CBM BAY WEEKLY No. 16, April 21 - April 28, 2022 • EARTH DAY BIRTHDAY by CBM BAY WEEKLY

VOL. XXX, NO. 16 • APRIL 21 - APRIL 28, 2022 • OUR EARTH DAY BIRTHDAY • BAYWEEKLY.COM

SERVING THE CHESAPEAKE SINCE 1993

JAZZ CONCERT HONORING UKRAINE PAGE 10

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Ever Forward Moves Forward, High Ethanol Gas Returns, Nature Center Opens, New Owners for Art Things, Project Clean Stream, Solomons Sailmaker, Daring Divas, page 6

TELEVISION: CBM In the Spotlight page 4

TEA-SMOKED SALMON WITH JASMINE GOLD DRAGON TEA

Ingredients FOR THE SALMON MARINADE 1/4 cup Chinese dark soy sauce 1 Tbs. granulated sugar 1 tsp. finely grated orange zest (from one of the oranges in the relish, below)

FOR THE TEA-SMOKED SALMON

1/4 cup Jasmine Gold Dragon loose tea 1/4 cup rice, preferably jasmine 1/4 cup light brown sugar 8 whole star anise 2 Tbs. crushed cinnamon stick 1 Tbs. vegetable oil 1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions 1 tsp. toasted sesame seeds (preferably a mixture of black and white)

Directions In a 9×13-inch glass dish, whisk the soy sauce, sugar, orange zest, and red pepper flakes. Add the salmon and turn to coat. Cover with plastic and marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Put the tea, rice, sugar, star anise, cinnamon, and reserved orange zest strips in the center of a sheet of heavyduty aluminum foil. (If using thinner foil, use 2 or 3 layers.) Fold the foil loosely to form a flat packet. Prepare a medium-high gas or charcoal grill fire. Clean and oil the grill grate; set aside. Set the tea-smoking packet directly on the hot coals or on top of a metal burner shield. Put the grate back on the grill and close the lid. On a charcoal grill, leave the vents partially open and wait for smoke to rise from the vents. On a gas grill, wait 10 minutes, then open the lid to check for smoke. If there is none, close the lid and check again in a few minutes. Drain the salmon and pat dry with paper towels. Brush the salmon lightly with the oil. Arrange the salmon skin side up on the grill grate so that it’s not directly over the packet, and then close the lid. Smoke the salmon, flipping once, until cooked to medium doneness, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Sprinkle Salmon with scallions and sesame seeds and serve.

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Our 29th Earth Day Birthday

round the CBM Bay Weekly office, you can’t say Earth Day without following it with “birthday”. We are happy to announce your favorite weekly Chesapeake newspaper turns 29 years old this week! The paper launched in 1993, then called New Bay Times, intending to explore life along the Chesapeake Bay. Our founders, Sandra Olivetti Martin, Bill Lambrecht and Alex Knoll, set a high standard for us, and we thank them once again for paving the way nearly three decades ago. Earth Day is an active time in Chesapeake Country. Flip over to the Bay Planner and you will see festivals and cleanups all weekend long in communities near you. Keeping our neighborhoods and waterways clear of litter not only makes them more beautiful but also protects wildlife and habitats from pollution. If you’ve never experienced the rewarding hard work of cleaning up a stream or river, I encourage you to check out the Alliance for the Chesapeake’s Project Clean Stream project. Writer Matt Liptak picked up trash bags and joined volunteers recently for a cleanup in the Severn Run Natural Environment Area and tells us about the interesting things he discovered. Nature provides for us in so many ways. Here on the Bay, it’s a source of

recreation, inspiration and good eating. This week’s feature story from Duffy Perkins is all about finding food in surprising places.

The paper launched in 1993, then called New Bay Times, intending to explore life along the Chesapeake Bay. Our founders, Sandra Olivetti Martin, Bill Lambrecht and Alex Knoll, set a high standard for us. While I am not much of a mushroom fanatic, I have plenty of friends who wait all year for morels to spring forth. I prefer the discovery of a wild blackberry bush to fungus, personally. But there’s something reassuring about having that knowledge of what is out there that

is safe to eat—and pleasurable. The pandemic gave many of us some anxiety over where our food would come from if the supply chain stopped or there just weren’t enough people to man the farms or stores we rely on. But it also pushed many of us to start exploring what’s already growing in our own yards, or what we can plant and grow for ourselves. I hope it’s a trend that continues and we teach our young people where food comes from and how we can survive and thrive if ever we are faced with a food shortage or supply chain breakdown. That said, I’m a terrible gardener. So my Earth Day resolution—and we should all make one—is to become a frequent visitor to farmers markets in my community. Most of our usual markets are starting back this month and you may be surprised by what you will find in the stalls. I’d love to hear about your favorite market find as well as what you have growing in your garden or even just your backyard. Send letters to editor@bayweekly.com or find us on Facebook and Instagram. p Kathy Knotts is managing editor of CBM Bay Weekly.

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Ever Forward Moves Forward, High Ethanol Gas Returns, Nature Center Opens, New Owners for Art Things, Project Clean Stream, Solomons Sailmaker, Daring Divas, Salute to Gershwins ............................... 6 FEATURE

Nature’s Garden: Edible wonders are growing all around ......................11 BAY PLANNER ....................... 14 MOVIEGOER.......................... 16 GARDENING FOR HEALTH....... 17 CREATURE FEATURE............... 18 SPORTING LIFE...................... 19 MOON AND TIDES.................. 20 NEWS OF THE WEIRD.............. 20 PUZZLES............................... 21 CLASSIFIED........................... 22 The historic operation to free Ever Forward from the Chesapeake Bay has captivated audiences worldwide. This international attention has meant that Chesapeake Bay Media’s CEO Capt. John Martino, has had the opportunity to share his insight on national news outlets like Good Morning America... see what he and other experts say about the final successful refloating of the ship on page 6. Photos: ABC Television.

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The Ever Forward is refloated Sunday, April 17, in the Chesapeake Bay. Photo: George Mason University Department of Police and Public Safety.

“It’s truly a historic event for the Chesapeake Bay.”

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—U.S. COAST GUARD INCIDENT COMMANDER CHRISTOPHER ROSEN

MOVING FORWARD What’s next for dislodged container ship Ever Forward BY CHERYL COSTELLO

fter 35 days stuck in the Chesapeake Bay off Gibson Island, Ever Forward is back on the move. It took three attempts, 15 million pounds of containers removed, six tugs and two barges and

an extra-high tide. Finally floating again, the 1,100-pound ship is capturing attention from front lawns in Annapolis and Kent Island. “It’s truly a historic event for the Chesapeake Bay,” says U.S. Coast Guard Incident Commander Christopher Rosen. Maritime historian Sal Mercogliano, host of the popular YouTube channel What’s Going on with Shipping, puts it into perspective: “That operation had not been accomplished on a vessel that size ever.”

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The successful refloat took place around 7 a.m. Easter Sunday, as salvage crews took advantage of a high tide, as CBM Bay Weekly’s president Capt. John Martino, an experienced Bay captain and instructor, told Good Morning America on Monday. “There was a full moon and a spring tide that comes with the full moon, and what that means is there was a higher-than-normal high tide, which would have helped float it a little bit,” Martino said. “There were two pulling barges and

then six tugs that were either alongside or towing from the bow of the vessel … They were able to pull it off by the stern and pull it out into the channel to where the tugs could then take over,” says Rosen. It was the third try to refloat Ever Forward. The first two in late March were not successful, despite round-theclock dredging to dig the ship out of the silt. So over seven days, Bay Bulletin watched workers rappel down to the ship to hook up lift brackets remove containers from both the port and starboard sides. In all, they removed 500 containers. “The average weight of each container is roughly 30,000 pounds,” says Rosen. “So it’s on the order of 15 million pounds or more.” That weight difference allowed the ship to be successfully pulled off the bottom outside Craighill Channel, where for yet-unknown reasons, it missed the turn. It was then towed to the Annapolis

anchorage near the Bay Bridge to be inspected for possible damage. “It’s going to undergo an underwater hull survey just to make sure that the vessel is still in good condition. They’ve already conducted a propulsion test and the information we’ve received was that everything was satisfactory,” says Rosen, who also tells us there were no fuel leaks, which could have been a major environmental concern. USCG does advise mariners that shoaling may exist within the eastern half of Craighill Channel as a result of the operation. “We believe the dredge will be there for a number of days to restore the channel back to its original dredge condition,” says Rosen. The Coast Guard is leading the investigation, and says we may not know for months what or who is responsible for the ship ending up outside the channel. What becomes of the containers on board, and those that were unloaded? Once an inspection is favorable, the ship will reload the containers that were removed and then continue its original schedule to Norfolk. Mercogliano says the final arbitration of how much this is going to cost the owners of the cargo on board will take years. “You’ll get word from [the container ship’s owner] Evergreen that, to release your cargo you’re going to need to pay this on top for a bond—and the bond is open-ended. You don’t know how much it’s going to cost at the very end. So they can come back to you. It’s almost like a lien. They put a lien on the cargo,” he says.

HIGH-ETHANOL GAS COMING BACK, DUE TO GAS PRICE SPIKE BY MEG WALBURN VIVIANO

n an effort to combat this spring’s spike in gas prices, President Joe Biden announced an emergency waiver to allow high-ethanol gasoline during the summer months. That could increase the fuel supply, easing prices for drivers. But it could also pose a danger to boat engines, as the marine manufacturing industry fears. Biden made the announcement last week during a visit to an ethanol plant, saying the government would ease restrictions on E15 gas, “that uses more ethanol from homegrown crops”, citing a 10-cent per gallon savings versus E10 gasoline. Typically E15 sales are prohibited beginning June 1 under the Clean Air Act due to air pollution concerns, but this year the high-ethanol gas will continue to be sold through summer. E15 is banned for use in marine engines year-round because it can potentially damage on-board fuel tanks. Because of variations in temperature, moisture binds with the ethanol and settles as sludge at the bottom of the tank. According to the National Marine Manufacturer’s Association (NMMA), E15 is not safe for engines or fuel systems on boats (or even other small engines, like those in lawnmowers, chainsaws, and generators). Use

Marine industry advocates say highethanol gas is not clearly labeled, causing boaters to mis-fuel. Photo: NMMA. of E15 even voids some marine engine warranties. While you won’t find E15 sold at fuel docks, many boaters tow their boats, and thus fill their tanks at gas stations. Fuel labeling at land-based stations can lead to boaters mistakenly putting high-ethanol gas where it doesn’t be-

long. BoatUS says it’s easy for vessel owners to get tripped up. “While we understand the need to save money, we are concerned that fuel retailers may market E15 (15 percent ethanol) fuel, such as ‘regular 88’ or ‘regular unleaded’ as a lower-cost alternative to E10,” says BoatUS Manager of Government Affairs David Kennedy. “With almost no safeguards in place, there is a real chance that boat owners, looking for a bargain will misfuel their boats with E15 fuel.” E15 gasoline is prohibited by federal law for use in boat engines and voids many engine warranties. Noted by BoatUS, labeling at land-based fuel stations has caused confusion among boaters, leading some to mistakenly pump the incorrect gas. This “misfueling” could occur more frequently if E15 gas is offered throughout the summer months, when boaters are busy filling up. NMMA has argued in the past that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s “efforts to inform the public about the dangers of E15 are woefully inadequate.” The association cites a study from the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute that finds more than three out of five Americans mistakenly assume that any gas sold at gas stations is safe for all of their engines. In a White House fact sheet, the EPA administrator says it will consider modifications to E15 fuel pump labeling. EPA says it will also “work with states to ensure there are no significant air quality impacts through the summer driving season.”

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Artist, Realtor Buy Art Things BY STEVE ADAMS

Lindsay Vaughan, 13, from Bowie measuring her wingspan in the nest.

SANDY POINT STATE PARK NATURE CENTER MAKES ITS DEBUT BY CHERYL COSTELLO

andy Point State Park has been a favorite Bay beach for decades, reaching maximum capacity on many summer weekends. Its distinctive sand and fantastic view of the Bay Bridge keep people coming to swim, picnic, and sunbathe. Now, there’s a new addition to the popular park. A nature center opened to the public Easter weekend, part of the $2.5 million in ongoing improvements at Sandy Point. The Maryland State Parks-run center was built in partnership with the National Park Service and Chesapeake Conservancy. Bay Bulletin was there as the first visitors got a look inside—including 13-year-old Lindsay Vaughan of Bowie. Arms outstretched, she measured herself against a life-sized silhouette of different birds’ wingspans. She decided her “wingspan” was closest to that of an osprey. “Hands-on things are a lot more fun!” she told us, and Ranger Melissa Acuti, Chief of Interpretation for Maryland Park Service, said that’s the idea behind the exhibits at the nature center. Acuti brought us into a giant bird’s nest made from driftwood. “So this is a larger-than-life osprey nest so that you, as a human, can get into the nest and feel a little bit what it feels like to be a bird,” she showed us. Visitors also learned that osprey winter in Central America but come back to the Bay every spring. “And they’re also a really good indicator species because 99 percent of their diet is fish,” Acuti adds. “In order to have a healthy osprey population in the Chesapeake Bay, we need to have a healthy aquatic environment.” There are native plant species, an I Spy nature game, and a meadow where the monarch butterfly feels right at home during its migration. “Many of our species that live here don’t live here all the time, they spend time in other parts of the world. So in terms of conservation, what we do here matters, but it also matters globally,” Acuti explains. Other interactive learning tools at the

nature center include a beaver dam and a discovery drawer. A large, colorful mural of the Bay and its underwater inhabitants is magnetic for a reason. You can move around different animal magnets, like jellyfish—a necessary nuisance. “They really are an important food source for many species that live in the Bay,” Acuti says. Visitors at the grand opening were

“Many of our species that live here don’t live here all the time, they spend time in other parts of the world. So in terms of conservation, what we do here matters, but it also matters globally.”

nd just like that, Art Things has a new owner—make that a pair of co-owners: Comacell Brown, a lifelong Annapolitan, and Todd Powell, a longtime Annapolitan by way of Pumphrey. The duo made the deal “Facebook (and Instagram) official” on April 6, less than two months after owner Skye Vasquez put the 56-year-old go-to spot for all-things art supplies in Annapolis up for sale. Vasquez, who bought the iconic store in 2018, had moved it from its longtime location in West Annapolis to Maryland Hall in May 2020, during the pandemic; she returned to her day job in finance to keep it afloat and left the management to long-time employee Kim Eshleman, who has been with the store since 1978. But after Eshleman had a family emergency, Vasquez made the difficult decision to close the shop in October 2021. With these challenges in mind, Vasquez couldn’t be happier to have found Brown and Powell, whom she clearly sees as the right buyers to continue Art Things’ proud legacy. “I am very excited to see Comacell’s and Todd’s vision for the store come to life,” said Vasquez. “They have great ideas to keep the store going, and growing, while also staying close to its core mission of providing the community with both art supplies and education.” Indeed, co-ownership of Art Things could be considered a natural fit for Brown and Powell given their individual backgrounds and their preexisting business relationship. Brown, aka Cell Spitfire, is the lead designer at Tunnel Vision, a sports apparel company located in Severn, CEO of Cell Spitfire Paintings and Designs, and a teaching artist and mentor who was named 2021 Visual Artist of the Year by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County at the 21st Annie Awards. He’s also a nationally-renowned mural-

ist, having completed countless works of high-visibility outdoors art in Annapolis—for example The Walking Man, which memorializes Carlester “Buckwheat” Smith, on the wall of Pinkey’s West Street Liquors, and the Carr’s Beach Mural, which memorializes what was once the go-to beach for African-Americans in the mid-Atlantic, at the Maryland Cultural Conference Center, and beyond, including on basketball courts in Washington, D.C., Louisville, Kentucky, and Harlem, New York. A realtor, hotelier, developer, and entrepreneur who spent years as the wedding and events manager at St. Michael’s Inn at Perry Cabin, Powell also serves as Brown’s manager and agent, having connected with him following the unveiling of the Carr’s Beach mural in May 2021. Together, they look forward to combining their artistic, creative, and business expertise to not only maintain, but also grow, the business—plus proudly preserve its legacy as a minority-owned one, as it will transition from woman-owned to Black-owned. For starters, they’ll do so by keeping the store’s name and logo, the Mona Lisa sign that’s synonymous with art supplies in Annapolis, and continuing to, “match artists with the right materials and supplies so that they can successfully fulfill their creative expression.” Customers can not only continue purchasing the traditional materials that Art Things has always offered—paints, canvases, drawing materials, books, and the like— but also discover new products that Brown and Powell plan to stock, such as resins and molds to make casted pieces and mural-making materials including Spitfire Pro-Acrylic Spray Paint, Brown’s just-announced proprietary line of eight limited-edition spray paints. The pair plans to “reinvigorate and activate the space,” said Powell. This will include expanding the store’s gift offerings, from hand-crafted candles to greeting cards, plus new services like bespoke gift wrapping and packaging. See ART THINGS on next page

— RANGER MELISSA ACUTI, CHIEF OF INTERPRETATION FOR MARYLAND PARK SERVICE drawn to the magnets. “You can just put them anywhere you want to. Put the butterfly here. That’s a crab there,” said Hannah Perez, visiting from Columbia. Mark Akers came from Dundalk to experience the new attraction. “I got my little sister Karen here with me. It’s a way for us to stay together and get connected with nature,” he said. From oyster spat on shell to a “boat” where you can try on a life jacket and measure some fish, the nature center teaches visitors about the Bay that is just steps away, outside the nature center at Sandy Point. “In school we don’t really learn about this a lot. So when I go to a park like this, I can learn more about everything and just be more connected,” said Karen Akers.

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Art Things at Maryland Hall has new co-owners, Comacell Brown (left) and Todd Powell (right). Photo: Steve Adams.

BAY BULLETIN ART THINGS from page 8

They want to make the store “feel more like a home than a business” by restyling it with what Powell refers to as “FFE” (new furniture, fixtures, and equipment) and, of course, new art. “We know that you can go to Amazon. com, find almost anything that you can think of, and come home to a bunch of boxes at your doorstep a few days later,” said Powell. “But Art Things has always been and will continue to

“Art Things will continue to be about the experience— being able to buy from, ask questions of, and receive advice directly from an artist.” —TODD POWELL be about the experience—being able to buy from, ask questions of, and receive advice directly from an artist who’s incredibly passionate about all forms of art, just like you can order food that’s actually made by the head chef at the best restaurants, and to also get the high-level customer service that you expect when shopping boutique brands.” Brown’s goal is that Art Things becomes a place where all people, especially youth, are exposed to all kinds of art. “We want to bring all of the arts to all of the people,” said Brown. “Hopefully we will not only spark their curiosity about creating art, through our products, but also about society and culture, through exposure to my and my peers’ work.” Brown and Powell have not announced a reopening date. “We’re extremely excited to open our door and welcome the Art Things community back, as well as start growing it, but we’re not quite ready to do so yet,” said Powell. “But we promise it will be worth the wait,” added Brown.

Cleaning Up the Community BY MATTHEW LIPTAK

olunteers hit the road in Severn last weekend to clean up their community. Their weapons of choice? Trash bags and gloves. The cleanup is part of Project Clean Stream, an annual initiative organized by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay to raise awareness about the importance of environmental stewardship. In other words, picking up after yourself. If you’ve done more than one event involving cleaning up litter and trash, you’ll quickly learn there are some common items making up much of the Bay area’s trash: beer and liquor bottles, foam cups and containers, and tires aplenty. At the April 16 event, volunteer Mac McCandless, won the award for most surprising item: the top half of a basketball hoop, complete with rim, backboard and pole. Forrest Gump may have related to the find—there is plenty of repetition in cleaning up after litterbugs and illegal dumpers, but all in all “You never know what you’re going to get.” As one of the dozen or so volunteers for the clean up on Old Mill Road in Severn, I was able to haul out four trash bags full of glass, plastic bottles, bits of Styrofoam, plastic, and food wrappers. I estimated some of the bags weighed upwards of 30 pounds. They were just a small portion of the 40 bags the group of volunteers removed from the side of the

Volunteers Pat Brenner (left) and Karlyn McPartland helped clean up a portion of Old Mill Road. Photo: Lynne Rockenbauch. road and flood plain of Severn Run, not counting tires and other items. The cleanup was organized by the Friends of Severn Run Natural Environmental Area, under the direction of Lynne Rockenbauch. Rockenbauch reported that 1,280 pounds of trash was collected in this small stretch of road between Telegraph Road and Burns Crossing. “I think it’s just a lack of education,” says McCandless, who lives in Crownsville. “I don’t think they understand the consequences of what they’re doing. Once they dump it off their truck or their car, they forget about it. It’s somebody else’s prob-

Wind in His Sails BY DOLLY MERRITT

olomons sailmaker Clarke McKinney is busily preparing for the June Annapolis Bermuda Ocean Race. This will be the fifth time he has joined the 753-mile race from the Bay to Bermuda. But it will be the first time he has raced it with a special crew member: his son Neal. The McKinneys are part of a crew of six who have been working since February for the event. The two men, both from Leonardtown, are physically and mentally preparing for all the potential challenges such a race exacts. “It’s 750 miles—pretty bare bones,” says the 67-year-old, who will serve as captain

Clarke (left) and Neal McKinney during a race on Breton Bay. Photo: Clarke McKinney.

lem. I think if people were dumping trash in their yard, they would understand.” Volunteer Karlyn McPartland from Jessup agreed with McCandless. “I find it very offensive that people could do this to their environment. I understand, once in a while a piece of trash can get away from you on a windy day, but people are not conscious of what they’re doing. They don’t care that they’re soiling their own nest.” McPartland came to the event with Pat Brenner from Crownsville. Brenner is on a personal mission to be one of the solutions to the littering issue in the Bay area. “Trash pickup is a big thing for me,” said Brenner. “I hate trash along the side of the road.” Brenner regularly cleans up around her own neighborhood. Roger Staab, who works as a ranger at Sandy Point State Park, said he enjoyed the extra time being outdoors. He provided tools for the volunteers as well as took care of any hazardous waste discovered. “I’m going on 40 years (as a Maryland park’s ranger),” he said. “I just like being outside.” McCandless said he hopes more people will come to cleanup events like Saturday’s, and work together to police their own neighborhoods for signs of trash trouble. “If each community took it upon themselves to every so often clean up their areas, I think it might be better,” he said. “When I was young I threw stuff out the window. I was just as bad. As you get older you learn what it does to the environment.” Find more cleanups at allianceforthebay.org.

aboard the 40-foot Graybeard, a Class40 boat primarily used for short-handed offshore and coastal racing. He hopes the speed potential will get the crew to Bermuda in three and a half days, a far cry from his initial Annapolis Bermuda race. “The first time, it took us eight days to get there; we ran out of water; it was 120 degrees on deck in the middle of the day, and it took four days to get home. We had one single burner, one liter of water, and freeze-dried food.” McKinney says preparations for this race include many things such as getting safety gear for the crew and ensuring a specified amount of water for See SAILS on next page

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The Daring Divas are (L to R): Caroline Arnett, Marley Bittinger, Abbie Wilson, Juliet James, and Aubree Shepherd. Photo: Peggy James.

Daring Divas Head to Finals BY SUSAN NOLAN

group of fifth-grade girls from Lothian Elementary School will head to Kansas City next month to compete in a global competition.

Jazz Concert to Honor Links to Ukraine BY KATHY KNOTTS

ultiple links to Ukraine inspired jazz promoter Paulina Phillips to turn the next Jazz Beyond Borders concert into a celebration of the Gershwin brothers, George and Ira. Sunday at Café Mezzanotte in Severna Park, musician Seth Kibel will perform a Salute to the Gerswhin Brothers as a nod to the family’s ties to Odessa, Ukraine. “I have loved the music of George Gershwin since I was a child,” says Phillips. “It just so happens that his grandfather was born in Odessa, also part of Ukraine. It is likely that the most performed jazz song in history, Summertime, is based on a Ukrainian lullaby, although there are various theories on

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each person. “All of the crew must be CPR-certified and have some medical knowledge to treat issues on board. They also need to be certified for completion of Safety at Sea training; a crewmember is given the responsibility of being the navigator.” Having spent his childhood summers in Ocean City—boating and fishing with his family—Clarke McKinney’s love of water is innate. When his parents built a summer home in St. Mary’s County, he and his brother’s priority was “water and waves.” His father purchased two catamarans “to keep his boys out of trouble,” says McKinney, with a laugh. After high school, it wasn’t uncommon to see the brothers using the family car to tow their watercraft to regattas. When McKinney entered St. Mary’s College he joined the sailing club. As he learned more about the sport, his competency increased and he won his first

The Daring Divas—Caroline Arnett, Marley Bittinger, Juliet James, Aubree Shepherd, and Abbie Wilson—took first place in the Maryland Destination Imagination (DI) competition earlier this month. The annual contest recognizes creative problem solving through a variety of exercises in science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. The

Lothian group earned the highest score among the elementary schools in the Daring Escape Challenge ensuring them a place in the Global Finals May 21. The Daring Divas began working towards the competition in September by building two “daring devices”—one powered by electricity, the other propelled by non-electric technical methods. Each device had to overcome a series of challenges within the context of a play written and produced by the students. Parent-volunteer Peggy James has been coordinating the Lothian DI team for six years. According to James, the students are responsible for the planning and implementation of their projects. “Team managers and other adults can teach certain skills, but the ideas, designs and construction are entirely student-led,” she says. In addition to placing first in their category, the Daring Divas were one of two teams to be awarded the Renaissance Award for engineering excellence in the statewide event. With teams from China and Latin America participating in the up-coming global competition, the Daring Divas

how the song came about.” Phillips says she was inspired to book the show because of the war in Ukraine. “My grandmother was born in Kiev when it was part of Russia … my great-grandfather was a bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church who was sent from Greece to Russia in the 1800s.” Phillips says she wanted a way to express her grief and pride in her family history and culture. “It breaks my heart to see the loss of life and destruction of families, of culture, of birth, death and marriage records. So many of us have history in that part of the world.” During a Ukrainian Christmas concert at Maryland Hall, Phillips says a violinist performed the lullaby followed by the Gershwin tune. “The similarity is uncanny. It was very moving. Now, we don’t know whether Gershwin was sung that lullaby by a family member. After all, he was born in the U.S. I know

that my grandparents sang to me in various languages and our parents were exposed to the same music. But perhaps he heard it as an adult somewhere in

race. “The hook was set,” he says. McKinney was active in the sailing activities, ultimately becoming captain of the varsity sailing program. In 1979, he received a bachelor’s degree in natural science with an emphasis in biology. “I probably had 12 credits of sailing courses,” he adds. Fresh out of college, McKinney applied for a sailboat rigger position at Zahniser’s Yachting Center in Solomons and was immediately hired. One of his first projects was to sew a canvas mast boot, and McKinney laughed as he described being pointed to a nearby barn where a Singer treadle sewing machine was kept—the place where he honed the skills that have brought him much success and accolades. A year later it was purchased by two businessmen and McKinney took over the management of Leonard Sails, Solomons, Inc. His workforce—a receptionist, sewing machine operator, and himself—was a small start that began

in a 500-square-foot office with a tiny floor used to spread out the canvas. “It was a true sweat shop with no bathroom...,” says McKinney. “We built sails for a 65-foot schooner without the ability to lay it out, so we did it in sections. I love puzzles.” Through two prior affiliations, Leonard Sails and Sobstad Sails, the business grew and McKinney ultimately joined forces with Quantum Sail Design Group. Today, Quantum Sails Solomons Island is operated out of a 2200-square-foot loft, with three tables and eight sewing machines, making custom canvas items using computerized technology. Though McKinney is color blind, he says he hasn’t had too many problems and it’s even a possible advantage when a couple disagrees about a particular canvas color. “I tell them they need to figure it out themselves,” he says with a grin and mentions a wide variance in colors that can include 12 shades of blue. McKinney admits that, on oc-

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will have the opportunity to showcase their work on a worldwide stage. “My favorite part is the competition,” says Juliet James, who is in her third year as a DI team member. “It’s fun and I like performing.” Teammate Abbie Wilson adds she is looking forward to the social aspects of the event. “My brother told me about the pin-trading. It will be fun,” she says referring to the opportunity she and the other Divas will have to collect and exchange souvenir pins with other teams. Additionally, organizations like NASA and the Ford Motor Company will offer demonstrations and lead students in hands-on engineering activities. “It’s a wonderful opportunity for our youth in South County to showcase their creativity and engineering skills,” says Peggy James. To offset the $10,000 cost of participating in the Global Destination Imagination competition, the team is currently accepting donations. The Daring Divas will be wearing t-shirts to the event printed with the names of businesses and individuals donating $200 or more. Anyone interested in contributing should contact Peggy James (830-765-5958). a public or private gathering, or a performance. We don’t know for sure. I’m okay with the mystery and don’t know that we will ever know for sure.” Kibel will play two shows at 4:30pm and 7:30pm (seating at 4pm & 7pm). In addition to performing on clarinet, saxophone and flute, Kibel will share historic context and insight into these timeless works of popular song which continue to influence music around the globe to this day. Pianist Ellington Carthan, double bassist Bob Abbott, drummer Wes Crawford and special guest vocalist Theresa Sise will join him. Sise is the co-founder and frequent hostess of the series. A popular jazz vocalist in the region, Sise has sold out many shows and performed extensively with big bands as well as her own group, Sweet Tea. p Advance tickets required: https://instnt.us/CafeMezz

casion, he was stressed when he used the wrong color. Still, “The staff knows my shortcomings,” he says. “If I say it’s green, they’ll look for red or brown.” McKinney’s craftsmanship and passion for sailing are intertwined. “My livelihood is my hobby and it’s nice that I can keep it that way,” he says. Throughout the year, McKinney estimates he spends 100 to 150 days on the water, having raced in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and the Mediterranean, as well as the Great Lakes, and cruising the Chesapeake. Over the years, family time on the water has included his wife, Mary Anne, two children—Neal and Allison—and grandchildren, ranging from 3 to 12 years old. Both father and son share excitement for the upcoming race. Neal McKinney says it’s “awesome” to have the opportunity to bond with his father in their mutual love of sailing and to participate in the “experience of a lifetime.” “It’s something we are talking about non-stop,” says Neal.

Nature’s Garden Edible wonders are growing all around

BY DUFFY PERKINS

OR CAPT. JENNIFER KAYE, the 40-hour workweek is spent on the water, where she helms a schooner rather than sitting at a desk. For the last 29 years, she and her family have operated the Schooner Woodwind out of Annapolis Harbor, where they lead thousands of passengers each year on charter sailing adventures on the Chesapeake. But in the spring of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic temporarily made a landlubber out of Kaye, she found herself in new territory. “It was very strange,” she says. “We didn’t know if we were going to launch the boats and start our season. The boatyards were closed, and we just had to wait.” After spending the greater part of her life outdoors, Kaye found it difficult to remain inside. So she started going for long walks, and spending time in her own yard. It was there that she began to see the forest for the trees. “I realized that 90 percent of my lawn is edible,” she says. “As soon as I realized this, I started to think, ‘Hmm, but will it be tasty?’” The answer was yes. Kaye started experimenting with making elaborate salads and exotic pesto out of dandelion greens and chickweed. Harvesting magnolia blossoms during the early spring, she made a simple syrup to augment a white wine sangria. Wild violets went into a white balsamic vinegar and became a gorgeous salad dressing. Forsythia blossoms up-leveled a basic honey drizzle. These plants were readily available within Kaye’s own perimeter, but the more she explored with plants,

Capt. Jennifer Kaye finds a cluster of ramps, garlic mustard, chickweed, and violets all in one spot: a foraging miracle! Photo: Duffy Perkins. the more she wanted to explore nature to see what else she could harvest. “I really wanted to find some morels,” she says, talking about the elusive spring mushrooms. “But they weren’t anywhere I looked. One day, my boyfriend said, ‘I hear they like poplar trees,’ so we went looking for a poplar grove. And sure enough, right there we found four giant morels.” Kaye’s partner lives on a former working farm, which

is where she does most of her foraging. During the pandemic, however, she broadened her scope to places she wouldn’t normally consider. Pineapple weed (extremely hard to find) was found growing in an abandoned parking lot. “It lives where nothing else wants to live,” she says. “It’s not good to forage in parking lots, but during the pandemic, when parking lots were empty all of the time, I wasn’t deterred.” CONTINUED O

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INTERESTED IN HARVESTING? START HERE! ONE OF THE easiest and best tasting things to harvest is dandelions. The greens complement any salad. Try mixing dandelion leaves in with a spring mix or kale blend, then topping with a simple Caesar dressing. The flowers can be deep fried as nuggets and go well with a spicy jelly. Those tiny purple violets all over your yard? They’ll brighten any salad or soup, but put a big handful of the purple leaves into a jar of white balsamic vinegar, cover, and store in a dark area for two weeks to achieve a gorgeous purple hue for your next vinaigrette. Garlic mustard is also plentiful. Spicy and nutritious, garlic mustard is an invasive plant that you can feel good about eating. Using a blender, pulse two cups of leaves with garlic, roasted walnuts or almonds, olive oil and pecorino cheese to make a “local pesto” your family and friends will enjoy. Layer on top of pasta or dip bread in it for a lively riff on a classic. Morels have a truffle-like quality to them and are perfect on white pizza. Top a flatbread with mozzarella or burrata along with fresh rosemary, sea salt, and olive oil, then let the morels crisp up under the broiler. Top generously with parmesan cheese for a finish to die for. Want more recipes? The Maryland DNR has published an online cookbook called Wild Maryland (https://dnr. maryland.gov/cookbook/ Pages/wild-foraging.aspx) cataloging various recipes for wild game, seafood, and foraged flora. While “Buffalo Squirrel Sticks” may not be on your ideal menu, the cookbook has great recipes for pickled ramps, dandelion greens with bacon, and morel cacio e pepe.

Children like Cam Perkins, 7, are great foragers of the common blue violet which often grows in their backyards. (Above right) Baxter and Willow Iliff forage for dandelion greens on their family’s farm while knowing that the cherry blossoms signal the start of another harvesting season. Photos: Duffy Perkins.

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Where you forage is just as important as what you forage. “My kids and I love dandelions,” says Jesse Iliff, executive director at Severn River Association. “We moved into a new house, and my daughter brought in some of the flowers for me to fry up. I realized she had picked them near the road, and I didn’t know what was coming off that road,” he says. “I wasn’t comfortable eating them.” Iliff, who has worked as an environmental attorney, naturalist, and Riverkeeper, also became interested in

foraging at the beginning of the pandemic. “I was becoming nervous about supply chain issues, so I started to think, ‘What’s out there?’” Iliff used the Seek app from iNaturalist to identify and catalog the plants growing in his yard and on his family’s 100-acre farm on the Severn River, and consulted a blog called The Forager Chef for ideas on how to prepare everything from dandelion greens to lion’s mane mushrooms. “The lion’s mane I found on my family’s farm, and I found a YouTube video

on how to prepare them like crabcakes. Now, I’m a born and bred Marylander, so this is a bold statement: they were so good. My kids ate some and had no idea they were mushrooms.” Iliff prefers foraging on his family’s farm for good reason. The official notice on harvesting any plant or animal in public places is spelled out clearly: “In Maryland State Parks and Forest, foraging is not allowed: an individual may not remove, disturb, damage, or destroy a plant, rock, mineral, or animal without a permit.” This law exists for a good reason, Iliff says. “The more you harvest native species from a forest, the more the invasive species get a leg up.” Forests that are overrun with in-

Before you take anything out of the ground, remember a few things. Look where you’re foraging. Is the ground treated with any form of pesticide application? Is there significant runoff from a road? If anything about the area is questionable, don’t eat that!

ouble- and triple-check your plant or fungus before you harvest it. “Any mushroom is D edible once,” says Iliff. Don’t hesitate to post images of your harvest on social media to ask for help identifying before you eat anything. And if there are any questions, don’t eat that!

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lways consume small amounts of the plant first to make sure you don’t have an allergic A reaction. If anything feels off, don’t eat any more of that! nd finally, mix your foraged food in with grocery store food. Foraged plants have A more minerals and nutrients than mass-produced food, and may affect your digestive system if you consume too much too soon.

SOME GOOD APPS FOR FORAGING Seek by iNaturalist Originally developed by National Geographic and the California Academy of Sciences, the Seek app uses your phone’s camera to easily identify thousands of different types of flora and fauna. An added bonus is the ability to use the geo-locator to identify the species that have been observed around you, as well. The app includes fun badges and challenges for adults and kids alike.

Morel hunting with children is a great way to spend the morning walking in the woods. Photo: Duffy Perkins.

One way to help encourage and rebuild a forest’s natural ecosystem is to forage for invasive species. Kaye’s new favorite invasive is perilla (often called shiso, or Japanese basil), a traditional Asian crop that belongs in the mint family (“It tastes like a cross between cinnamon and mint,” she says). vasives suffer greater problems with ticks, less biodiversity, and more general problems with both flora and fauna. The good news is that park rangers are beginning to see the benefit of getting the foraging community involved in ecological activism, and so foraging events are becoming more popular within state parks and forests. To counter the possible destruction of harvesting flora on your own, Iliff suggests considering the impact of taking something before heading out. “Native plants belong here, as part of the ecosystem. Well-meaning foragers often take the whole plant, rather than just one part, which doesn’t allow the species to replenish itself.” Iliff mentions ramps, a golden child of the foraging world, as an example. “Ramps are edible from root to leaf, like any other allium. But they’re becoming increasingly rare, as people over harvest them. There are ethical ways to do it, taking one leaf from each plant. When you harvest the bulb, you take the entire plant with you.” At Patapsco Valley State Park, foraging is permitted as long as visitors do not remove the entire plant material and agree

to take only what they need for themselves and not sell their harvests. Virginia Gambrell works in the park’s visitor services area and is a forager herself. “We’ve experienced roughly a 50 percent increase in visitorship over last year,” she says, “and many visitors have an active interest in self-reliance and sustainability, and come to the park looking to forage.” Gambrell notes that mushrooms and pawpaws are the most popular things to harvest, but that this also comes with a dark side. “The biggest problem is that foraging encourages visitors to walk off the trails, and they may not realize they’re encouraging the spreading of invasive species,” she says. “We have several fields of basket grass, and as visitors walk through the field to forage, the basket grass seeds will become attached to their clothes and shoes, and be transmitted throughout the park. We simply ask visitors to be enthusiastic but also respectful to nature when they come into the park.” One way to help encourage and rebuild a forest’s natural ecosystem is to forage for invasive species. Kaye’s new favorite invasive is perilla (often called shiso, or Japanese basil), a traditional Asian crop that belongs in the mint family (“It tastes like a cross between cinnamon and mint,”

she says). While perilla was first identified in China around 500 CE, the leaves only made it to Western gardens in the 19th century. Today, the plants can be found growing extensively in marshy areas, and likely your backyard. The leaves make fantastic wrappers for rice and fish, but can also be used in salads and chimichurris. Knotweed is another invasive that can become a culinary adventure. A member of the buckwheat family, knotweed was introduced to the United States in the 19th century as an ornamental plant and was used to prevent erosion. However, once established, knotweed can spread rapidly. Young shoots have a bamboo-like texture with a taste similar to a cross between asparagus and rhubarb, making it a fun addition to pies or jams. “I like it best pickled,” says Iliff. “But you have to get it in the spring, when they are tender little shoots with a little red to them. If you try eating them in the summer, when they’re 7- or 8-feet tall, it’s like eating a two-by-four.” Whether you’re a new forager or a highly experienced harvester, the most important thing to remember is that the best part of foraging is spending time in nature. Even if your basket comes home empty, a good walk in the woods is always worth it. p

PictureThis With over 10,000 archived images in its database, the PictureThis app puts the knowledge of an amateur botanist in your to-go bag. This app is praised for its accuracy, and allows you to store images in your “garden” to make self-identifying even easier. PictureThis app is not specifically designed for foraging, so be sure to double- and triple-check everything with other sources before anything goes in your mouth. WildEdibles Specifically developed for foraging, WildEdibles is the creation of “Wildman” Steve Brill, an environmental educator out of New York. The app is a great guide for identifying, cultivating, and preparing plants, but is not as extensive in its library as others. This app is targeted toward foragers in the eastern states, and organizes species by habitat, season, and more. Forager Diary There’s a serious amount of secrecy around foraging: once you’ve found that envious morel hot spot, you want to be able to go back year after year. Forager Diary allows you to keep track of the spots in a secure way, without sharing information socially.

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Anniversary Garden Gala Celebrate Watermark and Historic Annapolis’ milestone anniversaries with hors d’oeuvres, beverages, live music, raffles and more in the English garden (ages 21+). 6-9pm, William Paca Garden, Annapolis, $100, RSVP: Annapolis.org.

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Kick Gas Learn about electric vehicles at this Earth Day event with Annapolis Green, plus Annapolis Arts Alliance members paint plein air, live music, environmental education vendors, rock painting, and special promotions at area businesses. 6-9pm, West St (Cathedral St to Church Circle), Annapolis, Facebook: @annapolisgreen.

Bach+ Silent Movies

Make and sample strawberry and mint juleps (ages 21+). 6:30-7:30pm, Historic London Town, Edgewater, $35 w/discounts, RSVP: historiclondontown.org.

Pianists Noah Dion and Charles Murdock tag team to create a score for the Buster Keaton comedy Sherlock Junior. 7pm, St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis, free: liveartsmaryland.org.

Potagers, Morellos & Stew Holes

Night Hike

Learn about brick cooking stoves in the American colonies and early U.S. with Jennifer Ogborne, curator of collections. 7pm, Visitor Center Auditorium, Historic St. Mary’s City: hsmcdigshistory.org.

Join the North Tract ranger for an evening stroll on Merganser Pond Trail. Expect to see bats, possibly beaver and hear lots of frogs and crickets. Bring a flashlight. 8-9pm, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887.

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light snacks, live entertainment and photo ops; hosted by Annapolis Town Center (ages 21+). FSa 7pm & 9pm, location TBA, $49.37, RSVP: annapolistowncenter.com. APRIL 22 THRU 24

Fences

This drama centers on Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues, who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. FSa 8pm, Su 2pm, Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White Marsh Park Drive, $22 w/discounts, RSVP: bctheatre.com. APRIL 22 THRU MAY 15

Freaky Friday

When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again. FSa 8pm, Su 2pm, Th 8pm, Colonial Players, Annapolis, $23 w/discounts, RSVP: thecolonialplayers.org. SATURDAY APRIL 23

Bay Bridge Boat Show

Ballet Theater of Maryland’s

Browse a large selection of powerboats of all sizes and shapes, plus the latest in marine gear, accessories, and apparel. Learn from pros at educational seminars presented by Annapolis School of Seamanship and Chesapeake Bay Magazine. Th noon-6:30pm, FSa 10am-6:30pm, Su 10am-5pm, Bay Bridge Marina, Stevensville, $20 w/discounts: AnnapolisBoatShows.com.

Coppélia is a comedic ballet about a pair of lovers, an eccentric inventor, and his beautiful, yet mysterious daughter who entertain and delight in this comedic fractured fairy tale. Virtual option available. F 7:30pm, Sa 1pm & 4:30pm, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, $47 w/discounts, RSVP: balletmaryland.org.

Enjoy a day of biking 16, 38, 50 miles or a metric century (63 miles) along the Bay, marinas, farmland and wineries of Southern Maryland to support End Hunger in Calvert County. 7am, Chesapeake Church, Huntingtown, $69, RSVP: endhungercalvert.org/events/bike.

Treasure Island

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A swashbuckling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most beloved novel, this new production is a tale of buccaneers, buried gold, treasure maps, pirates, and the famous Long John Silver. Join young Jim Hawkins as he takes the journey of a lifetime. F 10am, FSa 8pm, Sa 2pm, Classic Theatre of Maryland, Annapolis, $55-$68 w/discounts, RSVP: classictheatremaryland.org.

7am-noon, Riva Rd. & Harry Truman Pkwy, Annapolis: aacofarmersmarket.com.

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Music by Three of a Kind 5-9pm, Mike’s Crab House North, Pasadena: threeofakindmusic.com.

Art Talks Potter Ray Bogle shares his experience and passion for Raku, a low-fire process inspired by traditional Japanese methods; hosted by SoCo Arts Lab. 6-8pm, RSVP for Zoom link: socoartslab.org/openstudios-arttalks.

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Mad Hatter Tea-Quila Party Indulge in a Wonderland experience with craft cocktails from Vintage Views,

End Hunger Bike Ride

9am-1pm, Northern Middle School, Owings: CalvertCountyMd.gov/Recycle

Earth Day at Quiet Waters Following the 5K, enjoy story time with Frolic the Fox (10am), compost demonstrations, yoga, invasive species pull (11am), pollinator talk, storytime (noon) and a tree planting (1pm) 9am-1pm, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis: aacounty.org/news-and-events.

Interactive Nature Hikes Share your passion and knowledge of plants and animals as you stroll the Forest Trail. Topics will include the history of North Tract, the role and importance of pollinators, the ecology and biodiversity within a forest habitat (ages 10+). 10-11:30am & noon-1:30pm, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, RSVP: 301-497-5887.

KIDS Chesapeake Jr Ranger Day Explore, learn and protect state parks as a junior ranger, plus reusable bag decorating, trivia, bingo, food trucks and ore. 10am-2pm, Sandy Point State Park, Annapolis, free: 410-974-2149.

Southern MD Celtic Festival Join more than 50 clans and societies to celebrate with music, food, dance and competitions. 10am-6pm, Jefferson Patterson Park, St. Leonard, $25, RSVP: cssm.org.

Revolutionary Annapolis Tour

Earth Day Cleanup

Join historian Glenn Campbell to walk in the footsteps of patriot leader William Paca and learn how the young lawyer became a rebel, a revolutionary, a signer of the Declaration and the governor on this 1.5-mile walking tour. 11am & 2pm, Museum of Historic Annapolis, $20 w/ discounts, RSVP: Annapolis.org.

9am-noon, Annapolis Maritime Museum, RSVP: amaritime.org.

Seed Swap

Earth Day 5K Benefits Friends of Quiet Waters Park. 7:30am-1pm, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, $25 w/discounts, RSVP: active.com.

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too; then take a guided hike to learn about native trees. 11am-noon, South River Farm Park, Edgewater, RSVP: 410-222-1978.

Walking Through Grief Join other grievers on a peaceful spring walk and reflect on this season of new beginnings and nature’s capacity to provide healing in times of grief. 11am-12:30pm, Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis, free, RSVP: griefinfo@ chesapeakelifecenter.org.

this forgotten tragedy on the Potomac River when 87 lives were lost while trying to stop presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth. Free water taxi rides and museum admission both days. Hear music by Sibling Rivalry (Sa 2pm); David Price, director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine gives an address (Su 2pm). SaSu 10am-5pm, St. Clement’s Island Museum: Facebook.com/SCIMuseum. SUNDAY APRIL 24

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Shop crafts made by local artisans, grab a bite to eat from Steamers, enjoy a beverage on the deck. 11am-5pm, No Thyme to Cook, Solomons: nothymetocook.com.

9am-noon, Beachwood Park, Pasadena, RSVP: bit.ly/beachwood-earthday.

Screech & Kestrel Meet two of North America’s smallest birds of prey: the American kestrel and the eastern screech owl. 12:15pm, National Wildlife Visitor Center, Laurel, free: 301-497-5887.

Bee Friendly Learn about honey bees, and see the inner workings of an observation hive. 1pm, Visitor Center, Historic St. Mary’s City, free: hsmcdigshistory.org.

Learn Orienteering Join Dave Linthicum for a hand-on experience learning orienteering skills for finding your way in the forest—without a smartphone or GPS (ages 15+). 1-3:30pm, Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Lothian, $10, RSVP: jugbay.org. APRIL 23 & 24

Sotterley Garden Guild Plant Sale Buy plants raised by Sotterley gardeners; members on hand to answer questions; proceeds used to maintain Colonial Revival Garden; bring plants to exchange (Sa). Sa 9am-2pm, Su noon-3pm, Historic Sotterley, Hollywood: Sotterley.org.

Black Diamond Commemoration See Civil War exhibits and demos on the museum grounds and learn about

Animal Track Hike Join a ranger to learn how to identify different animal tracks. 10am-noon, Kinder Farm Park, Millersville, $5, RSVP: aacounty.org.

AACo Farmers Market 10am-1pm, Riva Rd. & Harry Truman Pkwy, Annapolis: aacofarmersmarket.com.

Honey’s Harvest Market 11am-2pm, Honey’s Harvest Farm, Lothian: honeysharvest.com.

Fairy & Gnome Home Festival Journey thru magical realms to discover fairy houses, fantastical characters, magical creations, imaginative play, nature exploration, petting zoo, unicorn rides and live entertainment. 11am-4pm, Annmarie Gardens, Solomons, $8 w/discount, RSVP: annmariegarden.org.

Annapolis SketchCrawl Join the Annapolis Arts Alliance for a day of sketching at the Naval Academy, followed by a reception at the Chase-Lloyd House (3pm); bring your own materials. Noon-4pm, USNA Visitor Center, Annapolis, $10 w/discounts, RSVP: Annapolis-arts-alliance.com.

Dinner & Cruise Ride the water taxi, enjoy a cocktail reception at the museum and a seafood dinner at Morris Point Restaurant. 2-6pm, St. Clement’s Island, $20, RSVP: Facebook.com/SCIMuseum.

Riversdale Chamber Music Society

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Hear the Salon Trio perform works from their debut CD. 3-4pm, Riversdale House Museum, free: pgparks.com.

Film Screening & Reception Watch the film Sing to Me Sylvie, directed by Jannette Bloom, then enjoy a reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres; benefits Friends of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. 4pm, UU Church of Annapolis, $35: annapolissymphony.org.

Salute to Gershwins Jazz Beyond Borders presents Seth Kibel and Theresa Sise performing music by George and Ira Gershwin. 4:30pm & 7:30pm, Café Mezzanotte, Severna Park, $25, RSVP: https://instnt.us/CafeMezz.

10,000 Maniacs 8pm, Rams Head on Stage, Annapolis, $55: ramsheadonstage.com. MONDAY APRIL 25

Illusionist Rick Thomas 8pm, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, $65 w/discounts: ramsheadonstage.com.

Decorative Arts Tour The Curator of Collections guides a tour of the house with a focus on the fine decorative arts collection. 5:306:30pm, William Paca House, Annapolis, $25 w/discounts, RSVP: Annapolis. org. THURSDAY APRIL 28

KIDS Little Minnows Children (ages 3-5yrs) join in story time and a carryout craft on the theme of Crabs Have Claws. 10:15am & 11:15am, Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, free w/admission: calvertmarinemuseum.com.

SoCo Farmers Market 3-7pm, Deale Library, Facebook: @ SoCoFarmersMarketatDealesLibrary

Gallery Reception See the exhibit Women in the Arts in the Chaney and Martino Galleries, a look at the works of Yumi Hogan and Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki, and how they have embodied and defined nature through art. 6-8pm, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, free: marylandhall.org.

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Knights of Columbus Bingo Doors open 5:30pm, game starts 7pm, The Knights of Columbus Council 2577, 6111 Columbian Way, Bowie: kofc2577.com.

Urban Seascaping

NOAA oceanographer William Sweet talks about global and regional sea level rise scenarios and the latest projections. 6:15pm, 49 West, Annapolis, or RSVP for Zoom link: annapoliscafesci@ gmail.com. PLAN AHEAD

Dr. Samia RabKirchner discusses principles and practices for co-developing cities with shared waters and the need to widen the approach taken by resource managers and scientists beyond individual discipline and expertise to work collaboratively between climate, culture, and civics. 7pm, RSVP for link: umces.edu/cbl/science-citizens.

Sons of Serendip Hear vocal-instrumental quartet and America’s Got Talent season 9 finalists. 7:30pm, The Byzantium, Annapolis, $60 for season: aacconcerts.weebly.com.

Annapolis Sailboat Show April 29-May 1: Browse new and brokerage boats including catamarans, monohulls, family cruisers, daysailers, and inflatables; plus visit with boating clubs, charter companies, shop for gear and equipment, and take free seminars and classes with Chesapeake Bay Magazine and the Annapolis School of Seamanship. Note tickets will not be sold on site. FSa 10am-6:30pm, Su 10am-5pm, City Dock, Annapolis, $20 w/discounts, RSVP: AnnapolisBoatShows.com. p

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rince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård: Succession) has just been deemed a man by his father (Ethan Hawk: Moon Knight) when his world is shattered. Amleth’s uncle Fjölnir (Claes Bang: Locked Down) murders Amleth’s father, claims Amleth’s mother (Nicole Kidman: Being the Ricardos) as his wife, and orders the murder of his only nephew. Narrowly escaping his murder, Amleth takes off for parts unknown swearing to the heavens that he will avenge his father, save his mother, and kill his treacherous uncle. Over a decade later, Amleth has forgotten these vows. Now a berserker, Amleth’s rage has translated into brutal raids on Slavic-speaking villages where he burns the fields, murders anyone who opposes him, and sells off the healthy survivors as slaves. When he hears the latest enslaved group is destined for Fjölnir, who has lost the kingdom he killed for and is now a farmer in Iceland, Amleth’s thirst for revenge is reignited. Can Amleth exact revenge on his uncle? Or is his violent quest a hollow endeavor fueled by misplaced wrath? Let’s get this out of the way now— if the plot of The Northman sounds familiar, congratulations, you passed tenth grade English. The Scandinavian legend of Amleth inspired William Shakespeare to write Hamlet. Though the plot may be familiar, director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse) takes this tale back to its historical origins with grisly, heart-pounding results. Eggers has built a reputation for being a stickler for historical accura-

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cy in his movies, and The Northman meticulously recreates 10th-century Viking culture, with all the gore and violence that is usually skimmed over in school classrooms. The culture is vicious, with any sign of weakness reviled, creating a hard-fighting, hard partying people who show no fear and little pity as they increase their territory. Amleth doesn’t fear death, because to die fighting is to earn the ultimate reward in society—a trip to Valhalla.

The Northman meticulously recreates 10th-century Viking culture, with all the gore and violence that is usually skimmed over in school classrooms. Though the film is brutal (seriously consider your tolerance for gore/stabbing before you buy a ticket because even the sound design in this movie seems intent on making you queasy with juicy axe blows), Eggers manages to make the film beautiful. Collaborating again with cinematographer Jarin Blaschke (The Lighthouse), Eggers crafts some truly astounding sequences and images. One particular tracking shot as Amleth and his berserkers raid a village is breathtaking in its ferocious splendor. The film also plays with the use of hallucinogens in rituals, which produce some trippy, glorious sequences that spin the viewer into a heightened reality.

While the film offers Eggers’ signature meticulous historic detail, The Northman might be the most straightforward of his films. While The Witch and The Lighthouse delved more into metaphors to explain their histrionics, The Northman is a relatively simple tale of revenge, and the trappings of seeking retribution. Still, even without an extra layer of artifice, The Northman has the bombastic style of The Lighthouse, a film that took big dramatic swings with both performances and visuals. Adding some meat to the uncomplicated story are some wonderful, committed performances. Skarsgård, who’s usually a charming leading man type, goes feral for his role as the rage driven Amleth. He’s a snarling bear of a man with hunched shoulders and perpetually clenched muscles. He’s a man who determined his life’s story at age 10 and refuses to deviate from his quest to avenge his father, reclaim his mother’s honor, and kill his uncle. Even when this story is challenged, he remains blinded to any point of view but his own. Kidman and Bang are also standouts in The Northman. Kidman, who is coming off an unearned Oscar nod, offers up a savage performance that’s certainly award worthy. She makes the most of her short screentime, tearing into scenes with gusto. Bang takes what could have been a mustache twirling villain role and adds a good deal of pathos and depth. There’s nothing subtle or subdued about The Northman, everything is over the top, from Skarsgård’s abs to the roars of the men he fights (there’s a naked volcano fight, reader). It’s high drama and operatic entertainment done beautifully. If you like the idea of an art house version of John Wick, this movie is must-see. Great Action * R * 136 mins.

GARDENING FOR HEALTH

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s you get ready to plant your vegetable or flower gardens this spring, make sure your soil is friable and loose to allow easy planting. The Bay Gardener, the late Dr. Frank Gouin, advised the deep rooting of plants by subsoiling or double digging. I agree with him and like to initially turn the soil over for at least a depth of 12 inches. Then I incorporate compost like Leafgro into the soil. If you repeatedly rototill or spade the soil to the same depth year after year, you can create a hardpan at a depth of 4 to 6 inches. This hardpan will prevent water from draining and creates poor drainage conditions, preventing plant roots from penetrating deeper where there is more water. Amending the soil with compost and digging deeper into the subsoil helps to stop the formation of hardpan. The organic matter migrates into the subsoil and reduces the bulk density of the soil. Compost and other organic matter like chopped leaves help the capillary and gravitational movement of water in soils. This is something that fertilizers cannot do. Subsoiling and adding compost to the soil encourages deep rooting and makes plants more resistant to drought. Light sandy soils and heavy clay soils both

benefit from the addition of compost. When you improve your soil, you’ll have more successful plant growth. Your transplants and young seedlings will establish more rapidly and they will become more drought resistant. It’s great to get the planting bug early, but don’t purchase tender plants too soon. Hardy annuals, perennials and cool weather vegetables can be planted now. Pansies, violas, English daisies, stock, bachelor buttons and snapdragons can safely be planted now. Hardy perennials such as creeping phlox, woodland phlox, Virginia bluebells, bleeding hearts and a host of other perennials can also be planted now. Hardy herbs you can plant now include parsley, cilantro, dill, lavender, thyme and mints. But herbs such as basil should wait until after our last frost, anywhere from the end of April to mid-May. Cool season vegetables such as lettuce and the brassica family, which includes kale, collards, cabbage, turnips, cauliflower and broccoli, can all be planted now. Don’t be tempted to plant tomatoes and peppers unless you have special coverings to insulate them. If you do buy some, make sure to keep them indoors in a warm, sunny window. p

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just came from a trip to York and saw a small rookery of great egrets (see photos) getting started in a small park. Remarkably the park was very busy with people—especially people with cameras and binoculars. The part of the park being used by the birds was roped off but I was still amazed that the birds were more intent on amorous displays and nest building than worrying about the viewing public. I counted nine easily visible nests and a few more that were just getting started by early arriving males. The males seemed to be intent on gathering sticks and ceremoniously placing them in their nest, all the while, fluffing and primping their long flowing feathers. In the late 1800s, hat designers coveted those long-flowing feathers, leading to the snowy egret, great egret and other wading birds being hunted in tremendous

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numbers. The birds were headed toward extinction. The Smithsonian Magazine (March 2013) describes how dire the situation was for the birds but also how the slaughter was stopped. “Egrets and other wading birds were being decimated until two crusading Boston socialites, Harriet Hemenway and her cousin, Minna Hall, set off a revolt. Their boycott of the trade would culminate in formation of the National Audubon Society and passage of the Weeks-McLean Law, also known as the Migratory Bird Act, by Congress on March 4, 1913. The law, a landmark in American conservation history, outlawed market hunting and forbade interstate transport of birds.” Unfortunately, in December 2019 the act was severely weakened when the federal government eliminated criminal penalties for incidental bird deaths. In 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-

vice revoked the policy and returned to prohibiting incidental take and applying enforcement discretion. “The impacts of climate change coupled with loss and degradation of habitat are pushing more and more wildlife species to the brink,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in a press release. On the north shore of the Susquehanna River, just below Route 1, is a yearly gathering of huge prehistoric-looking birds. The pterodactyl-like great blue herons collect themselves along the trees of the relatively quiet shoreline and start building what appear to be incredibly flimsy flat nests. The nest building takes place with a cacophony of shrieks, squawks, and grunts. Two years ago, there were about 35 nests visible from the south shore of the river. Birds that nest in large groups are said to form colonies or rookeries. These colonies are important social structures. The socialization stimulates pairing, breeding, rearing of the young but it also affords protection from natural predators. The downside to forming colonies is that one disaster can wipe out a whole year of offspring or even a whole colony of adults. Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, heat waves, hunting, construction projects, intruding vehicles, pets or just (ignorant) people can cause the loss of a colony. Last year, at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve near Los Angeles, California, a drone crashed into a colony of elegant terns, causing the entire colony to abandon their approximately 2,000 eggs, skipping an entire generation. In Virginia, the Hampton Roads’ South Island was paved, evicting the largest colony of nesting shore birds in the state. About 25,000 migratory seabirds had colonized habitat that was part of the expansion of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel. As a mitigation attempt, seven sand covered barges were placed near the island to lure the birds an artificial island called Rip Raps Island or Fort Wool. Trained herding dogs are used to chase the birds off South Island. It seems to be working as the rare gull-billed tern has been seen on Fort Wool. p

SPORTING LIFE

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L-R: School of yellow perch swim up Magothy Branch across from the Lake Waterford dam. Photo: Tom Caperna/Magothy River Association. Paul Spadaro of the Magothy River Association in Maryland empties a bucketful of yellow perch egg masses into a wire cage, designed to keep the eggs from being washed away or eaten by predators. Photo: Timothy B. Wheeler/Bay Journal.

Yellow Perch Run Spawns Hope in Magothy

f hope springs eternal, spring brings eternal hope to Paul Spadaro. As winter wanes, Spadaro, longtime president of the Magothy River Association, patrols this Chesapeake Bay tributary north of Annapolis to look for the return of yellow perch. Those golden yellow fish with dark vertical stripes herald the approach of spring by swimming up the Bay’s rivers and streams to spawn in freshwater. Decades ago, their reproductive runs drew anglers out of their homes in droves for their first fishing trip of the year. They would line creek banks or go out in canoes or skiffs and try to fill a creel with the panfish. The fish are less plentiful now, and so are their pursuers. But the annual mating ritual persists, as do the watchful eyes of Spadaro and members of the Magothy watershed group. They are trying everything they can—against long odds and some official skepticism—to restore yellow perch to their historic abundance in the river. “It’s a keystone species,” he explained. “If the river is producing yellow perch, it does mean the river is on a comeback.” Perca flavescens, as they’re known to scientists, are found in tidal rivers and streams but also in freshwater lakes and reservoirs from Canada to the Carolinas. In the Chesapeake, they supported a robust commercial fishery in the early 1900s, but catches dwindled over time. From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, yellow perch reproduction was “very, very, very poor,” said Paul Piavis, finfish program manager for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. In Maryland, the population had

dropped to such alarmingly low levels by 1989 that the state imposed a catch moratorium in some Bay tributaries. Recreational anglers blamed the commercial fishery, and watermen blamed pollution and development. Striped bass, the Bay’s most prized finfish, was already under moratorium at the time because of perilous declines, so the state shut the yellow perch fishery down out of an abundance of caution. A few years later, after observing a couple of springs of robust spawning, DNR partially reopened yellow perch fishing. The fish have rallied, and an uneasy truce has been reached over their management, with size and creel limits for anglers and limited commercial netting allowed only in the Upper Bay

and the Chester and Patuxent rivers. Creel limits have increased for anglers from five to 10 fish per day. The commercial fishery remains tightly regulated, with a “slot limit” on the size range of legally catchable fish and catch quotas for the Upper Bay and its tributaries, adjusted annually based on trawl surveys done each winter.

Ups and downs In recent years, the yellow perch population has been essentially stable, Piavis said, with a bountiful spawn every few springs offsetting poor reproduction in other years. Since 2017, the roughly two dozen commercial fishermen licensed to net yellow perch in the Upper Bay haven’t come close to catching their limit.

A waterman holds a yellow perch netted in the Upper Bay, where limited harvests are permitted. Photo: Dave Harp/Bay Journal.

Likewise for the much smaller fisheries in the Chester and Patuxent. Paivis said the population is “in a declining phase” now, without a banner reproduction the past few years to generate a rebound. As a result, DNR cut the commercial catch limit by more than 40 percent for the 2021–22 season. By the end of March, with the spawning run largely over, it still had not been reached. “We’re still holding our breath for a good one, for a good spawn,” Piavis said. “I don’t have a whole lot of hope for this year. It should be OK. We’ll see.” Steve Lay of Havre de Grace, who fishes for yellow perch both commercially and for personal consumption, blamed the subpar harvests not on a scarcity of fish but on unfavorable weather and reduced market demand for fresh fish of any kind. “The last two years, we haven’t had winter,” he said. As a result, the water didn’t get cold enough to prompt yellow perch to school up, which makes it easier to fill a fyke net. But fishermen are seeing more yellow perch in the Choptank and Nanticoke rivers, Lay said, which have remained closed to commercial harvest. “It’s kind of a shame that there is a sustainable population there, and it could be harvested on a limited basis.” Mike Luisi, acting DNR fisheries director, said the department hasn’t been willing to do that so far because it lacks sufficient data on the yellow perch populations in other rivers. “We’ve got to prioritize,” he said. “We can’t survey the entire Bay specifically for yellow perch. It takes too much staff time and resources.” p This article has been trimmed for length. Read the entire story at bayjournal.com.

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What do you get when you cross spring picture day, a green screen background and St. Patrick’s Day? Completely memorable elementary school photos, of course! At Sugar Grove Elementary School in Center Grove, Indiana, picture day happened to fall on St. Patrick’s Day, United Press International reported. And no kid wants to get pinched on the saint’s special day, so many kids were dressed in green. One problem: Inter-State Photography used green screens, like those used on TV weather broadcasts, behind the kids, so many of them “disappeared” in the initial proofs. Amanda Snow said her son’s green hoodie turned into a fence, and “he had a green mohawk, but that is completely gone. ... It ended up being just a hilarious fiasco,” she said. The photo company said the issues will be fixed on the final photos, but Snow hopes not: “I might reach out to the company and see if I can get the unedited ones, because honestly, they’ve brought me so much joy and laughter over the last day,” she said.

Animal Antics

Step aside, Punxsutawney Phil. Mojave Max, a 33-year-old desert tortoise, sees your predictions of spring and calls them with a dramatic yearly emergence from his burrow in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to KSNV-TV, Max lives at the Las Vegas Springs Pre-

serve, where he is the official mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program. Every year, he marks the beginning of spring by making his way out of his burrow when his internal clock and the longer daylight hours tell him to do so. This year, Max peered out on March 26 at 12:21 p.m. Of course, Max’s interpretation of “spring” is hyper-local: It was 93 degrees in Las Vegas on March 26.

Recurring Themes

At least this wannabe traveler didn’t need help with his luggage. On March 29, an unidentified man scaled the barbed-wire fence at Midway Airport in Chicago and approached a private jet that had been cleared for takeoff, CBS News reported. As he tried to stall the plane, he removed his shirt, shoes, jacket and pants. Police said he appeared to be intoxicated. He jumped up on a wing of the plane; the pilot, in contact with air traffic control, said, “He’s right here at the front of the jet. He’s trying to get in. Our door is open here.” Chicago police apprehended him and took him to a local hospital for a mental evaluation. The plane eventually took off.

Least Mature Criminal

In Warren, Ohio, police responded to a robbery call with a twist straight out of elementary school. As a 22-yearold man walked along a road late on March 27, a man wearing a ski mask

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approached him and asked if he was a drug dealer. When the victim said he was not, the robber allegedly pulled out a knife and demanded money, WKBNTV reported. After the thief got about $80 from him, he made the victim “pinkie promise” that he wouldn’t call the cops, then rode off on a bicycle. The police have not located the pinkie promise perp.

The Continuing Crisis

Christopher Whetstone, 41, was arrested March 29 after authorities carrying out a search warrant at his home in Temecula, California, found two rocket launchers and a practice grenade in a trash can, National Public Radio reported. He was charged with grand theft, although it’s unclear whether the charges are related to the discarded heavy artillery items. Riverside County Sheriff ’s Department Sgt. Edward Soto said narcotics and a bazooka also were found in the home, which is adjacent to a middle school.

Sweet (or Savory?) Revenge

When Alisha Moy, 20, and Jordan Cobbold, 21, broke it off after just a few weeks of dating, Moy was ready to move on. But Cobbold, apparently, was not, Metro News reported on March 31. A couple of weeks after they met, Cobbold suggested he take a key to her flat in Suffolk, England, which raised red flags for her. “I remember

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calling my mum because I was worried about it,” she said. After she messaged him to break it off, she returned home from work to find “something wrong” in her apartment. “He’d pulled my shoes out of the little cloakroom and poured beans and spaghetti in there. There were condiments splattered all over the walls and cooking sauce poured all over my vacuum cleaner,” she said. Cobbold had cut the cords to all her brand-new electrical appliances. Damage was estimated at about $2,000; police arrested him a few days later and he was fined, given community service and a restraining order.

Inappropriate Behavior

An unidentified crane driver in Dublin, Ireland, lost his job after he recorded himself dropping a bag of his own excrement from the crane cab onto a rooftop on March 30, DublinLive reported. While flinging the sick sack overboard, the man joked about “the joys of being a crane driver” and laughed, much to the horror of social media viewers who saw the video. The construction company said the driver had been removed immediately and would “not work on any of our other sites in the future.” They also asked social media platforms to remove the video. p Send your weird news items with subject line WEIRD NEWS to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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1. Where are the hot springs known as ‘Onsen’? (a) Russia (b) Japan (c) South Korea 2. In what year did Richard Nixon resign the office of president? (a) 1978 (b) 1976 (c) 1974 3. Where is the deepest volcanic fissure in the continental U.S.? (a) Craters of the Moon Monument and Preserve (b) Glacier National Park (c) Yellowstone National Park 4. The leek is a national symbol of which European country? (a) England (b) Wales (c) Portugal 5. What company was originally named Blue Ribbon Sports? (a) Nike (b) Louisville Slugger (c) Wilson Sporting Goods

Giving something the Acid-Test now means giving ‘a critical examination,’ but originated when assayers sought to determine the presence of gold amongst other metals. Inferior metals decomposed when nitric acid was added, but not gold, so passing the acid-test meant it was the ‘real deal.’ Parents use an acid test during the period their children search for gold amongst prospective partners. Quality examination conclusions, however, are most times predetermined and recorded by both sides before any true testing is done. Scoring: 31 - 40 = Aloft; 26 - 30 = Ahead; 21 - 25 = Aweigh; 16 - 20 = Amidships; 11 - 15 = Aboard; 05 - 10 = Adrift; 01 - 05 = Aground

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by Bill Sells

SUDOKU

Fill in the blank squares in the grid, making sure that every row, column and 3-by-3 box includes all digits 1 to 9.

CRYPTOQUIP

4 Letter Words 6 Letter Words 7 Letter Words 10 Letter Words Copy Item Kids Text

5 Letter Words

Extra Issue Media Organ Scoop Story Style

Celebs Column Editor Garden Puzzle Sports Spread

Article Cartoon Feature Funnies Gazette Journal Tabloid

Real Estate Supplement

11 Letter Words Advertising Circulation Classifieds

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1 Fragrant oil 6 Actress Benaderet 9 Attention getter 13 Tropical vine 14 Globes 16 Moonfish 17 Yacht’s varnished wood 19 Toast topping 20 Noisy trains 21 Very, in music 22 Military group 23 Waterproof cover 25 Type of fishing 27 Ceiling 30 ___’easter 31 Guinness suffix 32 Sargasso Sea locale 35 Overact 40 Clairvoyant 41 ___ Maria liqueur 43 Matinee hero 44 Put into law 46 Common seabirds 49 Grampus 52 Compass dir. 53 Genetic material 54 Narrow body of water 58 Gives a hand 60 Music of India 61 Burns and Allen, e.g.

The CryptoQuip below is a quote in substitution code, where A could equal R, H could equal P, etc. One way to break the code is to look for repeated letters. E, T, A, O, N and I are the most often used letters. A single letter is usually A or I; OF, IS and IT are common 2-letter words; and THE and AND are common 3-letter words. Good luck!

Nautical Notes

29 Entreaty 33 Rainbow shape 34 U.S.S.R. successor 36 Bag thickness 37 Fragrance 38 Before hall or crier 39 “Born Free” lioness 42 Toward the wind 45 Boatload 47 Ouzo flavoring DOWN 48 Conducted 1 Priest’s robe 50 Move, as a plant 2 Spare, e.g. 51 Dead ringers 3 Mermaid feature 54 Boat, of course 4 Uneasy feeling 55 “Irish Eyes ...” actress 5 Arena shout 6 Spar projecting from the June 56 Greek marketplace bow of a vessel 57 Mary Poppins, e.g. 7 Cupid’s counterpart 59 Apology word 8 Chafe 62 Words to Brutus 9 Easy out, in baseball 64 Casket 10 Bridges 65 Put ___ words 11 “Socrate” composer 68 Dracula, at times 12 Letter before iota 69 “Absolutely!” 15 Irving Berlin’s “Blue ___” 18 Diviner’s deck 24 Cape ___, Mass. 26 Hiver’s opposite 27 Detective’s assignment 28 Solar disk © Copyright 2021 PuzzleJunction.com 63 Japanese sash 66 Stratford’s river 67 Yachting 70 Terrarium plant 71 Place for a béret 72 Ridgeline 73 Kind of table 74 California’s Big ___ 75 Novices

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