (middle) Senator Rich Colburn, Thomas P. Jones (recognized as oldest working waterman in Talbot County, age 82), Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, Delegate Jay Jacobs, TCWA’s Lisa Gowe, and Edgar Hansen, from the Discovery Channel’s hit show “Deadliest Catch.”

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n recognition of her upcoming centennial, the tug Delaware is now being restored to her 1912 appearance in full public view. Delaware is a rare example of a typical early 20th century wooden river tug. Built in 1912 in Bethel, DE, by William H. Smith, Delaware measures 39’8” x 11’4” and is now a floating exhibit at the Museum.

Delaware is a product of Bethel’s great age of wooden ship and boatbuilding.

Apart from the 1900 ram schooner Victory Chimes (formerly Edwin and Maud), Delaware may be the only survivor. In 1929, the tug was bought

by James Ireland of Easton, MD, who was in partnership with John H. Bailey in a marine construction business.

Later, Bailey acquired sole interest in

Rise Up Coffee Now Offered in Welcome Center

By Katie Willis

2nd Watermen’s Appreciation Day Saturday, August 14

the tug, when she became a common sight around the Upper Eastern Shore, engaged in building bulkheads and docks until she was laid up in the late 1980s. Delaware hauled scows on Broad Creek, often laden with lumber,

and towed ram schooners to and from Laurel. Occasionally, she carried parties of young people to Sandy Hill for day trips on the Nanticoke River. (Read more on page 19).

haring a love of the Chesapeake Bay and the communities served, Rise Up Coffee is now donating coffee to serve in the Museum’s Welcome Center. For the local coffee company’s owners Tim and Abigail Cureton, giving back to their community is nothing new.

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says Visitor Services Team Leader Katie Willis. “Our missions are similar; Rise Up promotes community through the global reach of coffee, and the Museum promotes community through sharing the cultural heritage of the Chesapeake Bay and the people who live here.”

Rise Up Coffee sponsors various local and global charitable organizations, including the Peace Corps, for which Tim has a particular affinity due to his previous Peace Corps service in the Pacific. Their charitable giving fits right into their mission to “Serve the best coffee. Make the most friends.

Do the least harm.”

As one of the Museum’s Skipjack Fleet business members, Rise Up staff enjoy extended Museum member benefits including discounts on classes and programs, invitations to exclusive members-only events, and more.

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(right) Edgar Hansen and PT Hambleton, a winner in the boat docking contest.

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14th Boat Auction Saturday, September 3 The 14th annual Charity Boat Auction drew a crowd of 1,600 people and sold 90 boats, ranging in size and performance from sailing dinghies to cabin cruisers. More than $120,000 was raised to support the Museum and its mission. (right) Museum Board Member Paul Berry serves as auctioneer.

Businesses are encouraged to join the Museum as members by contacting Membership Team Leader Debbie Collison at 410-745-4991 or emailing dcollison@cbmm.org.

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Saturday & Sunday, October 1 & 2

The 29th annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival welcomed 268 registered participants, 170 boats, and more than 1,000 in attendance over the course of the weekend. The festivities kicked off with an oyster roast and included races, a swap meet, music, and scenic river cruises.

This year’s OysterFest set an all-time record with 2,500 people in attendance. Festival-goers enjoyed live music, oysters and other foods, children’s activities, boat rides, demonstrations, and an oyster stew competition won for the second consecutive year by Chef David Hayes of Harbour Lights at St. Michaels Harbour Inn, Marina & Spa. It was at last year’s OysterFest that the skipjack Rosie Parks restoration project was announced. A year later, 57 members of the Parks family came to OysterFest for a family reunion and to celebrate the rebirth of the Rosie in memory of her builder, Bronza Parks and his brother and Rosie’s Captain, Orville Parks. The family presented the Museum with a selection of Bronza’s and Orville’s tools, now part of our permanent collection. See photos of the Parks family reunion on page 22 and read all about the latest progress on the Rosie project. (top, clockwise) The Talbot County Watermen’s Association served oysters raw and steamed. The Mister Jim was packed for an ecology cruise. Vessel Maintenance Manager Mike Gorman and new Museum members Brigitte and David Phillips of Lancaster PA, hold a section of the old floor of the tug Delaware. David is the great-grandson of Delaware’s builder William H. Smith. B-Natural entertained crowds for the day.

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(bottom, from left) Pres Harding, Chief Curator Pete Lesher, Shipwright Apprentice India Gilham-Westerman, Project Manager Marc Barto, Tom Parks, and Shipwright Apprentices Bud McIntire and Jenn Kuhn on top of Rosie’s doghouse during the presentation of Bronza’s and Orville’s tools. In the front row are Rosie Parks supporters Earl Brannock and Ginger Martus, Maxine and Bill Millar, and Parks family member Mary Parks Harding. Director of Education Kate Livie explains the vital importance of oysters to the health of the Chesapeake Bay. THE CHESAPEAKE LOG

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VOLUNT E E R Training & Events Contact Melissa Spielman to register at mspielman@cbmm.org or by phone at 410-745-4956. Current volunteers may register on the volunteer website.

Volunteer Profile

by Katie Willis

General Tour Training For volunteers interested in becoming docents, this training provides the basics of content, interpretive skills, and critical thinking needed to guide a group on a general tour. No experience necessary, although an interest in public speaking is critical. All sessions are mandatory for course completion.

Model Tug Torrent Restored

by Pete Lesher

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he city of Baltimore, with its port facilities sprawling around the shores of the Patapsco River, has long relied on a fleet of fireboats to protect valuable waterfront property. The largest vessel to serve the city was the appropriately-named Torrent, which served along with fireboats named Cataract, Deluge, and Cascade.

Stationed at various points around the harbor, at least one fireboat could reach any waterfront location in the city within 10 minutes. Built on the hull of a steam tug, Torrent was launched in 1921 and served until 1956 when she was replaced by a modern diesel fireboat.

Professional firemen typically work long shifts, but then enjoy the reward of long stretches of off-duty time, and the situation was no different for the Baltimore Fire Department’s Marine Division.

Carl T. Allison, an engineer on the Torrent in the 1930s and 1940s, used his leisure time to build a model of the boat he served aboard.

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Although not a scale model—the model is proportionately a little too wide and too deep for its length—many of the technical details are included. This attention to detail is typical of “sailor-made” models, those constructed by a member of a vessel’s crew who knew it intimately.

February 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23 10am-12:30pm Van Lennep Auditorium (VLA)

Tour and School Program Docent Training Each program has two days of training.

Both sessions are necessary to complete the training successfully, and it is suggested that new volunteers complete the general tour training before attending these program-specific trainings.

Crab Cakes March 6 & 8, 10am in the VLA

The model features not only the five monitors (nozzles) mounted on the main deck, pilot house, aft deck house, and tower, but a grate below the waterline for the water pump intake, discharge gates where hoses can be attached, and other such details.

Bay Bounty Tour March 3 & 15, 10am in the VLA

The model came to the Museum with several parts missing or separated, and Ed Thieler, a volunteer member of the museum’s Model Guild, conserved it for exhibit. The Museum is planning a tug exhibit to open in spring 2012, where this model of a specialized tug will be presented for the first time.

Volunteer Education Field Trips

The model was the gift of Mildred T. Allison in memory of Calvin F. Allison.

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Bay Discovery Tour March 15 & 20, 10am in the VLA Oystering Legacy Program March 13 & 15, 2pm in the VLA

The field trips will be on a pre-registration, car-pool basis, with entrance fees for institutions covered by each volunteer.

December 5, 2011 Historic London Town, Edgewater January 10, 2012 Location to be announced.

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y his own account, John A. “Doc” Hawkinson, MD, is not the type of person who needs to head to Florida every winter. In fact, he says, “I’m perfectly happy staying through the seasons. I love it here.”

John’s time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore began in 1964, when he moved from Philadelphia to continue his obstetrics and gynecology practice with the Memorial Hospital at Easton. From 1964 to 2000, John delivered, to his best guess, around 3,000 babies––including the author of this article.

(above) You can usually find John A. “Doc” Hawkinson and his sidekick Scout in the boatshop. (right) John takes a ride on the bugeye he and Sidney Dickson built, the Katherine May Edwards.

Although his medical practice was a primary motivation for moving, John’s love for sailing, and “messing about in boats,” were also chief reasons. Since retiring in 2000, his love for boats brought him to the Museum, where, since 2009, he’s volunteered more than 2,000 hours by offering skilled assistance to Apprentice for a Day (AFAD) public boatbuilding participants.

new boat, to restoring boats and interthe three historic houses that now serve as the Museum’s administrative buildings. preting the process to Museum guests.

The AFAD program is an on-going After retiring in 2000, John decided to program that gives anyone interested in take his love of boats to a new level, in boatbuilding the hands-on experience what he calls, “the pendulum swing necessary to take their interest to the from sailing to boatbuilding.” John next level or to hone a particular skill. assisted local resident Sidney Dickson in building a brand new bugeye, the “We learn just as much from the particiKatherine May Edwards. pants as they learn from us,” says John, whose enthusiasm and desire to perfect “The first trees were cut in 1980 and the His fascination for boats began in his boatbuilding skills make him a logs partially assembled, but we both Minnesota at age five, and continued favorite around the boatyard. with Chesapeake Bay cruising, off-shore had an occupational handicap––we had sailboat racing, and log canoes. He spent to work for a living,” recalls John. The “There are always repairs to be made to two years in the U.S. Navy, one of which project resumed in 2002 and was a boat, so there can’t be much difference completed by 2008. was spent on a destroyer primarily stabetween repairing and building anew. tioned in Charleston, South Carolina.

The concept of constructing a useful “Building a boat is one step at a time:

After the Navy, John studied medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he received his training in obstetrics and gynecology, and completed his residency. John and his family moved to the Eastern Shore after the completion of his medical training. He remembers a time when the only buildings on Navy Point were a seafood packing plant and

each time you get another board on it is rewarding,” he adds. It was also at this time John acquired a sidekick, his dog Scout, who accompanies him to the Museum’s boatshop every day.

Once the bugeye was completed, he was ready for something new and began volunteering for the AFAD program.

His focus again shifted from building a

vessel greatly intrigues me—it’s always a pleasure to look at a boat and see her come together—if her sheer line is attractive, she’s most likely a good boat.”

Want to volunteer or participate in the AFAD program? Call 410-745-2916 for more information.

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What’s Fresh?

Academy for Lifelong Learning Something for everyone in the winter 2012 line-up

Seasonal Selections from Education

by Esty Collette

by Kate Livie

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he Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL) is offering an abundance of courses this winter. History buffs can enjoy “History of American Art Part II,” which will cover American art from the Civil War through Winslow Homer. Local history will be represented by the courses “Talbot County History,” and the “History of Log Canoe Racing.”

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all for the education department meant school tours—and lots of ‘em! Students from all over Maryland and beyond flocked to campus to learn about watermen and their boats, Bay ecology, the history of lighthouses, and how a professional picks a crab.

Each of these students were taught by the Museum’s committed corps of docents, who have received free training on everything from teaching techniques, to Bay flora and fauna, to Chesapeake history and ship construction, and more. This fall, those docents also learned how to lead a new tour focusing on one of the Museum’s most important projects—the Rosie Parks restoration.

Offered to adults as well as students, the “Oystering Legacy” tour follows a 400-year relationship with Crassostrea virginica—the Eastern oyster. Beginning with the Native Americans at first contact, the tour interprets a Bay in which John Smith noted “oysters thick as stones” to the boom-time 19th-century oystering “Gold Rush of the Chesapeake” through hands-on activities and exhibit exploration.

Students and adults opened spat cages and learned about the challenges and future of oystering in the Chesapeake today, and applied their newly-minted historical expertise as they swung a hammer or wielded a paintbrush at the Rosie Parks restoration site with Project Manager Marc Barto and his

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A group of visitors from the Blind Industries and Services of Maryland feel the transom of the Rosie Parks during a group tour this past October.

team of skilled shipwrights. Through the “Oystering Legacy” tour, students of all ages learn about the Chesapeake Bay where Rosie sailed, the oysters she harvested, and the enduring spirit she carries forward.

Off campus, educational outreach continued with an eight-week, Chesapeakefocused afterschool program open to all Queen Anne’s County 6-8th grade students. Held at The Gunston School on the Corsica River, eight students learned about how people adapted to the Chesapeake, from the time of the Indians to today. Canoe trips, oyster nursery exploration, seining, history research and discussions, and walks through the woods kept the students in contact with today’s Bay as they studied the changes and challenges impacting the Chesapeake over time.

Looking ahead, as the chill keeps all but the hardiest sailors off the water, the Museum has lots going on to keep the cabin fever away this winter.

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This year’s winter/spring 2012 lecture series, “An Abundant and Fruitful Land: Foodways of the Chesapeake, Now and Then” begins in January (see our calendar on page 23), and from the historic to the modern, there’s a program to “feed your soul.”

Taste an original 18th century cocktail, the rum shrub, and learn about taverns and spirits of the Colonial Chesapeake; hear about how modern innovational Chesapeake family farms are moving from corn and soybeans to vineyards and grass-fed beef; discuss how eating and cooking sustainably can impact the future of Chesapeake watermen; and see the history of African American Chesapeake cuisine come alive over an open hearth.

And don’t forget to check out the new education blog, “Beautiful Swimmers,” a general education forum, as well as a valuable resource of stories, links, and information for the curious of minds.

Beautifulswimmers.tumblr.com.

Good discussions can be counted on in the three courses: “The Politics of Evolution,” “Great Decisions,” and Sam Barnett’s course entitled “Have You Met Satan Yet?” For those with literary interests, a course on French authors in translation will be led by Margot Miller. John Miller will facilitate the course “I Believe,” in which participants can write and share

essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives.

Joan Katz will lead the “Memoir Writing Group” for individuals who wish to learn about putting together their memoir either through writing their story or with less traditional alternatives such as art works, quilts or scrapbooks. Scott Friedman, MD, a cardiologist with Chesapeake Bay Cardiology, will give a talk called “When is Coronary Stenting Appropriate?” Opportunities to meet with local authors and tour sites of interest will also be available.

ALL is a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization committed to the enrichment of life through continuing education. For more information about

ALL’s Sam Barnett, Ron Lesher and Don Berlin enjoy an after class discussion.

ALL, to receive a catalog for the winter 2012 semester, or to learn about other upcoming events, call the Museum at 410-745-2916 or find us on Facebook. A full course schedule can be viewed online at cbmm.org/all.

ChesAdventures Children ages 4-9 can fill their Saturdays with two hours of fun-filled and challenging hands-on games, arts and crafts, and storytelling at the Museum’s ChesAdventures Program (formerly Saturday for Kids).

All sessions are Chesapeake-themed with space limited.

Pre-registration is required, call Helen Van Fleet at 410-745-4941 to reserve a spot.

Visa, Mastercard, and Discover accepted.

Gift certificates available. $12 for members, $15 non-members.

BUGS AND SPIDERS

JELLYFISH

January 14 Fun to find, fun to make!

February 18 Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they are cool and beautiful.

BRIGHTEN UP WINTER

WIND

January 21 Art projects with all things shiny.

February 25 Warm or cold, we’ll look at wind power inside and out.

WINTER WATER BIRDS January 28 Wanna make a duck?

A GLACIER MADE THE BAY February 11 We’ll make our own gooey version of that ice floe.

Morning sessions, 10am–12pm, ages 4–6. Afternoon sessions, 1–3pm for ages 7-9.

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On Deck with the Captain of the

Rosie Parks

By Dick Cooper

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t was a cold winter’s day on the decks of the skipjack Rosie Parks as she dredged for Chesapeake oysters.

Suddenly, the long boom accidently jibed, sweeping Captain Orville Parks from the after-deck into the frigid water. His crew quickly pulled him back on the deck thinking they might get a respite from the raw weather.

First Mate Theodore Cephas remembers saying, “Well, we’ll get to go home early today. But Captain Orville, he went down in the cabin, took them wet clothes off, put on a set of oil skins, nothing underneath them, and we drudged all day long.”

Cephas, now 80, of Vienna in Dorchester County, the last living member of the Rosie Parks regular crew, says he worked side-by-side with the legendary Captain Orville from 1956 until 1974. Captain Orville’s niece, Mary Parks Harding, daughter of Bronza Parks, builder of the famous skipjack, says Cephas was “Uncle Orville’s right-hand-man. If the Rosie Parks moved, Theodore Cephas was on board.” Cephas says he was a 15

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young, out-of-work farmhand looking for a winter job when he met Captain Orville in Cambridge.

“I was walking along the wharf one morning looking for a job,” Cephas recalls. “About 5 o’clock in the morning, Captain Orville come up and asked me if I want a job and I said yes. He said I got a drudge boat. I said I don’t know nothing about drudgin’. He said, come on, get in the car, and we went down to Wingate. Rosie Parks, she was up on the railway, I helped put her overboard. I was one of the first ones.”

Sitting on a couch in the living room of his home, Cephas, still lean and waterman strong, strokes his slight beard with a hand worn into hard leather by a life of physical labor as he thinks back on his days as a Chesapeake Bay oysterman.

“That was hard work,” he says, adding, “cold too.” He says he kept up with the Rosie Parks after Captain Orville sold it to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in 1975, but he stopped checking in on her about six years ago

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when Rosie’s deterioration became too much to witness.

“It was a shame they let her go down so,” he says. Cephas has heard about the rebuilding of Rosie Parks now in full swing at the Museum. Marc Barto, project manager overseeing the rebuilding of the 56-year-old skipjack, has begun the exacting job of replacing and repairing her deck beams.

The centerboard trunk has been rebuilt and her cabin lifted off the deck. Barto hopes to save the original cabin as he constantly looks for ways to save as much of the boat as possible during the three-year restoration and educational project.

“I might drive up there and take a look at her,” Cephas says. (Cephas did come back to see Rosie at this year’s OysterFest, see page 22.) Looking back, Cephas says he remembers the Rosie as the queen of the oyster fleet.

“He kept a good rig,” he says of Captain Orville. “He was one of the best on the Bay. He was the Admiral, Governor Tawes made him that,” referring to the honorific “Admiral of the Chesapeake”

Rosie, circa the late 1980s during the Museum’s Traditional Boat Races.

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feature Cephas remembers the call he received from his old captain. Captain Orville told Cephas he wanted him with him when he delivered Rosie Parks to her new home. “It was a sad day. When we left he cried just like somebody shot him.”

(top) Theodore Cephas at this year’s OysterFest standing at the bow of the Rosie Parks. (below) Captain Orville Parks.

bestowed on distinguished watermen over the years.

“He knew every trick,” Cephas says.

“He’d catch oysters on a state road.”

Unlike a lot of captains who tended to stay near their home ports, Orville Parks sailed all over Maryland’s half of the Bay hunting for oysters.

“At the end of the day, when we wasn’t working, he’d be laying down there in his locker thinking about the next move,” Cephas says. Captain Orville would steer his boat from her home port on Cambridge Creek to Wingate, Annapolis, Deal Island, Tilghman Island, Fairlee Creek, and Solomons Island to find his prey.

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“Anywhere there’d be oysters, he’d be there,” Cephas says. “He would be out on the Bay night and day and I never seen him lost.”

rights, he always had his eye on the prize money, Cephas says. “If he didn’t win that race, he could be pretty hard to get along with.”

He says the captain learned a hard lesson in the winter of 1957 when Rosie was ice-bound in Cambridge. “I drudged with him so many years, we never got froze up but that one time,” Cephas recalls.

But Rosie won most of her races because Captain Orville “kept his boat in firstclass shape, he had light sails on her and he would outsmart most of them,” Cephas says. In the later years of their friendship, Cephas recalls when Captain Orville wasn’t feeling well, he would take the helm. In 1974, Captain Orville had a heart attack and his doctor told him it was time to get off the water.

“He says, ‘Boys, you’ll never catch me in here again.’ He was smart. When we’d get ready to freeze up he would leave and go to Solomons Island.” Cephas remembers the boom days of the late 1950s and early 1960s when oysters were plentiful.

“Oh my lord, one year, not sure what year it was back in the 60s and we was drudging over off Chesapeake Beach,” he says. “They didn’t have no limit.

One time we had 350, 400 bushels a day. We would unload twice a day.”

Orville Parks’ crew was loyal to him because they knew they could make money working for him. They also knew that if they had a bad spell, the Captain would do right by them. “Lot of times we didn’t make much, but he would always give you something to take home.”

Cephas says that Captain Orville “liked the dollar. He liked money, and he had some too. Captain Orville didn’t fool with nothing that didn’t have money in it.” Even when he was racing against other skipjack captains for bragging

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Cephas remembers the call he received from his old captain. “He said, ‘I’m going to get rid of her.’ I said, ‘No you’re not.’ He said he was selling her to the Museum in St. Michaels.”

Captain Orville told Cephas he wanted him with him when he delivered Rosie Parks to her new home. “It was a sad day.

When we left he cried just like somebody shot him.”

Orville Parks, captain of the Rosie Parks—the skipjack named for his mother—was ashore at the age of 78.

He had worked the Chesapeake’s waters since he was a boy. He died less than a year after selling the Rosie Parks to the Museum in 1975. Cephas says he retired from oystering in 1979. Now, at the age of 80, he is retired from farming and only works one job as a caretaker on a Dorchester County farm, cutting grass and tending to chickens.

Replace 681 feet of decayed bulkhead

Restoring Navy Point O

n November 14, we broke ground on Navy Point to begin replacing the last and most exposed section of rotted bulkhead along the Museum’s Miles River shoreline. The original wooden bulkhead was installed in 1970, and has far exceeded its expected 25year lifetime. In its deteriorated state, the existing bulkhead releases sediment into the harbor with every rainfall and leaves scarring sinkholes in the ground that are hazardous to visitors.

boat shed––a restored wetland providing natural habitat and filtering runoff while preserving the shoreline’s integrity.

The bulkhead from Honeymoon Bridge to the Crab Claw restaurant and along Fogg’s Cove have been replaced.

The decayed wooden bulkhead will be replaced with modern, more durable vinyl sheathing that has a 40-year lifespan. New amenities also will be added to the marina for the enjoyment of our boating members, including a new finger pier and three mooring pilings adjacent to the At Play on the Bay exhibit building, and upgraded electric and water service.

To address the remaining deteriorated bulkhead, the Museum has secured almost $300,000 of Maryland State funding––about half the total project cost––leaving $300,000 of matching funds that must be raised. Despite not having all the necessary matching funds already in place, doing this work now was necessary to avoid the risk of losing the state grant money.

We’ll also install more living shoreline opposite the restrooms and showers near the boatshop. The Museum already has installed a living shoreline near the small

Talbot County has over 600 miles of shoreline––said to be the most of any county in the entire United States––

This final phase of bulkhead work has begun at the marine railway, and will proceed around the Hooper Strait Lighthouse, whose deck will be replaced, and over to Fogg’s Cove near the At Play on the Bay exhibit building.

yet public access to the water is scarce.

The Museum’s beautiful waterfront campus at Navy Point––its most valuable physical asset––may be the most recognized and most frequently visited place on the Eastern Shore for public access to the water.

The Museum is perhaps the biggest tourist attraction from the Bay Bridge to the Atlantic Ocean and from Wilmington to Norfolk. This long postponed facelifting of the Museum’s shoreline will be finished before next spring. For more information about the project and how you can help support it, contact René Stevenson at 410-745-4950 or rstevenson@cbmm.org. (top left) An aerial view of campus shows where the bulkhead will be replaced. Photo provided by Hunter Harris of Aloft Aerial Photography. (right) Ugly sinkholes behind the deteriorated bulkhead are hazardous to visitors. (bottom right) Typical bulkhead piling to be replaced.

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on the rail Apprentice For a Day public boatbuilding program Learn traditional boatbuilding under the direction of a Museum shipwright.

You can be part of the whole 17-week process or just sign up for those aspects of building that you want to learn.

Must be 16 or older unless accompanied by an adult. For the Journeyman’s Special, choose any four days for one reduced price! Members $125, non-members $170. Diversify your experience to include several different skills. Gift certificates available. Call 410-745-2916 for information.

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February Spiling (plank measuring), 4/5 cutting, installation 11/12 Spiling (plank measuring), cutting, installation 18/19 Interior finish/cut, seal ribs 26/27 Fit and install ribs

(clockwise from left) Newly steamed and bent spray rails are seen on Delaware beyond the still hot steambox. Delaware’s new rails are quickly taken from the steam box and attached to the tug. Shipwrights Don MacLeod, Jenn Kuhn, Mike Gorman and Ken Philips are bending the garboard plank to get the proper amount of twist before the final fitting.

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elaware was hauled from the water on the Museum’s marine railway in early September 2011. Museum Vessel Maintenance Manager Mike Gorman inventoried both the structural and cosmetic upgrades to be completed in time for launch day, followed by a program-heavy summer in 2012. Using a combination of historic photos and oral histories given by those who worked on Delaware, the shipwrights aim to restore her to the authentic appearance of her heyday.

The first item was the removal of the lower rub/spray rails, which, over the years had been cut back on the hull due to wear. New 2-1/2-inch, square oak rails were attached, beginning at the cutwater and following the beautifully lined planking, three strakes down from

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the sheer. During the process of removing the port side planking in the bow, the shipwrights discovered more work than originally thought to be necessary, due to the lack of limbering on the frames.

Over the years, the standing water in the bow, buried under the stone ballast, had rotted the frame ends, and floors, and allowed a seven foot section of keel to be compromised. Working from the keel up, a new section of keelson was fashioned from white oak, with the pre-cut frame sockets fastened and glued using traditional pins and clench nails.

Next up was the fabrication of new frame ends, made of white oak and attached using epoxy and 10-inch ship lap scarf. To tie the whole structure together, 10 new floors were fabricated and drifted into the keel and then bolted

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onto the frames. Six planks of yellow pine were bent and fastened. The 1-5/8-inch thick planks had to be steamed to make the dramatic twist from amidships to rabbet on the stem. The planks will be traditionally faired and caulked, making the bottom ready for a good scraping and a fresh coat of paint. Future stages of the project include replacing interior deck beams, sheer clamp, and carlins under the engine room cabin.

The house will also have to be jacked back up to original height as the scarfed carlins being replaced have settled over the boat’s 100-year lifespan. With an estimated completion date of late February 2012, Delaware will then receive new paint and detailing all around.

-by Mike Gorman

Keel/skeg/transom Stem/forefoot/transom Box construction, installation Lining off plank, cut garboard, installation

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n September, the boatyard crew worked to replace all of the rope rigging on the bugeye Edna E. Lockwood.

Her sails were lifted for the first time in three years. The centerboard trunk was reinstalled and the davits (which hold the pushboat) were reattached.

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No major work on Edna is planned for the winter. In the spring, the boatyard crew will replace the ballast weights, which are used to stabilize the vessel as it sails. The previous ballasts, 4,500 pounds of steel, were removed last year, and will be replaced with heavier and more lasting lead ballasts.

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(top left) Assistant Curator for Watercraft Richard Scofield and Vessel Maintenance Manager Mike Gorman begin hoisting Edna’s jib sail. (bottom left) The old steel ballasts have been removed and are being replaced with lead ballasts. (top right) Gorman takes the camera up the mast with him. (right) Edna’s sails are back up after three years.

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Breast hook, quarter knee construction, installation Inwales, gunwales, seat riser construction, installation Seat constuction and fitting Centerboard, cap construction Oars, spars, bilge timber constuction Open Rudder, tiller construction Oarlock, seat knee construction Finishes Finishes Finishes Hardware installation, rigging Final preparation and launch

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ifty-seven members of the Parks family, spanning four generations, came to OysterFest to celebrate the restoration of the Rosie Parks. Together with Museum staff and donors to the restoration project, the family reconnected and shared memories of Rosie’s builder Bronza Parks, and his brother Captain Orville Parks. Some of the tools used to build Rosie were donated to the Museum and local Chesapeake artist Marc Castelli gave sketches of Rosie to family members.

(top left, clockwise) Kelly Ena (great-granddaughter), Sharon Weber (granddaughter), and Karson Ena (great-great-granddaughter) of Captain Orville Parks. Captain Orville with granddaughter Sharon and great-granddaughter Kelly. A group shot of Parks family members, and generous donors to the project, Bill and Maxine Millar, and Ginger Martus and Earl Brannock. (bottom, clockwise from left) Mary Parks Harding, Joyce Parks Wiley, and Theodore Cephus stand with an actual life-size cut-out of Bronza Parks.

Pres Harding presents Chief Curator Pete Lesher with Bronza’s broad axe.

Lesher addresses a large crowd of people.

Family members from Captain Orville’s side stand at Rosie’s transom for a group photo.

Hannah and Rosalee Kimbro, Bronza’s greatgreat-granddaughters, play inside Rosie’s doghouse. Members of the Parks family take home momentos from the restoration project.

(clockwise from top left) Rosie in early August, with a new transom. Rosie in late October, with all new deck beams. The chine log rests underneath the topside planks. The frames work to connect the chine log, the topside planks, the clamp, and the deck beams.

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n the last update of the Rosie Parks restoration, the boatyard crew had just finished the transom, and the installation of the first aft strongback and knees underneath the boat’s cabin.

Working on several areas of Rosie simultaneously, the crew continued to replace deck beams while replacing half the frames, about every other one.

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original shape. Sacrificial strongbacks were attached to each new side frame, acting as a mold, so the crew could examine the chine log. In order to expose the chine log and create a pattern for a new one, shipwrights first had to remove half of the lowest topside plank.

On August 27, Hurricane Irene made her way up the Atlantic coast and work on Rosie was suspended until the storm passed. Thankfully, the only casualty was the tent over Rosie to protect her from the weather. Six thousand dollars later, Rosie’s protective cover has been replaced and work continued with the

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removal of the kingplank with a forklift.

Shipwright apprentices Bud McIntire and India Gilham-Westerman carefully located the existing mast partner in relation to the mast step, documented their respective positioning and then removed the mast partner and surrounding deck beams. A new mast partner was then fastened into place.

Work continues on Rosie throughout the next two years with updates regularly posted on our Facebook page, and Chesapeakeboats.blogspot.com.

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calendar

jan/feb/march Members Nights

jan/feb/march

friday, january 20

Winter/Spring 2012 Lecture Series: An Abundant and Fruitful Land: Foodways of the Chesapeake, Now and Then *Space limited and pre-registration is required for all events.

Call 410-745-4941.

thursday, january 12 Spirits of the Chesapeake: Taverns, Tankards, and True Stories from 18th Century Maryland $15 members, $18 non-members 6pm, Van Lennep Auditorium Rod Cofield, director of interpretation at Historic London Town, will share his lively research into the history of tippling in the Colonial Chesapeake, and how primary documents reflect the people, environment, and debauchery of 18th century life in the Tidewater.

The lecture will be followed by a presentation from Joe Dolce, manager of Chestertown’s Imperial Hotel, whose talk about the original colonial “cocktail”, the rum shrub, will be highlighted with tastings and recipes.

rod Cofield

Joe Dolce

Farming for the Future: Diversity and Sustainability at Crow Farm 6pm, $8 members, $10 non-members Van Lennep Auditorium Chesapeake farms today are often hundreds of acres of the “big three”—corn, soybeans, and wheat, but some small farms are thinking outside the box. Representatives from Crow Farm in Kent County, Maryland, will be speaking about their approach towards “staying original” in local agriculture, and how they have built their business on embracing the Bay’s small, family-oriented farming past while innovating with natural, grass-fed beef and pork, farmto-table events, and a new vineyard and winery. winter 2012

Connecting People, Place, and Products: Eating Our Way to a Healthier Bay 6pm, $12 members, $15 non-members Van Lennep Auditorium “We have a chance to eat our way back to healthy oceans.”

-Barton Seaver, author of For Cod and Country: Simple, Delicious, Sustainable Cooking.

Join chef and author Barton Seaver, Steve Vilnit from DNR’s Commercial Fisheries Outreach and Marketing, and Carol Bean and Mark Connolly of Pot Pie Farm as they discuss the future of watermen, fishing sustainability in the Chesapeake, and how consumers can protect the environment and community, deliciously. Sample some local seafood and share in this conversation about caring for the Bay through responsible consumption. Barton Seaver Copies of Barton’s book will be available for sale and signing.

wednesday, march 14

thursday, february 16

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We Are What We Ate: African American “Discomfort” Food 2:30pm, $10 members, $12 non-members Mitchell House Michael Twitty, community African-American food scholar, will trace the history of AfricanAmerican Chesapeake cuisine through his experiences growing, preparing, and researching the recipes of enslaved Tidewater Africans. Twitty brings history to life through open-fire cooking Michael twitty talks about food at the Chesapeake Folk Festival. demonstrations, and involves his audience in discussions about heirloom crops and seeds, wild foods, foraging methods, and the cooking techniques that create a uniquely African American cultural tradition.

In Concert: Cemetery Cove String Quartet Plus 6pm, Van Lennep Auditorium Take the chill out of a cold January night and warm up with an evening of easy listening to one of the area’s most soughtafter bands! Sing along to tunes The Cemetery Cove String Quartet played recently at the Museum’s Maritime Monster Mash in October. from the 30s and before. Light fare served. Free, but space is limited—RSVP by January 18.

friday, february 17 “Magic Lantern Story” An Evening with Marc Castelli 6pm, Van Lennep Auditorium Renowned Chesapeake artist Marc Castelli will share a unique slide show of photographs collected while out on the water with watermen in all seasons of Marc Castelli sketches the Rosie Parks before the start of the three-year restoration process. the year. Light fare served. Free, but space is limited—RSVP by February 15.

wednesday, march 14 Make Your Property More Wildlife-Friendly 6pm, Van Lennep Auditorium Andi Pupke with Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage will discuss backyard wildlife habitat planning and management. The presentation is designed to provide guidance to landowners on small scale projects to enhance the habitat value on their property. Light fare served. Free, but space is limited—RSVP by March 12.

Member Nights depend on winter weather conditions. In the event of bad weather, please call the Museum to check if the event has been rescheduled.

Exhibit Explorations - January 24, 10am The final exhibit exploration of winter will feature a talk about Gilbert Byron and his work by the head of the Gilbert Byron Society, Jacques Baker, in the Van Lennep Auditorium. This talk is free, and open to volunteers and docents as well as the public. Registration required.

Contact Helen Van Fleet at hvanfleet@cbmm.org or by phone at 410-745-4941 to register.

may Frederick Douglass Day Saturday, May 5

Maritime Model Expo Sat. & Sun., May 19 & 20

The Elf Classic Yacht Race Saturday, May 19

june 25th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival Father’s Day Weekend Fri., Sat., Sun., June 15, 16 & 17

Big Band Night/Fireworks Saturday, June 30

july Chesapeake Folk Festival Saturday, July 28

august Watermen’s Appreciation Day Sunday, August 12

september 15th Annual Charity Boat Auction Labor Day Weekend Saturday, September 1

15th Annual Boating Party Gala Fundraiser Sunday, September 8

St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance Sunday, September 30

october 30th Annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival Fri., Sat., Sun., October 5, 6 & 7

november OysterFest Saturday, November 3

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CBMM Annual Fund Honor Roll We’re grateful to supporters whose gifts allow us to continue to preserve and share the stories, traditions, and heritage of the people who have lived, worked and played along the Chesapeake Bay for generations, and still do today. Thank you to all our generous donors, including those listed below whose Annual Fund gifts were received between July 25 and November 7, 2011. Your gifts benefit the children and adults served by our educational programs, special events, exhibits and boat restoration programs. They also will help us fund the Museum’s extremely critical project of replacing the rotted bulkhead along Navy Point this winter. Thank you for your support! You are our heroes!

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am and Dennis Pitt of Hurlock, MD, are two of the newest members of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Perpetual Mariner Society which recognizes supporters who have included the Museum in their estate plans. The Pitts have a special love of the Museum’s floating fleet, and one vessel in particular, the 1889 nine-log bugeye Edna E. Lockwood which is the only survivor of more than 600 original bugeyes that once sailed the Bay.

in an enduring way. Barely one-third of the Museum’s operating budget comes from admissions and membership dues.

Charitable gifts, including bequests and endowments, always will be the mainstay that sustains the Museum’s performance of its important mission,” says Museum President Langley Shook.

Pam’s father, Reginald D. “Raggy” Todd, was Edna’s skipper from 1948 until the late 1950s, and he was out sailing aboard Edna the day Pam was born. Though the Pitts have placed no restrictions on how their legacy gift may be used by the Museum, they’ve said they want to make sure Edna and other historic vessels in the Museum’s floating fleet are around for future generations to enjoy.

“In fact, when Pam and Dennis told us of their plans, this reminded my wife Karen and me to include the Museum in our own estate plans. We’ve taken care of that in our wills and we’re proud to join the Perpetual Mariner Society alongside the Pitts. I believe everyone who loves the Museum and wants to ensure it thrives and fulfills its mission far into the future should give serious consideration to this.”

“This is a very sensible thing to do for those who cherish the Museum’s work and wish to demonstrate their support

To include the Museum in your estate plans, contact René Stevenson at 410-745-4950 or rstevenson@cbmm.org.

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(top) Pam and Dennis Pitt (front) treated the boatyard crew to lunch to celebrate their new status as members of the Perpetual Mariner Society. (back row, from left) Mike Gorman, Don MacLeod, Richard Scofield, and Langley Shook. (bottom) Karen and Langley Shook.

Theodore & Lottie Aepli Nancy Aldrich Herbert & Della Andrew Jay & Judy Anglada Anonymous Antique & Classic Boat Society, Inc. CG & Nancy Appleby Eric Applegarth & Michele Zacks Ashby Commons, L.C. Richard Awalt Malcolm Bahrenburg Glenn & Kimberly Baker Bill & Nancy Baker Thomas & Linda Barbour Robert Barker & Jill Schneider Jeffrey & Catherine Barron John Bayley Robert & Margaret Begor Thomas & Carolyn Berger William & Joan Bertolino Arthur & Alison Birney Bernard Bise Carole S. Bishop Sylvester & Mary Bollinger Perry & Aurelia Bolton Robert & Mary Jane Booker Stephen & Arlene Bowes David & Lydia Boyer David A. Brannan John & Elizabeth Breyer Samuel Brinton Thomas & Victoria Broadie Paul & Jennifer Brooks Stanley & Katharine Brown Richard & Mary Browne Joan C. Burke Burr Yacht Sales, Inc. Ned & Jennifer Cabot Nancie Cameron Dennis Caprio Timothy & Patricia Casgar Eric & Carol Chandler Manson & Durrie Chisholm Choptank Electric Cooperative Larry Clark Stephen & Linda Clineburg Katherine L. Clovis Robert & Viola Clum Doug & Debbie Collison Lee & Karin Cowperthwait Wilbur & Barbara Crutchley John M. Csady Clyde & Mary Ellen Culp Anne Dahlquist Jean DeBell-O’Neal Carolyn Decker William Dempsey & Elizabeth McGrory Jack & Mary Doetzer Bill & Donna Dudley T.P. & Judith Dunn Gray & Charlotte Ehlig Elm Street Development Larry & Nancy Englert The Eringis Family Mary Jane Fairbank Lillian Fairbank Randy & Dana Fairbank Jean B. Farmar Joseph & Rosemary Fasolo

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The Estate of Helen B. Leinberger Thomas & Rollin Leitch Ted & Pat Lewers Robert J. Lewis John & Deborah Lindinger Robert & Marsha Lonergan Robert Loughhead Donald W. MacLeod Joel & Debi Maness Gordon & Linda Mansfield Richard Manzer Frank Marshall David & Kirsten Martin Edward & Arlene Masters Max & Ruth Matteson Karl & Quadalupe Matthes William & Anne Mattimore Carolyn & Robert Mattingly Lawrence & Carol McCanna Michael McCluskey Glenn G. McDonald Thomas & Constance McEvoy James & Laura McGrath Paul & Digie McGuirk Fred & Nancy Meendsen Russell M. Memmer John E. Menard Russell & Carol Merritt Harry & Mary Jo Meyerhoff Marilyn & Alan Meyers Douglas & Donna Michalek Dick & Alice Miller Edward & Suzanne Mitchell Paul Moates & Connie Sadler Maurice J. Montaldi James & Debby Morrison Tracey F. Munson Lawrence & Kathy Murphy Erik Neil & Luisa Adelfio Paul A. Nelson Michael & Janis Nesterak Mike & Suzan Newnam Elizabeth Ney Rob & Ceci Nobel David & Joan North Douglas & Mildred North Milton G. Nottingham Richard & Caroline Ober Donald & Margaret Ofte Carl & Gwendolyn Oppenheim Margaret D. Orem Glenn & Elaine Orme John & Wendy Pagenstecher Arthur & Barbara Patterson Royce A. Peabody Jerry & Leigh Peek Joe & Mary Lou Peters Jerry & Edna Pettit Lee & Electa Phillips Christine A. Phillips Wesley & Jane Pipes William & Elizabeth Platt Norma Redelé Miles Reidy & Mary Elizabeth Aichelmann-Reidy Margaret Rennels Bob & Phoebe Reynolds Tom & Trish Reynolds Claire A. Richardson

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