Pee-Weck
by Gary D. Crawford “PEE-WECK?” Well, that’s how you say “PWEC,” the nickname of the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center. You’ll find it on Tilghman’s Island, just over the Knapp’s Narrows bridge, immediately to the left as you arrive on the island. The facility may look modest, but it really is quite a place, with an interesting story behind it. And, as it turns out, today ~ August 24, 2019 ~ is a good day for me to be writing about PWEC, as you’ll come to learn. This won’t be a definitive history, you understand, just
an overview and a few highlights selected entirely from my point of view. In a sense, the PWEC story began some 40 years ago, when Mrs. Lois Adr ienne Phillips said goodbye to her husband, Garland Phillips, early one winter morning. Their younger daughter, Kelley, was 16 at the time, and she went off to high school in St. Michaels as usual. (Ly nn, t he older daug hter, was already married.) Garland was going into the Bay that day to collect six anchor-nets
The bugeye Edna E. Lockwood docked at PWEC, July 2019. 141