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PLUS!
2013-2014
Annual Report,
page 23.
Mission Statement
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is
dedicated to preserving and exploring the
history, environment and people of the
Chesapeake Bay.
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Museum Staff
President
Kristen L. Greenaway, 4951
Brooke Alexander, Assistant to the President, 4955
Museum Values
Preservation & Interpretation
Development & Constituent Services
Relevance. We provide meaningful and
accessible experiences to everyone who
cares about our Mission—all of our
communities and constituencies.
Pete Lesher, Chief Curator, 4971
Richard Scofield, Assistant Curator of Watercraft, 4966
Rob Forloney, Director of CCS, 4959
Kate Livie, Director of Education, 4947
Allison Speight, Education Assistant, 4941
Eric Applegarth, Exhibits Specialist, 4945
Lynne Phillips, Collections Manager, 4972
René Stevenson, Vice President of Constituent Services, 4950
Debbie Collison, Membership Manager, 4991
Julie Barnett, Development Administrator, 4995
Megan Fisher, Visitor Services Manager, 4945
Authenticity. We seek genuinely to
represent the people and cultures whose
stories we preserve and tell.
Stewardship. We value the priceless assets
entrusted to us and accept their preservation and enhancement as our paramount
responsibility—our collections, our campus
and facilities, our financial resources and
the volunteers and staff who perform our
Mission and make our Museum the rich
enterprise it is.
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Boatyard
Michael Gorman, Boat Shop Manager, 4968
Jennifer Kuhn, Boatyard Program Manager, 4980
Joe Connor, Vessel Maintenance Assistant
Chris Baden, Shipwright Apprentice
James Delaguila, Shipwright Apprentice
Communications & Special Events
Tracey Munson, Vice President of Communications, 4960
Marie Thomas, Communications & Art Director, 4953
Melissa Spielman, Director of Events & Volunteer Program, 4956
Ida Heelan, Events Coordinator, 4944
Navy Point, PO Box 636
St. Michaels, MD 21663
410-745-2916 • cbmm.org
HOURS:
May, 9am–5pm
June to Aug., 9am–6pm
Sept. to Oct., 9am–5pm
Nov. to April, 10am–4pm
On the cover:
Sinkbox Shooting on the Susquehanna,
c.1890, James T. Holly. Watercolor
and graphite on paper, 22 in x 39 in
(56 cm x 99 cm). Collection of C. John
Sullivan. Featured on page 14.
Editors: Marie Thomas & Tracey Munson
Creative Director: Marie Thomas
Copy Editor: Mariana Lesher
Contributing Writers:
Kristen L. Greenaway, Pete Lesher, Brittany
Lyons, Kate Livie, Tracey Munson, Richard
Tilghman, Marie Thomas.
The Chesapeake Log is a publication of
the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
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Leslie Price, Ashley Dunton, Ben VanNest, Museum Hosts
Helen Van Fleet, Special Events Assistant, 4961
Finance
Jean Brooks, Vice President of Finance, 4958
Craig Atwood, Director of Finance, 4958
Digie McGuirk, Staff Accountant, 4957
Patti Miller, Store Business Development Manager, 4954
Operations
Bill Gilmore, Vice President of Operations, 4949
John Ford, Facilities Manager, 4970
Lad Mills, Boat Donations Program Director, 4942
Sam Fairbank, Facilities Maintenance Assistant, 4969
Joseph Redman, Facilities Maintenance Assistant, 4969
Andrew Walter, Boat Donations Program Assistant Manager, 4942
To contact any staff listed above, dial 410-745, and the number listed.
To email, use first initial, full last [email protected].
2014 - 2015 Board of Governors
Richard C. Tilghman, Jr., Chair
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Henry Stansbury, Vice Chair
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Richard J. Bodorff, Secretary
Diane Staley, Officer at Large
Schuyler Benson
Paul Berry
Harry W. Burton
William B. Carter
William S. Dudley
David E. Dunn
Dagmar D. P. Gipe
Leeds Hackett
E. Brooke Harwood, Jr.
Christopher A. Havener, Jr.
Francis Hopkinson, Jr.
Fred Israel
Richard J. Johnson
Peter M. Kreindler
Deborah Lawrence
Elizabeth S. Loker
Frank C. Marshall, Jr.
Patrice Miller
Geoffrey F. Oxnam
Bruce A. Ragsdale
Mitchell B. Reiss
Charles A. Robertson
D. Bruce Rogers
S. Stevens Sands
Lelde Schmitz
Richard Snowdon
Diane J. Staley
Henry H. Stansbury
Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr.
Alfred Tyler, 2nd
Carolyn H. Williams
Emeriti
CG Appleby
Richard T. Allen
Howard S. Freedlander
Alan R. Griffith
Margaret D. Keller
Breene M. Kerr
Richard Kimberly
Charles L. Lea, Jr.
D. Ted Lewers, MD
Fred C. Meendsen
John C. North II
Sumner Parker
Robert A. Perkins
Joseph E. Peters
James K. Peterson
Norman H. Plummer
John J. Roberts
Henry H. Spire
James E. Thomas
Joan Darby West
Donald G. Whitcomb
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PRESIDENT’S LETTER
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CURRENTS
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by Kristen L. Greenaway
Historic log canoe Flying Cloud
donated to Museum; CBMM
welcomes new employees and
board members
CURATOR’S CORNER
Hunting a Number One Priority
by Pete Lesher
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LIFELINES
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FEATURE
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Volunteer Profile: Patti Case
by Brittany Lyons
Carvers at the Crossroads
by Kate Livie
ON THE RAIL
New carriages for the marine
railway; Maintenance for Martha;
Skipjack Rosie Parks first public
sail since relaunch
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CALENDAR
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ANNUAL REPORT
Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival,
OysterFest, State of the Crab,
Member Nights, Woodworking
Workshops, Waterfowling Cruise,
Lectures, and more!
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime
Museum’s Honor Roll of Donors
for fiscal year 2013-2014.
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President’s Letter
by Kristen L. Greenaway
PHOTO BY GRAHAM SCOTT-TAYLOR
Having started my tenure as Museum President this past July, I am honored
to lead the Museum forward. Taking the helm at CBMM feels as though
I have plotted my own world circumnavigation. From my time growing up
as a preschooler on my family’s sloop-rigged keeler, later cruising coastal
and blue water, to establishing a career in leadership and development in the
university and museum fields, I feel well-prepared for the voyage ahead.
I am equally thrilled to be working with my staff and volunteers. In the
past few months, I have enjoyed getting to know them and understanding
their personal and Museum-related aspirations.
I am especially keen to honor this institution’s 50th Anniversary in 2015,
for which we have already started planning. Our year of celebration begins
next May, and includes new, interactive exhibitions and an exciting series of
programs and events. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary also gives us an
excellent opportunity to partner with our local community in meaningful ways.
This milestone will coincide with the launch of a capital campaign,
designed to strengthen our mission of exploring and preserving the history,
environment and people of the Chesapeake Bay. During these first months it
has become very apparent to me that the Museum needs increased financial
resources to help realize and expand the importance of our mission and to
secure the Museum’s future, even as it works to preserve the region’s past.
For example, to properly preserve and maintain our historic fleet while
teaching the next generation of skilled craftspeople, our boat shop needs to
be self-sufficient and expand its capacity, which means the need for a portable sawmill, sail loft, and metal casting facilities. The work done in our
boat shop is so important in capturing the interest of visitors from every age,
including those enrolled in our K-12 and adult educational programs.
I like to surround myself with interesting people, and in return, help
them to do interesting things. Our staff and Board are no exception, and we
must find the resources needed to realize our aspirations in making this the
best Museum possible. I look forward to the challenge as we work together
in guiding the Museum into its next 50 years.
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Historic log canoe Flying Cloud donated
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n June 26, the historic log canoe Flying Cloud arrived
at the Museum, where it has joined the largest
f leet of Chesapeake Bay watercraft in the world. The
boat was donated to CBMM by brothers Allan Noble
and John Noble of Oxford, MD. The Nobles’ father had
purchased Flying Cloud in 1955.
“This is a great acquisition for us,” said CBMM’s Chief
Curator Pete Lesher. “Now, the Museum has two log
canoes in our fleet—the smaller Edmee S. and the Flying
Cloud, which is the second largest racing log canoe in
existence today.”
The Museum’s log canoes, including Flying Cloud and
Edmee S. are generously sponsored this year by Hawthorn,
PNC Family Wealth®.
“We are thrilled to sponsor a truly local treasure of
Chesapeake Bay racing,” said Nancy McColgan, Hawthorn,
PNC Family Wealth managing director in greater Maryland.
“PNC and Hawthorn have a longstanding tradition of
serving the financial needs of the local community and
supporting efforts to preserve and enrich the unique
attributes of our region.”
Flying Cloud has been actively racing in the log canoe
fleet for the last three seasons, following extensive repairs
on her hull. She was skippered by Sean Callahan and,
before the work on her hull, by Allan Noble. The Museum
has recruited crew for Flying Cloud, and raced her this
year. “She put in a respectable performance in the fleet,”
says CBMM Chief Curator Pete Lesher.
Flying Cloud was built in 1932 by John B. Harrison for
marine engineer and businessman A. Johnson Grymes,
Sr., who had a summer home in Talbot County. Grymes
lured Buck Richardson away from another canoe to
skipper Flying Cloud, and Richardson sailed her successfully to win the Governor’s Cup. His crew was uniformed
in yachting whites, and the presence of Flying Cloud
and other big, new canoes aroused acrimony among the
sailors of the day. In 1952, the boat was acquired by Fred
Kaiser of Virginia, who sailed the boat for pleasure but
did not race her, and then, in 1955, by marine artist John
Noble, Sr., of Staten Island. Visitors to CBMM can see
Flying Cloud dockside, or along its 18-acre waterfront
campus, when she’s not sailing.
Flying Cloud under full sail on the Miles River, c. September, 1998.
Photo by Bill Kepner.
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and support the efforts of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime
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Top 10 Reasons to Shop
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CBMM welcomes new employees
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Membership has its rewards
Renew your membership online and save $5
Renew early and receive one month free
Members receive a discount in Museum Store
As a CBMM member, you receive free general admission for
one year, reduced festival admission, docking privileges at our
members-only marina, members hospitality area,
CBMM Member Perks, discounts on classes and programs, and more!
Join or renew today online at cbmm.org/join.htm or call 410-745-4991
(top, from left) Development Administrator Julie Barnett and Executive
Assistant Brooke Alexander. Education Assistant Allison Speight.
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(bottom, from left) Shipwright apprentices Chris Baden and James Delaguila.
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he Museum is pleased to announce several new
employees have joined the staff. Brooke Alexander of
St. Michaels, MD, joins the Museum as executive assistant.
Alexander will assist President Kristen Greenaway in dayto-day tasks as well as provide support for staff. A graduate
of Meredith College in Raleigh, NC, Alexander brings 25
years of executive assistant experience, having worked in
different sectors of the U.S. government.
Julie Barnett of Easton, MD, joins CBMM as
development administrator. Barnett, who brings more
than 25 years of development experience with nonprofits, will help manage the Museum’s 50th anniversary
celebration and assist the development office. Since moving
to Easton eight years ago, she has volunteered for CBMM,
Habitat for Humanity Choptank, the Waterfowl Festival,
the Mental Health Association in Talbot County, the
Friends of the Library and Tred Avon Players.
Allison Speight of St. Michaels, MD, joins as CBMM’s
education assistant. Speight’s responsibilities include
managing CBMM’s educational programs as well as
scheduling class calendars, taking program reservations,
fielding inquiries, administering evaluations and
compiling statistics about program participation. A recent
Washington College graduate, Speight studied environmental
science and double-minored in biology and anthropology.
Chris Baden of St. Paul, MN, and James Delaguila
of Bethlehem Township, NJ, join the Boatyard as
shipwright apprentices. Baden and Delaguila begin their
apprenticeships working on the 1889 sailing log-bottom
bugeye, Edna E. Lockwood. Baden recently attended
The Landing School’s wooden boatbuilding program in
Arundel, ME. Prior to The Landing School, Baden spent
four and a half years working in information technology
for the United States Coast Guard.
Delaguila joins CBMM after recently completing
the International Yacht Restoration School’s two-year
boatbuilding and restoration program. Prior to attending
IYRS, Delaguila received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rutgers University and a master’s degree in
economics from The New School. His work experience
includes six years as the health care market research study
director at Ipsos Healthcare.
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The Crystals
6 New markdowns 20-50% off
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curator’s corner
lifelines
Hunting a Number One Priority
Volunteer Profile: Patti Case
by Pete Lesher
by Brittany Lyons
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us Plutschak’s rugged hunting jacket sports 26
consecutive county hunting licenses down the back.
Neatly sewn in rows of three, except for the last two, which
are pinned to the bottom, each of the back tags bears the
number “1.”
Beginning in 1934, Plutschak bought his hunting
license at the Talbot County courthouse and managed to
obtain the first license year after year. Although he made
his living as a barber in Easton, MD, Plutschak (1904
– 1997) was a well-known sportsman who also fished
extensively and sailed competitively in the Scrappy Cat and
Comet classes.
Concerning his hunting jacket, Plutschak recalled
in a 1988 interview, “It was Tom Faulkner, was the one
that was looking out for me. He knew I wanted number
one, and they’d come in the first of July, and nobody ever
thinks about hunting licenses in July, and he’d lay number
one away for me, fill it out and lay it away with the rest of
them. Boy, he did that for years.”
Each county in Maryland issued resident hunting
licenses until 1971, when the system was found to be
discriminatory and unconstitutional, after which Maryland
issued only statewide resident licenses. Plutschak hunted
ducks with a Remington automatic shotgun (“it never did
hang up,” he recalled) from a blind near Kirby’s Wharf, an
old steamboat landing along the Talbot County side of the
Choptank River. Although he was properly licensed, he
flaunted the law against baiting—placing corn in front of
the blind to lure the ducks.
He confessed, “I’ll admit, we baited, like everybody
else. We had the ducks—yes, sir—canvasbacks and redheads, plenty of them. We never shot until 10 in the
morning, and at 4, we were done. We would get out
there, and put our corn out. By that time they were ready
to come and get it. They were landing outside, waiting
for us to get out of there, so as they could get that corn.”
Plutschak also hunted upland species including doves and
was especially fond of quail.
A good hunting dog always accompanied Plutschak
when shooting. He fondly recalled a setter: “I had a man
who said, ‘come on down. I have a covey of birds right in
my garden. Bring your dog down, and we’ll see if we can
kill some of them. I want to thin them out a little bit.’
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I said, ‘yeah, I’ll be down there.’ I went down there, and
we killed about 15, something like that. I gave them to
him, and I came back to town, and went to work. Then he
came in the barber shop with five 100 dollar bills, and said,
‘I want that dog.’ I said, ‘Man, I can’t sell you my dog. No
way in the world. I wouldn’t think about selling him.’ He
said, ‘I can’t blame you.’ Curt Lama had the front chair.
I had the second one. When the man got out the door he
turned to me, ‘you the dumbest [s.o.b.] I’ve ever seen in my
life; turned down $500 for a damn dog.’ I said, ‘Man, you
don’t know what a dog means to me.’”
Plutschak’s jacket was made by Utica-Duxbak, a
manufacturer of premium outdoor and sportsmen’s clothing
in the early to mid-twentieth century. Made to be warm,
waterproof, and with ample pockets, the buff-colored
jacket served Plutschak from the age of 30. The earliest
hunting licenses, printed on cloth, are illegible and partially
worn away, silent testimony to many hours spent in a duck
blind, gunning for canvasbacks and redheads.
Gus Plutschak’s jacket is exhibited in the Museum’s
Waterfowling Exhibit, and his recorded oral history is held
in the Museum archives.
rowing up on Seattle’s Lake Washington, Patti Case
was drawn to lighthouses from a young age. “At that
time, lighthouses on inland waterways and the Pacific
Ocean were manned and open for visitors,” Case recalls.
“I was fascinated by the life of lighthouse keepers and how
they lived. My favorite trips were to lighthouses.”
Recently, Case visited the East Quoddy Head Lighthouse on Campobello Island. “It’s only accessible for
two hours before and two hours after low tide, and
involves climbing three old ladders, up and down cliffs,
a trail over very slimy and slippery rocks and through a
narrow crevice!”
Before retiring, Case worked as a learning disability
resource teacher in Fairfax County, VA. Upon moving
to Maryland’s Eastern Shore eight years ago, Case was
attracted to the Hooper Strait Lighthouse here at the
Museum, which she names as her favorite, followed by
Mizen Head in County Cork, Ireland, the last sight of
many Irish bound for the United States and Canada.
Eager to get involved in her new community, Case
began volunteering at the Museum soon after relocating.
Over the last eight years, Case has volunteered her time
in many ways, including greeting guests as they enter the
Museum, interpreting the Lighthouse and other exhibits,
and assisting at Museum events and festivals.
“I knew I wanted to volunteer in a meaningful way,
both for myself and the community,” said Case. “Many
people are surprised by the size of the [Museum] campus,
and the number of buildings that highlight so many
diverse elements of the interconnection of the people and
the environment of the Bay.”
“One of the advantages of being a volunteer is the
variety of jobs available, from making holiday decorations
to stuffing mugs for the OysterFest,” said Case. “I really
enjoy meeting the people who visit CBMM,” said Case.
“It’s particularly rewarding to listen to their positive
comments after they’ve spent time exploring the grounds
and exhibits.”
Upcoming Volunteer Programs
Help us tell the story of the Chesapeake’s people, animals
and environment. For docents who have completed the annual
General Tour Training, other trainings for guided school tours
and educational hands-on programs are available.
The two-part trainings offer background and content information, as well as the practical applied instruction in CBMM’s
exhibits and campus needed to lead an engaging and educational
program. Both sessions are mandatory, with sign-up required at
volunteer.cbmm.org
Bay Bounty Tour Training | September 30 & October 1
10am-12:30pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
Bay Discovery Tour Training | September 30 & October 1
1:30-3pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
Interested in becoming a volunteer?
Contact Director of Events & Volunteer Programs Melissa
Spielman at 410-745-4956 for more information, or email
[email protected].
Volunteer Field Trip | October 31
All current volunteers and docents are invited to come to
historic Chestertown, MD, on the first day of the town’s annual
Downrigging Weekend. Participants will arrive for an 11am
tour of the Kent County Historical Society, followed by lunch at
Lemon Leaf restaurant. In the afternoon, Washington College’s
audio walking tour of Chestertown wraps up the day as tall
ships arrive in the harbor for Downrigging weekend.
Visit volunteer.cbmm.org for more information and to sign up.
Contact Director of Education Kate Livie at 410-745-4947
or [email protected] with questions.
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Carvers at the Crossroads:
Sharing Ideas, Techniques, and Styles across the Chesapeake’s Susquehanna Flats
by Kate Livie
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Leonard Pryor and granddaughter. Photo undated, from
the collection of Will Freng.
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n the photo, it’s summertime. The grass is thick, the sun beats
down, and against a picket fence, flowers bloom. A man and a
girl sit together, surrounded by a puddle of ducks. They gleam, oiled
and glossy in the midday sunshine, and both the man, bald-pated,
and the girl, fair, hold one. The man is Leonard Pryor, a renowned
decoy carver and shipwright. Though his brightly illuminated head
and tiny glasses would convey a scholarly air, his hands tell the
story. They are large, long-fingered, and engulf the canvasback
decoy on his lap. He is an artist, they tell us. Even if Pryor wouldn’t
have described himself that way, it is how we remember him, and
the generation of carvers that were his peers, his friends, and, in
one case, probably his mentor.
Pryor grew up in a smattering of Maryland communities
clustered at the Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna River’s
confluence. There, at the top of the Bay’s main stem, is a place
of wide water and small towns straddling the Susquehanna River,
long necks of land and rivers that barely turn with the tide. One
hundred years ago, it was a place where people followed the water
and the seasons, heading out from the small town to harvest fish
and fowl from the thick underwater meadows that flourished in
the shallows. Known as the Susquehanna Flats or just “the Flats,”
the region became famous in the late 1800s for the huge flocks of
migratory waterfowl that wintered there in enormous numbers and
for the market and sport hunters that followed, attracted by the
promise of a cracking good shoot.
This flood of hunters brought a brisk trade to the communities
along the Flats as their citizens provided hunting guides, boats
and decoys for the visiting waterfowlers. Craftsmen of all skill
levels and walks of life—ship carpenters, boat captains, undertakers,
even ducking police—worked to meet the demand for boats,
sinkboxes and expansive decoy rigs. But a few truly gifted carvers
from each community rose above the rest. These artisans from
Havre de Grace, Chesapeake City, Northeast and Perryville set
the standard for carving within their small towns—developing
distinctive regional styles divided by the Susquehanna River—
the “Havre de Grace” techniques on one side, and the “Cecil
County” style on the other.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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The communities of the Flats were at a crossroads, geographically, environmentally and culturally. Although most carvers
ultimately developed their own take on Havre de Grace or Cecil
County-specific styles, as the years went on, decoy designs had a
way of traveling between counties, towns, and even states because
of connections among different craftsmen. Thanks to family ties,
friendship, and sometimes just admiration, the decoys of the
Susquehanna Flats showed a remarkable stew of stylistic details,
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after just a generation or two.
The Susquehanna Flats weren’t always the waterfowling Mecca
they became in the late 19th century. In the 18th century and even
the early 19th century, just a few rural communities dotted the
shorelines and riverbanks. Waterfowl, like crabs and oysters, were
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a seasonal catch and while preservation techniques ran towards
the ‘eat it while it’s fresh’ variety, there wasn’t much of a financial
incentive to harvest more than you could eat or sell on a daily basis.
Migratory waterfowl, like other wild harvests, were also considerably
more work than their domesticated cousins, requiring an expensive,
artisan-crafted imported fowling piece, an accurate shot and time
to set it up, and a morning to literally kill.
The rise in the popularity of hunting paralleled a few mid-19th
century societal changes that made it possible as a pastime, rather
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than subsistence: the industrial production
of firearms, the rise of
the middle classes and regulated work weeks, the growth of the
rail system and the popular romantic affinity for the outdoors in
contrast to the booming industrial cities of the East Coast.
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feature
Havre de Grace decoys:
No “neck shelf”
(the absence of a lightly raised base
on the body for neck placement)
Upswept tail near
top of body
Cecil County decoys:
A “neck shelf”
Tail has a
distinctive chunky
“paddle” shape
(slightly raised base on the
body for neck placement)
Straight tail
in the middle
of the body
It was these mid-19th century changes that led sportsmen and market hunters to the communities of the Flats,
armed with big guns and shotguns, as well as ready cash
to spend. They needed places to stay, guides who knew the
area and how to hunt it, boats, clothing and decoys. And
the decoys were commissioned in staggering numbers.
The ledger of a Havre de Grace carver, James T. Holly,
lists an order in October of 1916 for “one sinkbox complete”
that required: “100 Decoy Ducks, 240 lbs. iron decoys 7
cts, 60 lbs iron decoys 6 cts” (Note: ‘cts’ is Holly’s abbreviation for ‘cents’- the higher cost reflects a heavier model).
These vast commissions were usually for duck decoys,
redheads and bluebills, and above all, canvasbacks. The
canvasback, or “cans” as they were familiarly called, were
the icons of the Flats, massively numerous and delicately
flavored of native celery grasses. Decoy rigs of immense
size, mimicking the enormous feather flotillas on the Flats’
open water, were needed to hunt the prized quarry and
each decoy was individually carved and painted by hand.
You would think all the carvers of these decoys would have
been tiny assembly-line powerhouses in their own right,
but somehow, in the frenzied seasonal repetition, a few
carvers managed to distinguish themselves, developing
styles that evolved beyond necessity to art.
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James T. Holly, born in 1855, was one of the master
craftsmen of the Flats, and the son of John “Daddy”
Holly, one of the earliest carvers in Havre de Grace to
develop the region’s distinctive style: an elegantly
upswept tail and a head joined smoothly to the body
in a two-part construction. Daddy Holly, born in
Havre de Grace in 1818, was what we’d call a waterman today. He owned a boat and a sloop, worked as a
fisherman when the fish were running and a carpenter
when they weren’t. His four children, including James,
were raised in a house where life revolved around
the water and the seasons. Each of his sons probably
helped out in the family decoy business, but it was
James who excelled. A talented craftsman like
his father, James was well-employed in every
Chesapeake pursuit that required an artist’s touch.
He built beautiful boats and sinkboxes for hunting,
painted waterfowling and sailing scenes, and even
turned to sign painting when things got slow. But it
is for his sleek, gracefully modeled decoys, carved in
true Havre de Grace fashion, that he is best remembered. Holly decoys, with their racy lines and pleasing
proportions, soon became the definition of Havre de
Grace techniques at their best—influencing other
carvers who soon cottoned to the distinctive silhouette
and shape. His neighbor and schoolmate, Samuel
Barnes, was no exception. Barnes was just two years
younger than the talented Holly and was also a carver
in the booming Havre de Grace waterfowling trade.
His decoys, functional and sturdy, lacked the elegant
nuances of those found in Holly’s work. Nevertheless,
there was something quite Holly-esque about them,
especially in the elongated body and the fine features
of the head.
In the majority of Barnes’ work, Holly’s influence
is clear but it remains obvious Barnes actually crafted
the decoy. Not so in a series of swan decoys that have
confounded some of the most practiced Upper Bay
collectors. These huge, rare “confidence birds” would
have been carved to mix into a decoy rig, giving it
the appearance of a real raft of birds overseen by the
majestic and territorial Tundras. With their beautiful
shape and upswept tail, the swans seem typical of
James T. Holly’s work. But the slight thickening of the
hindquarters of the body, the raised platform for the
head to rest on, and the finely modeled head all point
to Barnes.
(clockwise from upper left)
(left) Canvasback decoy by Samuel Barnes and (right) canvasback decoy
by James T. Holly. Collection of C. John Sullivan.
Swan decoy attributed to Samuel Barnes. Collection of the Chesapeake
Bay Maritime Museum. Wrapped in newspaper at some point in the
1930s, the newsprint transferred to the body of the swan, adding
another layer of history.
(left) Mallard preener decoy by Leonard Pryor. Collection of Will Freng.
(right) Hen canvasback preener decoy by Henry Lockard. Collection of
C. John Sullivan.
Though no paperwork exists to attribute the swans
(and the matter was further confused by the discovery of
a final swan, used as a Havre de Grace lawn ornament, in
a backyard equidistant between Holly and Barnes’ houses),
most experts now agree that the swans were probably
made by Samuel Barnes. Perhaps knowing these swans
were special, Barnes approached them with the greatest
degree of craftsmanship and artistry he could summon up.
With Holly’s work as Barnes’ standard for Havre de Grace
excellence, it’s no surprise that Barnes’ swans would cause
today’s experts to do a double take.
Havre de Grace wasn’t the only town on the Susquehanna
Flats that saw local carvers sharing ideas. On the other
side of the Susquehanna, in Northeast, Elkton, and
Perryville, craftsmen were turning out thousands of
decoys to meet the demand from hunters and gunning
clubs. Although the types were the same as the Havre de
Grace side canvasbacks, bluebills, redheads, teals and some
geese and swans—there were a few marked differences.
One was the tail shape—instead of the upswept examples
found in Havre de Grace, the Cecil County variety had a
tail like a flat paddle extending from the middle of the
decoy’s body. The head was also different. Instead of the
head and body joined smoothly together, a small platform,
known as a neck shelf, protruded from the body for
head attachment.
Within these stylistic boundaries, carvers improvised
an incredible amount of personal variation, from bill
thickness to favorite poses. One remarkable carver hailed
from Elk Neck in his formative years, a loosely-populated
collection of houses and wharfs along the north side of
Cecil County’s Elk River. Home to real elk in prehistoric
times, the region now focused on ducks in the water rather
than mammals on the land. In his curvaceous, sensitive
birds, Leonard Pryor’s decoys displayed a deep inherent
knowledge, formed in his Elk Neck boyhood, of the
waterfowl that teemed along the neck’s coves in the winter.
Leonard Pryor was born in 1876, and was a contemporary of Holly and Barnes on the Havre de Grace side of
the Flats. Pryor’s birds boasted finely-carved heads with
incised nostrils (a detail clearly more for the hunter’s
enjoyment than for any passing waterfowl’s appreciation),
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on the rail
graceful necks and beautiful stylized
feather patterns. A ship carpenter
by trade, Pryor also disliked wasting
“good wood.”
His tidy craftsmanship is
obvious in his decoys, which often
joined two pieces of wood together
in the body so as not to discard
any serviceable scraps. But it is his
“sleeper” or “preener” decoys that
truly distinguish his work as that of
a master of his craft, and it is these
same birds that show the fluidity
of ideas between carvers in Cecil
County. While Pryor didn’t invent
the preener decoy, he certainly
improved upon it. These carved
birds are impossibly lifelike yet
simultaneously stylized, hovering
at the moment when they pause
before ruffling their wing feathers
Sinkbox shooting on the Susquehanna, c.1890, James T. Holly. Watercolor and graphite on paper,
with a bill tip. It’s a level of detail
22 in x 39 in (56 cm x 99 cm). Collection of C. John Sullivan. The highly articulated detail of the
and accuracy seemingly unnecessary flying, fallen, and floating canvasbacks is in sharp contrast to the flat and cartoonish gunners,
for a humble tool meant to fool some a clear indication of James T. Holly’s interests.
ducks from the sky. Yet many show
signs of wear and tear on their paint
and bodies that indicate they were indeed used, and roughly. carving knife. At two different work benches on Elk Neck,
Preeners, like swans, would have been added to a stretch
Pryor and Lockard each made a tiny incision to open their
of decoys for realism, and carvers along Elk Neck were
decoy’s bills, as if by doing so they might take a breath and
known for producing them.
come to life. Over in Havre de Grace, Samuel Barnes took a
Henry Lockard and his brother George lived just a few
bead on his decoy’s head and readjusted his cut, so it looks a
miles away from Leonard Pryor on Elk Neck, and carved
little like something he saw over at James Holly’s shop.
preeners as well as the more standard birds. Only eight
Sitting at the crossroads of the Chesapeake environyears older than Pryor, Henry Lockard would certainly
ment and the people who lived in it, and of the era of
have been familiar to the younger boy, and the similarity
unassuageable bounty and industrial harvest, the decoys
in their decoys indicates that perhaps Lockard showed a
from both sides of the Flats were produced in a golden
carving protégé a few of his tricks. Certainly both carvers
period. The Susquehanna Flats were still a place of flowing
demonstrated a remarkable fondness for details, especially
water, spawning fish, and ideas that migrated between
of the duck’s bill (Lockard’s decoys have tiny incised noscarvers as easily as the enormous blizzards of birds they
trils too), but also for the balletic attitude of the preener.
so faithfully replicated. That time is gone, but it lives on
However, Lockard’s preeners, though gracefully carved, in the well-worn decoys with paddle tails or preening
somehow lack the restraint and energy of his youngbills that grace a mantel or a museum. They’re all that’s
er neighbor’s. One is a perfectly functional example of
left of the endless rigs stretching across the Chesapeake’s
specialized craft, and the other explodes beyond craft into
Susquehanna Flats.
art. It’s a perfect example of how two techniques, favored
See these decoys and the stories of their carvers in our
locally, can be completely transformed by different hands.
Waterfowling Building.
The preeners also show that solid skills, regardless of origin, had a way of finding their way from carving knife to
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Marine railway receives
new carriages
T
he Museum’s boatyard received new carriages for its
marine railway this past August, thanks the generosity
of Chesapeake Shipbuilding. The carriages haul boats
from the water onto the marine railway.
One of CBMM’s most popular exhibits, the working
boatyard offers engaging experiences and interactive
interpretation. CBMM’s master shipwrights and their
apprentices work year-round restoring and preserving the
largest fleet of historic Chesapeake Bay vessels in existence.
Chesapeake Shipbuilding donated the fabrication
and installation of the new marine railway, with the steel
I-beams designed to be assembled and bolted together on
site. Once aligned, the beams were welded to assure true
alignment on the rails. The carriage wheels were sandblasted; axles were machined to accept 3 1/2 inch “U”
bolts, and then pressed into the wheels before being bolted
to the carriages. CBMM’s boatyard staff fabricated new
carriage poppets that were installed with Delrin runners
to facilitate sliding on the carriage I-beams. CBMM
volunteer Mike Sweeney provided the drawings, with
Holly Lake Enterprises and Severn Marine providing
crane service. This project was funded in part by the
Maryland Heritage Areas Authority grant program.
(top) The newly-installed metal carriages on the marine railway.
(bottom) Visit bit.ly/CBMM_RailwayTimelapse and watch a time lapse
video of the installation.
Maintenance for Martha
CBMM Boatyard Manager Michael Gorman reports
the dovetail Martha is getting work done this fall on her
topsides and engine. Martha will be receiving new 42-foot
one-piece topside planks, frames, and bronze fastenings.
Once hauled out, her Olds 455 will be removed and sent
out for overhaul, sandblasting and fresh paint. After she
is reassembled, Martha will receive new paint cabin top to
keel, zincs and any cotton caulking needing replacement.
The Hoopers Island dovetail was built in 1934 in
Wingate, MD by Bronza Parks, and donated to the
Museum’s collections in 1983 by Mr. and Mrs. David
W. Glass. Now, she is part of CBMM’s floating fleet of
Chesapeake workboats, and can be seen dockside or out
on the Miles River.
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Skipjack Rosie Parks takes
first public sail since relaunch
O
n Saturday, June 14, the 1955 skipjack Rosie Parks
headed out on the Miles River for her first public
sail in nearly 20 years. The Rosie Parks, built by legendary
boatbuilder Bronza Parks for his brother, Captain Orville
Parks, was named for their mother and recently underwent
a major three-year restoration. When CBMM purchased
the Rosie in 1975 from Captain Orville, the 20-year old
Rosie had a reputation as both the best maintained skipjack
in the oyster dredging fleet, and as a champion sailor at
the annual skipjack races at Deal Island and Chesapeake
Appreciation Days at Sandy Point.
Assistant Curator for Watercraft Richard Scofield
reports the Rosie is sailing in both the Deal Island and the
Choptank Heritage Skipjack races in September, with Tom
Parks at the helm, the grandson of Captain Orville Parks.
(top) The skipjack Rosie Parks under sail on the Miles River.
(bottom, clockwise from left) Tom Parks, grandson of Captain Orville
Parks at the helm during the first public sail of the Rosie Parks in nearly
20 years. (from left) Descendants of Bronza Parks, granddaughter
Brenda Harding Goodwin and grandson W. Pres Harding, Jr., with former
first mate Theodore Cephas, and Mary Parks Harding, daughter of
Bronza Parks. (from left) Rosie Parks Project Manager Mark Donohue,
Rob Weber and David Goodwin.
Apprentice for a Day Boatbuilding Program (gift certificates available!)
Learn traditional wooden boatbuilding skills with
CBMM Boatyard Program Manager Jenn Kuhn by
assisting in the maintenance and building of CBMM’s
fleet of small boats. No experience necessary. For
ages 16 and up, unless accompanied by an adult.
Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-4pm
Pre-registration required to confirm project
and dates. $45 per class for CBMM members,
$55 non-members, or choose any 4 classes for
$150 CBMM Members and $200 non-members
Call 410-745-4980 or email [email protected]
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32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Small
Craft Festival, October 4 & 5
T
he 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
comes to the Museum on Saturday, October 4 and
Sunday, October 5, bringing a collection of small craft to
the museum’s Miles River waterfront, along with live
music, scenic river cruises, food, beverages and more.
Sailing skiffs, rowing shells, kayaks, canoes, paddle
boats, prams and other one-of-a-kind boats will be in the
water and on land throughout the weekend. Many will be
accompanied by owners sharing their boating knowledge
and experiences with festival-goers.
“This is a great opportunity to see and learn about some
of the finest traditional and contemporary small craft
around,” said CBMM’s Assistant Curator for Watercraft
Richard Scofield. “The festival has a lot to offer, especially
for families. Everyone can enjoy it.”
Beginning at noon on Saturday, the Royal Oak Musicians
perform live from CBMM’s Tolchester Beach Bandstand.
On Saturday, festival-goers can also watch a small craft
race on the Miles River beginning at 1pm. Voting will be
held to determine which boat receives the People’s Choice
award, amongst others.
Scenic Miles River cruises aboard the Museum’s 1920
buyboat Winnie Estelle will be offered throughout the
two-day festival. Boat-building workshops and maritime
demonstrations by CBMM’s boatyard staff and instructors
from the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders School will
also be offered.
The Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival is free for Museum
members and children under six, otherwise admission is
$15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students with ID, and
$6 for children ages 6 to 17, with all Museum exhibits
included in admission. For safety reasons, dogs need to
be kept home during Museum festivals and special events.
Leashed dogs are only permitted on campus during
regular operating hours. Visit cbmm.org/mascf or call
410-745-2916 for more information.
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calendar
programs/member nights/special events
september/october/november/winter
M EMBER NIGHTS
Carvers at the Crossroads Exhibit Tour
Wednesday, October 22
5pm in CBMM’s Waterfowling Exhibit Building
Space is limited. RSVP to 410-745-4991 or [email protected]
Join CBMM’s Director of Education and Carvers at the Crossroads
curator Kate Livie for a behind-the-scenes tour exploring the
artifacts, photographs, tools, decoys and stories of Upper Bay
decoy carvers in the early 20th century. Livie will discuss the
carvers from all walks of life, from shipwrights to undertakers, who
created expansive decoy rigs in the Susquehanna Flats during the
golden era of gunning.
Member Night at the Museum Store
Featuring an exclusive tasting of Olivins’ aged
Rosie Parks Balsamic Vinegar!
Thursday, December 4
4pm in the Museum Store. Tasting at 5:30pm
Find unique holiday gifts and receive a 25% member discount and
free gift wrapping. Join Bill Acosta, owner of Olivins Fine Oils and
Vinegars for an exclusive tasting of the Rosie Parks Balsamic Vinegar, which has been aging for five months in the hull of the 1955
Skipjack Rosie Parks. Six-ounce bottles will be available
for purchase.
BOATYA R D P R O G R AM S
Wednesday Open Boat Shop
October 8, November 12 & December 17
5:30-8pm. $25 CBMM members & $35 non-members.
Pre-registration is required by calling 410-745-4980 or
emailing [email protected]
Members of the public are invited to the boat shop to work on
small projects of their own, or to bring ideas for a future project,
and receive the advice and guidance of an experienced shipwright
and woodworker.
Build a Chesapeake Light Craft Kayak
Monday, September 29 through Friday, October 3
9am-5pm. $800 single tuition fee, $400 helper fee. $899-999
boat kit fee. Pre-registration is required by calling Chesapeake
Light Craft at 410-367-0137
Ever wanted to build a kayak of your own? Come work in the
boatyard with Chesapeake Light Craft to build your own 16-foot or
18-foot stitch and glue Chesapeake Kayak. For more information
visit clcboats.com.
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Intermediate Women’s Woodworking
Friday, October 17 through Sunday, October 19
9am-4pm. $225 CBMM members & $250 non-members
Pre-registration is required by calling 410-745-4980 or
emailing [email protected]
SPECIAL EVENTS & PROGRAMS
Effective September 1, 2014
Community Conversations: State of the Crab
Listen. Learn. Discuss: Come share your ideas and opinions.
Join CBMM women shipwrights for an intermediate ladies-only
wood working opportunity. Participants will build a stool, focusing
on the importance of layout and good joinery, while deepening
their understanding of woodworking. Basic tools and materials are
provided. Prior woodworking experience required.
Free for all. Sponsored in part by Chesapeake Landing and the
Talbot County Watermen’s Association.
Four-Day Intermediate Carving Workshop with John Garlick
This session addresses the various factors contributing to the
decline of the Chesapeake crab population and features conversations by both researchers and watermen. Hear what it’s like to
make a living under today’s difficult circumstances, the changes
watermen have seen in their lifetime, and their ideas about the
future of harvesting crabs from the Chesapeake Bay.
Tuesday, October 28 & Thursday, October 30
Tuesday, November 4 & Thursday, November 6
5-9pm. $170 CBMM members & $185 non-members
Pre-registration is required by calling 410-745-4980 or
emailing [email protected]
Carver John Garlick demonstrates the techniques and artistry
necessary in producing a carved eagle with its wings spread.
Carving experience required, as well as tools. Materials are included.
Boating Essentials
Saturday, November 15, 10am-noon
Sunday, November 16, 2-4pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
$15 CBMM members & $25 non-members. Pre-registration is
required by calling 410-745-4980 or emailing [email protected]
Join 100-ton Captain Jerry Friedman as he covers the essentials of
boating including reading charts, understanding navigational aids,
proper anchoring, knots, and other helpful information when aboard
a boat.
REMINDER: CBMM Dog Policy
How did we get here? State of the Crab
Sunday, September 21
2-4pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
From Steamed Crabs to Crab Cakes: The Industry Today and Tomorrow
Sunday, September 28
2-4pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
This session explores the modern politics and pitfalls of crab meat
consumption. From eating local to globalized crab meat, sources
of labor, advertising and crabbing culture, a panel of crab
professionals from every corner of the industry will discuss the
present and future for the “water business.”
St. Michaels Oyster Crawl
Thursday, September 25
4-7pm. $55 CBMM members & $65 non-members. Pre-registration
required by Sept. 22 to 410-745-4941 or [email protected]
During CBMM festivals and special events, dogs
ARE NOT permitted on Museum grounds, with the
exception of certified service dogs.
Leashed dogs ARE permitted on Museum grounds
during regular business hours.
Clean-up bags are located throughout campus for
your convenience. Thank you!
CBMM Signature Event:
32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
Saturday, October 4 & Sunday, October 5
10am-5pm. Free for CBMM members and children under 6,
$15 adults, $12 seniors & students with ID & $6 for children
ages 6-17.
Sailing skiffs, rowing shells, kayaks, canoes, paddle boats, prams,
and other one-of-a-kind boats will be out on the water and on
land throughout the weekend. Live music on Saturday beginning
at noon, and at 1pm, a small craft race. Scenic Miles River cruises
aboard the Winnie Estelle are available, as well as boatbuilding
workshops and maritime demonstrations by CBMM’s boatyard
staff and instructors from the Chesapeake Wooden Boat Builders
School. Read more on page 17.
Covering the Chesapeake’s Oyster Beat with Rona Kobell
Fordham Brewing Company and CBMM present the first St. Michaels
Oyster Crawl for a limited number of participants. The event features
a “History on the Half Shell” presentation with CBMM Director of
Education Kate Livie beginning with local, farm-raised Choptank
Sweets and a commemorative tasting glass with a 12-ounce bottle of
Fordham’s Rosie Parks Oyster Stout, followed by a walking tour of St.
Michaels’ historic district for oyster pairings at Crab Claw Restaurant,
St. Michaels Crab & Steak House, Town Dock Food & Spirits, and
Foxy’s Harbor Grille. Oyster tastings include oysters Rockefeller,
oysters casino and raw on the half shell with stout samplings
and five plated oysters at each location. This event is sponsored
by the participating restaurants as well as Kelly Distributors of
Easton, MD.
Friday, October 17
5pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
$6 CBMM members and $8 non-members. Pre-registration
required to 410-745-4941 or [email protected].
Waterfowl Watching Cruise
Model Lapstrake Skiff Workshop
Friday, October 24
8-9:30am aboard the Museum’s buyboat Winnie Estelle
$20 CBMM members & $25 non-members. Pre-registration is
required by calling 410-745-4941 or emailing [email protected].
Friday, September 26 through Sunday, September 28
Fri., 6-9pm, Sat. & Sun., 8am-5pm in CBMM’s Bay History Building
$80 CBMM members, $95 non-members. All tools and
materials provided. Pre-registration required by September 23
to Model Guild Director Bob Mason at 410-745-3266 or
[email protected]
Saturday, October 18
2pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium. $6 CBMM members
and $8 non-members. Pre-registration required to 410-745-4941
or [email protected]
Electronic Navigation for Non-Technical People
Saturday, December 6
10am-noon in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
$10 CBMM members & $20 non-members. Pre-registration is
required by calling 410-745-4980 or emailing [email protected]
Join 100-ton Captain Jerry Friedman as he provides short non-technical
descriptions of how GPS, GPS chart plotters, radar, depth sounders,
and automated identification systems work.
ON-THE-WATER PROGRAMS
Join Chester River Field Research Station ornithologists Dan Small
and Maren Gimpel for an early bird waterfowl watching cruise
on the Miles River. Small and Gimpel will discuss the biology of
different migratory waterfowl and answer questions about different
species. Participants can observe the different duck species, geese
and swans that winter along the Miles River’s island and coves.
Dress warmly and bring your binoculars and cameras.
Led step-by-step by skilled modelers, participants create a
10-inch wooden rowing skiff with lapped side planking and a flat
bottom. CBMM’s Model Guild welcomes anyone 12 years of age
and older, and encourages new members of all skill levels
to participate.
Join journalist and NPR guest commentator Rona Kobell as she
talks about her experiences covering the ongoing oyster harvest
and oystering culture for the Baltimore Sun and Bay Journal. Kobell
has followed the controversial changes in the oystering business
for years, interviewing watermen, oyster farmers, legislators and
environmentalists. Kobell will explore the different perspectives on
the oyster harvest and her predictions for the future of Maryland’s
traditional industry.
Archaeology on the Eastern Shore
The Eastern Shore of Maryland holds more than its fair share of
important historical sites, from early Native American settlements to
significant War of 1812 battlefields. Learn about recent excavations
at Wye House, where Frederick Douglass served as a slave, from
the University of Maryland archaeologists overseeing the project.
This is part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s celebration
of International Archaeology Day, 2014.
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SPECIAL EVENTS & PROGRAMS CONTINUED
CBMM Signature Event:
OysterFest
Saturday, October 25
10am-4pm. Free for CBMM members and children under 6,
$15 adults, $12 seniors & students with ID & $6 for children
ages 6-17.
OysterFest in St. Michaels is October 25
O
n Saturday, October 25, the Museum will host
OysterFest, a celebration of the Chesapeake’s oyster.
The event features live music on two stages, boat rides,
retriever demonstrations, oysters and other local fare, an
oyster stew competition and cooking demonstrations, along
with children’s activities, oyster demonstrations, harvesting
displays and Chesapeake-related documentary screenings.
This year, the Roadhouse Clams perform live from the
Tolchester Beach Bandstand, with a music style described
as the “crossroads where Nashville meets Key West.” Along
Fogg’s Cove, the Annapolis-based band Swamp Donkey
performs “newgrass (not bluegrass) with a twist of rock.”
In addition to the Museum’s floating fleet of historic
vessels, several boats from the Talbot County Watermen’s
Association will be dockside to share the Chesapeake Bay’s
oyster dredging, hand tonging, patent tonging and oyster
diving traditions. Chesapeake watermen will also offer
oyster tonging demonstrations along the Museum’s
waterfront. TCWA volunteers will serve freshly caught
and shucked Chesapeake Bay oysters steamed or raw on
the half shell. Aquaculture raw oysters, oyster fritters and
fried oyster sandwiches will also be available. For those
who prefer to celebrate oysters rather than eat them, pit
beef, hot dogs and hamburgers, along with cold beer, warm
apple cider and more will be offered.
Back by popular demand is Fordham Brewing Company’s
Rosie Parks Oyster Stout, made in honor of the 1955 skipjack Rosie Parks, which was relaunched after a three-year
restoration at last year’s OysterFest. Local restaurants will
perform cooking demonstrations of signature oyster dishes
throughout the day, and an oyster slurping contest will be
offered each hour from 1-3pm with a prize for the winner.
Beginning at 11am along Fogg’s Cove, folks can vote
for their favorite oyster stew in a competition among local
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restaurants and chefs. Participation is limited to the first
500 visitors on a first-come, first-served basis. A commemorative OysterFest mug and all the tastings are offered
for $6. The blind taste test awards bragging rights to the
chef with the most votes, with the People’s Choice winner
announced at 1pm.
Throughout the event, families can take a river cruise
aboard Winnie Estelle, play an oversized oyster puzzle
game, explore an oyster nursery, watch net-making and
knot-tying demonstrations, or participate in a scavenger
hunt or face painting. Children can also build their own
take-home boat for $3. The Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Relief and Rescue club will also present retriever demonstrations on CBMM’s Navy Point.
Tilghman Islanders Grow Oysters, Chesapeake Bay
Foundation, Oyster Recovery Partnership and The Nature
Conservancy will be on hand to discuss efforts to clean and
preserve the Chesapeake Bay. Phillips Wharf Environmental
Center’s Fishmobile will offer the opportunity to see live
sturgeon, diamondback terrapins, horseshoe crabs and
other native creatures. The event is generously sponsored
by Maryland Public Television, and two MPT documentaries
will be screened during the event.
Admission to OysterFest is free for CBMM members
and children ages five and under; otherwise $15 for adults,
$12 for seniors, and $6 for children between the ages of
six and 17. Food and boat rides are an additional cost. For
safety reasons, dogs need to be kept home during Museum
festivals and special events. Leashed dogs are only permitted on campus during regular operating hours. For more
information about OysterFest, visit cbmm.org/oysterfest
or call 410-745-2916.
Join us for a celebration of the Chesapeake’s oyster. The event
features live music on two stages, boat rides, retriever demonstrations, oysters and other local fare, an oyster stew competition
and cooking demonstrations, along with children’s activities,
oyster demonstrations, harvesting displays and Chesapeakerelated documentary screenings. Read more on page 20.
Great Storms of the Chesapeake with David Healy
Thursday, October 30
5pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
$6 CBMM members and $8 non-members. Pre-registration
required to 410-745-4941 or [email protected].
In the last four centuries, the Chesapeake Bay region has
experienced legendary hurricanes, gales, blizzards, fogs and
freezes. Join Great Storms of the Chesapeake author David Healy
as he explores the stories behind this stormy weather and how
it forever changed the lives of Marylanders and in some cases,
changed the course of history. Signed copies of Healy’s book will
be available for purchase.
REMINDER: CBMM Dog Policy
Effective September 1, 2014
During CBMM festivals and special events, dogs
ARE NOT permitted on Museum grounds, with the
exception of certified service dogs.
Leashed dogs ARE permitted on Museum grounds
during regular business hours.
Clean-up bags are located throughout campus for
your convenience. Thank you!
Exploring the History of the Bay Bridge with David Guth
Author of Bridging the Chesapeake: A ‘Fool’ Idea That Unified Maryland
Wednesday, January 14
2pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
$6 CBMM members and $8 non-members. Pre-registration
required to 410-745-4941 or [email protected].
Join author David Guth as he tells the story of the Preston
Memorial Bridge, or the “Bay Bridge” to most of us. Bridging
the Chesapeake is the story of two Marylands, one on each
side of the Chesapeake. Guth will explore the history of the
project, and the political, cultural, environmental and engineering challenges tackled to build today’s iconic double span from
Sandy Point to Kent Island. Signed copies of Guth’s book will be
available for purchase.
Half-Hull Model Workshop
Saturday, November 8 & Sunday, November 9
9am-5pm in CBMM’s Bay History Building
$80 CBMM members and $95 non-members. All tools and
materials provided. Pre-registration required by November 1
to Model Guild Director Bob Mason at 410-745-3266 or
[email protected]
Participants will create a half-hull model of the Pride of Baltimore II.
Band sawed from a block and carved to the rounded shape of the
Pride’s hull, the half-hull model is then mounted on a baseboard to
form a fine wall display piece.
Growing Up Walsh
Stories from the Chesapeake’s original “Duck Dynasty”
Friday, November 21
5:30pm in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium
$6 CBMM members and $8 non-members. Pre-registration
required to 410-745-4941 or [email protected].
Join Joe Walsh—the son of Harry Walsh, avid hunter, waterfowling
collector, the author of The Outlaw Gunner, and one of the
founders of Easton’s Waterfowl Festival—as he shares stories
about growing up in the Walsh family. Walsh will share decoys,
battery guns, and images from his father’s collection, as well as
some of his best family gunning stories about sneak skiffs, and
sink box shooting.
ON G OING PR OGRA MS
ChesAdventures
Select Saturdays in January & February (call for details)
AM Sessions for ages 4-6 are 10am-noon
PM Sessions for ages 7-9 are 1-3pm
$12 CBMM members & $15 non-members
Pre-registration required to 410-745-4941 or [email protected].
Children ages 4-9 can fill their winter Saturdays with two hours
of fun-filled and challenging hands-on games, arts and crafts,
and story telling. All sessions are Chesapeake-themed and have
limited space.
Apprentice for a Day Public Boatbuilding Program
Saturdays & Sundays
10am-4pm. $45 CBMM members & $55 non-members or
purchase four classes at a reduced rate of $150 CBMM members
& $200 non-members. Drop-ins welcome. For more information,
contact 410-745-4980 or email [email protected]
Learn traditional boatbuilding techniques with a CBMM shipwright.
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Annual Report
RELEVANCE | AUTHENTICITY | STEWARDSHIP
2013 - 2014
A Message from the Board
by Richard C. Tilghman, Jr., 2014-2015 Chair
In looking back on the Museum’s most
recent fiscal year, it’s easy to understand why
members of our Board and other donors join
me with enthusiasm over this institution’s
accomplishments and the bright future
that lies ahead. Of note are the Museum’s
strengthened finances, which position the
Museum for some of its most important and
meaningful work yet to be done.
The Museum’s strengthened finances,
as you’ll see in this report, are due to a
balanced budget, accomplished in most part
through an increase in earned revenues,
reduction of debt, and growth in our
endowment. Record attendance at last year’s
OysterFest and Watermen’s Appreciation
Day, for example, and increases in our boat
donations program helped to boost revenues
over previous years. In addition, our endowment has grown from increases in planned
giving and life memberships, as well as market gains.
For many of our visitors and members, the year will be remembered for the relaunch
of the 1955 skipjack Rosie Parks, which took place on November 2, 2013 as more than
4,500 spectators watched in awe as she returned home to the Chesapeake’s waters.
Others may be more excited about the acquisition of the 1920 buyboat Winnie Estelle,
which arrived at the Museum on April 1, 2014—thanks to a generous gift from an
anonymous donor—and has been taking passengers out ever since. Our floating fleet
wasn’t the only star attraction, as new exhibits also marked the year with Navigating
Freedom: The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake opening May 11, 2013, and Carvers at the
Crossroads: Sharing Ideas, Techniques and Styles across the Chesapeake’s Susquehanna Flats
opening April 12, 2014. Both exhibits continue into this year, and thanks to a very
generous anonymous donor, four of our main exhibit buildings have new or upgraded
HVAC systems.
None of this could be accomplished without the support of people like you, along
with the staff, volunteers and leaders of this important institution. Many thanks are
due to our Past President, Langley Shook, who retired this past June, and Immediate
Past Chairman Tom Seip, who provided great leadership and vision as we moved
through this transitional year. We also owe much to a terrific search committee, who
ensured a well-qualified and passionate leader for the institution in Kristen Greenaway,
who began her work here in July.
Now, with Kristen at the helm and plans for the Museum’s 50th birthday celebration
in 2015 underway, our aspirations for CBMM are set high. Because of our strengthened financial position, along with the continued support of members, friends, and
donors like you, the Museum has a bright future ahead.
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Board of
Governors
2013-2014
Tom D. Seip, Chair
Richard C. Tilghman, Jr., Vice Chair
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Richard J. Bodorff, Secretary
Schuyler Benson
Paul Berry
Harry W. Burton
William B. Carter
William S. Dudley
David E. Dunn
Dagmar D. P. Gipe
E. Brooke Harwood, Jr.
Christopher A. Havener, Jr.
Francis Hopkinson, Jr.
Fred Israel
Richard J. Johnson
Peter M. Kreindler
Frank C. Marshall, Jr.
Patrice Miller
Geoffrey F. Oxnam
Bruce A. Ragsdale
Mitchell B. Reiss
S. Stevens Sands
Lelde Schmitz
Diane J. Staley
Henry H. Stansbury
Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr.
Alfred Tyler, 2nd
President
Langley R. Shook
Emeriti
Richard T. Allen
Howard S. Freedlander
Alan R. Griffith
Margaret D. Keller
Breene M. Kerr
Charles L. Lea, Jr.
D. Ted Lewers, MD
Fred C. Meendsen
John C. North II
Sumner Parker
Robert A. Perkins
Joseph E. Peters
James K. Peterson
Norman H. Plummer
John J. Roberts
Henry H. Spire
James E. Thomas
Joan Darby West
Donald G. Whitcomb
The skipjack Rosie Parks was relaunched at the annual OysterFest celebration on November 2, 2013. Photo courtesy of William Wilhelm.
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
We extend our deepest gratitude to our donors for gifts received between May 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014. It is only through
the generosity of our friends and supporters that the Museum can fulfill its mission and impact lives by igniting a spark of
interest and passion for the Chesapeake Bay and its heritage and culture. Gifts of $100 or more are listed below. Every gift,
no matter the size, is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Admiral of the Sea
($50,000 and above)
Anonymous
Pam & Jim Harris
Alice & Peter Kreindler
Alexa & Tom Seip
Beverly & Richard Tilghman
Admiral of
the Chesapeake
($25,000 to $49,999)
Gloria & James Gibson
Dagmar & Al Gipe
Penny & Alan Griffith
Karen & Dick Kimberly
Marguerite & Gerry Lenfest
Judy & Henry Stansbury
Admiral of
the Fleet
(10,000 to $24,999)
Nancy & CG Appleby
Ellen & Richard Bodorff
Charley & Bill Carter
Pam & Tom Green
Jane & Frank Hopkinson
Lesley & Fred Israel
Laurie & Rick Johnson
Cynthia & Peter Kellogg
Debbie & Tom Lawrence
Florence & Frank Marshall
Patrice & Herb Miller
Joan Murray
Mary Lou & Joe Peters
Ellen & Norman Plummer
Joanne & Paul Prager
Carol & Charlie Robertson
Alice & Bruce Rogers
Karen & Langley Shook
Katie & Dick Snowdon
Linda & Hank Spire
Diane & Jeff Staley
René & Tom Stevenson
Elizabeth & Jim Underhill
Joan & Clif West
Admiral
($5,000 to $9,999)
Beth & Harry Burton
Jocelyn & George Eysymontt
Trish & Brooke Harwood
Susan & Andy Hess
Darby & Donald Hewes
Robert M. Hewes
Carol & Bill May
Charlotte & George Meyer
Libby Moose
Ethel & Judge John North
Fran & Sumner Parker
Kay & Bob Perkins
Bruce Ragsdale & Rick Scobey
Lelde & Heinrich Schmitz
Nancy & Bill Stafford
Cleo Braver & Allie Tyler
Gayle & Mike Yoh
Vice Admiral
($2,500 to $4,999)
Malcolm Bahrenburg
Jenny & Schuyler Benson
Meta & Bill Boyd
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Gayle & John Bremer
Sandy & Omer Brown
Shirley Bucci & Stephen Humenick
Janet & Dick Charlton
Leigh Ann & Jon Deeter
Catherine Jamieson
& Frederick Edwards
Liz & Howard Freedlander
Christina & Earl Furman
Bill Ginder
Alice Glen
Dale & Gary Guyette
Vicky McAndrews & Leeds Hackett
Marsie & John Hawkinson
Nancy & John Henderson
Cathy & Tom Hill
Susan Fuller & Wayland Linscott
Kenneth Lubin
Sherry & Charles Manning
Tammy McNally
Nancy & Fred Meendsen
Ceci & Rob Nobel
Norma Redele’
Beth Loker & Donald Rice
Vicki & Jay Ricketts
Joe Robillard
Douglas Rollow
Krista & David Ross
Rosa & Steve Sands
Irene & Daniel Simpkins
Sally & Roger Stobbart
Susan & Jack Stoltz
Debra Vess
Catherine & Joe Whalen
Commodore
($1,000 to $2,499)
Virginia Albert
Linda Passantino & Drew Alloway
Cecil Backus
Pattie & Mike Batza
Jean Marie & Duane Beckhorn
Amy & Paul Berry
Pattie & George Betz
Mary Helen & Richard Bogan
Maura & Martin Bollinger
Elizabeth & John Breyer
Victoria & Thomas Broadie
William Brody
Audrey Brown
Katie & David Burkitt
Nancy & Jim Burri
Rebecca Rimel & Patrick Caldwell
Jane & Pete Chambliss
Jeff Chandler
Lynne & Richard Cheney
Larry Clark
Pat Cornish
Robert Crowder
Patrisha & Al Del Negro
Donna & Bill Dudley
Teresa & Dixon Duffett
Amy Bondurant & David Dunn
Rosemary & Joseph Fasolo
Mary Kay & Tom Finan
Kevin Flynn
Robin & Sted Garber
Nancy & Randle Goetze
Shirley Gooch
Michele & Robert Goodson
Susan & Richard Granville
Fred Haab
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Thomas Hamilton
Susan & Paul Hanson
Brooke Harris
Mark Hasslinger
Ada & Martin Heilman
Jacqueline Smith & Jerry Hook
Elizabeth & Gordon Hughes
Norma & Charles Irish
Florence & Cliff Jackson
Rad Jennings
Holiday & Chris Johnson
Karen & Clark Johnson
Sylvia Jones
Margaret Keller
The Kiene Family
Deborah Kudner
Kathleen & Charlie Lea
Mariana & Pete Lesher
Patricia & Harry Lowe
Christine & Donald Martin
Beverley & Stanley Martin
Billie Jane & Warren Marton
Harriett & Mac McConnell
Stephanie & John McGowan
Connie Sadler & Paul Moates
Mirna & Conrad Nelson
Elizabeth & Thomas Nelson
Doris & Bill Nielsen
Elaine & Glenn Orme
Christine & Hamish Osborne
Margaret & David Owens
Talli & Geoff Oxnam
Nan & Jim Peterson
Betsy & Chuck Petty
Melissa & John Pflieger
Donna Cantor & John Pinney
Lynne & Torrance Pitcairn
Bev & Laurie Pratt
Elisabeth & Mitchell Reiss
Daniel Ridout
Roselee & Art Roberts
Joyce & Donald Rumsfeld
Susan duPont & Howard Snyder
Jill Kent & Mark Solomons
Renée & Barry Sterling
Gail Sterling-Joubert
Peggy & Guy Steuart
Sharon & Ric Struthers
Phyllis & Tony Syme
Muriel & Enos Throop
Julie & Scott Tompkins
Rosemary & Sam Trippe
Kimberley Fritts & Francis Turner
Sandra & Michael Twigg
Ellen & John Villa
Theresa & Michael Walden
Susan & Andrew Weisburger
Marie & John Wells
Carolyn Williams & Colin Walsh
Terry & Bill Witowsky
Lisa & Tim Wyman
Captain
($500 to $999)
Hannah & Tom Alnutt
Molly & Peirce Anderson
Annette & Ted Bautz
Holly & Walter Beckwith
Ginger & Marion Bevard
David Bleil
Bonnie & John Booth
Ella & Michael Bracy
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Donna & Chip Britt
Norman Brown
Katharine & Stanley Brown
Carol & Jim Bruce
Franz Burda
Ashley & Sam Chamberlain
Durrie & Manson Chisholm
Linda & Steve Clineburg
Pat & Dick Cooper
Ann & Robert Corrie
Joan Cox
Ann & John Davis
Judi & Bob Deakins
Bettie & Thomas Deen
Linda & John Derrick
Joni & Wallace Doolin
Barbara & Irénée du Pont
Jennifer & David Durkin
Sarah & Jay Eastman
Charlene & Orin Edson
Sharon & Duane Ekedahl
Ed Farley
Eleuthera & Frederick Fiechter
Linda & Allan Field
Ann & Gordon Fink
Elizabeth Fisk
Karen & Tom Frana
Martha Coven & Paul Frick
Marcia & Peter Friedman
Buffy Linehan & Ed Gabriel
Sandra & Walter Ganzi
Dara Sicherman & Philip Graham
Alice Marie Gravely
Kelly & Eric Greensmith
Gigi & Mike Halloran
Judy & Jack Harrald
Joanne & Bob Herman
Susan & Robert Hillenbrand
Ed Hiller
Laura & Tom Hollingshead
Eddie Hornick
Diane Humphrey
Deanne & Tom Hutchison
Jan & Rick Hynson
Stephanie Stockman & Frank Ireton
Mary & Joseph Irr
Pam & Jerry Jana
Lauren Scott & Erik Jensen
Honor & John Johnson
Paula Johnson & Carl Fleischhauer
Emilie & Maulik Joshi
Paige & John Kevill
Annabel & Ron Lesher
Mary & Gene Lopez
Mary Ellen & Bill Love
Virginia Martus
Julie McCahill
Julie & Brian McCandless
Cathy & Tom Mendenhall
Diane Minahan-Griffith
Abigail & Mark Nestlehutt
Kristen & Nels Olson
Gwen & Carl Oppenheim
Ruth Parks
Leigh & Jerry Peek
Alice & Robert Petizon
Laurel & Charles Powers
Deborah & Don Pusey
Laura & John Quandt
Diane & Tom Reinke
Gina & Lee Reno
Mary Restifo
Kellee & William Romberger
Barbara & Charles Rossotti
Bernadette Benik & Dennis Seymour
Theodora Shelor
Lisa & John Sherwood
Jo Sue & Rem Simpson
Carol & Scott Smallwood
Lucy Spiegel
Gerould Stange
Audrey & Christopher Stine
Mary Ann & Bill Stockman
Kathy & Phillip Stovall
Jefferson Strider
Frankie Thorington
Mary Lynn Selzer & James Todd
Sandi & Clint Vince
Irmy & Phil Webster
Charlotte & George West
Hugh Whitaker
Margaret & Robert Williams
Ann & Barry Wood
Linda & Artur Zimmer
Commander
($250 to $499)
Judy & Jay Anglada
Lisa & Steven Asplundh
Chrissy & Ned Aull
Donna & Charles Bagley
Joan & Bill Bailey
Nancy & Bill Baker
Jeff Bean
Elaine Ashenfelter & Ed Bednarz
Jim Bell
Alison & Art Birney
Aurelia & Perry Bolton
Phillip & Fran Bradley
Jane & Harrison Bristoll
Jennifer & Paul Brooks
Andrea Santa & Brian Butz
Nancie & Don Cameron
Leslie Hill & Dennis Carroll
David Clanton
Joanne & George Clark
Elise Butler & Brett Clifford
Katherine & David Cockey
Debbie & Doug Collison
Janet & Jim Crowle
Mary Ellen & Clyde Culp
James Curran
Sara & Phil Davis
Judith & Robert Davis
Elizabeth Anderson & Ed Delaney
Maryann & John Donohue
Jane & Joe Duffy
Marsha & David Dulaney
Leslie Steen & Robert Ebel
Charlotte & Gary Ehlig
Peggy & Frank Emmet
Elinor Farquhar
Ann Marie & Jim Flood
Barbara & Frank Focht
Tom Fountain
Jaime & Greg Frankos
Diana & Mark Fraser
Mary Bee & Myrt Gaines
Fred Geiger
Henry Goldberg
Maureen & Neil Golden
Gary Gordon
Rosemary & John Gray
Michael Rankin & Mark Green
Carol Anne & Steven Griffith
Pennie & Bob Haase
Bob Price & Nancy Hammond
Lana Harding
Catherine & Carl Helwig
Howard Hill
Michele & Michael Hills
Elizabeth & Tom Hipp
Winifred & Robert Hobron
Tracy & John Hockmeyer
Jacqueline & Clifford Holland
Kim & T.J. Holland
Judge Bill Horne
Kathleen & Howard Hughes
Julia & Lehr Jackson
Agata Ptaszynska & Laura Jacobus
Sherry & David Jeffery
Cyrus Jones
Jeanne & Larry Kelly
Katrina & Tony Kern
Marcia & Fred Kieser
Joan & Frank Kittredge
Melissa & Jeff Knapp
Brud LaMotte
Barbara & Bill Lane
Sara Imershein & Mark Levine
Lois & Larry Lindsley
Daren Magness
Alice & Bob Mantell
Robin & John Marrah
Linda & Ray Maule
Julia & Brian McCalmon
Carol & Larry McCanna
Laura & James McGrath
Dorie & Jeff McGuiness
Karen & Charles McKelly
Carol & Russell Merritt
Carol Meyer
Karen Meyer
Jill & Jack Meyerhoff
Rich Miller
Elizabeth & Rick Morgan
Jill Clark & Stephen Morris
Susan & William Napier
Mary & Bob Natwick
Susan & Mike Newnam
Doris & Bill Nielsen
Carol & John Nyland
Diane & Kevin O’Connor
Karen & Stephen O’Neill
Barbara & Ernest Oskin
Chance Negri & Jeffrey Parker
Camille & Tony Passarella
Sara & Randolph Perry
Jan & Phil Pinkerton
Pam & Dennis Pitt
Laura & John Porter
Carole Ratcliffe
Carol & Earl Ravenal
Paula Ray
Mary & Fritz Riedlin
Margaret & John Riehl
Tom Rodgers
Ruth & Peter Romero
Carolyn Rugg & Larry Rovin
Adrienne Rudge
Rosemarie Pauli & Bill Sadlack
Julia Schen
Katharine & Charles Schutt
Kathryn Shook
Peter Silvia
Rita & David Sirignano
Elaine & Peter Soltani
Ann & Marc Sonnenfeld
Melissa & Philip Spevak
Glenna Stewart
Carol & Cliff Stretmater
Jody & John Stumpf
Mary Beth & Kevin Sullivan
Ann & Mike Sweeney
Rosemary Thomson
Elizabeth & Ferdinand Thun
Ben Tilghman
Brian Topping
Irene & Robert Valliant
Bettie & Klaas van Esselstyn
Jeanette Scherr & Robert Waldron
Sara & Myron Walker
Susan Walker
Laura & Richard Ward
Mary & William Warden
Nancy O’Connell & Ray Wiacek
Mike Wick
Deborah Wiggins
Gail & Robert Wilensky
Victoria & William Winterer
Kay & Michael Young
Julia Young
Sailing Master
($100 to $249)
Kathy & Bruce Abbott
Carolyn & Samuel Abernethy
Patricia & Brian Adelhardt
Barbara & John Alden
Joyce & Mark Allen
Edward Allen
Donna & Jim Alpi
Ed Alvarado
The Alvarado-Levy Family
Judith & Bob Amdur
Della & Herbert Andrew
Lisa & Jim Andrew
Nancy & Bernard Anthony
Elizabeth & Rasmus Apenes
Arthur Aronstein
Neva & Ned Asplundh
Mary & Raymond Augustin
Virginia & Richard Autry
Martha & Mark Bailey
David Bailey
Carol & Monty Baker
Donna Barker
Carolina & Andrew Barksdale
Julie & Sam Barnett
Marilyn & Kaye Barrett
Lindsay & Dave Batcheller
Mary & Joseph Battin
Carolyn & Jack Batty
Janis & Jay Beach
Barbara & Alan Bellack
Ann & Colin Bentley
Norma & Donald Berlin
Ruth & Doug Berry
Margery Bessent
Paige Bethke
Ellen & Ed Bilinski
Virginia & Ronald Blackwell
Tricia & Tom Bliss
Patricia & James Bonan
Mary Jane & Bob Booker
Anne Marie & John Borneman
Delores Bowens
Arlene & Stephen Bowes
Chesapeake’s Best Crab Cakes is a hands-on program for grades 3-5 in
which students learn about Chesapeake geography, social studies and
economics following the blue crab on its journey from the Chesapeake Bay
to the dinner table. Students have a chance to walk in the shoes of people
who earn their livelihood from the crabbing industry by working a trotline
activity, picking stuffed crabs at a packing house, ordering from a restaurant
on a migrant worker’s wages and culling their dredge catch.
Barbara & Bruce Boyd
Lydia & David Boyer
Steven Bradshaw
Joyce & Don Breeze
Karl Briers
Jean & David Brooks
Pat & Howard Brooks
Jack Brown
James Brown
Michelle & Marty Brown
Anne & Dave Brunson
Wendy & Frank Bunch
JoAnne & Kitridge Buritsch
George & Virginia Burke
Kristi & Rand Bussell
Patti & John Butner
Cheryl & Louis Cadwell
Margaret & Nick Cannistraro
Danuta & Reno Carbonetta
Roberta & John Carey
Carolyn & Bill Carleton
Leila & Bruce Carlson
Susan & Paul Carroll
Patti & Ralph Case
Linda & John Cassell
Carol & Creston Cathcart
Gail & Frank Cavanaugh
Ann Marie & Duane Cespedes
William Chambers
Carol & Eric Chandler
Neil Chapman
Jane Dionne & Erick Chiang
Rebecca & Jeff Chittenden
Lee & Russell Chubb
Elizabeth & Galen Clagett
Katherine Clovis
Viola & Robert Clum
Sandy & Tommy Cobb
Wendi & Russ Cochran
Holly Tompkins & Brad Cole
Esty & Pierre Collet
Mary Ruth Collison
Newbold Cooper
Kenneth Court
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On April 1, the historic 1920 Chesapeake Bay buyboat Winnie Estelle
arrived at CBMM as the new workhorse of the Museum’s floating fleet
for scenic Miles River cruises and a wide variety of on-the-water
educational programs. Winnie was used around Smith Island as a workboat for more than 40 years, carrying seafood and produce to market
across the Chesapeake Bay.
The Potomac River dory boat was relaunched in April after a winter of
restoration. The 38 foot dory boat was built in 1931 by Francis Raymond
“Peg Leg” Hayden along the Potomac River at Banks O’Dee, MD
Potomac River dories were built in Southern Maryland on the Potomac
River and used primarily for oyster tonging. These boats are the
descendants of the “Black Nancy,” a type of small (18 to 27 feet)
and narrow workboat dating to before the Civil War. The boat was
donated to CBMM in 1988 by the Calvert Marine Museum.
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Kate & Paul Cox
Betty & Jim Crothers
Brenda & Courtney Crouch
Joan & Rich Crowley
William Cruce
John Csady
Diane & James Daffin
Damon/Sherry Family Fund
Merry Danaceau
JoNell & Mike Dann
Jim Darby
Ellen & Mike Datena
Bruno de Schaetzen
Jean DeBell-O’Neal
Ruth & Edwin Decker
Carolyn Decker
Ralph Decker
John Delean
Mary & Charlie Denney
Miguel Dennis
Maureen & Edward Diluchio
Mary & Jack Doetzer
Judy & Charles Doll
John Dombach
Pat & John Donaldson
Mary Dooher
Judi & T.P. Dunn
Linda & John Dunnigan
Sue & Russell Dwyer
Dick & Addie Eckardt
Catherine Eckbreth
Bonnie Johnson & Bart Eckhardt
Rona & Stuart Eisen
Anne Pilert & Tod Engelskirchen
Linda & Maris Eshleman
Jean & George Evans
Geraldine & William Falk
P.F.N. Fanning
Nancy & Robert Farrell
Brenda & Gil Fauber
Robert Feldhuhn
Nancy & Rusty Field
Shelley Nelson
& Friedrich Finckenstein
Gwen & Jay Fink
Cheri Fisher
Charlotte & Ralph Fleischman
Lin & Richard Foa
Kathy O’Connell & Jelles Fonda
Peggy & John Ford
Robert Middleton & Susan Forlifer
Monty Fowler
Margaret & Fred Franco
Allison & Jon Franke
Trish Freeman
Jeanne & Christopher Friberg
Herbert Friedman
Barbara & Jerry Friedman
Myra & Steve Fuguet
Betsey & Joseph Galli
Sonia & Pedro Garcia
Joni & Ray Gauthier
Linda & Ed Gerner
Donna & Morton Gibbons-Neff
Jody Katz & Jeffrey Gibbs
Wendy & Ken Gibson
Sheila & David Gierisch
Terri & Bill Gilmore
Beverly & George Glatfelter
Donald Goodliffe
Kathryn & John Gorski
Judy & Tom Gould
Kathy & Donald Gray
Shayna & Michael Green
Carol & Don Green
Kathryn & Ernie Ernie
Robert Greene
Carol & Paul Griggs
Kathy & Don Gross
Hugh Grunden
Bev & Hudson Haile
Susan & Edward Hand
Jennifer & Richard Hanna
Linda & Kirke Harper
Ingrid & Robert Harvey
Maybelle & James Hash
John Hatheway
Anne & John Hayes
Mary Ann & David Hazen
Tom Heckman
Ida & Jim Heelan
Sylvia & Ralph Heidelbach
Benjamin Heilman
Archer & Jim Heinzen
Joan & Hunt Hendrickson
Katherine & Thomas Herbert
Eric Hervol
Nancy Hickey
Karen & Bob Hicks
William Hoffmeyer
Gary Holdredge
Teri & Tom Hollenshade
Martie & Nelson Holtje
Pati & Porter Hopkins
Martha Horner
Dennis Horner
Barbara & Donald Hoskins
Nina Houghton
Carla & Peter Howell
Mary Ann Schindler & Martin Hughes
Doris Hughes
Mary Fisher & Gerald Hunter
Joan Lunney & William Idler
Gugy Irving
Kate Blackwell & Felix Jakob
Maggie & Merton Jarboe
Stewart Jeffries
Curtis Johns
Timothy Johnson
Bruce Jones
Beverly & Richard Jones
Cindy & Doug Jurrius
Paula & James Karr
Diane & Gene Katz
Barbara & Sheldon Katz
Marilynn Katatsky & Rick Kaufmann
Fern & Daniel Kecman
Lauretta & Brendan Keegan
Adine Kelly
Stan Kelton
Carol & Richard Kennedy
Mary & Wayne Key
Laura & Steven Key
Carol Kilbourn
Mary & Charles Kilbourne
Sarah Miller & Michael King
Margit & Maurice Klein
Jacqueline & Edward Knight
John Knott
Nancy & Robert Knowles
John Knud-Hansen
Christine & Chuck Kohls
Linda Sue & Peter Koole
Gabrielle & Bill Korab
Karl Krieger
Pamela & Richard Lafferty
Shirley & Ray Landon
Jean Larson
Rebecca & Edward Lawson
Elaine & Rob LeBuhn
Margot & Robert LeCompte
Jean & Dale Legal
Barbara & David Leith
Pat & Ted Lewers
Susan & David Lewis
Charles Lindwall
Sherry & Bob Linkous
Valerie & Ronald Lippincott
Diane & Robert Little
Bob Lonergan
Katherine Lordi
Dot and Charles Low
Helena & Horace Lowman
Susan & Raymond Luby
Barbara & Ben Lucas
James Lyons
Joann & Angus MacBeth
Velma & Earl MacBride
Cynthia & Duncan MacDonald
Anita Mack
Luann & Read Madary
Joan Sisk & Boyd Madary
Debi & Joel Maness
Linda & Fred Mangelsdorf
Marie & Pete Martinez
Ruth & Max Matteson
Carolyn & Robert Mattingly
James Maugham
Digie & Paul McGuirk
Bud McIntire
Jonathan McLane
Lawrence McMichael
John Menard
Helen & John Mencke
Josephine & George Merrill
Linda & Lawrence Meyer
Mary & Thomas Milan
Barbara & William Millar
Diane & Albert Miller
Sydney & Charles Mills
Frederick Moench
Debbie & Gary Molchan
Maurice Montaldi
Maggi & Robert Mooney
Donna & Terry Moran
Carol & Jim Morrison
Ellen Moscoe
Dorothy Mowry
Jon Mullarky
Tracey Munson
Leah & Ed Murn
Ann & Thomas Nale
Maureen & Glen Nemecek
Nancy & Fred Nichols
Lesley & Dick Nolker
Joan & David North
Rose & John Northrop
Laura & John Northrop
Milton Nottingham
Marie Martin & Gary Nylander
Maureen & Jim O’Connell
Judith Grass & Michael O’Dell
Nell & Bill Ogden
Linn & Beale Ong
Nancy & John Orzechowski
MaryAlice & Mark Pacious
Wendy & John Pagenstecher
Dorothy & Fred Parker
Lisa & Chris Parlin
Nancy & Bill Parnell
Terry & William Passano
Carole & John Passarotti
Marjorie & Elzie Patterson
Ann & Terry Peel
Page & Richard Pelliconi
Kate & Phil Pennington
Carmen Perry
Edna & Jerry Pettit
Elizabeth & Steven Phillips
Ginger & Buddy Pickle
Chloe & Dave Pitard
John Pitchford
Jay Plager
Nancy & Timothy Pohmer
Diane & Bill Poole
Blair & Robert Potter
Arnie & Don Powell
Cathy Prouse
Marcia Hall & Jerry Quance
Patricia & Gary Quinn
Ellen Rajacich
Malcolm Randolph
Carol Raulston
Mary Ann & Paul Ray
Burton Reiner
Trish & Tom Reynolds
Joan & Robert Rich
Bonnie & Dick Richards
Claire Richardson
Brooke Ricketts
Kari & Trey Rider
Linda & John Ritter
James Roahen
Carey & James Robertson
Lynne & Larry Robinson
Connie & David Robinson
Linda & Harlan Robinson
Joyce & Art Roerink
Meg Roggensack
Sheilah Kast & James Rosapepe
Aaron Rouhi
Bridget & Paul Rowe
Pamela Getson & Lawrence Rudner
Kristen & Michael Rudolph
Karen & Bill Rutherford
Teresa & Keith Rutter
Mary Ann & Tim Rzepski
Diana Sable
Helena & Robert Savage
Judi & Steve Schmidt
Bud Schubert
Linda & Robert Schuerholz
Debbie & Chris Schultz
Betsy & Dale Schulz
Robin & Richard Scofield
John Seidel
Linda Settle & Frank Elward
Carolyn & Donald Shanks
Nancy & Harry Shaw
Doreen & Paul Sheehy
Terrence Sheehy
Barbara & Michael Sheridan
John Shields
Sherrye & Mike Shupp
Abby Siegel & Gerald Silverstein
Bob Simmons
Howell Simons
Eleanor Dallam & Albert Smith
Lois & Ned Smith
Irina & Angus Smith
Marie & Barry Smith
Fran & Hank Spector
Edward St. John
Sharon & Don Steinwachs
Evelyn Stewart
Barbara Stewart
Margaretta & Joseph Stewart
Bill Stewart
Janet & Naor Stoehr
Mimi & Ken Strassner
Stacey & David Strayer
Susan Pollack & Mark Sullivan
Amy & David Sutter
Christopher Svehla
Connie Lu & Charles Tacconelli
Marcia & Barry Talley
Nancy & Carl Tankersley
Edward Taws
Charlotte & Pat Templeton
Shirley & Peter Thatcher
Rosemary & Peter Therkelsen
Marie & Stephen Thomas
Susan & Bill Thomas
James B. Thomas
James Thomas
Jin Young Park & Thane Thurmond
Carolyn McKenzie & Marilyn Title
Byron Tobin
Reade Tompson
Carolyn & Bill Townsend
Lester Trott
Cordy & Luther Tucker
Benson & George Tulloch
Patricia Hanlon & Bill Tylor
Mary & John Unkovic
Kristin & Matthew Valenti
Helen Van Fleet
Sarah & John Ver Brycke
Sally & Moorhead Vermilye
Rhonda & Michael Wade
Daryl Wagner
Edward Walker
Buck Waller
Peggy & Salvadore Waller
Maggie & John Warfield
Michael Wash
Penelope & Thomas Watkins
Brenda Stone & Daniel Watson
Ruth & David Way
Reed West
Kate Whalen
Pam & Jan White
Doris & Tad White
Suzanne & William Whitney
Christopher Wick
Helen & Winslow Womack
Veronica Haggart & Charles Work
Frances & Don Wright
William Wright
Barbara & Lane Wroth
Mary Jane & Edward Wyant
Katie & Wilson Wyatt
Marianne Yost
Margaret & Sanford Young
Joyce & Don Young
Ellie Zentgraf
Esther & Bob Ziegler
Howard Zwemer
Bequests & Trusts
Estate of Thomas Clagett, Jr.
Estate of Robert C. Keith
Albert C. Lynn, Jr. Living Trust
Estate of Douglas James McKelvey
Estate of Robert N. Riley
Joseph W. Sener, Jr. Charitable Trust
Corporate, Institutional
& Non-profit Support
Academy for Lifelong Learning
Active Network Inc.
Air Products Foundation
American Cruise Lines
Annapolis Paint Eastern Shore
Antique & Classic Boat Society
Benson & Mangold, LLC
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation
Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.
Carrion Electric
Castle Harbor Yacht Club
CBMM Model Guild
CBMM Model Sailing Club
Chesapeake Landing Restaurant
Choptank Electric Trust
Chubb & Son
Classic Yacht Restoration Guild
Coastal Brewing Co.
The Country School
C.R. Bard Foundation
Crab Claw, Inc.
Dorchester Auto
Eastern Shore Tents & Events
Edenton Chowan Partnership
Exelon/Constellation Energy
ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc.
Five Gables Inn & Spa
Foxwell’s Antiques & Collectibles
Garden & Garnish
Gourmet By The Bay
Gross Mechanical Labs, Inc.
Guyette & Deeter
Johnson & Johnson
Holly Hill Farms
Holly Lake Enterprises
IBM
Inn at Perry Cabin
J&M Systems
J.E.B. Stuart High School
Johnson & Johnson
Kalix Communications
Kelly Distributors
M & T Bank
Marcoritaville
Maryland Humanities Council
Maryland Public Television
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
The Oaks
Oxford Kids Program
Patriot Cruises
Pepsi Bottling Company
Pierson Comfort Group
Pixel Print & Post
Quality Health Strategies, Inc.
Regional Hematology & Oncology
Ride Entertainment Systems
Southern Galvanizing Company
St. Michaels Running Festival
Sultana Projects, Inc.
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The Museum’s working boatyard offers a wide variety of public programming, including Apprentice For a Day, mosaic art, oar making, carving workshops, Public Sailing Days and more.
Talbot County Arts Council, Inc.
Union United Methodist Church
Washington College
Wiley Rein LLP
Wilmington Trust
Foundations
Amica
Bailey Jewelers
Bank of America Foundation
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation
Norman & Florence Brody
Family Foundation
Lynne Cheney Charitable Fund
Chesapeake Bay Trust
Christmas in St. Michaels
Community Fdn Nat. Capital Region
Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc.
Farvue Foundation
GE Foundation
Thomas H. Hamilton Foundation, Inc.
The Intermec Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Peter R. & Cynthia K.
Kellogg Foundation
Llandaff Family Foundation
The Lyric Foundation, Inc.
Macy’s Foundation
Merrill Family Foundation
Mid Shore Community Foundation
Miles River Yacht Club Foundation
National Philanthropic Trust
Neall Family Charitable Foundation
NM Morris Family Foundation
John B. & Marguerite M.
Owens Foundation
Pew Charitable Trust
Prudential Foundation
The Frederick W. Richmond Foundation
Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation
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Schluderberg Foundation
St. Michaels Rotary Club Foundation
Sun Trust Mid-Atlantic Foundation
T. Rowe Price Foundation
Texas Instruments Foundation
Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc.
Torrance Pitcairn Family Fund
Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation
The Robb & Elizabeth Tyler Foundation
Van Strum Foundation
Women & Girls Fund
Government Agencies
Maryland Department of Business
and Economic Development
MD State Dept of Education-SAI
National Park Service
Gifts in Honor of
We congratulate the honorees listed
in bold and thank our donors for
their thoughtful tribute gifts:
Chrys & Ed Alvarado
Arnie & Don Powell
Robert South Barrett
Jeff Bean
The Theo B. Bean Foundation
Duane W. Beckhorn
Marc Castelli
Mark & Alesha Donahue
The Kiene Family
Howard Freedlander
Kate & Paul Cox
Elizabeth & Ryan Kirkpatrick
Linda & Lawrence Meyer
Charles Lea
Elaine & Rob LeBuhn
Bill Linaberry
Lisa & Don Detwiler
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George Meyer
Carol Meyer
Karen Meyer
Robert A. Perkins
Judith Cross & John Hatheway
Bruce Ragsdale & Rick Scobey
Ellen & Richard Bodorff
Langley Shook
Virginia Albert
Ed Alvarado
Nancy & CG Appleby
Vicki & Craig Atwood
Elizabeth & John Breyer
Pat & Howard Brooks
JoAnne & Kitridge Buritsch
Beth & Harry Burton
Debbie & Doug Collison
Leslie & Brad Dalton
Sharon & Duane Ekedahl
Ed Farley
Maryann & Dominic Fiaschetti
Peggy & John Ford
Pam & Tom Green
Sherry & David Jeffery
Mariana & Pete Lesher
Alice & Bob Mantell
Sherry & Charles Manning
Bud McIntire
Nancy & Fred Meendsen
Connie Sadler & Paul Moates
Libby Moose
Tracey Munson
Joan Murray
Meryl & Gaillard Nolan
Donna Cantor & John Pinney
Alice & Bruce Rogers
Pat & Kirby Scott
Alexa & Tom Seip
Faye & Jack Shannahan
Kathryn Shook
Fran & Henry Spector
René & Tom Stevenson
Sally & Roger Stobbart
Julie & Scott Tompkins
John & Jody Stumph
Amy Fields
Beverly & Richard Tilghman
Eleanor & John Magee
Gifts in Memory of
We express our sincere appreciation
and deepest sympathy to the
following family and friends who
made memorial gifts to the honorees
indicated in bold:
Betty Chrystella “Chrys” Alvarado
Alvarado-Levy Family
Virginia & Richard Autry
Patti & Ralph Case
Nancy Bowman
Brian Damico
The Dingwall Family
Jeanne & Chris Friberg
Alyce & William Gannaway
Lee Gauthier
Joni & Ray Gauthier
JEB Stuart High School
Laura & Steven Key
Mary Kay & Wayne Key
Donna & Richard Midcap
Sandy & Bob Miller
Teresa Molloy & Karon Molloy
Kendal Paulson
Arnie & Don Powell
Mary & Charles Probst
Karen & Langley Shook
Janice & Donald Shreve
Howell Simons
René & Tom Stevenson
Carol & Cliff Stretmater
Rosemary Thompson
Ann & Mike Sweeney
Jill & Ron Wade
Betty & Penn Whitescarver
Connie & Donald Yates
Ellie Zentgraf
Norma Creel
Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.
Edith Engelskirchen
Mary Sprandel
Mary Lou Fisher
John Heiberger
Wallace Harrison
Kay & Donald Howeth
John R. Kimberly
Karen & Richard Kimberly
John B. Mencke
Susan & Paul Hanson
Helen & John Mencke
Gray Messick
Henry Goldberg
Deborah Wiggins
Lucille Parks Sterling
Gail Sterling-Joubert
James M. Patterson
Nancy & Doug Dalrymple
Janet Mordarski
Phyllis & William Perkins
Nancy & Timothy Pohmer
Quality Health Strategies
Lou & Al Swart
Howard Gibbons Schirmer
Beatrice Schirmer
Kelly Wagner
Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.
Lighthouse Legacy
Founders
Our deepest gratitude to the
following friends who have pledged
a legacy gift of $25,000 or more
through their estate plans:
Nancy & CG Appleby
Ellen & Richard Bodorff
Gloria & James Gibson
Greg Guthman
Christopher Havener, Jr.
Jane & Frank Hopkinson
Frank Marshall
Nancy & Fred Meendsen
Pamela & Dennis Pitt
Ellen & Norman Plummer
Bruce Ragsdale & Rick Scobey
Rosa & Steve Sands
Alexa & Tom Seip
Karen & Langley Shook
Jill Kent & Mark Solomons
Linda & Henry Spire
Judy & Henry Stansbury
René & Tom Stevenson
Beverly & Richard Tilghman
Life Members
Thank you to our new Life Members!
Meta & Bill Boyd
Gayle & John Bremer
Christina & Earl Furman
William Ginder
Alice Glen
Jane & Frank Hopkinson
Shirley Bucci & Stephen Humenick
Tammy McNally
Joan Murray
Douglas Rollow
Irene & Daniel Simpkins
Beverly & Richard Tilghman
Catherine & Joe Whalen
Catherine Jamieson
& Frederick Edwards
Nancy & John Henderson
Debra D. Vess
Gayle & Michael Yoh
Janet & Richard Charlton
Sustaining Members
Maura & Martin Bollinger
Larry Clark
Teresa & Dixon Duffett
Penny & Alan Griffith
Victoria McAndrews
& Leeds Hackett
Elizabeth Moose
Elaine & Glenn Orme
René & Tom Stevenson
Jeff Chandler
Benefactor Members
Malcolm Bahrenburg
Ginger & Marion Bevard
Bonnie & John Booth
Ella & Michael Bracy
Victoria & Thomas Broadie
Ashley & Sam Chamberlain
Janet & Richard Charlton
Bettie & Thomas Deen
Eleuthera & Frederick Fiechter
Ann & Gordon Fink
Karen & Benjamin Frana
Martha Coven & Paul Frick
Marcia & Peter Friedman
Sandra Cuyler Ganzi & Walter Ganzi
Dara Sicherman & Philip Graham
Jacqueline Smith & Jerry Hook
Virginia Road & Bridge Supply, Inc.
Elizabeth & Gordon Hughes
Mary & Joseph Irr
Raymond Jennings
Honor & John Johnson
Paige & John Kevill
Julie & Brian McCandless
Kristen & Nels Olson
Leigh & Jerry Peek
Deborah & Don Pusey
Gina & Lee Reno
Roselee & Art Roberts
Alice & Bruce Rogers
Theodora Shelor
Jill Kent & Mark Solomons
Diane & Jeff Staley
Audrey & Christopher Stine
Mary Ann & William Stockman
Phyllis & Tony Syme
Muriel & Enos Throop
Margaret & Robert Williams
Linda & Artur Zimmer
Ed Hiller / Ride
Entertainment Systems
Robin & Charles Garber
Susan & Robert Hillenbrand
Eddie Hornick / Virginia Road
& Bridge Suppy
Stephanie Stockman & Frank Ireton
Diane Minahan-Griffith
Diane & Tom Reinke
Charlotte & George West
Deed of Gifts
The Museum is grateful to the
following friends who donated a
variety of items between May 1,
2013 and April 30, 2014:
Justine & Raymond Adams
Glory & John Aiken
Leah & Ted Alfriend
Joyce & Mark Allen
Leslie Aniail
Rolf Anselm
Martha & Jack Austin
Melissa & Mike Bailey-Descoteaux
Kathleen Baldwin
John Bannan
Evelyn & Lester Barton
Marilyn & Fred Batie
Nancy Bearss
Mike Becraft
William Behrens
Dona & Jay Benford
Dianna & Philip Betsch
Dona & Matthew Blaine
Christina Bliss
Janet & Curtis Bohlen
Patricia & James Bonan
Roy Bowman
Richard Brengal
Debbie & Eddie Bridges
Julie Broadbent
Katharine & Stanley Brown
Lisa Johnson & Ward Bucher
Katrina & David Bufter
JoAnne & Kitridge Buritsch
Robert Burke
Donna & Philip Caraci
Leila & Bruce Carlson
David Carr & Randall Carr
Rick Carrion
Ryan Carrion
Leslie Hill & Dennis Carroll
Phyllis & Marc Castelli
Jane & Pete Chambliss
Liuciji Chesonis
John Clark
Tom Clark
Robert Crafton
Janet & Jim Crowle
Donna Cunningham
Dorothy & Paul Dale
Trudy & Bill Day
Sonja & Larry DeBaugh
Peter Defreece
Michael Denworth
Sidney Dickson
Joanne Ditch
Mary & Richard Dolson
Todd A. Dorfman
Bill Doyle
Peter Dunbar
George Dunigan
Tad duPont
Shirley Edelen
Marie A. Edison
Michael Efford
John Emond
Harry Fahl
Ed Farley
The Farrow Family
Alfred Fay
Dorothy & Colin Ferenbach
Mary Kay & Tom Finan
Joseph Flanagan
Stephen Flonkewicz
Monty Fowler
Jeffrey Frank
Jeremy Freeman
David Ghysels
David Ginsburg
Stephen Alan Goldberg
Robin Gordon
Martha & Jack Graham
Janet & Russ Granger
Douglas Gray
Steven & Marc Gross
Sue & Ron Grudziecki
Valerie Lamont & Forest Hansen
Ingrid Hansen
Jane & Walter Hansen
Pres Harding
Ed Hatch
Scott Heckard
John Herbert
William Hodgson
Richard Holzer
Nellie Hull
Beverly & Robert Hutton
Linda Ivey
Jane & Wallace Jansen
Lynne & John Jarrell
Elizabeth Jones
Richar Jones, Jr.
Mark Kalber
Susan & Neil Kaye
Timothy Keefe
Frederick Keen
Cynthia & Peter Kellogg
Mark Kellogg
Adine Kelly
Susan & Robert Kimberly
Claire Boyer Kinderman
John Kocher
Mark Kramer
Janice & Ralph La Barge
Robert Larsen
Rita Leffers
Sandy Lerner
Ronald Lesher, Sr.
Lynn & John Mahoney
Mary Malkus
Mary Ann Marchetti
Donald Matczak
Caron & Ross McCausland
David McGinty
Susan & Douglas McKelvey
Frederick Megahan
Brooke & Mike Mesko
Deborah Moll
& Christina Moll Dengate
Jeanne & Kenneth Montgomery
Ann & Rush Moody
Mary & George Morris
Jerry Mullins
Tracey Munson
Family of J. Marshall Stewart
Mollie Sayers & Jack Nelson
Helen & Kenneth Noble
Linda & Thomas Norris
Ethel & Judge John North
Milton Nottingham
Cynthia & Paul O’Connor
Leslie Owen
Barbara & Arthur Patterson
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Marshall Patterson
Gretchen & Ray Peters
Lee Phillips
Vanessa & Eric Piche
Ellen & Norman Plummer
Steven Polcari
Sheila David & David Policansky
James Pratt
Richard Prettyman
Clayton & June Railey
William Rankin
Regional Hematology & Oncology, PA
Rex Reiley
Diane & Tom Reinke
Theresa Reuter
Lindsley & Jonathan Rice
Joanne Riley
Tom Rodgers
Peter Rohman
Roy Rosenthal
Kenneth Sadler
Carole & Ron Sasiela
Sarah & Philip Sayre
David Schermerhorn
Beatrice Schirmer
John Schlecht
Becky Schoolman
Doreen & Tim Schuman
Rosie Schwier
Kathleen & Robert Seiwert
John Sergovic
James Sharf
Nancy & Harry Shaw
Dawn Sill
Jo Sue & Rem Simpson
Melody & Edmund Stabler
Jennifer Stanley
Judy & Henry Stansbury
Gail & Steve Steckler
Jayne Bourke & Richard Steeg
Renée & Barry Sterling
René & Tom Stevenson
Sultana Projects, Inc., Drew McMullen
Connie Lu & Charles Tacconelli
Jackie & Ted Tepper
Penelope Thomas
Jonathan Titus
Mary Sue & Bob Traynelis
Karen Trubisz
Rick Urban
Jim Valliant
Linda & Frank Vetter
Sandi & Clint Vince
Carol & Robert Voyles
Jennifer Wagner
George Walish
Christian Walker
Sandy & Paul Warner
Christina Warren
William Washburn
Judith & George Weckel
Pam & Jan White
Patricia & Michael Whitehill
Allen Whiteley
Deborah Wiggins
Wilde Yacht Sales LLC
Emily & John Willard
Linda & William Wolf
Thomas Wood
Joyce Yochelson
Margaret & Jeffrey Young
Maria & Willem Zijp
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CBMM VOLUNTEERS
John Aiken
Bob Alexander
Brooke Alexander
Ed Alvarado
Molly Anderson
Martha Austin
Julie Barnett
Sam Barnett
Charles Barranco
Carolyn Behr
Casper Behr
Chris Billinger
Edna Blakely
James Blakely
Barbara Boyd
Dave Brooks
Audrey Brown
Omer Brown
Sandy Brown
Irene Cancio
Paul Carroll
Susan Carroll
Patti Case
Ralph Case
Creston Cathcart
Joan Chlan
Graeme Clapp
Gary Clarke
Lucy Clarke
Ann Clayton
Richard Clayton
Russ Cochran
Esty Collet
Doug Collison
Mike Corliss
Jan Crisitello
Jack Davis
Bill Day
William Dennehy
Lloyd Devigne
Elaine Dickinson
David Draut
Jennifer Durkin
Ann Dwyer
Kevin Dwyer
Gary Edsall
Michael Feehley
Jay Fink
Andy Flanagan
Richard Foa
Ben Ford
Peggy Ford
Ron Fortucci
Sue Fortucci
Gloria Freihage
Jerry Friedman
Roger Galvin
Kathy Gambrill
Kurt Gant
Lorraine Glass
Nancy Gooding
Don Goodliffe
Robin Gordon
Wenrich Green
Denis Greene
Bernie Grove
Jim Harvey
Nancy Harvey
John Hawkinson
Frederick Hebdon
Nancy Hebdon
James Heelan
Robert Hinkel
Laura Hollingshead
Tom Hollingshead
Jane Holman
Geoffrey Holmes
Pepper Holmes
Frank Hopkinson
Robert Hoskins
William Hough
Tom Huddleston
Anne Hughes
Gerry Hughes
Joe Irr
Clifton Jackson
Florence Jackson
Joan Katz
Carol Kilborn
Marcia Kirby
Howard Kirchner
Rick Kuba
Al Kubeluis
Annabel Lesher
Mariana Lesher
Ronald Lesher
John Lindinger
Lois Lindsley
Bob Lonergan
Charles Low
Dot Low
Duane Lundahl
Barbara Lundkvist
Leslie Lyons
Mike Mabe
Boyd Madary
Joan Madary
Bud Marseilles
Bob Mason
Marilyn Mason
Raymond Maule
Julie McCahill
Larry McCanna
Mac McConnell
Jeff Messing
Carol Michelson
Julia Miller
Peter Misiazek
Lin Moeller
Bridget Moss
Daniel Moss
Eleanor Murphy
Steve Murphy
Marilyn Nace
Casey Nelson
Gary Nylander
Dorothy Parker
Don Parks
Robert Petizon
Jane Phelan
Ellen Plummer
Norman Plummer
Bill Price
Mary Ann Ray
Paul Ray
Frank Rehill
Barbara Reisert
Connie Robinson
David Robinson
Paul Rybon
Ed Santelmann
Robin Scofield
Kirby Scott
Graham Scott-Taylor
Patricia Scott
Karen Shook
Alan Silbert
Judy Silbert
Elizabeth Simoncini
Salvatore Simoncini
Jack Simpers
Bob Stelmaszek
Cliff Stretmater
Jody Stumpf
John Stumpf
Ann Sweeney
Michael Sweeney
Peter Thatcher
Shirley Thatcher
Edward Thieler
Ben Tilghman
Bob Traynelis
Mary Sue Traynelis
Nary Beth Webb
Lucille Weber
Ron Weber
Bob Whidden
Hugh Whitaker
January White
Pam White
Helen Womack
Winslow Womack
Jim Wortman
2013-2014
Vounteer Board
of Governors
Tom D. Seip
Richard C. Tilghman
James P. Harris
Richard J. Bodorff
Schuyler Benson
Paul Berry
Harry W. Burton
William B. Carter
William S. Dudley
David E. Dunn
Dagmar D. P. Gipe
E. Brooke Harwood, Jr.
Christopher A. Havener, Jr.
Francis Hopkinson, Jr.
Fred Israel
Richard J. Johnson
Peter M. Kreindler
Frank C. Marshall, Jr.
Patrice Miller
Geoffrey F. Oxnam
Bruce A. Ragsdale
Mitchell B. Reiss
S. Stevens Sands
Lelde Schmitz
Diane J. Staley
Henry H. Stansbury
Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr.
Alfred Tyler, 2nd
Richard T. Allen
Howard S. Freedlander
Alan R. Griffith
Margaret D. Keller
Breene M. Kerr
Charles L. Lea, Jr.
D. Ted Lewers, MD
Fred C. Meendsen
John C. North II
Sumner Parker
Robert A. Perkins
Joseph E. Peters
James K. Peterson
Norman H. Plummer
John J. Roberts
Henry H. Spire
James E. Thomas
Joan Darby West
Donald G. Whitcomb
(top) Many of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s volunteers gathered at a reception
honoring their service. In fiscal year 2013-2014, more than 200 volunteers collectively
contributed more than 29,000 hours of service to the Museum, helping with all aspects of
CBMM’s operations. Volunteers reaching milestones in hours of service were also recognized.
(right) CBMM Volunteer Bob Mason, who leads the museum’s Maritime Model Guild among
other initiatives, was recognized for giving 7,000 hours of volunteer service toward the
Museum. Mason has been a CBMM volunteer for more than 25 years.
Volunteer opportunities are available at CBMM for our education programs, docent-guided
tours, volunteer-run river cruises, administrative duties, the maintenance of 18 acres and
dockage at the Museum, as well as a fleet of historic boats to maintain. For more information,
contact Melissa Spielman at 410-745-4956 or email [email protected].
A
t a reception held in the Van Lennep Auditorium,
the Museum recognized more than 200 volunteers
for their combined 29,021 hours of service toward the
Museum over the last year. Several volunteers were
recognized by CBMM staff for their work with the
education, buildings and grounds, curatorial, museum
store, boatyard, boat donations, administrative,
communications and events departments.
Special recognition was given to volunteers with the
highest hours of service, including Bob Mason with 7,000
hours; Lorraine Glass and John Hawkinson with 6,000
hours; Don Parks and Mary Sue Traynelis with 4,000
hours; Lloyd Devigne, Jerry Friedman, Roger Galvin, Al
Kubeluis, Bob Petizon, and Helen Womack with 3,000
hours; Sam Barnett, Mike Corliss, Steve Murphy, Mary
Ann Ray, and Cliff Stretmater with 2,000 hours; Ed
Alvarado, Audrey Brown, Russ Cochran, Rick Kuba, and
Bob Traynelis with 1,500 hours; and Sandy Cannon-Brown,
Dick Clayton, Bill Day, Bob Hoskins, Bill Hough, Pat
and Kirby Scott, Karen Shook, and Jody Stumpf with
1,000 hours.
“Each year, we gather together for a few hours to say a
collective thank you to our dedicated corps of volunteers,”
commented CBMM’s Director of Events and Volunteer
Program Melissa Spielman.
“Despite our intent or how heartfelt these words are,
they are still woefully inadequate for the mountains of
gratitude our staff individually feel for our volunteers—for
the time they give, for the efforts they put forth, for being
here to support our mission, and to help each of us succeed
in our work. We are extremely grateful for their service.”
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 2014
2014
2013
$1,662,640
64,281
532,354
127,386
81,647
38,199
10,623
9,910,556
10,000,904
$1,097,764
83,983
575,810
209,926
72,933
17,063
10,623
8,847,246
10,612,461
$22,428,590
$21,527,809
$638,555
275,425
900,000
$188,497
117,546
960,000
TOTAL LIABILITIES
$1,813,980
$1,266,043
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Permanently Restricted
$8,504,839
2,300,047
9,809,724
$8,830,514
2,271,189
9,160,063
TOTAL NET ASSETS
$20,614,610
$20,261,766
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
$22,428,590
$21,527,809
ASSETS
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Accounts and Grants Receivable
Split-Interest Receivable
Contributions Receivable
Inventories at Lower of Cost or Fair Value
Pre-Paid Expenses
Planned Gifts Investments at Fair Value
Long Term Investments at Fair Value
Land, Buildings and Equipment (Net of Depreciation)
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
Deferred Income and Deposits
Long-Term Debt
O P E R AT I N G E X P E N S E S :
O P E R AT I N G I N C O M E
Fa
Ren cilities
tals
Edu
catio
3%
n
3%
Other
Income
12%
10%
8%
Fundraising/
Membership
13%
20%
20%
Annual Fund
ANNUAL REPORT
Campus
Maintenance
& Operations
$53,529
–
71,669
–
–
–
–
–
268,242
(26,815)
484,602
–
–
–
–
(822,369)
$649,661
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
$1,724,691 $1,129,371
425,362
440,639
71,669
162,472
245,592
257,464
556,429
520,499
89,930
124,535
105,010
78,324
31,611
38,362
273,498
350,342
(28,381)
604,438
512,752
50,791
128,665
124,578
16,910
16,500
439,949
360,542
19,165
19,421
–
–
TOTAL REVENUE
$3,949,610
$28,858
$649,661
$4,628,129 $4,263,001
EXPENSES
Program Expenses
Administration Expenses
Fundraising Expenses
$3,234,666
586,725
453,894
–
–
–
–
–
–
$3,234,666 $3,291,372
568,709
586,725
454,874
453,894
TOTAL EXPENSES
$4,275,285
0
0
$4,275,285 $4,314,955
CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
($325,675)
$28,858
$649,661
NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR
$8,830,514
$2,271,189
$9,160,063
$20,261,766 $20,313,720
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR
$8,504,839
$2,300,047
$9,809,724
$20,614,610 $20,261,766
$352,844
($51,954)
Administration
F U N C T I O NA L E X P E N D I T U R E S,
ALL FUNDS
10%
14%
8%
4%
Endowment
Distribution
9%
Exhibits
Education/
Volunteer
Programs
76%
Programs
8%
Administrative Expenses
(insurance, technology, taxes
& staff healthcare)
TOTAL
2014
2013
$1,021,501
440,639
–
245,592
556,429
89,930
105,010
31,611
5,256
(1,566)
28,150
128,665
16,910
439,949
19,165
822,369
Fundraising
18%
20%
UNRESTRICTED
PERMANENTLY
RESTRICTED
Contributions
Membership
Grants
Special Events
Admissions
Ground Rentals
Education Programs
Change in Value of Split-Interest Agreements
Investment Income
Realized Gain on Investments
Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments
Museum Store Gross Profit
Rental Income
Miscellaneous Sales
Other Income
Assets Released from Restriction
4%
Membership
Communications
& Marketing
REVENUES
TEMPORARILY
RESTRICTED
Special Events
11%
15%
34 2013-2014
Visitor Services/
Museum Store
Contributions & Grants
Museum
4%
Store
Gross
Profit
Admissions
& Special Events
Your donations at work
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES YEAR ENDED APRIL 30, 2014
10%
Curatorial
Boatyard
ANNUAL REPORT
2013-2014
35
Non-Profit Org.
US Postage
PAID - Easton, MD
Permit # 72
St. Michaels, Maryland
Saturday, October 25
10am-4pm, rain or shine
Free for CBMM Members and children five
and under. $15 for non-member adults,
$12 seniors, $6 children ages 6-17.
Food and boat rides are an additional cost.
Live Music by Roadhouse Clams
Cooking Demonstrations
Local & Regional Food
feat. Fordham’s Rosie Parks Oyster Stout
Oyster Aquaculture
& Restoration Demonstrations
Scenic River Cruises
Oyster Tonging
Oyster Stew Competition
Children’s Activities
213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, MD
410-745-2916 • cbmm.org/oysterfest