The Chesapeake Log, Fall 2023

BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2023–2024

Craig Fuller, Chair

Anne E. Mickey, Vice Chair

Richard J. Johnson, Treasurer

David W. Reager, Secretary

Nancy O. Appleby

Richard J. Bodorff

Dr. Michael Chiarappa

Mike Cottingham

Leonard W. (Jay) Dayton Jr.

June L. DeHart

Andrea F. Dynes

Duane H. Ekedahl

J. Christian (Chris) Fenger

Dagmar D.P. Gipe

Brooke Harwood

Ned Hennighausen

Francis J. Hopkinson Jr.

Paula Johnson

Deborah Lawrence

R. Scott Pastrick

Joseph C. Robillard

Bill Ryan

Richard K. (Kent) Schwab

Dr. Clara Small

Richard W. Snowdon

Gary B. Townsend

Jeff R. Vogel

EMERITI

Richard T. Allen

CG Appleby

Howard S. Freedlander

Alan R. Griffith

James P. Harris

Margaret D. Keller

Richard H. Kimberly (Dick)

Charles L. Lea Jr.

Fred C. Meendsen

The Honorable John C. North II

Sumner Parker

Joseph E. Peters

Norman H. Plummer

John J. Roberts

Tom D. Seip

Henry H. Spire

Diane Staley

Henry H. Stansbury

Benjamin C. Tilghman Jr.

HONORARY GOVERNOR

Fred Hocker

fall 2023

2 president’s letter by Kristen L. Greenaway

3 currents

• Enlightening Experience: Moving the Fresnel Lens

• Rising Tide Program Celebrates St. Michaels Scow Launch

8 lifelines

Volunteer Profile: Heirloom Garden Volunteers by Eric Detweiler

11 curator’s corner New Insights Into an Old Boat by Pete Lesher

12 feature Her Helm: Photographer Kristin Rutkowski on Capturing the Chesapeake’s Women Captains by Kate Livie

18 feature A Transformational Moment: CBMM’s New Welcome Center by Eric Detweiler

Editor: Eric Detweiler

Creative Director: Eric Detweiler

Copy Editor: Jodie Littleton

Contributing Writers: Christian Cabral, Eric Detweiler, Kristen Greenaway, Pete Lesher, Kate Livie

Art Direction: Half Moon Drive

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On the cover: Slated to open this fall, CBMM’s new Welcome Center is designed to offer guests a warmer and more immersive welcome to campus.

Photo by George Sass.

Left: Overlooking Fogg’s Cove, the new Welcome Center will transform the campus experience. Photo by George Sass.

When you visit this year, you will undoubtedly see the changes made to reinforce our ability to deliver our mission— exploring and preserving the history, environment, and culture of the entire Chesapeake Bay region, and making this resource accessible to all —by prioritizing the guest experience and enhancing our central interpretive themes and concepts.

The new Norman & Ellen Plummer Center for Museum Collections is completed, ensuring our commitment to the preservation of our collection objects and to increased access.

We are delighted to share that the reading room is busy with appointments from visiting researchers, scholars, and students viewing many of our behind-the-scenes objects, books, and ships plans.

The new Welcome Center—immediately noticeable as you drive under the original Tilghman Island drawbridge and enter campus—is completed, with enhanced exhibition space and a new Museum Store. The last of the exhibition installations are being ticked off before we open the doors, with a public celebration to be announced soon.

Our latest exhibition, The Changing Chesapeake, is open through Feb. 25, 2024, and demonstrates how we’re pushing boundaries and setting new levels of success, inviting artists and non-artists from around the region to explore their perspectives on how climate change and the impact of humans on the environment shape their Chesapeake community both now and into the future.

I am extremely proud of CBMM’s inaugural Education Professionals Gratitude Day, celebrated in June. CBMM shares a deep connection with our local school systems. In Talbot County Public Schools, all third-, fifth-, and seventh-graders in the school district participate in annual field trips and in-classroom experiences, in addition to our Rising Tide after-school program open to local middle school students.

School staff play a critical role in our community’s collective future, and we were proud to share our gratitude with them. Anyone involved in education—all PK-12 public, private, and charter school personnel, including teachers, paraprofessionals, school and district administrators, and support staff who provide maintenance, transportation, security, clerical, food, and other services within schools—spent a day on campus enjoying live music, frozen treats, and gratitude. Many thanks for your support this past year, and please do take advantage of everything new on campus at your CBMM! See you soon!★

School staff play a critical role in our community’s collective future, and we were proud to share our gratitude with them.

CBMM President & CEO

Kristen L. Greenaway

Enlightening Experience

One of just a handful of U.S. Coast Guard certified lampists, Kurt Fosburg, visited CBMM in June to relocate a third-order Fresnel lens to the new Welcome Center.

Designed by French physicist Anthony Fresnel in 1822, the Fresnel lens revolutionized maritime navigation around the world in the 19th century. Refraction from hundreds of pieces of specially cut glass made it possible to cast lighthouse beacons miles farther than ever before.

For generations, these lenses were vital on the Chesapeake Bay, lighting the way for boats passing through its shallow, dangerous shoals.

The Hooper Strait Lighthouse relied on a smaller, fourthorder Fresnel lens to guide vessels on the Bay in its original location. Since moving to CBMM’s Navy Point in 1966, the historic screwpile lighthouse has illuminated the Miles River at the entrance to St. Michaels harbor nightly.

Until recently, CBMM had three Fresnel lenses on display in the Hooper Strait Lighthouse. With Fosburg’s assistance, the largest of these lenses, a third-order revolving lens on loan from the U.S. Coast Guard, was moved from the second floor of the lighthouse to greet guests upon their entrance to CBMM’s new Welcome Center.

Situated at the mouth of an expansive floor map of the Bay in its new home near the Welcome Center reception desk, the lens will be part of an orientation exhibition that introduces the stories and artifacts guests will find across campus.

The lens was not original to the Hooper Strait Lighthouse and so can be interpreted and showcased in the new, ADAaccessible space. The fourth-order lens atop the lighthouse will remain in place along with a fifth-order lens on display as part of the iconic exhibition. ★

Photos by George Sass and Amanda Wachowiak

Rising Tide Program Celebrates St. Michaels Scow Launch

With a collective push, a group of middle school students from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Rising Tide after-school program trundled the St. Michaels sailing scow they’d spent the spring constructing onto the water for the first time on May 22.

The 12-foot wooden boat, dubbed Pickle by a consensus vote of the builders, launched into Fogg’s Cove to spirited cheers from the assembled group of family, friends, and program supporters.

“It’s fun because you get to see all the stuff that you worked on, and then it’s finally done,” said seventh-grader Sofia Mercado after taking her turn on

a short ride in the boat. “It’s fun to make something and see it turn out well.”

The launch event, including an awards presentation and pickle juice toast, was a well-deserved celebration of months of hard work on the project.

Meeting on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, 19 middle school students logged a combined 630 hours toward the project, following Shipwright Apprentice Megan Mitchell’s project plan with support from CBMM education staff and volunteers.

The scow build capped a busy and productive school year for Rising Tide, a free, donor-funded after-school program that has been teaching students in grades 6–9 basic boatbuilding and woodworking skills in a welcoming,

relaxed environment since 2015.

“It’s been an incredible experience to see the Rising Tide participants take ownership of this project over the last few months,” said CBMM Education Programs Manager Kendall Wallace. “I hope this project will help to reinforce the ideas that anything is possible if you’re willing to try, and that patience and commitment can result in something to be incredibly proud of.

“I’m constantly inspired by the work they’ve put into this boat, which they can forever point to and say, ‘I built that.’”

Beginning in January, the Rising Tide students contributed to nearly every step in the process to bring the boat to life in the program workshop.

The middle school students in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Rising Tide after-school program launched their newly constructed St. Michaels sailing scow on May 22. Photo by George Sass.

The project started by studying original plans in CBMM’s collection, drafted in 1929 for the Miles River Yacht Club by George Krill, to draw information about the boat’s shape and size, then making a building plan for the molds to set the vessel’s structure.

Once construction commenced, the task list included assisting with milling lumber, scarfing planks, and transferring patterns from the lofting to the building stock. The students were also involved with gluing up and shaping the mast and boom, crafting and installing all of the components, and painting the vessel.

Each day brought new lessons that ranged from wood species selection to proper use of block planes to the fine art of varnishing. One memorable February afternoon brought a field trip to the newly renovated Norman & Ellen Plummer Center for Museum Collections to examine a sail in CBMM’s collection that was originally built for a St. Michaels scow.

The result was Pickle, which sparkled in the evening sun with its bright white hull and green trim. It was the first boat built by the program since a pair of Chesapeake crab skiffs, Mary and Susan, was launched in 2018.

Eighth-grader Mac Hudson said his favorite parts were learning the history of the boat and using a hand plane

to shape it, while his brother Oskar, a sixth-grader, liked visiting CBMM’s working Shipyard and the teamwork necessary to complete the boat.

“We all worked together,” Mac Hudson said. “It’s cool that we got to help make it, and now it’s an actual boat that we can take on the water.”

For Mitchell, the build served as a capstone project of sorts in her final year of CBMM’s Shipwright Apprentice Program. She agreed to take on the project in December and quickly found it both challenging and fun.

“We’ve learned a lot from the project about what is necessary to complete a project like this with a build philosophy that the kids are helping in a meaningful way,” Mitchell said. “That’s so important. We want them to be involved. If they’re just occasionally rubbing sandpaper on the boat, that’s not meaningful and that’s not building skills for them.”

Beyond the chance to teach her craft to the next generation, Mitchell found it meaningful to take a step back in time to complete a classic design with a distinctly local history.

True to its name, the scow is a St. Michaels original, serving as the racing class of the Miles River Yacht Club in the 1920s and ‘30s. One of the few surviving examples is in CBMM’s collection and will be featured in the

new watercraft heritage exhibition in the new Welcome Center.

This is likely the first one to be built in town in decades.

“It has been a very cool project to be part of,” Mitchell said. “The Chesapeake produces a lot of very strange styles of boat that are easily replaced by mass-produced, more generalized designs, but sometimes having this specific design for this very specific place is an extremely valuable thing.

“It’s one of the things I love most about CBMM and its programs. Here, we don’t shy away from that specificity.”

Rising Tide will resume this fall with a new project to tackle.

Wallace is eager to make sure it’s something that will allow the students to build on the hands-on skills they practiced this spring and the camaraderie the group developed along the way.

“I don’t want you to forget the less technical skills that we practiced every day,” Wallace told the assembled group at the launch event. “We worked as a team, we practiced patience and understanding, we faced our mistakes when we made them, and we figured out how to do something that I don’t think any of us had ever done before.”★

CBMM’s Rising Tide program will return this fall with a new project for local middle school students.

Photo by George Sass.

Clockwise from top right: No matter when you’re visiting, CBMM offers fun for all ages. Your Chesapeake adventure begins here. (Photo by Sharon Thorpe) | CBMM hosted its inaugural Education Professionals Gratitude Day on June 23, welcoming dozens of teachers, administrators, and support staff from across the region and beyond. (Photo by Sharon Thorpe)

| CBMM’s waterfront campus offered a step back in time on Father’s Day weekend at the 35th Antique & Classic Boat Festival and Coastal Arts Fair. Over three days, more than 3,000 guests attended the annual festival, organized by the Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat Society. (Photo by Sharon Thorpe) | More than 1,000 guests gathered at CBMM for Big Band Night on July 1 to celebrate Independence Day with an evening of music, dancing, and fireworks along the Miles River. (Photo by Eric Detweiler) | Chesapeake Bay log canoe racing returned to the Miles River on June 24-25 for the MYRC Centennial Cup with Edmeé S. of CBMM’s historic floating fleet among the vessels in action. Check cbmm.org to learn more about September cruise opportunities for an upclose view of a unique Eastern Shore tradition. (Photo by Sharon Thorpe)

| Over eight weeks, CBMM Summer Camp offered children from around the region the chance to explore the magic of the Chesapeake’s people, traditions, animals, and environment while having a blast doing it. (Photo by Eric Detweiler)

Sunday, August 13

Watermen’s Appreciation Day

Saturday, September 2 Charity Boat Auction

Friday – Sunday

October 6 – 8

Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival

Saturday, October 28 OysterFest

Saturday November 18

Eastern Shore

Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival

On a sun-splashed May morning, the din of construction equipment bringing CBMM’s new Welcome Center to life provided a fitting soundtrack for the work happening just on the other side of the construction fencing.

In the Heirloom Garden, a transformation was well underway. A group of CBMM volunteers stayed busy pulling weeds, planting seedlings, and watering beds as part of a refurbishment of the garden designed to showcase centuries of plants and herbs historically grown in the Chesapeake region.

The Heirloom Garden will be one of the first things guests see upon entering campus through the new Welcome Center. Thanks to the attention and care of dedicated volunteers, the garden will be ready for its new spotlight.

“I’m just so thrilled with all this,” said Nancy Gooding, a local master gardener and longtime volunteer. “It’s a really great piece of history being restored to its original glory.”

The garden has been updated by CBMM’s facilities staff with new beds and plant labels and refreshed paths. Dozens of plants trace the evolution of agriculture, reflecting the home gardens cultivated by Chesapeake people from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

Supported through CBMM’s Regional Folklife Center under the Maryland Traditions program of the Maryland State Arts Council, the project emphasizes foodways as an important part of understanding regional culture and offers a place where these traditions can be demonstrated and interpreted through programming.

All involved are excited to soon share the sights, sounds, and smells of a flourishing garden with guests.

“It’s fun to see it resurrected,” volunteer John Thomas said. “We’re all involved because we want to make that happen. And, when the Welcome Center is finally open and ready to go, things ought to be in full bloom. That’s going to be really wonderful.”

The Heirloom Garden was launched in 2010 thanks to the inspiration and efforts of volunteer Roger Galvin. It became a labor of love for the retired attorney turned master gardener to continue expanding its scope and storytelling by combing through dozens of mail-order catalogs to source seeds from across the globe.

For years, Galvin spent a few days a week during the growing season tending to the beds and interpreting them for guests. He had increased the total species featured to 122 and logged more than 5,000 volunteer hours by the time he took a step back in 2019.

It was exciting for Galvin to come

back this spring and see both the new campus orientation and the CBMM community’s excitement to make it a featured stop for guests as the area reopens following construction.

“A lot of times when people would come back, they’d say, ‘I never knew this was here,’” said Galvin, who is honored with a small plaque of appreciation next to the Log House. “Now, it will be front and center for everyone to enjoy.”

The work to refurbish the Heirloom Garden has been a team effort months in the making, with behind-the-scenes planning and hands-on contributions from staff, including Director of Curatorial Affairs & Exhibitions Jen Dolde, Human Resources Manager Amy Wales Reilly, and Facilities Manager Rob Pedersen.

The volunteer effort has relied on leadership from master gardeners like Gooding, Galvin, and Mary Sue Traynelis, and help from hobbyists

By Eric Detweiler

like Thomas, who has appreciated the camaraderie in the garden and learned a little along the way, too.

The seed list was finalized over the winter, and volunteers with grow lights and home greenhouses soon got the growing process started. There was plenty of weeding and other prep work to do before the seedlings started going in the ground in early May.

Guests will soon be able to scan the seven beds—Native American, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, and 20th Century, plus separate areas for herbs and tobacco—and read interpretive information about the plants’ origins and introduction to North America and their uses by people in the Chesapeake region.

For Gooding, who has been a CBMM volunteer since 2012, it’s important work restoring a living exhibition that tells a vital story. She has overseen the planting and care of the herb garden, which has led her to fascinating research about the uses of various herbs through time to solve various medical and household challenges.

“With almost every plant, there’s a story behind why it was grown,” Gooding said. “Those stories can give you a better sense of how people lived. It fills in more details about the people who were here before us.” ★

A group of CBMM volunteers gathered on a May morning to weed, plant, and water the Heirloom Garden.

Photos by Eric Detweiler.

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NEW INSIGHTS INTO AN OLD BOAT

CBMM takes a fresh look at Alverta’s history ahead of Welcome Center move

By Pete Lesher

Black oysterman Fillmore King lived in a community of watermen, both Black and white, on Kent Island in the early 1900s. By 1910, when he was in his mid-40s, King worked for himself six months of the year harvesting oysters, earning enough to purchase a home for himself and his wife with a mortgage. He later acquired a secondhand, five-log canoe—the sort of boat everyone had used for oystering when he was young—but this one was built with an engine, a new variation for a traditional style.

King named the boat Alverta for his wife, who added to the income by taking in washing at their home. Fillmore King worked on the water into his 70s, despite having lost one arm earlier in life. By 1930, he was likely assisted on the water by his nephew, Isaac Bailey, who lived with the Kings.

In his declining years, King left work on the water and became a lodger in another home on Kent Island. Gleaned from census records, these details shed light on the life of one Black waterman in a community of many. Though about one in three oystermen were Black in King’s youth, the proportion dwindled in the late 20th century.

Fillmore King was not the first waterman to own and use Alverta. According to a March 1977 Bay Times interview with boatbuilder Lem Thompson Jr., who was also grandson of the canoe’s builder, Kent Island waterman Jacob W. “Pete” Baxter was the first owner and named the canoe Isabel for his daughter.

The old log canoe came to King after a string of owners that included Grasonville, Md., waterman Leroy W. Smith and drug store proprietor John A. Gardner. Delbert Baker purchased Alverta from King and worked the boat out of the harbor in Cambridge, Md. Baker’s sister and brother-in-law, Joyce and Douglas Ferris, ultimately donated the boat to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where it survives today.

Previously, CBMM interpreted this transitional log canoe—unusual in that it was built for power, not sail—as an example of the boatbuilder’s art. The canoe was begun in 1908 by Queenstown, Md., oysterman Walter M. Gardener, who severely injured himself with an adze in the process, before it was completed by Joseph A. Thompson, one of a multigenerational family of Kent Island boatbuilders. It would become Thompson’s last log

canoe and the last log canoe built on Kent Island.

In many respects, Alverta is a traditional log canoe, hewn from five loblolly pine logs and joined side-byside with iron drifts. Like log canoes from decades prior, Alverta is sharp in the stern, like the bow—hence the term canoe. But unlike canoes built just a few years earlier, such as the 1902 Silver Heel (ex-Maud) constructed by Thompson’s brother, Eugene, Alverta never carried a sailing rig. From the day it was built, Alverta was engine powered. When donated to CBMM, the canoe carried a 1951 Jeep engine complete with an automotive transmission and radiator.

After spending more than a decade in CBMM storage, Alverta will move into the exhibition Water Lines: Chesapeake Watercraft Traditions in the new Welcome Center opening this fall. CBMM is uncovering new insights into its historic small craft collection, centering on stories of diverse people like Fillmore King to interpret Alverta and the 28 other boats in the exhibition, some of which will be exhibited for the first time. ★

Alverta approaching Cambridge harbor in 1969. Photograph 1969, gift of Nellie Poet. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1218.4.

Photographer

Kristin Rutkowski on

Capturing the Chesapeake’s Women Captains

by Kate Livie

The maritime world is a superstitious place. Even today, omens and lore from centuries ago persist. Never begin a sea voyage on a Friday. Whistling on a boat conjures a storm. Bananas on a boat will cause the whole vessel to be lost. But perhaps the most enduring superstition, and one that still echoes through our modern boating culture, is the notion that women are bad luck on boats. In 1808, admiral of the British Navy Cuthbert Collingwood wrote, “I never knew a woman brought to sea in a ship that some mischief did not befall the vessel.”

This belief meant that for centuries, sailors, captains, and crew were all—and only—men. The message was clear: The water is a man’s world.

Even today, in a world of science over superstition, the notion proves a difficult one to shift. For portrait photographer Kristin Rutkowski, a self-described huge feminist, it was a surprise to realize she had internalized that concept, too.

“My husband and I had a sailboat, and we did day sails and cruised around the Bay. And as we went to different marinas, I didn’t think I saw women that had their own boats. I thought the women I saw were like me—there with their husband or partner, on his boat, doing his hobby. I didn’t think I saw women in charge of their own boats because I didn’t expect to see them.”

But as she cruised around the Chesapeake, she met one woman after another capably operating or captaining her own vessel. Not only was her assumption wrong, but having it confronted was inspiring. Her realization sparked an idea.

As a portrait photographer, Rutkowski is passionate about empowering her subjects through images that highlight their confidence, courage, and humanity. She was also

while uplifting and highlighting the women captains who had changed her own perspective.

“More and more women are out there, and I wanted to increase the visibility of women on the water. To normalize the idea that when you see a boat, the woman on it could be the captain. You don’t have to say, ‘Where’s your husband? Where’s your dad?’”

The two-year project, which Rutkowski would call “Her Helm,” kicked off in late summer 2020.

Rutkowski began by reaching out to women in her own network. Her husband knew the first woman she photographed, Janet Rupp, a fishing charter captain out of Herrington Harbor South.

It was impromptu, Rutkowski says, before she had developed her process for arranging and shooting the portraits. “I just saw her boat come in, so I grabbed my camera and ran down there to introduce myself.” Rutkowski was able to snap a few shots and chat with Rupp about her work as a captain.

It was a good first shoot, but off the cuff. Rutkowski already saw ways to improve.

The first element Rutkowski wanted to hone was style. Although she was happy with Rupp’s candid portrait, she envisioned a series of posed portraits, set in an environment or on a vessel the subject was comfortable with. Rutkowski also wanted to photograph her subjects in a way that emphasized each woman’s confidence,

looking for a new side project. Perhaps, she thought, a portrait series on women captains could correct the stereotype—

character, and strength.

“I could have gone out and photographed all these women doing

the gritty, hard work. Some of these women are charter captains, some work on commercial vessels, some are sailboat racers. I could have gotten the sweat and grime and work. But I wanted to carefully pose these women, to make them look as amazing sitting on a boat as they feel inside, powerful. They are the masters of that realm, and I wanted that to come across.”

Rutkowski also needed a way to find women for the series. She was accustomed to portrait photography clients coming to her.

“I got much better at reaching out cold to people, and eventually, I started building contacts through word of mouth,” she said. “It forced me to break out of my shell a little bit.”

Rutkowski also wanted to capture her subjects’ personal histories and anecdotes, like her first shoot with Capt. Rupp. And ideally, she’d get a chance to talk to everyone beforehand, to establish a rapport and help make the women comfortable before she met them at the dock.

“Being in front of the camera is a really vulnerable feeling, so the time they spent with me, even if just over Zoom, helped us build trust before every shoot.” Rutkowski built a website she could use to cultivate subjects and set up interviews, and also to share her ongoing work.

Rutkowski’s outreach paid off. Eventually, women from all corners of the Chesapeake were drawn to the project. Rutkowski would ultimately shoot more than 50 portraits of women captains representing a wide array of occupations and recreational activities, including safety boat captains, tall ship captains, cargo ship captains, tugboat captains, and captains who sail in long distance races.

There were women captains of all ages, ethnicities, and upbringings. Some of the captains even had a close connection to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, like Edna Lockwood captain

Rosie DiMatteo.

“You might have an idea in your mind, myself included, that all women on the water are the same, but there is so much variety, especially in how they came to be on the water,” Rutkowski said. “Some of them had support all of their lives and were never told, ‘Oh, girls don’t do that.’ But some of them had to overcome huge challenges and had to tackle the idea that boating is something women don’t do.”

Over the two years, Rutkowski traveled throughout the Chesapeake photographing each woman captain in her own environment—an element

upbringings.

There were women captains of all ethnicities,ages,and

attractive settings also turned out to be standouts: “The shoot with Jen Bowie, it was in a shipyard, this grungy commercial place, but the portrait turned out so beautifully. It really tells a story.”

After each shoot, Rutkowski would review the shots and edit a selection. She would then share the final, edited portrait with each of her subjects. It was often an emotional moment.

“When the captains saw the final picture, they would have tears in their eyes,” she said. “They had never seen themselves looking confident, in position on their boat. They were happy with the feeling of comfort and empowerment that the photograph evoked.”

Along the way, Rutkowski realized her work was confronting an important issue. While many of

her subjects grappled with a lack of confidence or a feeling of impostor syndrome, these portraits each featured a powerful, confident captain. In many cases, Rutkowski saw her work creating a moment of self-awareness and self-confidence that she found profoundly moving.

“Every one of them had this special spark inside of them,” she said. “I would tell the women—there are other people, other captains looking at your portrait and reading your paragraph who are saying how amazing and inspiring you are.

“Every woman in the series could be a role model. No matter how shy or intimidated they were about the portrait session, or how they felt about their role and what they accomplished, giving them a tangible way to see themselves positively and build their confidence was really rewarding.”

An exhibition of “Her Helm” images will be on view in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium, starting on Friday, Sept. 8. The exhibition will feature a selection of Rutkowski’s portraits and share stories about the initiative’s Chesapeake women captains while also serving as the launch of a “Her Helm” book.

Rutkowski believes the unique project has even more room to grow. She has heard from women across the country and beyond who want to participate.

“I restricted myself to the Bay to allow myself possibilities in the future,” Rutkowski said. “Maybe one day there will be a Great Lakes edition of “Her Helm,” or a West Coast, or a Gulf or a Florida.”

Even the Chesapeake project continues to evolve. Just as the “Her Helm” book was set to go to print in May, Rutkowski was able to squeeze in a 51st portrait, this one highlighting a Bay pilot with her vessel. ★

Coming Soon

A selection of Kristin Rutkowski’s “Her Helm” portraits will be exhibited in the Van Lennep Auditorium beginning Sept. 8 in the Changing Exhibitions Building.

CBMM will host an artist’s talk Sept. 14 and additional programming featuring the “Her Helm” captains in the months to come. In addition, CBMM will conduct a parallel oral history project that will record life history interviews with more than a dozen of the women featured in “Her Helm.”

A Transformational Moment

by Eric Detweiler

The new Welcome Center represents a transformational step for CBMM’s guest experience, and an opportunity for CBMM’s Exhibitions and Curatorial team to highlight never-before-displayed artifacts and re-interpret old favorites in the gleaming new space.

The results of this careful planning process and organizationwide efforts to bring the vision to life will be unveiled when the

building opens its doors this fall. Housing three exhibition spaces, a reception desk, restrooms, and the Museum Store, the new Welcome Center exits onto the Joan & Ned Hennighausen Family Veranda for views of Fogg’s Cove

“These moments don’t come often,” Koerner said. “Being in the position to shape an entire new segment of a museum is a huge opportunity and a responsibility that we haven’t taken lightly.”

CBMM’s Exhibitions and Curatorial team has been involved in the project every step of the way. That meant years of planning while working with architects at Annum Architects and then the construction crew at Gilbane before exhibition installation could begin this summer in the countdown to opening.

The exhibition construction was a collaborative process, led by Director of Curatorial Affairs

Trained as a figurative painter, Jim Koerner came to view the new Welcome Center as a blank canvas. CBMM’s exhibition designer and exhibits manager drew inspiration from classic artists who expertly employed color, texture, and shape to guide the eye as he worked with his colleagues to design an engaging experience and make the space equal parts functional and fascinating.

New Welcome Center Presents Unique Opportunity for Exhibitions and Curatorial Team

& Exhibitions Jenifer Dolde with support from everyone in CBMM’s Center for Interpretation, which includes Education and the Shipyard in addition to Exhibitions and Curatorial. Together, they handled the design, scripting, and fabrication to fill the building in a way that both showcases the depth of CBMM’s collection, and shines a spotlight on the stories behind key artifacts.

At times, the major lift was literally a major lift. Like when the Shipyard team, led by Vice President of Shipyard Operations Christian Cabral, stepped in to help with hauling the small craft from storage, getting them ready for display in the exhibition Water Lines: Chesapeake Watercraft Traditions, and then placing them in the building on their cantilever racks. Or when the curatorial team aided a U.S. Coast Guard certified

lampist in moving a historic Fresnel lens piece by piece into its new home next to the Welcome Center entrance.

“The exhibitions in the new Welcome Center are the culmination of CBMM’s successful collaborative approach, bringing together our various skills, strengths, and perspectives as we challenge each other to create an innovative and engaging guest experience,” Dolde said. “With the considerable support of every department across CBMM, and on an accelerated schedule, this modest team has achieved a highquality installation that rivals the work of a professional designbuild firm.”

From a curatorial perspective, the goal was to have these exhibitions tell personal stories that illuminate the rich and diverse history of the Chesapeake in a way

that appeals to guests of all ages, interests, and learning styles.

Constructed on a wall that evokes the chop of the Bay, the new orientation exhibition—titled Navigating the Chesapeake’s Maritime Culture—uses photos and artifacts to set up the themes found across campus.

Water Lines offers an examination and exploration of the individuals who built and used the boats on display, and the forthcoming Stories from the Shoreline exhibition will expand on the storytelling in the current Waterfowling exhibition to include more about the ecology of the Bay and the experiences of the people who have called the region home over time.

This fresh approach required new research into the collection to build out the visual identity and scripting of the exhibitions

The new Museum Store features stylized ceiling tiles and a historic photo of Crisfield’s Horsey Brothers Department Store, as well as several small craft on display. Rendering by Jim Koerner.

The new building exits onto the Joan & Ned Hennighausen Family Veranda.

Photo by George Sass.

Black oysterman Fillmore King and log canoe Alverta shared by Chief Historian Pete Lesher in this issue’s Curator’s Corner feature is just one example.

“Everything about Water Lines is more human focused,” Dolde said. “Within Chesapeake culture, boats have been the setting for myriad experiences, connecting and supporting communities defined by the water. They are

With artifacts selected and stories collected, the challenge was organizing and arranging the exhibitions to maximize the experience.

Koerner used research on crowd dynamics and wayfinding theory to design a layout that will be intuitive for guests and keep the traffic flowing efficiently while ensuring that the different areas complement each other and

Shoreline will extend into Water Lines, and the small craft showcase wraps into the Museum Store with mass production boats on display there. A specially designed model boat case that fills the hallway leading into the store helps improve sightlines and create flow within the space.

It’s a design aimed at capturing the imagination from start to finish: The Fresnel lens and a sprawling

Water Lines: Chesapeake Watercraft Traditions

Nearly 30 boats from CBMM’s small craft collection—many on display for the first time ever—will be highlighted in Water Lines: Chesapeake Watercraft Traditions , a new long-term exhibition in the Welcome Center. The stories of the people who sailed, raced, used, designed, and built boats are at the center of this new look at familiar watercraft.

Beginning with an overview of signature Chesapeake Bay vessels in miniature in the Model Gallery and an exploration of the skipjack as an icon of the region’s maritime industry and culture, Water Lines connects the “lines” of each vessel’s design and construction to human narratives of everyday work and play.

The stories are both familiar and surprising: from one-design sailboats on which young people learned to sail and which brought generations of sailors together for regattas, to traditional craft that served watermen, waterfowlers, and families alike, to mass-produced craft that enabled more universal access to the water. Images from CBMM’s rich photographic collection, along with carefully chosen artifacts and models, give dimension to the role that utilitarian objects such as boats play in Chesapeake life.

Navigating the Chesapeake’s Maritime Culture

Guests entering the new Welcome Center will be greeted by four walls that orient them to their CBMM experience and introduce them to the interpretive themes they will discover during their visit. The overarching concept is the essence of the Chesapeake Bay story—how people have connected to place over time. It is the story of how this unique environment—where land is intricately intertwined with water—has impacted individual lives and communities throughout history.

Through select objects and images, the orientation exhibition will provide a taste of how the exhibitions and artifacts preserved at CBMM tell the stories of how people have interacted with the Chesapeake Bay a source of bounty and income, a place of work and recreation, where traditional culture is valued, but change has been ever-present.

floor map of the Chesapeake greet guests coming from the parking lot, and the new store, featuring stylized ceiling tiles and a historic photo of Crisfield’s Horsey Brothers Department Store, exits onto the terrace with an excellent view of the Miles River.

“What excites me is the cohesiveness of it all and being able to seam everything together,” Koerner said. “Each of these different parts comes together to create the whole, and it’s designed to flow from one thing into the next to be a fully tied-together

experience.”

After so much planning and effort behind the scenes, the Welcome Center’s once-blank canvas has blossomed into a fully realized work of art nearly ready for guests to enjoy. For all involved, there’s palpable anticipation to be able to share these new stories and spaces with CBMM’s community.

“After months of work to develop the interpretive approach, write the script, research and select supporting images and objects, design the look and flow of the space, and fabricate the complex

mounts and signage, we are thrilled to invite guests to explore models and watercraft from our collection for the first time,” Dolde said. “Navigating the Chesapeake’s Maritime Culture and Water Lines provide an introduction and lens through which CBMM’s entire campus can be experienced in an entirely new way.” ★

The new Welcome Center brings guests onto campus at Fogg’s Cove with a terrific view of the Miles River.

Photo by George Sass.

on the rail

Railway Season in Full Swing

In CBMM’s Shipyard, spring weather kicks off the fast and furious railway season, during which all of CBMM’s floating fleet vessels, as well as some visiting hulls, are hauled for annual care, inspection, and repair.

Our season began with the hauling and service of skipjack Stanley Norman, a relative newcomer to St. Michaels, now owned and operated by the Inn at Perry Cabin. Hot on its heels was Edna Lockwood, the queen of CBMM’s floating fleet, for paint, care, and topside repair.

Next, CBMM’s railway was occupied by the largest member of the fleet, the

newly restored 1938 buyboat Choptank. Over the course of several weeks, Choptank underwent a complete hull refinish, running gear maintenance, and general annual care. Now back in the water, Choptank will remain dockside while CBMM shipwrights install the vessel’s new passenger accommodations and working rig. Never to be left idle, CBMM’s railway team will now move on to hauling and servicing CBMM’s own skipjack, Rosie Parks.

In concert with the flurry of railway activity, the balance of the Shipyard team is focused on the ongoing construction of Mr. Dickie, the new 36foot buyboat.

In anticipation of Mr. Dickie’s October launch, the summer and early fall months are dedicated to decking/superstructure installation,

interior installation, engine installation, systems and electrical design, rig construction, and finally hull finish. During this final phase of construction, changes to the form and appearance of the vessel occur quickly, and guests, as always, are encouraged to come see our progress.

Never to be outdone, CBMM’s senior apprentice, Megan Mitchell, oversaw the launch of the newly constructed St. Michaels scow, reintroducing the design to its historic home port of St. Michaels with help from the students of CBMM’s Rising Tide program. With the hull complete, Mitchell turned attention to the construction of the vessel’s spars, rigging, and sails and wrapped the project just in time to capitalize on the summer sailing season. ★

Shipwright Apprentices

Kaeo Clarke and Carstan Gage help Edna Lockwood return to the Miles River following its annual maintenance.

Photo by Eric Detweiler.

Research Ready

On June 1, CBMM officially dedicated the newly renovated Norman & Ellen Plummer Center for Museum Collections. The climate-controlled storage rooms, dedicated volunteer and staff workspaces, and public reading room in the Howard I. Chapelle Library represent CBMM’s commitment to high-quality museum standards for preservation, handling, and access.

Visit cbmm.org/collections to schedule an appointment to use the Plummer Center and learn more. ★

Fall Calendar

Member Nights

Charity Boat Auction Preview

Date/Time: Thursday, Aug. 31, 5–7pm

Location: CBMM Campus

Cost: Free for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/BoatAuctionPreview23

Interested in a new boat and a good deal? Members have the opportunity for an advance preview of the boats for sale at CBMM’s Annual Charity Boat Auction.

A Celebration of Mr. Dickie

Date/Time: Thursday, Oct. 12, 5–7pm

Location: CBMM Shipyard

Cost: Free for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/MrDickieMemberNight

Join us in the Shipyard to learn from CBMM’s Shipwrights about the build of the 36-foot Chesapeake buyboat Mr. Dickie, and get a chance to board the vessel that is nearing completion. There will also be updates on other ongoing projects, including work on buyboats Winnie Estelle and Choptank.

Maritime Holiday Craft with Rising Tide

Date/Time: Thursday, Dec. 7, 5–7pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: Free for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/HolidayCraft2023

Grab a cup of hot cocoa and join Education Programs

Manager Kendall Wallace and Youth Programs Coordinator Sophie Stuart to create a maritime-inspired craft for the holiday season. Supplies will be provided for participants. Perfect for the whole family to join in!

Apprentice for a Day Shipyard Programs

Shipyard Workdays

Date/Time: Saturday, Aug. 26; Sept. 2, Sept. 9, Sept. 23; 10am–4pm

Location: Shipyard

Cost: $60, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/ShipyardWorkdays

Join CBMM Shipwrights select Saturdays for an opportunity to work on new construction and restoration projects and learn the fundamentals of boat building and repair. Projects vary week to week and will include a small boat restoration and a 36-foot Chesapeake Bay buyboat new build. Participants must be at least 16 years old unless accompanied by an adult. Preregistration is required.

Coffee & Wood Chips

Date/Time: Mondays, Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 20, 10–11am

Location: Virtual Program

Cost: $10, free for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/ShipyardPrograms

Join Shipyard Education Programs Manager Jenn Kuhn for this monthly Shipyard update. Kuhn will highlight the work being done on the historic floating fleet and Chesapeake buyboats Mr. Dickie, Winnie Estelle, and Choptank and provide updates on the Concordia sloop Osprey being restored by the Apprentice for a Day Program.

Small Diesel Familiarization & Maintenance

Date/Time: Monday, Sept. 18 & Tuesday, Sept. 19, 6–8:30pm

Location: 109C Mill Street

Cost: $55, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/SmallDieselMaintenance

Join retired Merchant Marine Chief Engineer and CBMM Marine Mechanic Mark Newberg in an entry-level, handson discussion of small diesel engine systems and basic maintenance.

The two-evening seminar will cover basic diesel engine operating theory followed by going through each system one at a time to give participants a basic understanding of how a diesel engine operates. Topics covered include basic diesel theory, fuel systems, cooling systems, lube oil systems, electrical systems, and transmissions.

Newberg will then take participants through basic maintenance tasks using a working diesel engine simulator. We ask that participants wear appropriate clothing with the understanding that they might get oily. No previous experience is necessary. Preregistration is required.

Traditional Japanese Boat Building

Date/Time: Monday-Saturday, Oct. 2–7, 9am–4pm during the week and 9am–noon on Saturday

Location: Shipyard

Cost: $850, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/JapaneseBoatBuilding

In this one-week workshop, students will work together under the direction of author, boatbuilder, and educator Douglas Brooks to build one boat, based on a traditional 21foot Japanese river boat design.

The course will provide a thorough introduction to traditional Japanese boatbuilding and will introduce students to unique techniques, including fitting planks with handsaws and edge-fastening planks using both nails and wooden dovetail keys. Other topics include design, sharpening with waterstones, and the adjustment and tuning of Japanese wooden planes.

The boat design is from the Shinano River, Niigata, and is a hard chine, canoe-like craft used in the lagoons and estuaries of the river mouth. They are called honryousen, which means “typical fishing boat.” The course concludes with a traditional Shinto launching ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 7.

All the necessary materials and Japanese tools will be provided, but if students own hand tools they may bring a selection to class, particularly chisels. The instructor will also discuss the tenets of Japanese apprenticeship. No prior woodworking experience is necessary. Preregistration is required.

Nameboard Carving

Date/Time: Saturday, Nov. 11 & Sunday, Nov. 12, 10am–4pm

Location: CBMM Education Workshop

Cost: $135, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/Nameboard2023

Join CBMM Shipyard Education Programs Manager Jenn Kuhn for this two-day nameboard carving workshop.

Both experienced woodworkers and beginners alike are invited to learn the basics of nameboard carving. Participants will learn and practice proper techniques and safety for using and sharpening straight chisels to hand carve their very own nameboard. All tools and materials are provided and included. Preregistration is required.

Special Events

Yoga on Navy Point

Date/Time: Tuesday evenings in September and October, 5:30–6:30pm

Location: Navy Point, Small Boat Shed, or Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: $20 for a single session, $70 for all September sessions, $85 for all October sessions; 20% discount for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/CBMMYoga2023

Join Colleen Morrison, RYT-200 for a mixed level vinyasa flow on Tuesday evenings in September and October on CBMM’s beautiful campus.

Morrison found yoga more than 15 years ago as a way to relieve stress and anxiety. Now, she is passionate about bringing the benefits of mind-body-spirit connections to a broader community.

Morrison’s philosophy is that yoga benefits everyone, so she strives to teach classes that balance challenge with accessibility and loves bringing new yogis into the fold. No previous yoga experience is necessary. Preregistration is required.

On-the-Water Programs

Full Moon Paddle

Date/Time: Wednesday, Aug. 30, 6–8:30pm

Location: Fogg’s Landing

Cost: $30, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members (without rental) $50, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members (with rental)

Registration: bit.ly/AugustFullMoonPaddle23

Join CBMM ACA-certified staff for two evening paddles to enjoy the evening sunset and the full moon from the stillness of the water. Participants will launch from CBMM’s campus to paddle along the Miles River and into Long Haul Creek. This paddle is good for the beginner and the intermediate paddler.

Log Canoe Charter Cruises

Dates/Times: See schedule below

Location: Aboard CBMM’s floating fleet

Cost: $375 per charter, with up to six passengers allowed per charter

Registration: bit.ly/LogCanoeCruises2023

Enjoy a private river cruise to watch the log canoe races on the Miles River on board one of the vessels in CBMM’s historic floating fleet. Log canoe races are a quintessential Chesapeake pastime, and a log canoe charter provides an up-close and exciting look at the action. Amateur photographers, sailing aficionados, or wooden boat enthusiasts will all find something to enjoy on a CBMM log canoe charter!

Saturday, Sept. 9, 9:30am

Sunday, Sept. 10, 9:30am

Saturday, Sept. 16, 9:30am & 1:30pm

Sunday, Sept. 17, 9:30am

Explore the Bald Cypress of Trap Pond

Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 28, 10am–1pm

Location: Trap Pond State Park

33587 Bald Cypress Lane, Laurel, DE 19956

Cost: $30, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members (without rental) $50, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members (with rental)

Registration: bit.ly/TrapPondPaddle

Join CBMM ACA-certified staff for a leisurely three-hour paddle through one of the largest surviving and northernmost natural stands of bald cypress trees on the East Coast. Trap Pond State Park has 3,653 acres to explore by land and water and hosts a large campground, hiking and biking trails, and a disc golf course. Participants are invited to paddle and then spend the remainder of the day exploring the park. This paddle is great for beginners and experts. Preregistration is required.

Youth & Family Programs

Fall Lighthouse Overnight Program

Date/Time: Select Friday and Saturday evenings, September & October, 7pm–9am

Location: Hooper Strait Lighthouse

Cost: $50 per person (12-person min/18-person max)

Registration: bit.ly/LighthouseOvernight

Through educator-led activities, participants try their hand at the keeper’s traditional duties, listen to stories, and discover facts and clues about living in a lighthouse, navigation, and Bay history. The program is designed for students ages 7 and up and their adults. The fee includes one overnight stay in the lighthouse (7pm–9am), a dedicated museum facilitator, the cost of program activities, free admission on both of your program days, and a souvenir patch.

Rising Tide After-School Workshops

Date/Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays, September–December, 3:30–5:30pm

Location: CBMM Education Workshop

Cost: Free

Registration: Contact risingtide@cbmm.org

This fall, the Rising Tide program will offer after-school workshop programming for students in grades 6–9. Students will learn woodworking tool management and use, team collaboration, project design and development, and workshop safety. Registration is required, but we welcome new students at any time during the semester. Transportation is available from Easton and St. Michaels. Sign up for a single class or every class. No experience necessary.

Homeschool Days

Dates/Times: Tuesday, Sept. 26, and Thursday, Sept. 28, 10:30am–noon or 1–2:30pm

Location: CBMM Campus

Cost: $5 per person, free for children 5 and under

Registration: bit.ly/CBMMHomeschoolDays

Homeschool students and their adults are invited to come to CBMM’s Homeschool Day, selecting either a morning or afternoon program to focus on the history, culture, and environment of the Chesapeake Bay region.

This season, homeschoolers will participate in the Oystering Legacy immersive tour. In this hands-on program, students will explore the history of the greatest oyster factory on Earth—the Chesapeake Bay—and how the oyster has shaped the culture, industry, and environment of the Bay and its people. Students will also take an up-close look at an oyster nursery’s crabs, fish, and baby mollusks.

Rising Tide Holiday Gift-Making Workshops

Date/Time: See schedule below

Location: CBMM Education Workshop

Cost: Free

Registration: Contact risingtide@cbmm.org

Create holiday gifts for friends or family with the Rising Tide team! Projects vary from beginner to intermediate skill levels.

Session 1: Tuesday–Thursday, Nov. 28–30, 3:30–5:30pm

Session 2: Tuesday–Thursday, Dec. 5–7, 3:30–5:30pm

Session 3: Monday–Thursday, Dec. 12–14, 3:30–5:30pm

Education Programs

Wooden Spoon Carving Workshop

Date/Time: Saturday, November 4, 10am–4pm

Location: CBMM Education Workshop

Cost: $75, with a 20% discount for CBMM Members

Registration: bit.ly/WoodenSpoonCarving

Join CBMM instructors for this one-day workshop and leave with your own beautiful hand-carved utensil. Carving a wooden spoon with hand tools is a perfect introduction to the structure and dynamics of wood.

We’ll learn how to select good carving wood, what species of trees are favored by spoon carvers, and how to use wood grain and natural shapes to create functional pieces of art. All materials, tools, and instruction will be provided. No experience is necessary, but an ability to grip and manipulate carving tools is required. Youth participants 12 years of age and up are welcome with an accompanying adult.

Lifelong Learning

Her Helm: An Exhibition Opening Artist Talk with Kristin Rutkowski

Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 14, 5:30pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: Suggested ticket price of $8 per participant

Registration: bit.ly/HerHelm

Through her portrait project “Her Helm,” photographer Kristin Rutkowski documents boat captains who identify as female to highlight and normalize the women who are active leaders in the boating community.

Traveling throughout the Chesapeake Bay region, Rutkowski photographed 51 women who follow unique paths to make their own way on the water. In this exhibition opening artist talk, she will share the background to “Her Helm”–how it started, what it meant to the women who participated, what it means to society, and some of the insights she learned along the way. The “Her Helm” book may be preordered at herhelm.com/pre-order-book-2023.

Facing Our Unfinished Challenge: Saving the Bay in the 21st Century

Date/Time: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 5:30pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: Suggested ticket price of $8 per participant

Registration: bit.ly/SaveTheBay2023

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s motto, “Save the Bay,” has become a regional rallying cry for pollution reduction throughout the Chesapeake’s six-state watershed. For more than 50 years, CBF has created broad understanding of the Bay’s poor health, engaged public leaders in making commitments to restore the Chesapeake, and fought successfully to create and maintain a cleanup approach that features real accountability—the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint.

S.S. President Warfield to Exodus 1947: The Chesapeake Steamship That Launched Israel

Date/Time: Wednesday, Oct. 11, 5:30pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: Suggested ticket price of $8 per participant

Registration: bit.ly/SSPresidentWarfield

For more than a decade, the luxurious S.S. President Warfield carried passengers between Baltimore and Norfolk, Va., until it was called into service during World War II. After the war, a Zionist organization attempted to use the worn ship— renamed Exodus 1947—to bring Jewish refugees to Palestine. Join CBMM Chief Historian Pete Lesher and University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Herf to

explore the legacy of the vessel, from its Chesapeake past to its symbolic role in the formation of Israel.

This event is presented in partnership by CBMM and Temple B’nai Israel, and made possible in part through the generosity of Marlene & Phil Feldman. Light refreshments will be available at 5pm, and the program will begin promptly at 5:30pm.

Her Helm: The Oxford-Bellevue Ferry Tale

Date/Time: Monday, Oct. 23, 5:30pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: Suggested ticket price of $8 per participant

Registration: bit.ly/FerryTale

On Nov. 20, 1683, Talbot County authorized the establishment of a ferry service for “Horses and Men.” Today that ferry—believed to be the oldest privately owned ferry service in the United States—continues to run between the communities of Oxford and Bellevue. Captain Judy Bixler will share a bit of ferry history and stories of her experiences operating the ferry alongside her husband since 2001. This event is generously sponsored by the Upper Shore Regional Folklife Center.

Quilting Climate Science & Solutions

Date/Time: Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, 3pm

Location: Van Lennep Auditorium

Cost: Suggested ticket price of $8 per participant.

Registration: bit.ly/QuiltingScience

Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at Pennsylvania State University Brandywine Laura Guertin has turned to a unique medium to connect new audiences with science stories: quilting. Guertin, whose work is featured in CBMM’s exhibition The Changing Chesapeake, will present an overview of climate science, and highlight examples of actions we can take in addressing these changes—all communicated via quilts. These unique pieces of science communication share stories of adaptation and resilience from various regions as well as the larger research initiatives currently underway. This event is generously sponsored by the Upper Shore Regional Folklife Center.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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Agood many years ago, a friend who had assumed the leadership of a prominent nonprofit organization shared with me a fundamental truth. He said, “We will never produce really fine work without being able to recruit really fine people; and the only way to recruit and retain the best people is to make sure we have the necessary resources.”

The unique opportunity I enjoy—working closely with the fine people at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and witnessing the outstanding work they do to create incredible experiences for people of all ages—often causes me to reflect on the extraordinarily important resources you, our donors, bring to ensure the success of CBMM’s mission.

Above all, you fully deserve to celebrate the success of this past year and the remarkable achievements that Kristen Greenaway has highlighted in her message.

Speaking of our president and CEO, your support aids Kristen in building the strong leadership and support team that achieves the organization’s vision and mission. For this, we are very grateful.

Of course, it would be easy in some ways to look at the many opportunities existing at this moment for families, for researchers, for everyone from schoolchildren to seniors and say that we feel what needs to be done has been done.

We could. But this is not now, nor has it ever been, the way of CBMM. There is a desire throughout the organization—from the Board of Governors, to the staff, to the all-important volunteers—that we can do more. And, doing more means strengthening our relationships with people throughout the Chesapeake region and sharing the many important initiatives to improve the future of the Chesapeake Bay by better understanding its past.

Thank you for being part of this important journey. Please join us as often as you can and embrace the remarkable experiences created at CBMM! ★

Gifts to the Collection

Last year, CBMM added 18 artifact accessions, 13 groups of photographs, six manuscript collections, and six oral histories to its collection, mostly through donations from individuals, families, and businesses.

Highlights of these recent accessions include a 1781 watercolor of the Wye River by Matthias Bordley, a large collection of detailed Chesapeake Bay boat models by Dr. Edward R. Thieler III, a folk art sculpture by John Elburn Jr., a slot machine used dockside in the Chesapeake Beach area, an early 20th century photo scrapbook of a boat trip to Annapolis, a skiff used in the early days of oyster farming, “oyster receipt” ledgers from Phillips Packing Company, and a large collection of John Moll drawings. In addition, the Freedom figurehead, which has been on loan to CBMM since the 1960s, was formally donated by the United States Naval Academy Museum.

Interested in donating to CBMM’s collection? Please visit cbmm.org/libraryinfo and note on the research request form that you would like to make an object donation, or email collections@cbmm.org with a description and image of the donation.

Thank you!

Wye Island Maryland by Matthias Bordley. Purchased with support Plummer, Ellen and Richard Bodorff, Paula Johnson and Carl Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 2022.0002.0001.

Young Men at Greenbury Point Lighthouse, circa 1920s. Gift of Maurice K. Heartfield. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, PH 1177.

Watercolor painting by John Moll. Gift of Donna and Richard J. Conway. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 2022.0012.0010.

support from Norman and Ellen Carl Fleischauer, and C. John Sullivan. 2022.0002.0001.

Kathleen Poole working on planking on the skipjack Virginia W, 1981. Gift of Kathleen Poole. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1458.0005.

CBMM’s Hooper Strait Lighthouse, 2000. Photograph by David Harp. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1451.0029.

Gifts to the Collection

CBMM is grateful to the following friends who donated a variety of items to the collection over the past year:

• Rolf Anselm

• Bette & David Bauereis

• Ellen & Richard Bodorff

• Carl Brasseaux

• Jim Brighton

• Calvert Marine Museum

• Marc Castelli

• Donna & Richard J. Conway

• Sarah Cramer

• Don Davis

• Al DiCenso

• Edinburgh University Press

• John Elburn Jr.

• Jim Elk

• Morris Ellison

• Estate of Frederick Hugh Murrill

• Doug Fears

• Frederick Douglass Honor Society

• John Ferguson

• Donna Garnett

• David Gendell

• Albert Bondsfield Gipe

• Greg Hager

• David W. Harp

• Paul Hawkinson

• Maurice K. Heartfield III

• Tracy Willey Hill

• Greg Ifft

• Pamela Jana

• Paula Johnson & Carl Fleischauer

• Susan & Neil Kaye

• Laura Lawrence

• Jim & Guy Manfuso in honor of John G. Manfuso Jr.

• Maryland Public Television

• Brian Mayo

• Jeffrey C. McGuiness

• Janie Meneely

• Barbara and Robert Mullins

• Jack Nelson

• New Bay Books

• Penobscot Marine Museum

• Shirley and Raymond Peters

• Pete Peterson

• John Pfister

• Robert Pierce

• Ellen and Norman Plummer

• Kathleen Poole

• Ralph Ringler and the Ringler Family

• James Craig Shearman

• Margaret Smith

• Jean Starling

• James Stephenson

• Phil Stephenson

• C. John Sullivan Jr.

• Tall Ships America

• The Coming Coast Panel: Susan Stockman

Ben Tilghman

Johnny Shockley

Rev. Emanuel Johnson

Jan Kirsh

Elizabeth Beggins

Matt Budinger

Father Daniel Dunlap

Matt Pluta

Donald Webster

David W. Harp

Drew Karlson

Bart Merrick

Marina Merrick

Drew Koslow

Michael O. Snyder

• Glenn Therres

• Dr. Edward R. Thieler III

• Frank Townsend

• United States Department of the Interior

• United States Naval Academy Museum

• Steven Von Briesen

• Austin Walmsley

• Wooddell Publishing

Slot machine used along Potomac River circa 1949–1968. Gift of Jim and Guy Manfuso in honor of John G. Manfuso Jr. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 2022.0001.0001.

Miles River Yacht Club guest pass, 1938. Gift of Phil and James Stephenson. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

Model of a Smith Island power crabbing skiff, 2010. Gift of maker Dr. Edward R. Thieler III. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 2022.0004.0017.

Sculpture, Watermen in Training. Gift of maker John E. Elburn Jr. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 2022.0009.0001.

Freedom figurehead by John M. Cook, 1960. Gift of the United States Naval Academy Museum. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1966.37.2.

OPERATING INCOME

Total $4,766,393

$5,175,082

REVENUES

FUNCTIONAL EXPENDITURES, All Funds (%)

Our goals are to maximize the percentage of your investment toward programs for the community, to minimize borrowings to protect our future, and to maximize the endowment to provide world-class programming for generations to come.

Programming Admin Fundraising

Honor Roll of Donors

We extend our deepest gratitude to our donors for gifts received between March 1, 2022, and February 28, 2023. It is only through the generosity of our friends and supporters that CBMM can fulfill its mission and impact lives by igniting a spark of interest in and passion for the Chesapeake Bay and its cultural heritage. Gifts to The Annual Fund, Endowment, Comprehensive Campaign, Collection, Sponsorships, Pre-Boating Party and Boating Party, or otherwise restricted, are listed below. Every gift is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Admiral of the Sea ($100,000 and above)

Ellen & Dick Bodorff

Paula & Chris Fenger

Myra & Steven Gons

Pam & Jim Harris

Maryland Department of General Services

Joanne & Paul Prager

Alzbetka & Joseph Robillard

Silent Maid 1924

Diane Terpeluk & Craig Fuller

Admiral of the Chesapeake ($50,000-$99,999)

Joan Hennighausen

Ned Hennighausen

Laurie & Rick Johnson

Maryland Heritage Areas Authority

Maryland State Arts Council

Ellen & Norman Plummer

Joan Richtsmeier & William Ryan

Alexa & Tom Seip

Seip Family Foundation

Judy & Henry Stansbury

Beverly & Richard Tilghman

Admiral of the Miles (25,000-$49,999)

Nancy & CG Appleby

Andrea Dynes

Jocelyn & George Eysymontt

Elizabeth & Alan Griffith

Bette Kenzie

Elizabeth C. Moose

Catharine & Dick Snowdon

Linda & Henry Spire

Muriel & Enos Throop

Susan Whaley

Admiral of the Fleet ($10,000-$24,999)

Sharon & Duane Ekedahl

Marlene & G. Phillip Feldman

Dagmar Gipe

Patricia & E. Brooke Harwood

Jane & Francis Hopkinson

Karen & Richard Kimberly

Reneé & James Kizziar

Thomas & Deborah Lawrence

Maryland State Department of Education

Anne & Frank Mickey

Rohauer Collection Foundation

CBMM works hard to be as accurate as possible in compiling information for the Annual Impact Report. If there are any errors or missing information, please contact Liz LaCorte, Chief Advancement Officer, at 410-745-4956 or llacorte@cbmm.org.

Holly & Gary Townsend

Van Strum Foundation

Kiara & Jeff Vogel

Admiral ($5,000-$9,999)

Elinor Adensam

Maura & Martin Bollinger

Cleo Braver & Alfred Tyler

June DeHart

Anna & Charles Fichter

Lisa & Monty Fowler

Darby & Donald Hewes

Janis & Mark Maloney

Maury Donnelly & Parr, Inc.

Catherine Murphy & Bryan McGrath

NM Morris Family Foundation

Mary Alice & Mark Pacious

Kay Perkins

PNC Bank

Jeanne & David Reager

Robb & Elizabeth Tyler Foundation

Roland Enterprises LLC

Diane & Jeffrey Staley

Mrs. Seth Warfield

Judith & Alan Werner

Wye Financial & Trust

Vice Admiral ($2,500-$4,999)

Allegeant LLC

Blackbaud Giving Fund

Marian Brown & J. Douglas Rollow

Butter Pat Industries

Katherine Clark-Glasgow & Glenn Glasgow

Paige & Kevin Connelly

Patricia Cornish

Lois & Tom Frank Gatehouse Company LLC

Glenmede Trust Company N.A.

Guyette & Deeter

Heather Johnson

Paula Johnson & Carl Fleischhauer

Margaret Keller

Elaine Lanzon & Maura Majeski

Leslie & Kenneth Mann

Camille & Jim Massie

Martin McQuage

Meredith Fine Properties

Debrajean Overholt

Sydney & Jeffrey Podraza

Potter Family Fund

Richard Smith

Carolyn Williams & Colin Walsh

Amanda & Dean Zang

Commodore ($1,000-$2,499)

Molly & Peirce Anderson

Blenda & Bruce Armistead

Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc.

Ellen & Richard Bernstein

Posey & William Boicourt

Virginia & Michael Borner

Meta & William Boyd

Chris & Carter Gooch Bradshaw

Elizabeth & John Breyer

Victoria & Thomas Broadie

John Burbage

Donna Cantor & John Pinney

Jane & Peter Chambliss

Mary Jo & Bradley Closs

Crab Claw, Inc.

Tina & Chester Davis

Leigh Ann & Jon Deeter

Donna & William Dudley

Mary & Collins Ege

Bob Eisinger

Vera & John England

Jerry Focas

Elizabeth & Howard Freedlander

Mary Anne Fry

Christina & Earl Furman

Betsey & Joseph Galli

Francis Garahan

Gloria Gibson

Barry Gossett

Edmund Grainger

Susan & Richard Granville

Pamela & Nick Hackett

Sara & James Hamilton

Sonal & Brooke Harris

Carolyn & Edward Harrison

Ruth Heltne

Diane Humphrey

Jan & Richard Hynson

Sarah & Charles Janney

Bradford Johnson

Kelly Distributors

Arthur H. Kudner Jr. Fund

Diane & Ralph Leasure

Carl MacCartee

Beverley Martin

Christine & Donald Martin

Victoria McAndrew & Leeds Hackett

Mid-Shore Community Foundation, Inc.

Mary & Larry Montgomery

Carolyn & Tucker Moorshead

Joan Murray

Sharon & Robert North

Gwendolyn & Carl Oppenheim

Margaret & David Owens

Glynn Owens

Courtney & R. Scott Pastrick

Patriot Cruises

Mary Lou & Joseph Peters

Pew Charitable Trusts

Patricia & Timothy Roche

Alice Ryan

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

Nancy & David Schoonmaker

Nickola & Richard Schwab

Lauren Scott & Erik Jensen

Karen & Langley Shook

Karen & Richard Sikorski

Jacqueline Smith

M. Kathleen & Jeffrey Smith

Mark Solomons

Peter Stifel

Teaching with Small Boats Alliance

(TWSBA)

The Rorer Foundation

The Roulston Family

Thomas H. Hamilton Foundation, Inc.

UBS Matching Gifts Program

Ellen & John Villa

Laura & J. Richard Ward

Gretchen & David Welch

Marie & John Wells

Joan West

Jeff Wightman

Michele & Albert Woodroof

Wyman Family Foundation

Lori & Thomas Zorc

Captain ($500-$999)

Akridge Family Foundation

Cynthia & Don Allen

Evelyn & Thomas Anderson

Lisa & Steven Asplundh

Kate & James Attridge

Florence Auld & Frank Marshall

Renee & Marvin Ausherman

Elaine & Edward Bednarz

Laura & Donald Boehl

Anne & John Borneman

Sue & Joe Bredekamp

Michelle & Martin Brown

Colleen & R. Neal Brown

Elizabeth & Harry Burton

Pam & Frank Cahouet

Joseph Cavallaro

Chris Cifarelli

H. Lawrence Clark

Linda & Stephen Clineburg

Todd Cooke

Corroon Foundation

John & Linda Derrick

Pamela & Joseph Doll

Jennifer & David Durkin

Kim & Steve Eckert

Maxine & W. James Farrell

Kate & Douglas Fears

Karen & Mark Gadson

Caroline & Peter Gallagher

Harley Gates

Megan & William Goeller

Margaret & Barry Grass

Thomas Gross

Jane & Neal Grunstra

Sandra & James Havice

Catherine & Carl Helwig

Nancy & John Henderson

Craig Hughes

Olivia & Brian Kane

Kathleen Kryza & Jack Naglieri

Barbara & William Lane

Annabel & Ronald Lesher

Anne & Ernest Levering

Lois & Larry Lindsley

Trish & John Malin

Marcia & Ted Marshall

Maryland Humanities Council

Kathleen & James Mayes

Margaret & William McConnel

Nancy & Fred Meendsen

Jill & Jack Meyerhoff

Jon Mullarky

Dan Murphy

Lucy & Braden Murphy

National Catholic Community Foundation

Doris & Willard Nielsen

Cara & John Oliver

Bekah & Brad Palmer

Delphine Peck

Alice & Robert Petizon

Melissa & John Pflieger

Debbie & Mike Potter

Barbara & Charles Rossotti

Rubel Family Foundation

Adrienne Rudge

Schluderberg Foundation, Inc.

Sue & Douglas Sheridan

Sherrye & Michael Shupp

Judith & Turner Smith

Darlene & Jeffrey Spence

Jennifer & Edward St. John

Sue & Douglas Stewart

Jefferson Strider

Allison & Timothy Talbot

Nancy & Carl Tankersley

Allyson & Mort Taubman

Claire Voorhees

Wilmer Waller

Irmhild & Philip Webster

West Family Charitable Trust

Margaret & Robert Williams

Commander ($250-$499)

American Online Giving Foundation, Inc.

America’s Charities

Anne Aurilio & Myles Taylor

Calep Boyd

Karl Briers

Joan Burkgren & Stephen Nichols

Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.

Anne & Richard Casali

Chesapeake Trading Company

Katherine & W. David Cockey

Jennifer & Jason Corsini

Mary Ellen & Clyde Culp

Barry Daly

Carolyn & Gordon Daniels

Elaine Horner

John Dombach

Gail Donaway & Edward Schaefer

Carol & Thomas Donlan

Bethany & Laurence Driggs

Teresa & Dixon Duffett

Elizabeth & Michael Dugan

Shelley & Wilfred Dyer

Lynn & Robert Edgell

Mary & Richard Emrich

Heather & Jeff Ettinger

Rosemary & Joseph Fasolo

Catherine & Reed Fawell

Sallie & Gene Findlay

Rebecca & Douglas Firth

Ann Marie & James Flood

Maureen & Robert Fogarty

Robert Frantz

Sally & Gordon Fronk

Carol & William Gay

Amanda Gibson & John Butler

Erin & James Gillespie

Katherine & Donald Gray

Kristen Greenaway & Lori Ramsey

Carol & Bernard Grove

Peter & Susan Hale

Lisa & Robert Heaton

Elizabeth & Thomas Hipp

Winifred Hobron

Kim & T.J. Holland

Teri & Thomas Hollenshade

Beth & Jeffrey Horstman

Barbara & William Hough

Linda & Ardelll Hoveskeland

Kathleen & Howard Hughes

Gail & Matthew Jenkins

Byron LaMotte

Ruth & Max Matteson

Christine Maynard & Robert Sommerlatte

Sandra & Ray McCoy

Jane & George McCullough

Suzanne & Robert McDowell

Patricia & Lawrence McMichael

Alvin Meltzer

Janet & Jeffrey Messing

Mary & Thomas Milan

Zandi & Thomas Nammack

Ernest Oskin

Talli & Geoffrey Oxnam

Diane & Peter Pappas

George Raitt

Ellen & Nick Rajacich

Sandra Richardson & Nicholas Dryland

Rebecca Rimel & Patrick Caldwell

Elspeth & William Ritchie

Linda & Harlan Robinson

Lelde & Heinrich Schmitz

Carol & Frederick Schober

Robin & Richard Scofield

Carol & Leigh Seaver

John Seifarth

Josephine & Wayne Shaner

Wanda & Frederic Sherriff

Claudia & Peter Silvia

Rita & David Sirignano

Carolyn & John Smith

René & Thomas Stevenson

Kristen & Spence Stovall

Amy & David Sutter

Temple B’nai Israel, Easton

George Thomas

Nanny Trippe

Therese & James Ulmer

Mary & Robert Van Fossan

Sandra & Clinton Vince

Janice & Robert Vitale

Julie & Joseph Warin

Mary West & Michael Hare

Robert White

Suzanne & William Whitney

Karl Williams

Cynthia & Daniel Wolcott

Sailing Master ($100-$249)

Leah & Theodoric Alfriend

Marsha & Gregory Allen

Judith & Robert Amdur

Amica Companies Foundation

Joyce & Charles Anderson

Margaret Andersen & Richard Rosenfeld

Pamela & Wilhelm Anderson

Della Andrew Anonymous

Elizabeth & Raymond Appler

Teresa & Thomas Archer

Caroline & William Arms

Mindy Ashton

Jeffrey Ayers

David Bailey

Nancy & William Baker

Charles Baldwin

Barbara & Gerald Bechtle

Holly & Walter Beckwith

Arlene & Roy Beebe

Ann & Colin Bentley

Inez Black

Patricia & Scott Blaha

Doris Blazek-White & Thacher White

Catherine & Philip Bolger

Patricia & James Bonan

Gaspare Bono

Caroline Boutté & Peter Gallagher

Barbara Boykin & James Brown

Grace & Michael Boylan

David Braly & Mark Montoya

David Braun

Carol & James Bruce

Ann & Dave Brunson

Elizabeth Bucello

JoAnne & Kitridge Buritsch

Mary Cahill

Joanne Calderone & Robert Gledhill

Janet & John Caldwell

FP Carolan

Frank Carollo

Kathleen & Raymond Case

Patricia & Ralph Case

Patricia & Joseph Casey

Sharon Chesbro

William Clarke

Mary Helen Cobb

Ron Cochran

Leslie & Rod Coleman

Deborah & Douglas Collison

Wink & Daniel Cowee

Shirley & George Crowder

Kathleen & Edwin Crowell

Claudia & Curtis Cunningham

Susan & Richard Daesener

Deborah & Daniel Daffin

Eleanor Dallam & Albert Smith

Lolli Sherry & Craig Damon

Alison & Charles Darrell

Margaret & Stanley Davis

Melanie Davis & John Rowley

Trudy & William Day

Patricia & Robert Dean

Jeff Decker

Deborah & Laurent Deschamps

Joann & Lloyd Devigne

Barbara & Al DiCenso

Jennifer Dindinger

Abbie & Frank Divilio

Mary & John Doetzer

Gene Downing

Carol & Michael Droge

Susan Duke & Harold Upton

Duke Law, LLC

The Durkan Family

Robert Dymond

Catherine & Walter Eckbreth

Susan & John Edson

Ashley & Clayton Embly

Carrie & Mitchell Ettinger

Dorothy & Lyle Feisel

Jillian & John Ferris

Linda & Allan Field

Gwendolyn & John Fink

Dawn & Jeffrey Fishel

Claire & Lawrence Fitzpatrick

Carolyn Flood

Linda Foreaker & Lester Eckman

Barbara Fox & Ron Roland

Anita & Gregory French

Andrew Friel

W. Ben Fulton

Pamela & Lawrence Getson

Amy Githens

Give Lively Foundation Inc.

Joyce & Dennis Glackin

Judith Grass & Michael O’Dell

Rosemary & John Gray

Anne Groo & Francis Richardson

Darlene & James Grusemeyer

Cathy & Jimmy Grusemeyer

Ruth & Jim Hall

Dory & Ray Hamlyn

Jennifer & Richard Hanna

Darcy & Harold Harder

Kathleen & Richard Hargrove

Linda & Karl Harper

Benjamin Harris

Desiree & Brad Hartman

Sylvia & Ralph Heidelbach

Kathleen & Stephen Hendry

Shelley & Jeffrey Hilber

Frances & Djoerd Hoekstra

Jack Holland

Ruth & Richard Holt

Rosemary & Mark Honebrink

Martha Horner

Joseph Hotard

Logan & Willard Hottle

Sarah & Christopher Hudgins

Catherine Hudson & Jason Cole

Cynthia & Robert Hurley

Sara Imershein & Mark Levine

Robert Iommazzo

Glenn Irwin

Diane Jackson & Joseph Jackins

Florence & Clifton Jackson

Carol & Joseph Jelich

Chesapeake Jewelers

Diana Johnson

Jean & Peter Johnson

Ian Jones

Vernon Jones

Elaine & Joseph Kaz

Fern & Daniel Kecman

Bevlee & James Kegan

Catherine Kelleher

Marcia & Fred Kieser

Ellen S. Knight

Kim & Ben Kohl

Bob Koplos

Jamie & Walt Kozumbo

Liz & John LaCorte

Pamela & Richard Lafferty

Maribeth & Thomas Lane

Delia & Marvin Lang

Linda Laramy & John Knud-Hansen

Adrianne & Philip Lasker

Robert Lee

Susan & Charles Lenfest

Katherine & Philip Lepanto

Anne & Bob Lepczyk

Diane & Robert Little

Libby & Roy Little

Katherine Lordi

Germaine & Thomas Louis

Dot Low

Joan Lunney

Elizabeth & Robert Marcotte

Kate & Thomas Markham

Catherine & Daniel Martin

Neile & Garland Martin

Brenda & J. Sperling Martin

Carolyn & Robert Mattingly

Linda & Raymond Maule

Monica & Mike McCarthy

Harriett & Craig McConnell

Lisa & Thomas McGrath

William McIntire

Meghann & Patrick McNamee

Catherine & Thomas Mendenhall

William Messner

Courtney & Daniel Middelton

Helen Milby

Charles Miller

Dianne Miller & J. Shawn Kimbro

Richard Miller

Sharon & Charles Miller

Margaret & Robert Mooney

Denise & James Mosher

Beret & Homer Moyer

Denise & Mitchell Nathanson

Donna Newcomer & Arnold Hammann

Deborah & Karl Nisson

Laura & John Northrop

Stefani & David O’Dea

Michael Olivieri

Linn Ong

Diana & Jeffrey Owen

Jennifer Palumbo

Jeannette & Philip Parish

Camille & Anthony Passarella

Elizabeth & John Patnovic

Page & Richard Pelliconi

Carmen Perry

Gretchen & Peter Peters

Priscilla & Robert Peterson

Elizabeth & Charles Petty

W. Lee Phillips

Chloe & David Pitard

Carol & Jim Porter

Henry Porter

Diane & Craig Postlewait

Catherine Prouse

Elise Rabekoff & Chris Gladstone

Reaves Family Fund

Cynthia & Michael Rebibo

Jane & Charles Reed

Jennifer Reed

John Regenhardt

Mary Revell & Eugene Lopez

Elizabeth & William Robertson

Marianne & Charles Robino

Suzanne & Joseph Robinson

Patricia & Timothy Roche

Arthur J. Roerink

Elizabeth & Thomas Roesel

Pat & Ken Rogers

Barbara Rosenbaum & Robert Feldhuhn

Karen & A. William Rutherford

Keith Rutter

S&D Auto Service

Diana Sable

Ruth Sanchez-Way & David Way

Jessica & Louis Sauer

James Saxton

Katherine Saylor & Peter Grier

Terry Schatzle & John Widmayer

Dorothy & Peter Scheidt

Mary Ann Schindler

Patricia & Richard Schramm

Richard Schubert

Betsy & Dale Schulz

Nancy & Jerry Senger

Garret Sern

D. Norma & William Service

John & Dolores Shaeffer

Faye & John Shannahan

Jennifer Shea & Peter Bruns

Terrence Sheehy

Flavia Skilbred

Irina & Angus Smith

Eva Smorzaniuk & Philip Dietz

John Soler

Parker & Joseph Spurry

Annette & Mike Stephens

Lindy & Tom Stevens

Jo Ann Storey

Karen & Thomas Straehle

Antoinette & Gregory Strauch

James Strong

Elizabeth Stuart & Robert Stecker

Josephine & John Stumpf

C. John Sullivan

Ann & Mike Sweeney

Kathleen & Richard Taylor

Dale & Larry Tepper

Marie & Stephen Thomas

Clifford Thompson

Margaret Thompson Taylor

Frances Thorington

Elizabeth Tilghman

Brian Topping

Catherine & Stephen Topping

Susan & Thomas Tuttle

Moorhead Vermilye

Peter Verne

Sarah & Paul Vikner

Susan & Herman Viola

Andy Wang

Stephen Warfle

James Washburn

Shreve Waxter

Laura & Gustave Wedin

Jennifer West & Donald Goodliffe

Barbara & Marshall Weingarden

Susan Wheele

Dorothy & Donald Whitcomb

Jill & Keith Wiebe

Frances & Scott Williams

Sue Willits

Barbara Wing

Tina & Ben Wolod

Helen & Winslow Womack

Brenda Wooden

Jean & James Wortman

Patricia Zindulka

Mary & John Zohlen

Crew (up to $99)

Stephanie & David Adey

Lottie & Theodore Aepli

America’s Charities

Judith & Richard Andela

Sarah Andersen

Karla Antonio

Elizabeth & Rasmus Apenes

Katherine & Stephen Bardelman

Hugh Barteman

Sally & Andrew Barton

Carolyn & John Beck

Margaret Benghauser & Daniel Dent

Bill Benson

Kathleen & Paul Bigelman

Keri Birmingham

Kirsten Birmingham

Therese & John Blamphin

Bradley Bliss

Madelon Bloom & Chris Kihm

Jill & Mark Bloom

Susan & Timothy Bloomfield

David Bogen

Mary & David Bourdon

Arlene & Stephen Bowes

Helen & Gary Bowie

Jacqueline & Sam Brinton

John Brown

John Bruno

Mary & James Burdick

Carol & Barry Burke

Regina Butler

Karen Buttaro

Campbell’s Bachelor Point

Yacht Co., LLC

Danuta & Reno Carbonetta

Barbara & Francis Carolan

Leland Cheyne

Christopher Cianci

Darlene Clark

Lucy & Gary Clarke

Viola & Robert Clum

Patrick Coggins

Jill & Roger Compton

Cynthia & Chip Coppins

Brett Cosor

Mary Coursey

Polly Cox

Lisa & Robert Craig

Mary & Robert Crofton

Jeffrey Cullen

Leslie Cunningham

Angie D’Alonzo & Andrew Gray

James Darby

Jo Deaton

Carla & Harry Delanoy

Traci & Andre DiGioia

Eric Duncan

Suzanne Eastham

Easton Ice Hawks U14 Red Team

Leslie & David Edinburg

Sheilah & Edward Egan

Dana & Randy Fairbank

Lisa Felker

Carole & John Ferruggiaro

Susan Ferschmann & Ira Deiches

Stephanie & Frank Fiorenini

Thomas Fish

Kathleen & George Fisher

Kathleen & James Flood

Rhonda & Herb Floyd

Jennifer & Chris Foley

Katie & Ned Foster

Belinda & David Fouts

Marcia & Peter Friedman

Judith Gaston

Michelle & James Genovese

Richard Gershberg

Harry Greenspun

Carol Anne & Steven Griffith

Pat Groller

Carol & Donald Hardesty

Jean Harris

Steven Harty

Melissa & Neal Haskin

Rich Hays

Joan Heiss

Jessica Hemminger

Jane & Bruce Holly

Michelle Hopkin

Carole Hornik

Michael Iannarelli

Lori & Les Ireland

Susan & James Irwin

Lesley & Fred Israel

Gail & William Jenkins

Susan Kane & Charles Krudener

Diane & Eugene Katz

Mary & Joseph Kempf

Kent County Division of Libraries

Stephen King

Hughlett Kirby

Laura Klingler & Stephen Gerike

Robert Kunzig

Emma Kurnat-Thoma

Charlotte & Frederick Kurst

Theresa & David Lattimore

Judith & Harold Leight

Mary & John Livingston

Denise Loverde

Peter Lowenthal & David Pirtle

Martha & Kim Lutz

Tacy Macgill Biggs

Robert Magee

Mary & Louis Malkus

Gail & Michael Marcus

Jul Lee Martensson

Jonda & Dan Martin

Margaret McCann

Margot & Clyde McClellan

Anita & Jay McCoy

Kathleen McDermott

Jayne McGeehan

Bonita & James McKenzie

Louisa & Ron McMorrow

Melissa McNab

Cathryn Meegan

Charles Metzger

Margaret Micek

Miles River Yacht Club

Barb & Rob Moschet

Kevin Mottus

Tracy & Skip Murgatroyd

Denise & Art Murr

Chad Nelson

Mary & Christopher Nemarich

Jenny Neumeyer

Eugenia & Mark Newberg

Sharon & John Nizer

Caitlin O’Brien

Maria Oviedo & Edmund Dornheim

Robert Pastrana

Marlene & John Patmore

Janice Patterson

Gloria Paul & Bob Atlas

Sara & Arne Paulson

Alice & Robert Petizon

Barbara & Francis Pettit

Jane Phelan & Stephen Bender

Pledgeling Foundation

Glenn Porter

Bruce Potter

Ann & Colin Potts

Mary Jordan & Curtis Reintsma

Penelope & David Renoll

Lynn & Michael Ricker

John & Linda Ritter

Denton Rourke

Barbara & Bruce Ruthers

Donald Rutledge

Katherine Saad-Loman

Hope Salvo

Carol & Edward Santelmann

Joseph Sarnowski

Joyce & Ben Schlesinger

Joan & F.W. Schneider

Linda & Robert Schuerholz

Susanne & John Scott

Mary & John Segermark

Priscilla & John Sener

Diana Sexton

Sharyn & Lloyd Sheats

Abby Siegel & Gerald Silverstein

Laura & Michael Sieracki

Dylan Skarupa

Peggy & T.C. Slattery

Marie & Barry Smith

Karen & David Smith

Lynne & George Snyder

Jennifer Solomos

Jane Sparks

Michele & Russ Spaulding

Jan Spoor

Stefanie & John Steimer

Warren Stevens

Barbara Stewart

Ann & Rudolph Stewart

Mary & Keith Stinchcomb

Stephanie Stockman &

M. Frank Ireton

Rose & Bob Straebel

Barbara & David Taylor

Kathleen & Richard Taylor

Christine Thomas

Diane & William Thomas

Mary Ellen & Bruce Valliant

Renee Van Schoor

Marc Vance

Debra Vess

Susan Walker & Suzanna Skelley

Carolyn & Raymond Wasdyke

Barbara & Butch Watkins

Dale Whalen

Nancy & Charles White

David Wilson

Elizabeth & Daniel Wright

Kathy & Loyd Yent

Gifts-In-Kind

Chesapeake Chef Service

Cozen O’Connor

George’s Beverage Company

Royal Oak Catering Company

PeachBlossoms Events

Garden & Garnish

On Your Mark Lighting

Eastern Shore Tents & Events

Gourmet by the Bay

Blue Heron Coffee

Windon Distilling

Mary Sue Traynelis

Hilary Singho

Joseph Wharton

Robert Stelmaszek

Donations to the Charity Boat Donation Program

Debra Abell & Nancy Wood

Scott Bender

Michael Berman

Paige Bethke & Benjamin Tilghman

Suzanne & Frederick Betz

Anne Blocker

Posey & William Boicourt

Christina Brandt

Susan Brown

Jeff Callahan

Victoria & David Carothers

Ruth Collings-Hahn

Virginia & Stephen Croker

Ann & John Davis

David DeMeo

Nanette DeRenzi & Laura Bishop

Kathleen Dewit

Elaine Dickinson & John Horne

Mary & Doug Donatelli

Joni & Wallace Doolin

Ellen & Edward Doyle

William Doyle

Jeffery Duby

Jennifer & David Durkin

Vicki Edmands & Marcello Antinori

Lucy & Dave Faison

Elizabeth & Gregory Feldman

Cheryl Findlay & Bruce Morse

Michael Fishkow

Patricia & John Flory

Mark Flynn

John Foote

Eric Forden

Michael Freshwater

Barbara & Jerry Friedman

Barton Frohlich

Katherine & William Gambrill

Gifts in Kind International

Philip Graham

John Greco

Harry Greenspun

Julia Griffith

Megan & David Hammer

Elizabeth Hancock

Joseph Harrington

Jane Hawkey & John Schroeder

Forrest Hill

Frederick Hunt

Susan & David Hutton

Joshua Inkell

Lori Ireland

Margaret & Merton Jarboe

James Johnson

Junichi Kambayashi

Mike Kamedula

Courtney & Scott Kane

John Kaualinas

Frederick Keer

Agnes Kerr

Paige & John Kevill

Mark Krasna

Albert Kubeluis

Jennifer Kuhn

Sherry & Kurt Kuykendal

Matthew Lang

Melissa Lavat

Susan & Darren Leeman

Melissa & George Lesmes

Pam & Paul Lindsay

Jeff Long

Kate & Braden Loveless

Edmund MacLaughlin

David Mahlmann

Warner Mariani

Joan & Larry Marshburn

Marie Martin & Gary Nylander

Mary Masland

Paul McAllister

Mary McCahon

Timoth McDonough

Kathleen & Frederick Megahan

Charles Metzger

Peter Meyer

Francis Milhalovic

Judy & John Mistretta

Robert Moffatt

Marcia & John Moore

Charles Morgan

Luke Odendahl

Jimmie & William Ol

Orion Safety Products

Thomas Otter

Howard Parks

Karen Pauer

Beth Poitras

Lisa & Glenn Prickett

Linda & Brice Rahn

Roberta Reed

Martin Reville

Hugh Richards

Nancy & Ronald Rowe

Eric Rubin

Carolyn Rugg & Lawrence Rovin

Priscilla & Edmund Ryan

Margaret Schlund

Vincent Schmidt

Terrence Sheehy

Eva Smorzaniuk & Philip Dietz

Natacha Steimer & Scott Bergmann

Andrew Stephens

Ann Stevens & Henry Seeba

Melinda Stevenson

Gregory Strennen

Joann & Scott Sullivan

Elizabeth & William Swartz

James Taneyhill

Anthony Thomas

Barbara Thurston

Jennifer Tilghman Cholnoky

Eric Toumayan

Joseph Turri

Bennett Umhau

Elizabeth & James Underhill

Lisa & Daniel VanBuskirk

David Weinberg

Marilyn & Hal Weiner

Linda & Joseph Wharton

Nancy Whitten

Rosemary & John Williams

Wendell Williams

Maria Williams

Tom Wilson

Barbara Wise

Seth Wood

Honoring Gifts

We congratulate the honorees listed in bold and thank our donors for their thoughtful tribute gifts:

In Honor of Robert S. Barrett

Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc.

In Honor of Richard & Ellen

Bodorff

Pamela & James Harris

In Honor of James Boicourt

Richard Gershberg

In Honor of Victoria D. Braun

Amy Githens

In Honor of Daniel Conway and

Jennifer Allen

Shelley & Wilfred Dyer

In Honor of Tom Dalrymple

Easton Ice Hawks

In Honor of Captain Lloyd Devigne

Easton Ice Hawks

In Honor of Easton Ice Hawks

Joann & Lloyd Devigne

In Honor of Francis M. Garahan

Easton Ice Hawks

In Honor of Charles Huddleston

Patricia & Richard Schramm

In Honor of Jenn Kuhn

Adrianne & Philip Lasker

In Honor of Kenneth A. Lubin

NM Morris Family Foundation

In Honor of James Ulwick and Suellen Ferguson

Todd Cooke

Memorial Gifts

We express our deepest sympathy and sincere appreciation for the gifts made in memory of the loved ones indicated in bold:

In Memory of Dick C. Bartlett

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Nancy Bennett

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Lowell Blossom

Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.

In Memory of Dennis Blotz

Margaret McCann

In Memory of Mary “Vicki” Braun

David Braun

Thomas Gross

Miles River Yacht Club

In Memory of Timothy J. Caruso

Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.

In Memory of Cheryl Davenport

Mindy Ashton

Gaspare Bono

Leslie Cunningham

Dory & Ray Hamlyn

Linda & Ardell Hoveskeland

Pledgeling Foundation

In Memory of Heather R. Davidson

Heather & Jeff Ettinger

Rosemary & Mark Honebrink

The Roulston Family

Sue Willits

In Memory of James W. Day

The Durkan Family

Cathy & Jimmy Grusemeyer

Darlene & James Grusemeyer

Michael Iannarelli

Bob Koplos

Anita & Jay McCoy

Sandra & Ray McCoy

Melissa McNab

Jenny Neumeyer

Jennifer Palumbo

Suzanne & Joseph Robinson

Barbara & Bruce Ruthers

Jessica & Louis Sauer

Nancy & Jerry Senger

Jane Sparks

Christine Thomas

Andy Wang

Robert White

In Memory of Charlie Dobbs

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of John F. Ford

Marie & Stephen Thomas

In Memory of Alexander Gadson

Karen & Mike Gadson

In Memory of Gary Geffken

Kate & James Attridge

Campbell’s Bachelor Point

Yacht Co., LLC

Leland Cheyne

Belinda & David Fouts

Judith Gaston

Susan & Richard Granville

Pamela & James Harris

Ellen S. Knight

Alice & Robert Petizon

Barbara & Francis Pettit

Diane & Craig Postlewait

Robin & Richard Scofield

Karen & Langley Shook

Cynthia & Daniel Wolcott

In Memory of John S. Gorski

Mary Cahill

FP Carolan

Barbara & Francis Carolan

In Memory of Charles Edward Hartman II

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Ray Henderson

Jennifer Solomos

In Memory of Thomas Hinkel

Burr Yacht Sales, Inc.

In Memory of Gerald “Gerry” Hughes

Craig Hughes

In Memory of Sam Jett

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Harry Keith

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Captain Carmel

Libercci III

Kim & Ben Kohl

In Memory of Jeanne Land

Marianne & Charles Robino

In Memory of Stanley Martin Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Joseph McGeady

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of John B. Mencke

Susan & Paul Hanson

In Memory of Patricia Miller

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of James S.

Montgomery

Glenn Irwin

In Memory of Christopher W.W. Murphy

Catherine Murphy & Bryan McGrath

In Memory of James “Swede” Olfson

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

In Memory of Billy Reiss

Jean & Thomas Brett

In Memory of Albert Strasser

Susan Ferschmann & Ira Deiches

In Memory of Wayne Thompson

Diana Johnson

In Memory of Anne Thornton

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake

Endowments

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum exhibitions, programs, and operations are generously supported by:

The J. Howard Adkins

Memorial Endowment

The David B. Baker

Memorial Endowment

The Bedford Family Operating Endowment

The Bruce Ford Brown

Memorial Operating Endowment

The Howard I. Chapelle

Memorial Library Endowment

The C. Thomas Clagett Jr.

Operating Endowment

The J. Douglas Darby

Library Endowment

The J. Douglas Darby

Memorial Fund Endowment

The Davenport Family Foundation Endowment Fund

The Fitchner Community

Sailing Endowment Fund

The Edward B. Freeman

Memorial Operating Endowment

The Claiborne W. Gooch III

Memorial Endowment

The Harris Education Endowment

The Hollerith Endowment

The James & Marianna Horner

Operating Endowment

The George F. Johnson

Endowment Fund

The Kerr Center Endowment

The Kimberly-Clark Endowment

The Alice & Peter Kreindler

Operating Endowment

The Larrabee Endowment

The Leavitt Memorial

Operating Endowment

The Lenfest Foundation

Lecture Series Endowment Fund

The Elizabeth Loker Educational

Programming Endowment

The Peter Max Operating Endowment

The Jean McIntosh & William

Carveth Heyn Endowment Fund

The John B. Mencke Memorial Fund

The James Michener

Intern Endowment

The Philip E. Nuttle

Waterfowl Endowment

The Sumner & Frances

Parker Endowment Fund

The Norman H. & Ellen K. Plummer

Howard Chapelle Library Endowment

The D. & S. Pyles Sailing Endowment

The Requard Operating Endowment

The J. W. Sener Jr. Endowment

The W. Mason Shehan

Memorial Endowment

The Ralph Simmons

Operating Endowment

The Spire Operating Endowment

The C. V. Starr Scholarship Fund

The Joseph B. Stephens

Memorial Endowment

The Barbara Stewart Museum

Store Endowment

The Strebor Lighthouse

Education Endowment

The Dr. Charles H. Thornton

Educational Programming Endowment A1538

The Mary Donnell Tilghman

Endowment Fund

The Trumpy Yacht Endowment

E. & J. Tucker Apprentice Endowment

The Jane Tucker

Memorial Endowment

The John R. Valliant Log Canoe Fund

The John R. Valliant President

Discretionary Fund

The Van Dyke Family Endowment Fund

The Vane Brothers Co. Endowment

The George Harry Wagner

Memorial Scholarship Fund

The Webster Endowment Fund

The Ralph H. Wiley

Memorial Endowment

New Life Members

Albert Bartolome

Mary & John Cottingham

Laura & Harry Criswell

The McLaughlin Family

Susan & Paul Oberreither

Robert & Jeanette Waldron

David & Gretchen Welch

Lighthouse Legacy

Society

Joyce & Mark Allen

Nancy & CG Appleby

Ann & David Benfer

Ellen & Richard Bodorff

Nancy Burri

Frank Carollo

Jane & Peter Chambliss

Patricia & Alfred Coleman

Jacqueline & James Demerest

Susan & Lawrence Denton

Patricia & Alfred Fittipaldi

Elizabeth & Howard Freedlander

Gloria Gibson

MaryAnn & Jeff Gorman

Elizabeth & Alan Griffith

Greg Guthman

Jane & Francis Hopkinson

Barbara & William Hough

Laurie & Richard Johnson

Marilynn Katatsky & Richard Kaufmann

Patricia & George Marshall

Nancy & Fred Meendsen

Maxine Millar

Gloria & Roger Olson

Mary Lou & Joseph Peters

Pamela & Dennis Pitt

Ellen & Norman Plummer

Bruce Ragsdale & Richard Scobey

Martha & William Read

Jeanne & David Reager

Linda & Clifford Rossi

Marietta Schreiber

Alexa & Tom Seip

Karen & Langley Shook

Catharine & Richard Snowdon

Jill & Mark Solomons

Judy & Henry Stansbury

René & Thomas Stevenson

Beverly & Richard Tilghman

Mary Sue Traynelis

Jacqueline & Richard Tyler

Colin & Carolyn Williams

Photo by Sharon Thorpe

Each day, CBMM’s volunteer team helps to further our mission and make our campus a better place. Last year, 270 individuals contributed a total of 21,200 hours of service supporting all areas of the organization.

Making an Impact

2,100 hours supporting the Shipyard

1,800 hours as crew on the historic floating fleet vessels

1,600 hours welcoming 80,000+ guests to campus

1,500 hours supporting annual festivals

500 hours giving tours to students and adults

300 hours supporting the Rising Tide after-school program

300 hours supporting summer campers

200 hours gardening to keep campus beautiful

LIST OF VOLUNTEERS

Tracy Aaron

Sue Abrahams

Brian Adelhart

Pat Adelhardt

Greg Allen

Molly Anderson

Bill Atkinson

Gary Austin

Edward Balling

Jack BeVier

Mary Binseel

Jim Birmingham

Don Boehl

Marti Bremer

Ric Buchanan

Dale Byrnes

Frank Carollo

Ann Marie Carton

Creston Cathcart

Gibby Conrad

Cindy Covington

Gwenn Curry

Tom Dalrymple

Ed Davis

Jack Davis

Ken Davis

Bill Day

Greg DeCowsky

Will Dennehy

Lloyd Devigne

Elaine Dickinson

Janet DiNapoli

Jen Dindinger

Jenn Durkin

Rob Ellis

Mark Eney

Patti Eney

Brad Faus

Cathy Fawell

Michael Fiorentino

Bella Ford

Quinton Ford

Greg Foster

Jim Foster

Mike Foster

Piper Freitag

Kurt Gant

Michele Gant

Frank Garahan

Andrew Geffken

Katie Geffken

Wayne Gibson

Nancy Gooding

Mary Ann Gorman

John D. Grabenstein

Terry Grieb

Linda Haddaway King

Denise Hagood

Sam Hammer

Karen Harris

Mark Harris

Diana Hastings

Gwyn Healy

Jeff Palmer

Peter Palmer

Don Parks

Marshall Patterson

Mary Pellicano

Taylor Penwell

Jane Phelan

John Pickering

Ellen Plummer

Norm Plummer

Rick Pollard

Matt Propper

Mary Ann Ray

Al Renzi

Mary Rice

Ally Rodgers

Tom Rodgers

Kurt Rodowsky

Nancy Rodowsky

William Ryall

George Sass

Camryn Schumacher

Rob Schumacher

Rich Scofield

Robin Scofield

Dave Seabury

Rick Shearer

Nick Simpson

John Sloan

Bob Stelmaszek

Donna Stolarczyk

Rose Straebel

Jody Stumpf

Angeline Sturgis

Barrie Svenson

Ann Sweeney

Mike Sweeney

Ed Thieler

John Thomas

Sharon Thorpe

Ben Tilghman Jr.

Paul Tolzman

Tim Meier

Jeff Messing

Danny Moss

Grigg Mullen

Joyce Mumaw

Michael Nelson

Johanna Norris

Bob North

Shawn Norton

Gary Nylander

Suzanne O’Donnell

Doug Oeller

Mike Oh

Steve O’Neill

Drew Palmer

Mary Sue Traynelis

Mike Twigg

Tom Vail

Bonnie Wager

Austin Walmsley

Chuck Wells

Joe Wharton

Pam White

Allison Williams

Taylor Williams

Helen Womack

Jim Wortman

Mary Jane Wyant

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

213 N. Talbot Street St. Michaels, MD 21663

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Weddings

For more information or to schedule a private tour:

Logan Clark

Event & Group Services Lead

410-745-4998 | lclark@cbmm.org

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