Friday, June 13, 2025
Took the long way home through Maryland's Eastern Shore on the east side of Chesapeake Bay.
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| In St Michaels, the resort, the Inn at Perry's Cabin was one of the sites for filming the 2005 movie Wedding Crashers |
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| These photos were taken from the water's edge |
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| The Inn at Perry's Cabin has its own fleet of sailboats ... |
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| ... and its own rubber duckie |
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| Our goal today was the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where the entrance drive goes under the Knapps Narrow Bridge (1934), a pony plate girder bascule drawbridge that connected Tilghman Island to the rest of the world |
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| An oyster shucker stall where workers stood protected from the cold damp of the warehouse floor, and from the sharp-edged shells |
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| Sinkbox (c 1910) allowed duck hunters to lie quietly at water level while attracting their victims with decoys |
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| Model of a fully-rigged sinkbox with iron decoys |
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| Leather coat (c 1940) of Timothy Malone who piloted boats in and out of Baltimore Harbor, along with a model (attributed to Claiborne Allen) of Pilot #1 (1880), the first steam pilot vessel in the country |
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| The boat with a red hull is a three-log Tilghman style canoe, christened Glide (c 1864), with its logs joined by wooden mortise and tenons (rather than iron drift pins) making it similar to boats used by numerous freedom seekers, especially from Maryland |
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| The prow of Glide, the oldest surviving log canoe |
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| Alverta (1908) is a five-log canoe, one of the first built with an engine, owned by Black oysterman Fillmore King and named for his wife |
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| Big Bad Syd (1953) is a utility outboard racer used by brothers Jack and Teddy Nelson at the Black resort community of Highland Park in Maryland |
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| The racing helmet and uniform (c 1953) was used by Teddy Nelson "in one of the few national sports without racial restrictions" |
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| Widgeon (1949) is a sailing skiff built by C Lowndes Johnson, who started sailing at age 8 |
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| Sailor (c 1860) is a cast iron dog depicting a Lesser Newfoundland/St John Water Dog rescued from a sinking ship off the coast of Maryland, who was then bred with local dogs to create the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a waterfowling breed with oily double coats that keep it dry after repeated plunges in cold water to pick up downed ducks/birds |
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| Figurehead (c 1950) was made for a schooner yacht, Freedom, when it belonged to the US Naval Academy; the figurehead added 450 pounds to the front of the ship and had to be removed and was placed in the Naval Academy Museum; however, one midshipman wrote to his mother about the practice of his classmates to rub the bosom of the figurehead for luck: the mother wrote to the superintendent who ordered the figurehead to be removed and it is now on indefinite loan to the Maritime Museum |
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| The Steamboat Building has an auditorium and a special exhibit: Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad |
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| Model (1998, by Arthur E Ortner) of the slave trading vessel Dos Amigos (1830) that was captured in 1832 by the British and renamed Fair Rosamond to patrol off the coast of Africa to capture other slave trading vessels |
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| A quilt (2023, by the National African American Quilt Guild) commemorating 14 ships used in the transatlantic slave trade |
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| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) represents the abolitionist author and orator, and political activist who was born here in Talbot County, and who escaped dressed as a sailor carrying a borrowed seaman's protection certificate, by train and steamboat |
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| Portrait (1891, The Boston Globe) of Captain Dempsey Hill, who was born enslaved and worked as a waterman who managed to break into the Beaufort, NC Customs House to take nautical charts detailing the coastal waterways, which he ferried out to a blockading US Navy fleet in a stolen pilot vessel |
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| Compound Steam Engine (1924) was originally installed in the tug El Toro that ferried railroad cars on car floats across the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay |
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| Purpose-built building for the Oystering on the Chesapeake display, including all but the masts of the oyster harvesting skipjack E C Collier (1910) |
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| Tamiko "wearing" oystering boots |
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| Oyster dredges |
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| Prow of the E C Collier |
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| Oyster cans from Baltimore and Eastern Shore canneries, making the Chesapeake Bay once one of the greatest producers of oysters in the world |
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| Oysters 15 Ways; note the porcelain oyster plates |
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| Small power skiff Katie G (c 1845) was made for pleasure fishing and crabbing; although built with an engine, she has the shape of a sailboat |
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| Point Lookout Bell Tower (c 1888, moved here in 1968) is a fog bell tower for when a light may not be visible; Hooper Strait Lighthouse (1879, moved here in 1966) is a hexagonal screwpile cottage-style light station |
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| Patriot (1989, to resemble a 1930s steam ferry) offers 45-minute narrated cruises on the Miles River |
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