Black-eyed Susans at the Museum
Greeters at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
After more than a year, I returned to the the Chesapeake Bay Martime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland. The pandemic had kept me away from the museum’s collection of antique boats and the museum’s prize artifact, the 1879 Hooper Straight Lighthouse. The lighthouse was relocated to museum grounds in 1966 and restored to demonstrate how lightkeepers lived in the 19th century.
The museum’s collections, as always, did not disappoint. It includes working examples of the boats used by Chesapeake Bay watermen when the Eastern Shore of Maryland was better known for oysters than for tourism.
The museum restores boats on-site. Among the boats currently under restoration is a 1912 tug boat. It is maybe a year or two away from completion following rescue by the museum.
