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To Shuck or Not to Shuck?

t’s oyster season in Chesapeake Country! Now that we’re well into October (a month ending in “R”), it’s finally time to sit down with a plate of succulent raw oysters on the half-shell, chilled on ice and accented by the bright yellows and reds of lemon and cocktail sauce. To me, the sensation of slurping a raw oyster is just like that moment when you’re splashing in the surf in Ocean City, and a breaking wave catches you by surprise. The cool, salty water in your nose and mouth is sudden and invigorating. Slurping down an oyster floods the senses with that same cool, salty feel. The only drawback to eating oysters is, well, getting to the oyster. If you’re like me, you’ve enthusiastically purchased raw oysters at a seafood market or counter without giving a thought to opening your treat. You may find yourself knifeless and intimidated by the craggy, multi-layer shell that stands between you and your oyster meat. One possible solution: put your oysters in a 400-degree oven just until the shells “pop” enough to open them from the hinge, like my mother did at cocktail parties with our neighbors. Another option: take lessons from a professional shucker to really take ownership of your next oyster dinner. The Oyster Recovery Partnership has just restarted its popular Shuck Like a Pro series, in which aspiring oyster openers gather at a restaurant and receive instruction from an expert shucker, plus a knife to take home (added perk: you get to eat the fruits of your labor). Watch out for future dates in Chesapeake Country.

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Aw Shucks: Oyster Season is Here .............. 10 BAY PLANNER ....................... 13 PLAYGOER ............................ 15 SPORTING LIFE ..................... 16 MOON AND TIDES.................. 16 CREATURE FEATURE............... 17 GARDENING FOR LIFE............. 17 MOVIEGOER.......................... 18 NEWS OF THE WEIRD.............. 19 CLASSIFIED........................... 20 PUZZLES............................... 21 SERVICE DIRECTORY............... 23 ON THE COVER: PHOTO COURTESY CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM

A third option still: enjoy your oysters at a restaurant or one of the region’s beloved oyster festivals and let them do the shucking. If you choose a spot that recycles its discarded shells, you are helping oyster recovery in the Chesapeake Bay just by buying and eating those oysters. They can be cleaned and used as habitat for baby oysters (Check which local restaurants participate in the Shell Recycling Alliance: oysterrecovery.org/sra-members/). This weekend, oyster festivals return in glory (page 10) to the Captain Avery

Museum in Shady Side and the St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds, where you can marvel at really proficient shuckers from across America. The festival in St. Mary’s is home to the U.S. National Oyster Shucking Championships and the National Oyster Cookoff. Over the Bay Bridge, St. Michaels stages its own oyster celebration this weekend. Even if you’re not an oyster eater yourself, you can enjoy the spectacle of shucking, cooking, and slurping competitions. You can partake in that fun festival atmosphere. And you can

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I have lived in Florida for past 20 some odd years, but I was born in Annapolis and grew up there. So I know a thing or two about a good crabcake—no restaurant crabcake is as good as my moms. Actually my mom was the one who sent me your article on the tofu crabcake. I’ll admit, I’ve never tried a tofu crabcake. But I’ll tell you what you really need to try instead of tofu— heart of palm! The texture is so similar and it has a really nice light flavor. I have used it in my mom’s recipe before and they were great! Just give them a chop to get close to size of the crab meat. I found that two cans was the perfect amount in place of 1lb of crab meat. I think they cook best in the air fryer or under the broiler. The taste is not EXACTLY the same… but it’s pretty close! Here’s a photo of some I made recently. I couldn’t resist and dug right in before I took a photo! Enjoy!

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appreciate the key role oysters play in the health of the Chesapeake Bay, as both filter feeders and marine life habitat. Now go forth and shuck (or let someone else). And slurp. And recycle those shells. Sure, it takes a bit of work to reach that sweet oyster meat, but don’t most good things? p

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Professor Sook Chung, an expert in crab biology, led the effort to sequence the blue crab genome. Photo: Cheryl Nemazie/UMCES

MD SCIENTISTS CRACK BLUE CRAB’S GENETIC CODE BY MEG WALBURN VIVIANO

ust when you thought you knew all there was to know about the Chesapeake Bay’s beloved blue crab, scientists have cracked the crab’s genetic code. They now have a complete picture of the crab’s DNA, opening the door to better research to keep the fishery healthy. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) announced that Professor Sook Chung, an expert in crab biology at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), which sits next door to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, led a three-year effort to sequence a crab’s genome. UMCES explains the crab’s genetic blueprint can reveal which genetic traits make some crabs especially effective at reproducing or why some are better adapted to water temperatures warmed by climate change. This insight will ultimately help keep the crab population in check. “Marylanders love crabs, and everybody wants to have big, fat crabs in the fall. Understanding what makes them successful is located in the See CODE on next page

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chromosomes,” says Chung. “Knowing the full genome, we are several steps closer to identifying the genes responsible for growth, reproduction, and susceptibility to disease.” Further, the genome’s ability to offer reproductive information could open the door to blue crab aquaculture. And the genetic blueprint could possibly even help track the source of crabmeat—whether it’s from Venezuela or the Chesapeake Bay. So how did Chung and her team sequence the crab’s DNA? To begin, they chose the best possible sample crab. In October 2018, Chung went out on a crabber’s boat and gathered young female blue crabs to breed at IMET. One of them grew to adulthood, mated, and successfully produced offspring, proving she had “good genes”. They chose one of her baby crabs, also a female, for sequencing and nicknamed her “The Chosen One”. The DNA was isolated and the genetic code was sequenced by a special computer, which had to run day and night for more than six months in order to correctly order the code. Here’s how IMET explains that process: “Imagine you take several volumes of an encyclopedia and you have a hundred copies of each volume. You put them all through a paper shredder and then you have to use that to reconstruct the original volumes of the encyclopedia,” said Associate Re-

search Professor Tsvetan Bachvaroff, who was responsible for assembling the blue crab genome. “Once the encyclopedia, or genome, is back in the correct order, you can begin to identify genes and use it like a reference book, looking up genes to answer questions.” Researchers determined that the blue crab had between 40 and 50 chromosomes, which is nearly double the amount found in humans. However, these chromosomes were very short, resulting in a genome that is approximately one third the length of the human genome, in terms of bases. Despite its relatively diminutive size, the blue crab genome is rich in gene diversity, containing approximately 24,000 genes, slightly more than the amount identified in humans. A group of local philanthropists “who are passionate about science, the Chesapeake Bay, and the blue crab” helped fund this project, led by private donors Mike and Trish Davis. “Sook’s enthusiasm for this work was contagious, and we were thrilled to discover that the skills and technology for this exciting project existed right here in Baltimore,” said Mike and Trish Davis, who led the private effort to fund the project. “Her analogy of requiring a ‘blueprint’ for the blue crab, to really understand it— just like builders use blueprints to understand a building —clearly resonated with the donors, and we all really wanted this scientific milestone achieved here in Maryland.”

Josh Jorgensen (right) of the wildly popular BlacktipH YouTube channel poses with a young fan at the Fish & Hunt Maryland booth at the U.S. Powerboat Show.

FISH & HUNT CAMPAIGN ATTRACTS NEXT GENERATION OF ANGLERS BY CHERYL COSTELLO

f you went to the U.S. Powerboat Show in Annapolis last week you may have seen a strong fishing presence. A new recreation campaign launched by the state—Fish & Hunt Maryland —seeks to get the word out about the Bay’s many angler destinations and species to chase. At the boat show, they brought in star power with the host of a YouTube fishing channel boasting 10 million followers. When Bay Bulletin visited the An-

napolis Boat Shows Fishing Pavilion, a group of young boys turned out with fishing aspirations. “I’m just trying to catch huge fish,” as Colt Thompson of Annapolis puts it. They were also there to see Josh Jorgensen, a YouTube sensation and the creator of BlacktipH Fishing. “For me, it’s an absolute addiction. I love catching fish. It’s just a way to escape and kind of relax,” Jorgensen says. Fish & Hunt Maryland is a project under the Office of Tourism Development and Visit Maryland. It’s all about promoting Maryland as a destination for fishing and hunting. The U.S. PowSee ANGLERS on page 6

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This raccoon, nicknamed Rocky, rode aboard a bowrider for a full 30-mile day. Image courtesy of Joe Hunter. Scan code to see video or go to https:// youtu.be/nkhhAw-lKgc.

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t’s one of those stories a boater will retell for years: the time a raccoon, hidden on board, stayed on the boat for an entire day’s cruise—30 miles from the open Bay to a dock bar and back to the marina in Annapolis. Lest you think this story is exaggerated, there’s video proof. Scan the barcode at the top of this story to witness the remarkable adventure of “Rocky” the raccoon. The captain and crew recounted to Bay Bulletin how this hairy ride unfolded. Joe Hunter and his friend, Mark Hutto, went out Saturday on Hutto’s Sea Ray bowrider, leaving from a dock in a woodsy area on Back Creek in Eastport. Hutto got the first clue something was amiss when he got on board the boat in the morning. “Looks like the boat had a little visitor last night,” he said, narrating a cell phone video that showed pawprints, various chewed-up snacks strewn across the cockpit. “He partied here all night long. He had crackers and cheese and mustard,” Hutto said with good humor. But that wasn’t the last evidence he’d see of the visitor. After cleaning up the boat and tying up at Ego Alley for brunch, Hutto, Hunter and other friends were headed for Galesville to watch a live band play. Suddenly, Hutto got a surprise. The boat’s cupholder went flying, Hunter says. “The raccoon had pushed that cupholder out of the console across the boat to kinda let the

captain know that he was in there.” “I freaked out a bit and yelled to everyone, ‘He’s on the boat, the raccoon is on the boat!’” Hutto tells Bay Bulletin. They stopped a few times to try to get the raccoon off the boat, but it was daytime, and since raccoons are nocturnal, the animal wasn’t budging from its hidey hole under the console and gauges. “So we decided the raccoon was not going to ruin our day of boating so we all re-boarded and hoped the raccoon would stay hidden,” Hutto says. Once they arrived at the dock bar, word got around quickly about their stowaway, so the band performed Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles. The raccoon now had a nickname. Leaving the bar just before sunset, Hutto and Hunter dropped off their friends, and just as they approached the dock in Back Creek, “Rocky Raccoon” emerged from the side window under the helm, Hutto recalls. Cell phone video shows the raccoon calmly waiting on the deck as the boat approaches the dock. On video, you hear Hunter speculate, “He knows he’s home. All day long and he finally came out because he knows, navigationally, he’s almost home.” Staying as calm as they can, Hunter and Hutto say softly, “Get it boy. There it is. Get it buddy, go, go, go home.” The video shows Rocky nimbly scamper off the boat onto the dock and back to its own woods—after a 30-mile cruise on the Bay. According to the University of Maryland Extension, the boaters did the right thing by not touching the raccoon, keeping a distance, and letting it go back to its home. It’s illegal in Maryland to relocate a trapped raccoon.

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erboat Show was a great place to reach the right people, given the number of fishing boats on display. “Really what we wanted to do here this year is grow our presence for anglers. There’s more than 40 million anglers in the U.S. It’s a huge industry,” says Ben Isenberg of Symmetry Agency, which represents the boat shows and Visit Maryland. Isenberg helped bring in one of fishing’s most recognizable faces, making a big impression on the next generation of anglers. “I saw that he posted and it said that he was coming to Annapolis and I was

like, ‘that’s crazy!’ because we’re local here and I love watching his videos. I don’t do a lot of saltwater, but I still love to just watch him fishing,” says Thompson. Jorgensen, who lives in Florida, says he has a favorite Bay fish to target. “I love cobia fishing. Cobia fishing in the Chesapeake is so special.” Fish & Hunt Maryland offers tips on the best places to find your fish and game of choice. And the boat show aims to expand the presence of the Fishing Pavilion even more next year, so that you can shop for a boat and reel in some fishing tips at the same time.

BAY BULLETIN Sandra Vazquez (center) recently opened an allwomen’s gym in Dunkirk. Photo courtesy Sandra Vazquez.

Women’s Gym Inspires Community BY KERI LUISE

ocal women’s gym, Sistas Work Together (SWT) Fitness, opened its first storefront studio on Oct. 2 in Dunkirk. Established by Sandra Vazquez, 52, in May 2020 as a small fitness business she ran in her Chesapeake Beach home, the new gym now welcomes more women from the immediate area to meet their fitness goals together. Vazquez, a first-generation American and mother of four, joined the military at 18 and served as a Marine for eight years, a federal officer for four years and a police officer for 20 years. At one point during the pandemic, Vazquez came home from work exhausted. Her 7-year-old son missed her when she worked nights and she thought, “I can’t do this anymore.” Her husband suggested she become a personal trainer and Vazquez jumped on the idea. She officially retired July 1, 2020 and began developing her fitness studio. “I spent night and day studying, got my certificate in a couple of months and put in my retirement paperwork,” Vazquez says. “And in the meantime I was outfitting my basement into a home studio and before it was all over I had over 30 clients from the neighborhood and it got incredibly popular. We started out with bootcamps in the backyard and I would train the ladies and it escalated into group classes.” The demand picked up so much that Vazquez brought on two friends to help teach classes. The excitement of SWT Fitness members spread across the area and Vazquez says so many people wanted to join that she reached maximum capacity and had to start turning

people away. “People started hearing about it and better yet, people started seeing the results that these ladies were showing off,” Vazquez says. On Aug. 1, Vazquez closed the doors to her home studio in order to concentrate on the construction and development of the new studio in Dunkirk. As an all-women’s gym, Vazquez says the mission with SWT Fitness is to have a community. Vazquez says the first interaction she had with an all-women’s gym was right after she left the Marine Corps. “I had been a sergeant in the Marines, I had a platoon, so I was used to Marine Corps stuff. I didn’t know anything about group fitness,” she says. “I was in Annapolis and there was a little gym in Parole, a women’s gym and I fell in love immediately.” When Vazquez moved to Calvert County, she says she struggled to find a gym with the same kind of community and sisterhood, so she established her own. The Dunkirk building used to be a karate studio and was the best option for SWT Fitness. Vazquez says she had to “think about expenses—you want to crawl before you fly. And you don’t want to overdo it and then you can’t succeed.” “I would’ve loved to have [a studio] here in Chesapeake Beach but the rent was too high,” Vazquez says. “And then we found the location which was perfect because you can see it right from Route 4. There’s other ladies’ businesses right there which is to me, so inspiring. There’s a wonderful boutique, there’s a hairdresser, and the bank there is operated by a female vice president.” Carol Tameris, co-owner of Optimal Physical Therapy in Dunkirk, is one of the studio’s neighbors. “I love to go in and know I am going to get a fabulous workout,” Tameris says. “I love the camaraderie and working out with friends and always [being] with women who support each other and cheer each other on. SWT is such a great place for women to get an amazing workout, make new friends, [have] a huge stress reliever and have fun.” SWT Fitness hosts their second annual breast cancer awareness fundraiser Do It For the Girls on Sunday, Oct. 24. There will be a circuit run in the parking lot, vendors, raffles and prizes. All money raised will go to the Sheldon E. Goldberg Center for Breast Care at CalvertHealth Medical Center. Last year, the gym raised almost $9,000. Sign up at sistasworktogether. com, “I vowed that if I was in this platform that I’d try to serve the community, and what better way than a breast cancer fundraiser and keep the funds here in Calvert County,” Vazquez says.

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clear that the county stands ready to assist our school system in solving this issue, which has been decades in the making,” Board of Education President Melissa Ellis said. “I take him at his word and believe he will do just that. I am hoping this funding will be approved as soon as possible so that we can get it to our current and future bus drivers and attendants and, in turn, provide our students and families the transportation services they need.” For Anne Arundel County, the county council will have to approve the full pay raise proposal at its next meeting before sending it back to the Board of Education in order to negotiate contracts with bus companies, but ARP funds could be available in the next month or two. “I’m glad everybody is finally moving in the same direction on this,” said Pittman. “I have spoken to members of the county council and they recognize we needed to do something and that requires incentivizing the work.” Calvert County Board of Education meets Oct. 14 at 3:30pm; Calvert County Board of Commissioners meets on Oct. 19 at 10am. Anne Arundel County Council meets Oct. 18 at 6pm; Anne Arundel Board of Education meets Oct. 20 at 6pm. p

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here’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” announced Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman earlier this week, referring to a proposal approved by the Board of Education Monday evening for raising the wages for school bus drivers and attendants. School bus drivers are employed by independent companies, under a contract with Anne Arundel County Public Schools. AACPS Superintendent George Arlotto put forth the plan requesting more than $7.4 million in a recurring supplemental operating budget from the county for funds sufficient to provide transportation contractors with a $5 per wage increase, subject to contract modifications. Pittman said he was “very pleased to see we now have a proposal to work from.” The plan also includes an additional $2 million in American Rescue Plan funding to provide signing and retention bonuses for drivers. The plan to use federal funds was developed in consul-

both counties. Drivers earn between $16 to $18 an hour with no benefits, as they typically do not work more than a few hours each day. Pittman stated his office is working to make sure drivers “get paid a livable wage, most make about $25,000 a year, we have to make these jobs more appealing to potential applicants.” “County Executive Pittman has been

tation with the Anne Arundel County Workforce Development Corp. The proposal comes on the heels of a bus strike by drivers for the Annapolis Bus Company. Several school bus drivers in Calvert County called out sick early this week to call attention to similar issues within their district. This compounds bus driver shortages that have already caused problems in

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Join Matt Rutherford as he tells the story of becoming the first person to complete a non-stop single-handed voayage around North and South America.

Get your Captain’s License Want to become a USCG licensed captain? Learn what you will need, from sea time to classes and certifications to apply for your license

Diesel Basics

From fuel filters to black smoke learn to keep your diesel happy

Attitude The difference between ordeal and adventure is attitude. Join Bob Bitchin, founder and editor of Lattitudes and Attitudes Magazine, as he shares his adventure

Docking De-Stressed Captain Matt Benhoff shares the tips and tricks you need to know to take the stress out of close quarters maneuvering and dock like a pro

Power for Cruising Sailors Aside from the wind, electrical current drives or is required to manage nearly every single system aboard your boat from the lights to the electronics and every water pump. Renowned marine electrician and educator, Bob Campbell discusses the care and feeding of your marine electrical system

Sailboat Systems Simplified Propulsion, plumbing, electrical and environmental systems on modern boats can be extensive and daunting. When broken down and looked at individually, the task of managing your boat becomes straightforward. Demystify your boat systems with ASOS instructor, Rick Truitt

FREE SEMINARS* AT THE ANNAPOLIS SAILBOAT SHOW

Presented by Annapolis School of Seamanship and Chesapeake Bay Media Offered at the Annapolis Waterfront Hotel Ballroom

Charter in Thailand Cruising the stunningly beautiful and exotic waters of Thailand has never been easier. Hear from US expat, Ron Patston who has been living and cruising there for the past twenty years

Cruise the Chesapeake Publisher of Chesapeake Bay Magazine and lifelong Bay sailor, John Stefancik will take you on a tour to charming towns and secret coves of the Chesapeake Bay

Weather to Go Choosing the right weather data and getting it onboard are the first steps of passagemaking decisions. Knowing how to interpret the information, making your nav plan and handling heavy weather when avoidance fails are essential skills for cruisers. Join the captains from Annapolis School of Seamanship for a discussion of how you can become weather wise

Modern Marine Navigation AIS, RADAR, chart plotters, and apps are just a few of the topics covered in this guided tour of the modern marine electronics available to sailors today

Annapolis to Bermuda 2022 will mark the 22nd running of the Mustang Survival Annapolis to Bermuda Race. This 753-nautical mile race presents sailors with the opportunity to make a blue water passage while participating in an organized event that promotes friendly competition. Join race veterans and organizers for an overview of how to participate

Charter the San Juan Islands

When it comes to chartering, the San Juan Islands are hard to beat. With a nearly year-round cruising season, countless harbors and coves and spectacular wildlife including orca whales, seals and bald eagles, the San Juans are a jewel of the Pacific Northwest

*Seminars are free to boat show attendees and exhibitors All seminars are held at the Annapolis Waterfront Hotel, second floor ballroom. Enter from Compromise Street or through the Pusser’s show gate. Take the elevator to the second floor. For more info, call Annapolis School of Seamanship at (410) 263-8848. Limited seating available. First come, first served. Seminar schedule and speakers are subject to change.

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he 51st U.S. Sailboat Show returns to Annapolis this week, traditionally bringing tens of thousands of boating enthusiasts from around the world to City Dock to see sailboats and products making their debut at the show.

Stop by the CBM crab shack-style booth (59A) and meet our team! See new boats from Beneteau, CNB Dufour, East Coast Sailboats, Fountaine Pajot, Jeanneau, Lagoon, Seawind, Xquisite Yachts, Balance 482, and Voyage. A variety of new products will be on display as well. New to the show is the Sailing Channels booth. Located in Vacation Basin, this booth hosts a rotating schedule of some of the top sailing vloggers and social media stars. Stop in and meet them, hear their stories and snap photos. While the Take the Wheel and First Sail Workshop, as well as Cruisers University, are all sold out, there is still space in the Chesapeake Bay Magazine and Annapolis School of Seamanship seminars (see schedule at left). Stop by the CBM crab shackstyle booth (59A) and meet our team in our “relaxation station” where you can relax in an Adirondack chair, charge your phone, get a magazine subscription, watch Bay Bulletin on the big monitor and read the latest CBM Bay Weekly issue. United States Sailboat Show: Preview Day is Thursday and the show is open 10am to 6:30pm through Sunday Oct. 18. Monday Oct. 18 the show closes at 5pm. Tickets $20/day w/discounts: annapolisboatshows.com.

OysterFest returns to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, on Oct. 30, with guests invited to celebrate the Bay’s favorite bivalve a number of ways. Photo courtesy Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

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ters. Yes, oysters. With recreational and commercial oyster harvesting in Maryland now open until March 31, communities all over the Chesapeake Bay area are ready to celebrate oyster season.

Why all the fuss over a mere mollusk? Oysters are worthy of our appreciation, even from those who don’t eat seafood. They are a critical piece of the local ecosystem that the Chesapeake Bay Foun-

dation classifies as a keystone species. “The reefs that oysters form provide important habitat for the Bay’s fish, crabs, worms, and other animals. Oysters are also prolific filter feeders that remove

Shucking competition at a previous U.S. Oyster Festival in St. Mary’s County. Photo courtesy George Hastings. light-blocking algae from Bay waters and help remove excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus,” CBF explains. “In other words, more oysters equal better water quality.”

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the average Marylander can play a role just by taking small steps. The CBF suggests supporting restaurants that participate in their oyster shell recycling program, shopping at local oyster farms, and volunteering to clean shells or make reef balls. Some locals are even becoming homegrown oyster gardeners. Anyone with adequate water access on their property can become an oyster gardener by attending a workshop with the CBF, where they receive instructions and supplies to tend their oyster spats over nine months. Once the oysters have reached adult size, they are then moved to nearby sanctuary reefs where they can help be part of the reef rebuilding process. In addition to the ecological benefits that oyster reefs can provide, the Chesapeake Bay Program also notes that oyster reefs have had historical and economic impacts in the region. “Since the late 19th century, the oyster industry—including the catch, sale, shucking, packing and shipping of oysters—has contributed millions of dollars to the region’s economy. Oysters have also added to the region’s historical and cultural heritage, inspiring the unique design of the skipjack and fueling countless bull and oyster roasts.” Today, oyster harvesting still plays an important role to the watermen who earn their living providing catches for the seafood market. Many still rely on traditional harvesting methods like hand or patent tonging, keeping that piece of Maryland history alive and well. Even the Smithsonian Museum of American History maintains artifacts and information related to the oyster trade. As their online exhibits attest, “Scratch the surface of places like Crisfield, Cambridge, Oxford, St. Michaels, Galesville, Solomons, or Smith Island, and you’ll find a heritage in oysters. No church supper, community festival, or Thanksgiving feast was complete without oysters—stewed, fried, steamed, raw, or baked into a pie.” Speaking of festivals, several celebrating the oyster are popping up around Maryland this month. First up is the 24th Captain Avery Museum Oyster Festival on Saturday, Oct. 16. Taking place on the museum grounds in Shady Side, the festival promises to be a family-friendly event. Museum director Deborah Gangloff says that attendees can expect to find “oysters, events for the kiddies, oysters, music, crafts, oysters, food from local restaurants, beer and coffee, oysters, and oysters.” Did she mention that there will be oysters? There will be, in all sorts of forms: fried, stewed, raw, and in shooters. After having to cancel last year’s festival, Gangloff is “thrilled to be back in form this year.” Their festival is the museum’s biggest fundraiser each year, helping to raise money for cultural events and programs to benefit the community. Captain

Photo courtesy George Hastings. Salem Avery, who owned the property in the 1860s, was himself an oysterman, earning his living harvesting on the Bay. The Oyster Festival hearkens back to his livelihood and celebrates the rich traditions surrounding the humble bivalve. “Oysters are amazing creatures,” Gangloff says, “not the least because of their filtering abilities. The original populations before settlement could filter the Bay in a day. Our current population can do it in a year.” To help stress this point and educate the public about the importance of sustaining oyster populations, representatives from the Oyster Restoration Project will be set up at the festival and all shells will be recycled. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to tour the museum’s rain gardens for demonstrations of how native plants on land can mimic an oyster’s filtration and improve the quality of the water that runs off into the Bay. “We like to practice what we preach,” explains Gangloff. “Oysters are so important in Maryland.”

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eigning American oyster shucking champion Honor Allen may call Florida home, but he too has a great appreciation of the Maryland oyster scene. “The oyster history in Maryland is absolutely amazing! I love reading about what Maryland used to produce hundreds of years ago and the efforts they’re doing now to restore the natural beds. There’s so much to learn about oysters; a whole world out there that most people have no idea about.” One of the unique components of that world is, undoubtedly, competitive oyster shucking, a spectacle that can be seen this weekend at the 55th annual U.S. Oyster Festival in Leonardtown. Allen will be competing again in hopes of earning his fourth national victory, going up against 28 other competitors from all over the country. For those new to the world of competitive oyster shucking, Allen provides a brief overview. The shucking is a timed event in which each competitor is presented with 24 whole oysters to open. After their initial time is recorded, each oyster then gets analyzed by a team of judges who “add penalty seconds to your flat time for every impurity they find, like bits of shell left on the oyster meat, oyster still attached to the bottom shell, and so on. Whoever has the lowest final time wins!”

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Former national champion George Hastings, of Maryland, agrees, adding that presentation can be just as important as speed in the competitions. “Speed is only part of it. Presentation should be as perfect as what gets served in a fine dining establishment,” he explains. “I practice every time I shuck an oyster.” After judging, the overall winner is declared and the oysters get shared among the enthusiastic crowd of onlookers. Both Allen and Hastings have earned champion status and gone on to defend their titles at the Galway Ireland International Oyster Opening Contest in past years. Neither shucker has plans to throw in the towel any time soon, and both will compete at the U.S. Oyster Festival this weekend. “I still compete because there is a family-like bond between the shuckers from around the country and we can be with the best in the trade to share means and

UPCOMING FESTIVALS: U.S. OYSTER FEST Oct. 16 & 17 (Sa 10am-6pm, Su 11am-6pm) St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds, Leonardtown usoysterfest.com CAPTAIN AVERY MUSEUM OYSTER FESTIVAL Oct. 16, 12:30-5pm 1418 East West Shady Side Rd., Shady Side captainaverymuseum.org OYSTERFEST Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michael’s Saturday, Oct. 30, 10am-4pm cbbm.org

Upcoming CBF Oyster Gardening Workshops: MARYLAND OYSTER RESTORATION CENTER, SHADY SIDE Saturday, Oct. 16, 10am-noon cbf.org EASTERN SHORE CONSERVATION CENTER, EASTON Sunday, Oct. 17, 10am-noon cbf.org

methods and a few yarns,” Hastings says. “The festival is a great family friendly weekend in beautiful Southern Maryland with good food, good drink, and oysters any way you like them!” Family friendly is right; Hastings’s son has followed in his footsteps and competes in shucking competitions as well. Last year’s U.S. Oyster Festival shucking competition was virtual, but this year promises normal operations except for a mask requirement when in indoor spaces. Karen E. Stone, administrator of the U.S. Oyster Festival, reports that 29 shuckers will be competing this year, as well as nine competitors in the annual oyster cook-off (where editor emeritus Sandra Olivetti Martin will judge, along with Baltimore chef John Shields and chef Gwyn Novak from No Thyme to Cook). “We are in for a great show on both fronts!” she enthuses. In addition to the competitions, there will be local food and drinks, live music, arts and crafts, local vendors, and other entertainment. “Many things will look familiar but there are always new things to eat, experience, enjoy, and explore!” Still can’t get enough of oysters? Later this month, half-shell enthusiasts can head across the Bay to St. Michaels for OysterFest on October 30. At the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, attendees can expect to “sip, slurp, and savor” as they check out all on offer. One highlight each year is the oyster stew cook off, in which local chefs and restaurants are judged in a blind taste test. The first 500 to the contest get to sample the savory stews and help crown a People’s Choice winner. Unique to OysterFest are the opportunities to take scenic river cruises, sign up for an oyster slurping competition, and even try your hand at traditional oyster tonging. Like the Captain Avery Museum, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is also invested in stewardship and conservation, “dedicated to preserving and exploring the history, environment, and culture of the entire Chesapeake Bay region, and making this resource available to all.” Whether you eat them, grow them, harvest them, shuck them, or just appreciate their water-cleaning prowess, Eastern oysters have clear impacts on Marylanders across the state. How will you celebrate those half-shell heroes this month? p

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Oct. 15: Rest Area Dedication.

Art Express Take a tour of the Greg Wyatt bronze statuettes with Art Educator Lucinda Edinberg. 12:15pm, St. John’s College, Annapolis, RSVP: 410-626-2556.

Night Hike

Professional Engineers Join the Annapolis Chapter of The Maryland Society of Professional Engineers for a discussion of communication antennas at their monthly meeting. 6:30pm, Double T Diner, Annapolis: rynone.eng@gmail.com OCTOBER 14 THRU 16

Historic Hauntings Tour Let Historic Annapolis and Watermark guide you on a ghost tour of Maryland’s capital city. Listen to tales of spirits that linger in the mist, and explore one of Annapolis’ best-known cemeteries. 8pm, Market House Park, Annapolis, $25 w/discounts, RSVP: Annapolis.org. FRIDAY OCTOBER 15

Fossil Identification Day Bring your unknown fossil finds to be identified by museum staff. 10am-4pm, Calvert Marine Muse-

um, Solomons, $9 w/discounts: calvertmarinemuseum.com.

Rest Area Dedication Join the Department of Recreation and Parks, the Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails, and Edgar Parker for the dedication of the Jean and Edgar Parker Memorial Rest Area, which marks the western terminus of the Broadneck Trail. 1-1:30pm, 277 Peninsula Farm Rd.,Arnold: friendsofaatrails.org/.

Annmarie After Hours Enjoy extended evening hours in the garden in celebration of the opening of Arts in the New Normal: works by the Han-Mee Artist Association of Greater Washington, DC, showcasing more than 50 works of art by Korean-American artists living and working in the metro area. 5-7pm, Annmarie Garden, Solomons, $5 suggested donation: annmariegarden.org.

Campfire Chat Veterinarian Dr. John Stott and Park Ranger Sam Ziff lead an in-depth tour of the farm, introducing participants to the animals who live there and discussing the veterinary care that’s needed to keep them happy and healthy. Bring a camp chair and share s’mores and stories by the fire, or sit back, relax and enjoy the evening (ages 5+). 6-7:30pm, Kinder Farm Park, Millersville, $5, RSVP: aacounty.org/recparks. Oct. 14-16: Historic Hauntings Tour.

dance opera set to Sufjan Steven’s Ascension Album. 6-9pm, StageOne at Park Place, $25, RSVP: mc3annapolis.org.

The Ascension Project

Join Ranger Jeff for an evening stroll on Merganser Pond Trail. Expect to see bats, possibly beaver, and hear lots of frogs and crickets. Bring a flash light if you wish. 6:30-8:30pm, North Tract, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887

USNA Band Resilient and Ready The United States Naval Academy Band celebrates the 246th birthday of the U.S. Navy and honors the contributions of Navy health care providers. 7:30-9pm, Maryland Hall, free, RSVP: marylandhall.org.

Volunteer Council Yard Sale Sponsored by the Volunteer Council, proceeds from this year’s yard sale will go toward renovations of the Drum Point Lighthouse; in parking lot and on the PNC Waterside Pavilion stage. 8am-4pm, Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons: calvertmarinemuseum.org.

Community Shred-A-Rama 9am-noon, South River High School, Edgewater; AA Co Police Headquarters, Millersville; Arundel Crossing West, Odenton; Brooklyn Park Middle School; aacounty.org.

Paper Shredding Calvert County residents only. 9am-1pm, Northern Middle School, Owings: CalvertCountyMd.gov/Recycle

Friday Night Lecture

Craft and Vendor Show

Hiding behind Geometry: Analysis and Synthesis in Descartes and Spinoza presented by Josh Parens of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Director, Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas. 8pm, McDowell Hall, St. John’s College, Annapolis, free: sjc.edu.

9:30am-2:30pm, Huntingtown UMC: 410-257-7814.

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Compost Workshop Learn to compost with Anne Arundel County Master Gardeners and receive a free compost bin. 10am, weather permitting, Wildwood Trail, Quiet Waters Park, $6 parking: qwpcomposting@hotmail.com.

Romeo and Juliet

Trails & Tails Hike

Shakespeare’s most famous tale of “star-crossed lovers” who defy the feud that divides their families and are driven toward tragedy. FSa 8pm, SaSu 2pm, The Classic Theatre of Maryland, Annapolis, $68 w/discounts, RSVP: classictheatremaryland.org

Take a guided hike around the park; leashed dogs welcome, dress for weather. 10am-noon, South River Farms Park, Edgewater, RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/6rptsf6e

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Paint the Park Local artists set up around the park to work en plein air and then offer their creations for sale to the public. 7:30am, Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, free: jefpat.maryland.gov.

Free State Fly Fishers Joe Bruce demonstrates how to make mini sink-tips. 10am-noon, Davidsonville Family Rec Center, RSVP: rybeer@gmail.com.

Homestead’s Harvest Weekends Raptor’s Eye stops by with magnificent birds of prey. Come see up-close owls, Continued on next page

UpRooted Dance performs an indie-rock

Introducing the 2022 Hyundai Tucson With a daring new look inside and out, the 2022 Tucson features game-changing technology and safety features. Built for the modern adventure.

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BAY PLANNER hawks, falcons and more. 10am-noon, Homestead Gardens, Davidsonville: homesteadgardens.com.

tables behind the white house (ages 6+). 1-2pm, Glendening Nature Preserve, Lothian, $5, RSVP: jugbay.org.

Fall Festival & Craft Fair

Historical Cooking Workshop

Crafters, kids activities, bake sale, raffle and door prizes. 10am-4pm, Living Word Bible Church, West River: 410-867-1592.

Trace the roots of some of today’s most popular food in this cooking workshop (ages 13+). 1-4pm, Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, $25 w/discounts, RSVP: jefpat.maryland.gov.

KIDS Nature Tales Hear outdoor stories and discover nature tales about wildlife. 11am-noon, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887.

Book Fair The Anne Arundel County Literacy Council sells gently used books at deep discounts to support free adult tutoring programs. 11am-3pm, Discoveries: the Library at the Mall, Annapolis: icanread.org/bookfair.

Lower Marlboro Freedom Day Daylong celebration commemorates the freedom of those who escaped slavery with the help of the British during the War of 1812. Take walking tours, hear from speakers, watch live entertainment, visit exhibits and more. 11am-4pm, Lower Marlboro UMC and Lower Marlboro Hall, Owings: 410-535-5327.

Live Pumpkin Carving Expert carver Nancy Baker shares tricks and techniques in live demos (also Oct. 17 at Davidsonville location). Noon-4pm, Homestead Gardens, Severna Park, RSVP: homesteadgardens.com.

24th Annual Oyster Festival Enjoy live music, fresh oysters shucked by local watermen, beer from Forward Brewing, coffee, beverages and food from area restaurants, an indoor bake sale, kids crafts, selfie station, indoor exhibit and tour, buy experiential Choose It! Tickets, enter to win the $5,000 raffle; all to support the museum. 12:30-5pm, Captain Avery Museum, Shady Side, $10 w/discounts, RSVP: captainaverymuseum.org.

Skulls and Bones Get in the Halloween spirit on an easy walk through the woods and learn about animal bones, scavengers, and the cycle of life. Meet at the picnic

Empty Bowl Picnic Enjoy soup or chili in handmade bowls, plus pizza, burgers and hot dogs, with live music, lawn games, raffle baskets and more in a picnic-style atmosphere to benefit Project Echo; bring seating. 1-4pm, Running Hare Vineyard, Prince Frederick, $30 w/discounts, RSVP: EmptyBowlPicnic.com.

Fall Foliage Paddle Look for late season flowers, migratory birds, wildlife and more on a marsh canoe trip on the Patuxent River (ages 7+). 2-6pm, Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Lothian, $20, RSVP: jugbay.org.

tional competition in Galway, Ireland. Sa 10am-6pm, Su 11am-6pm, St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds, Leonardtown, $10 w/discounts, RSVP: usoysterfest.com.

Hidden Spaces Tour for Teens

of the Opera and John Williams’ epic and timeless score from Star Wars, plus a costume contest. 3pm, Maryland Hall, Annapolis $25, RSVP: marylandhall.org. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20

Secret staircases, trap doors, creaky attics, and cavernous basements….all the places visitors can’t go, but YOU can (just this once). Tour the 237-yearold house with a current employee and a former resident (ages 13-17). 3:30-5pm, Montpelier House Museum, Laurel, Oct. 16 tour is free, $15 Oct. 17 tour, RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/PGDPR-PksDirect SUNDAY OCTOBER 17

Friction Fires Learn the ins and outs of making a friction fire, and try different techniques. 6-8:30pm, Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, $10, RSVP: jefpat.maryland.gov. THURSDAY OCTOBER 21

South AACo Rotary Learn about Rosenwald schools. 7:308:30am, Renditions Golf Club, Davidsonville: jody.blair@verizon.net.

Bird Club Walk Join Anne Arundel Bird Club Members Sue and Alan Young on a bird walk around the park; meet at Blue Heron Center parking lot. 8-11am, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis: aacounty.org.

Riding the North Tract

KIDS Little Minnows Children (ages 305yrss) join in story time and a carryout craft on the theme I Dig Dinosaurs. 10:15am, 11:15am, Calvert Marine Museum, free w/admission: calvertmarinemuseum.com.

See the students of the REACH program perform this popular musical with art murals created by the students for the set. 6pm, First Christian Community Church, Annapolis, $20 wdiscounts: rdclark@annapolis.gov.

Enjoy a family-oriented bicycle outing and experience this natural area on two wheels (ages 10+). Learn the importance of reducing your footprint and leaving no trace on a 12-mile guided ride; bring your own bike, snack, water bottle and helmet. 10am-12:30pm, North Tract, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887.

Celebrate the 16 David Hayes steel sculptures brought to the city by the Annapolis Arts District and the Inner West Street Association with Art Farm, food, drinks, live music and more. 6-8pm, MC3, Park Place, Annapolis, RSVP: annapolisartsdistrict.org/david-hayes.

Madison Morton in Concert

Walk to End Alzheimer’s

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7:30pm, Live Arts Studio, Westfield Annapolis Mall, $25, RSVP: liveartsmd.org.

Walk two miles to raise funds for The Alzheimer’s Association. Registration 11am, ceremony noon, walk 12:15pm, Sandy Point State Park, Annapolis, RSVP: act.alz.org.

Join Historic Annapolis at the William Paca House and Garden for the 8th annual networking event with bourbon, whiskey, and other fine liquor tastings, cigars, and food from the area’s top chefs (ages 21+). 6-9pm, William Paca House, Annapolis, $100, RSVP: annapolis.org.

The Wiz

OCTOBER 16 & 17

Art@ the Park

Baysox Pumpkin Patch

The 31st annual arts festival features original artwork from exhibitors both locally and throughout the country, plus musical performances, art demonstrations, activities, and specialty food. 10am-5pm, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, $6 vehicle fee: fqwp.org.

Select a gourd from the on-field pumpkin patch, kids ride the carosoul, play in a bounce house and other inflatable games; two time slots aailable. 11am-1pm & 2-4pm, Prince George’s Stadium, Bowie, $5 or $15 with pumpkin, RSVP: baysoxshop.com.

U.S. Oyster Festival

Evening of Classical Music

Two county-fair style days offer plenty of ways to eat oysters—and experience oyster culture. All day Saturday, chefs vie to win the National Oyster Cook-off. Sunday brings the National Shucking Championship, whose winner goes to interna-

Guitarist Jonathan Crissman and violinist Haleigh Vance perform. 4pm, Saint Nicholas Lutherna Churhc, Huntingtown: 410-257-5683.

LSO Halloween Spooktacular The annual family friendly concert by the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra features the music of Disney, Phantom

Get Ready to Walk! 2021 Anne Arundel County Walk to End Alzheimerʼs

October 17

Sandy Point State Park From 11 AM - 12:30 PM Registration at 11 AM Visit act.alz.org/AnneArundel for more details

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David Hayes Outdoor Museum

Sharks Lecture Series The third in a four-part lecture series paired with the museum’s newest exhibit, Megalodon: Apex Predator by Dr. Stephen Godfrey, Curator of Paleontology. 7-8pm, Calvert Marine Museum, free: calvertmarinemuseum.com. PLAN AHEAD

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Above left: Nancy Krebs as Juliet’s nurse. Above right: Joshua Olumide as Romeo and Kira Bennett as Juliet. Photos by Sally Boyett.

Classic Theatre of Maryland’s Romeo & Juliet Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers Comes to Annapolis

lassic Theatre of Maryland (formerly Annapolis Shakespeare Company) is welcoming live audiences back to its main stage for the kickoff of its 20212022 season with an engrossing production of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare’s tragedy about two starcrossed lovers. For centuries the play has been the model by which so many subsequent romances have been portrayed, yet it remains relevant thanks to Shakespeare’s ageless writing and CTM’s fresh artistic and technical approach. Directed by CTM’s producing artistic director Sally Boyett and featuring a talented professional cast led by Joshua Olumide as Romeo and Kira Bennett as Juliet, the production is being featured live in CTM’s 125-seat main stage theater. You know the story: Romeo’s Mon-

tagues and Juliet’s Capulets are feuding. The two meet when Romeo brashly attends a Capulet function, anger ensues among Juliet’s side, yet in the famous balcony scene Romeo overhears Juliet profess her love for him, they rush to wed … and tragedy ensues. Boyett’s direction keeps the pace moving, and her actors invest their characters with clarity and depth. Both Olumide’s and Bennett’s interpretations of the Verona duo are nicely realized, and while both occasionally allow their vocal volume to dip, their individual performances are filled with life and as a couple their chemistry is obvious. Their joy in the balcony scene is matched only by their palpable grief later in the show when death’s grip takes hold. Nancy Krebs offers up a delightfully

lively turn as Juliet’s nurse, and Justino Brokaw’s Friar Lawrence is perfect as the man who at first predicts the course of events and then plays a key role in their development. The technical aspects of the production are also well done. Period costumes are a highlight, and many are simply stunning. CTM’s main stage is a soaring space, allowing for a well-utilized multi-level set, and a lighting design that is very effective at producing an involving atmosphere for each scene. Sound design, with period music and voices, is a standout as well. And the sword fights are as realistic as you’ll ever see on a stage, believable and effective, with excellent choreography crisply wielded by the actors. CTM’s Romeo and Juliet begins with a beautiful tableau, and ends with the

The play remains relevant thanks to Shakespeare’s ageless writing and CTM’s fresh artistic and technical approach. same tableau. It’s the coming together of two families whose shared tragedy mends their hate. It beautifully bookends a production that is, even after all these centuries, as involving emotionally as it is beautiful to watch. p Romeo & Juliet: About two hours and 15 minutes with one intermission; runs through October 31; ticket prices are $68$55 for adults with discounts for military, seniors, and young professionals; for tickets visit classictheatremaryland.org or call 410-415-3513.

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SPORTING LIFE

The fall fishing crescendo continues with the most active bite of the year. The only down side of autumn are the wild wind conditions but when those aren’t a problem it’s a good idea to get out there every chance you get. rockfish are taking trolled small and medium sized bucktails tipped with sassy shad in white, yellow and chartreuse (no surprise), medium spoons in silver and gold and similar lures behind umbrellas and chandeliers. Soft paddle tails in both light and dark colors on half to three-quarter ounce jig heads are taking stripers to 30 inches cast around structure both early and late in the day as well as cast to the edges of birds working water. Poppers and spook type plugs are working as well. white perch are still taking spinner baits in the tribs as well as schooling in the mouths of the tribs and eating worms, clams and shrimp in preparation for moving to winter quarters. spanish mackerel can be found under seabirds mixed in with a few bluefish. crabs are dwindling and will shut down and move into the mud soon.

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Time for a Fall Tune-Up I

glanced at my rod racks lining one wall of my writing area to be sure my numerous fishing sticks are rigged and ready to go, and they are. Unfortunately, outside my front window the increasingly leafless trees are wrestling mightily with the wind, and I’ll not be bending any pole in a battle today. And that’s troubling because this is the best time of the year to be on the water. Our rockfish, white perch, spot, Spanish macks, spotted seatrout and even a few redfish are swarming the shallows and channel edges feeding up for winter. However, there are some angling duties that should be addressed promptly before the really frigid weather puts us completely out of play. Foul fall weather is just the right time to address at least one of them. One of the most important aspects of an outboard motor is its lower unit, the part of the motor where the power is transferred from the engine through the transmission to the propeller. This is a particularly critical connection. The transmission’s gears and bearings are protected and lubricated by heavy duty lubricant and most boaters know that it should be changed at least every two years. What is less widely realized is that it is especially prudent to check

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it each and every fall, before your boat is due to be put up for the season. The seals are a critical element of a motor’s lower unit transmission and protect it from the intrusion of saltwater. Seal failure can be caused by a number of issues but the introduction of braided, ultra-thin synthetic fishing lines has become the single most significant cause. This is due to accidental wrapping of the fishing line around the propeller shaft, which then work their way up and past the shaft seals causing them to shred and leak. Saltwater intrusion into the transmission and lower unit then follows. There is no obvious, immediate symptom of this failure but over time the eventual results of the penetration T HURSD AY

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can be catastrophic. Corrosion is a definite possibility to the internal machinery and if enough water accumulates in the lower unit, the outboard cases may split from inside freezing over the wintertime. A lower unit replacement can be a very costly affair. Monitoring the integrity of your lower unit’s lubricant is simple and now is the ideal time to perform the task. There are two plugs that allow access to the transmission oil level for your lower unit. To monitor the lubricant status simply remove the drain bolt or screw at the bottom of the unit skeg completely. The heavy lubricant will not drain out without additionally loosening the plug at the upper level. Loosen that one very gradually and you will notice the lube will gradually begin to ooze out. A dark brown color is normal and not cause for alarm, though a shade of black is a definite sign for a lube change. If the lube is a cream or gray color, that is an indication of water intrusion and seal failure. At

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this point you can then re-tighten the unit’s plugs and know that you very likely have a problem with your seals and they will have to be replaced. If temperatures have begun falling below 32 degrees it may also be prudent to drain the lower unit of oil completely in preparation for delivery to a maintenance shop. Once drained you cannot run your motor again without risk of transmission damage. Leaving the moisture-laden lubricant inside the lower unit risks damage from freezing. Over winter repairs are not a problem and you can easily schedule the service at your nearest marina. Unfortunately fall is a busy time as marinas are busy with winter preps so be prepared for a late-winter delivery appointment. But be doubly warned if you decide to wait until next spring, it may be a month or two before repairs can be addressed. Springtime is the busiest time for marine repairs and boat preparation. p WEDNESDAY

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harvest daily. Okra can be put into gallon-size freezer bags without parboiling, which makes preserving them easy. Peppers are another vegetable that can be put directly into freezer bags without any processing. Use them in the winter by cutting them up right out of the freezer and adding to soups and stews. If you don’t have a lot of room in your freezer, roast the peppers first. Lay them in a baking pan and drizzle with olive oil. Roast them in a 425-degree oven for about 12 minutes on each side. The peppers deflate and should be slightly brown. When cool, you can pull the seeds out and freeze in freezer bags. Peppers can also be pickled easily. Use about 2 pounds of chili peppers, any variety, stemmed and sliced, or if small, leave whole. Pack the peppers

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Stinging Caterpillars

s I was pulling weeds from around some sedum plants, I noticed a very interesting colorful caterpillar attached to a leaf. It had obvious spines and projections that elevated the spines away from its body. I was lucky that there was only one of those bugs and that I had avoided touching it. It was one of the few poisonous caterpillars in Maryland, a saddleback caterpillar. The saddleback and the puss caterpillars are the top two most poisonous caterpillars in North America. They each have poison glands located at the base of sharp spines. If you are lucky, the spine stabs you and you get a small amount of the painful toxin, but in some instances, the spine and the poison gland break off in your skin and continues to be an irritant for days. The spines are urticating hairs, which means they have tiny barbs pointed away from the tip so they can work their way deeper into the skin. The puss caterpillar’s poison is very painful and causes swelling and redness for several hours. Severe poisonings can lead to a drop in blood pressure, tachycardia,

abdominal pain, and even seizures. The puss moth caterpillar is also known as the asp caterpillar. It is very hairy with a Joe Dirt-like mullet but hidden in the brown hair are the vertical poison spines. There are reports of rare deaths from seizures, renal failure, and secondary infections causing septic shock. The saddleback caterpillar can also cause nausea and headache but not as severely as the puss caterpillar. There are no reports of deaths that I could find. There are at least two other caterpillars with urticating hairs with a milder

into four clean, hot pint-size canning jars leaving ½ inch of space at the top. Combine 3 cups of distilled white vinegar, 2 cups water, 2 tablespoons salt and 2 tablespoons sugar and bring it to a boil. Pour the hot brine over the peppers to cover by ¼ inch. Leave ¼ inch headspace to the lid. Refrigerate for up to three weeks or process using the boiling water method. Screw on jar lids and process for 15 minutes. Remove jars and set aside for 24 hours. Check the seals and store in a cool dark place. Harvest and preserve your veggies so you can enjoy your garden’s bounty in the winter. p but still irritating poison: the tussock moth and the American dagger moth caterpillars. Both of these caterpillars have fluffy hair with symmetric patches of firmer urticating hairs. The tussock moth caterpillar is very common and is fairly attractive with a black and white design with stiff tufts of either yellow or black. The American dagger moth caterpillars are fluffy and yellow with brighter stiff hairs down the back. Both of these caterpillars cause severe irritation that lasts as long as the hairs stay in the skin. They are fairly active caterpillars and are commonly seen going from one food source to another. Children are attracted to these innocent appearing bugs and are most often the stinging victims. All of the mentioned caterpillars, especially the saddleback, feed on multiple species of plants. They all overwinter as pupae and are largest in size and number in autumn. The best way to remove the spines from someone’s skin is to press tape on the skin while applying lateral traction. Pull the tape slightly to the side while pressing it on to get the hair to lie down as they get stuck to the tape. These are fascinating creatures to observe but from a distance. If you aren’t sure if it’s a stinging caterpillar, it’s best to keep your hands to yourself. p Tussock caterpillar

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THE MOVIEGOER

BY DIANA BEECHENER

Matt Damon in The Last Duel.

Moviegoer: The Last Duel

Two knights battle over truth while a woman suffers in this uneven drama

he rivalry between Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon: Stillwater) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver: Annette) goes back decades. Once friends, the duo have a long history of fighting side-by-side during the Hundred Years War, using swords and blood to bring honor to 14th century France. Fractures appeared between the two when Jacques won the favor of Count Pierre d’Alençon (Ben Affleck: The Way Back). Suddenly Jacques is gifted with land and status that Jean feels is his by right. Things come to a head when Jean’s wife, Marguerite (Jodie Comer: Free Guy) accuses Jacques of sexual assault. Jean is disgraced, Jacques claims it’s an affront to his reputation, and Marguerite simply wants justice. Jean decides there’s only one way to deal with the situation: challenge Jacques to a duel to the death. According to French law, the winner of the duel is telling the truth and the loser has been judged guilty. This

means that Marguerite’s life and reputation are tied to Jean’s: If he wins, she’ll be viewed as a wronged woman who received justice. If he loses, she’ll be burned at the stake for besmirching a man’s reputation. Can Jean defeat his old friend and reclaim his honor? And is there any such thing as justice for a woman viewed as her husband’s property? The Last Duel is a film that desperately wants to make a few points about the way women are treated. The movie goes to great pains to outline how women were sidelined, dismissed, and degraded. It’s therefore quite a shame that the movie shoves Marguerite and her story aside for two-thirds of the film. Director Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World) has always been talented with a battle, and that hasn’t changed in The Last Duel. There are some truly breathtaking battle sequences, and the brutality of the titular duel makes for riveting storytelling. The cinematogra-

phy and feel of the film all have Scott’s signature sense of scope and style. But the film falters when dealing with the sexual assault. It attempts a truly baffling Rashomon-style to explain how the events are viewed by each party. But about an hour in, Scott declares one of the perspectives to be “the truth”, which essentially means viewers have wasted their time for half the film. By eliminating all ambiguity and portraying Comer’s Marguerite as a sainted victim of both men and history, Scott ends up reducing the only female character to patriarchal stereotype. It’s a shame the film doesn’t trust Comer with some ambiguity and shading because she delivers an excellent performance. Each actor must play, in essence, three roles—one for each perspective that’s used in the film. Comer does the best with this assignment. Her Marguerite is the picture of devotion in Jean’s recollections, a sly temptress in Jacques’ recollections, and a smart but stifled woman beaten down by her sex and station in her own recollections. It’s truly gripping work, which is why it’s a shame Scott didn’t feature it more. Driver and Damon are less successful in their performances. Damon

especially seems uncomfortable with his roles, lumbering through scenes and butchering French names. Oddly, the most successful male performance in the film may be Ben Affleck’s, whose broad lecherous Pierre would be at home in a remake of Caligula. Is it a good performance? Perhaps not, but at least it’s entertaining. Affleck and Damon also wrote the script. They took pains to note that they asked Nicole Holofcener (The Land of Steady Habits) to write the female third of the film. This is probably why the film feels so very disjointed, with Marguerite having her feminist awakening and only becoming human in the last bit of the film. It was a nice gesture, but ultimately a hollow one. While The Last Duel has excellent intentions, and some pretty excellent battle scenes, it must be said that it fails as a Ye Olden Me Too movie. This story, which hopes to poke at and examine male vanity, ultimately ends with two men duking it out while a woman watches in the background. Scott and Co. no doubt wanted that to be a metaphor for the film, but it ended up being an allegory for how Hollywood still tells “women’s stories”. Fair Drama * R * 152 mins.

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Doctors at Klaipeda University Hospital in Lithuania were shocked to discover the source of a man’s abdominal pain through an X-ray, The Guardian reported on Oct. 1. Apparently as a response to giving up alcohol about a month ago, the man had swallowed more than a kilogram of metal objects: nuts, nails, bolts, screws and knives. It took surgeons three hours to remove the pieces and repair the inner walls of the stomach. The unnamed man is being kept under observation and has been offered psychological assistance.

Mistaken Identity

Animal control officers were called to a home in San Mateo, California, on Oct. 3 to rescue a stranded tarantula on the roof, United Press International reported. But according to the Peninsula Humane Society, when the officer climbed up to capture it, she instead found an old Halloween decoration. “It looked like it had been up there for a while,” said Buffy Tarbox, communications manager for the Humane Society. “Everyone thought it was real.” The fake spider turned up for a few days on various desks at the Humane Society offices, then hit the circular file.

It’s a Mystery

• WRAL-TV reported on Oct. 4 that several drivers along Highway 147 in Durham, North Carolina, had experienced a shower of brown, greasy, bad-smelling liquid hitting their vehicles and subsequently damaging the paint. “It had sort of a bleach smell,” said Heather Toler. “It was raining down on top of the cars. It seems to be acidic based on how it’s eating away the paint on the car.” The mystery was solved two days later, when representatives of the chemical wholesale company Brenntag informed WRALTV that several of its employees had been depressurizing and disconnecting an empty sulfuric acid railcar at the company’s facility next to the highway, causing acid vapor to be released into the air. • This mystery is also solved: Police in Japan have been working for months to figure out why a light pole in Suzuka suddenly snapped at its base on Feb. 18. Most light poles in the country last for 50 years or more, but this one was only 23 years old. NBC New York reported on Oct. 1 that forensic scien-

tists found 40 times more urea at the pole’s base than was found on nearby poles. Yep, dog pee killed the light pole: Urea and sodium in dog urine caused the pole to erode. The new pole is up, but dogs are already marking it with their caustic streams.

Precious

Fargo, North Dakota, insurance agent Bill Fischer has a perennial battle with a certain red squirrel, Fox23-TV reported. Every fall, the animal squirrels away walnuts for the coming winter inside Fischer’s pickup truck, then Fischer has to remove them so he can drive the truck. This year, Fischer has collected almost 350 pounds of walnuts from around the engine, the wheel wells, the front bumper and parts of the doors. Fischer said he tried spraying the truck with a mixture of Tabasco sauce and cayenne pepper, but now he thinks the squirrel is attracted to the scent. “I have to have a sense of humor about this after so many years,” he said.

Unclear on the Concept

Perry County (Arkansas) assistant jail administrator Abby Strange has lost her job and is facing felony criminal charges after she allowed inmate Sandra Rappold to leave her cell and go outside to vape marijuana on Sept. 24, Fox16-TV reported. Investigators said Strange disabled the cell door alarm and gave the keys to Rappold. A warning system alerted deputies that a door was ajar, and they quickly found both women. Strange also allegedly supplied the vape to Rappold.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

• Claire Vickers, 46, and Barry Douglas, 44, were enjoying a drunken night out when, at 2 a.m., they decided to head over to the Aldershot Lido in Hampshire, England, slip under a fence and speed down a waterslide in the closed park. Unfortunately, a barrier blocks the exit from the slide after hours, and Vickers and Douglas both slammed into it, the Sun reported. Vickers’ shin snapped and broke her skin, and every bone in her left foot was broken. Douglas broke his left leg and both ankles. “I looked over at Barry. He was in the fetal position and silent,” Vickers said. “That’s when I thought we were both going to die.” After two hours of screaming and banging on the slide, Vickers and Douglas were rescued.

“We’re idiots—let that be a lesson,” she said. “I’m still having nightmares one month on. The pain was unbearable.” No charges were filed. • Four Italian men, part of a winemaking family in Paola, died at their family vineyard in early October after being overtaken by carbon dioxide in the small shed where they were fermenting the grapes. The Daily Beast reported that Santino and Massimo Carnevale, 70 and 45, and Giacomo and Valerio Scofano, 70 and 50, were all related. Police believe one of the men went in to stir the grapes, was overcome, and the next went in to help, one after the other. One woman who tried to go in fainted near the entrance, but survived. Paola’s mayor said the tragedy brought “pain to the whole community.”

The Litigious Society

Mauro Restrepo was hoping that Palos Verdes Estates, California, psychic Sophia Adams could help him remove a curse that was put on him by his ex-girlfriend, NBC Los Angeles reported. When he arrived at her business for his first session, Adams read his tarot cards and said he had “mala suerte,” or bad luck. She told Restrepo that the curse could ruin him, his children and his marriage unless he paid her $5,100 to remove it. Restrepo paid her $1,000 as a down payment, but shockingly, she “did not in any way help (Restrepo’s) marriage,” alleged a lawsuit filed by Restrepo on Oct. 1 in Torrance Superior Court. He claims he has suffered sleepless nights, anxiety and anguish, and he’s seeking at least $25,000 in compensatory and punitive damages.

Bright Idea

Jeanine Bishop, 67, of Sebastian, Florida, was discovered dead in the bed of a pickup truck in a Walmart parking lot on Oct. 5. ClickOrlando.com reported that detectives later interviewed her fiance, Michael Despres, 56, who first made “cryptic” comments about her whereabouts. But finally he admitted that he killed her at their home and later took her body to the parking lot, where he “staged” her in the truck. Despres was charged with premeditated first-degree murder.

Least Competent Criminal

Derbyshire (England) police were hunting down a 36-year-old suspect in

a string of thefts on Oct. 4 when they came across him trying unsuccessfully to hide—in a closet, under a blanket ... with his feet sticking out the bottom, the Mirror reported. The police department posted photos of the incident on Facebook, where Sgt. Tarj Nizzer quipped: “If you run from ... police, you will only go to jail tired. In this case he had his blanket ready for his sleep in the cell.”

A Person Can Dream

Kori Johnson of KSLA-TV was interviewing lottery ticket purchasers on Oct. 4 about what they’d do with the nearly $700 million jackpot when she met “James,” HuffPost reported, who went into a lot of detail: “Well, I’m definitely going to get a new supercharged Mustang with dual exhausts, and about 5 kilos of cocaine, and I’ll be good to go,” he said. Johnson rolled with the punches: “So you like cars?” she asked.

News You Can Use

• If leaf-peeping is in your plans, you may want to take extra precautions against a fearsome intruder: the spotted lanternfly. According to WLNY-TV, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is warning autumn leaf tourists to beware of the beautiful but highly invasive species from Asia. “They can hitch rides in vehicles or on outdoor items such as clothing and easily be transported into and throughout New York,” said NYSDAM Director of Plant Industry Chris Logue. Officials direct people who find one to kill it immediately, then send a photo of it to New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation along with your location. • Looking for a job? David Duffy, co-owner of Duffy’s Circus in Northern Ireland, is encouraging people to become clowns. According to the BBC, Duffy says the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a shortage of performers; his circus has been shuttered for more than 500 days, but will resume operations soon with looser restrictions. Duffy’s looking for folks who are “really, really adaptable. ... No matter what sort of mood you’re in, you have to light up that circus ring,” he said. p Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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How many 2 or more letter words can you make in 2 minutes from the letters in: Accolade (40 words) This word came from the French, accolare, meaning to ‘embrace the neck, to kiss,’ which was derived from Latin ad (to) and collum (neck), where we get the word collar. To receive an accolade was an extremely significant award such as given by a king while placing a sword on the shoulders of one being conferred to knighthood. After the sword ceremony, the sovereign would embrace his servant, and say with much affection, “Give us a kiss, good knight.”

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WATERFRONT GUEST HOUSE near Deale Md. Perfect for single person or student. Fully furnished. Light cooking. 1300 per month includes all utilities. Deposit required. Call Carl at. 772 708 1628.

Call: 410-221-8009 email: bbsportaviation1@gmail.com Blue Knob Resort, PA Studio condo, sleeps 4. Kitchen, bath, fireplace & balcony. Completely furnished. $26,750. Owner finance. No closing costs. Not a time-share! Ski, swim, golf, tennis. 410-267-7000.

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5 acres in Deale, MD. Price negotiable. Principles only. Leave message at: 202-265-1533 For Sale by Owner. Great Location on the Eastern Shore! 5 bedrooms 2 baths, detached garage, Salt Water pool, 1.5 blocks from boardwalk with private boat slips, 55 min to Ocean City, tranquil town. Much more!

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