Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

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On the Cover
WaterWays
Fall 2008
Volume 6 Number 2
Editor
Michael Valliant
editor@cbmm.org
Graphic Design/Photography
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso
Contributors
Julie Barnett
Dick Cooper
Robert Forloney
Pete Lesher
Kate Livie
Melissa McLoud
Stuart Parnes
Kate Rattie
Lindsley Rice
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Navy Point, P.O. Box 636
St. Michaels, MD 21663-0636
410-745-2916 Fax 410-745-6088
www.cbmm.org editor@cbmm.org
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a private
not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational institution. A
copy of the current financial statement is available
on request by writing the Vice President of Finance,
P.O. Box 636, St. Michaels, MD 21663 or by calling
410-745-2916 ext. 238. Documents and information
submitted under the Maryland Charitable Solicitations
Act are also available, for the cost of postage and
copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State
House, Annapolis, MD 21401, 410-974-5534.
WaterWays is printed on 50% recycled
paper (25% post-consumer waste) using
eco-friendly vegetable oil based inks.
Detail of an aerial photograph of Poplar
Island taken by Hunter H. Harris. The work
to rebuild Poplar Island undertaken by the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can be seen
prominently from the air. Harris’s photos are
being paired with photos of the Bay from 75
years ago by H. Robins Hollyday as part of
a new exhibit, “The Bay From Above.” For
more information, see pages 14-15.
Summertime, and the livin’ was…
well, interesting
A quick cruise on the Miles River or a walk along St. Michaels’ main
street this summer was all it took to recognize that things were unusually
quiet. “End of Season Sale” signs went up early in the shops, the marinas
had empty slips, and marketing gurus invented new terms like “stay-cation.”
Here at the Museum, we saw a definite slowing of midweek visitors. It’s too
soon to know for sure if this is a temporary reaction to gasoline prices and
the housing slump or the beginning of a real change in American’s traveling
habits, but the situation has certainly gotten our attention.
Museums like CBMM were established as destinations, special places
to visit (by car) and to explore. As museums, we have been the providers of
unique personal experiences, bringing visitors from near and far face-to-face
with the real stuff of history. As businesses, we have been the engines of the
nationwide Heritage Tourism movement and the anchors for our local retail
and hospitality industries.
Now, suddenly, things are changing. I hear my colleagues asking, “What
if the unthinkable happens, and Americans actually decide to drive less?
How will we survive?” I could answer by noting how fortunate we are that
CBMM is located just a tank away from three major metropolitan centers;
but what I really want to say is, “We are asking the wrong question.” The
challenge isn’t what if; it’s what now? And I think the answer is that it depends
on how heavily we rely on tourism.
I am very optimistic about CBMM’s ability not just to survive but to
thrive, because we have an exceptionally well-balanced base of support.
Tourist admissions provide less than 20 percent of our total annual revenue,
compared to 21 percent from endowment and 25 percent from earned income.
The largest single segment of support actually comes from you, our
members: 30 percent from combined membership dues and Annual Fund.
Compared to many of our colleagues, this is a very healthy formula, and it
puts us in a strong position for the future.
In a recent study of historic sites organized by the National Trust for
Historic Preservation, experts suggested that the old business model—based
on revenues from cultural tourism—is no longer valid. The model that needs
to replace it is one based on affinity groups. In other words, we better start
focusing on our members, not our one-time visitors. Are we providing our
members with what they want and need from us? Are we building loyalty
and involvement among our members? The answers better be YES.
This is where you can really help. In October, replacing the long-running
OysterFest, CBMM will be hosting its first Members’ Day. This is an event
designed especially for you—an opportunity to go behind the scenes, meet
with staff and other members, take part in special programs and activities, and
talk with us about the future of your museum. This will be a family affair, with
programs for all ages, and we especially encourage you to bring friends who
might become new members. More details follow
in this issue. Please mark your calendars for
October 18 and come for the day. Rain or shine,
I promise you it will be worth the trip.
Stuart L. Parnes, President
sparnes@cbmm.org

(Above) Families try their hand
at fishing and chicken-necking
for crabs at the first annual
Chesapeake Folk Festival.
Departments
To the Point 8
Calendar 11
Wood Works 13
Mystery Answers 22
Features
Chesapeake Folk Festival
On July 26, the Museum introduced a festival focused on the Bay’s
living traditions, highlighting communities and people living and
working on the Chesapeake.
The Bay From Above
CBMM’s next big exhibition juxtaposes aerial photographs of the
Chesapeake Bay from 75 years ago with present day views to show
the changes in landscape, waterfront and Bay spaces.
Voices of the Chesapeake
From a popular radio show to a CD of Bay songs and, now, a book
chock full of Bay voices and perspectives, Michael Buckley has
quickly become the Bay’s leading oral historian. By Michael Valliant
Attic Treasures
Contents
Maple Hall in Claiborne holds the stories and secrets of 150 years
of the Tunis, Cockey and Cooke families. Boxes full of documents,
photographs and artifacts make for historic treasures. By Dick Cooper
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Children visit a tent full of kids’ activities during the Chesapeake
Folk Festival, some making their own crabbing permits before
trying their hand at chicken-necking and fishing off the dock.
Boat builder Dave McQuay shares his memories of log canoe sailor
Jimmy Wilson as part of the “Shore Stories” narrative stage.
First
Chesapeake
You never know what to expect from a first-time event
or what will happen when you change a long-standing festival.
In the case of the first Chesapeake Folk Festival,
which was held on Saturday, July 26, the result was success
on all fronts.
Attendance for the day topped 2,000 visitors—something
the former summer festival for CBMM never accomplished—and
the diversity of the crowd and their enthusiastic
comments about the day and the event signaled a job
well done.
“The acid test of a good event is the sense of involvement,
ownership, and downright comfort, which was palpable,”
said Elaine Eff of Maryland Traditions, the lead sponsor of
the festival.
The day boasted near-perfect weather and outdoor and
indoor activities for visitors of all ages. Community conversations,
boat rides, films, great music and traditional
demonstrations—dipnet making, boat building, pottery and
the secrets to a delicious Smith Island Cake—all made for
an exceptional day at CBMM.
Festival-goers congregate under the Hooper Strait Lighthouse as
they prepare to board the skipjack H. M. Krentz for a boat ride.

Folk Festival
Starts a New Tradition
Festival-goers noticed a difference in both the event
and the crowd in attendance:
“We loved the variety of things to do. It was especially
nice to see the diversity of visitors,” said Rosemary Fasolo
of St. Michaels. “I don’t recall seeing this to that extent at a
CBMM event in the past.”
And the Folk Festival was a hit with the local community
as well.
“What a day! You guys exceeded every boundary on
Saturday! I never saw or talked to so many impressed
people in one place,” said Julie McCahill, chair of the
Museum’s Program Committee. “I ran into some St. Michaels
friends who have lived here all their lives and rarely
if ever had visited CBMM but came on Saturday and immediately
joined. ‘Never knew they did stuff like this—
this is cool!’”
The Chesapeake Folk Festival was funded by Maryland
Traditions and media sponsor What’s Up? Publishing. Plans
are already underway for the 2009 festival, which promises
to top this year's event
The “Fish Tales/Net Cafe” gave visitors as chance to meet
fisherman and watermen and learn about their work and tools.
Shipwright and potter Marc Barto shows off his non-boat-building
skills as he instructs a young visitor on how to throw
a pot on a wheel. Photo by Kathy Stevens.
The Zionaires, a popular gospel group from Princess Anne, Md.,
took center stage on the Tolchester Beach Bandstand.
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National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation Awards CBMM
$100,000 Grant
The Chesapeake Bay Program and the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) recently awarded CBMM
a $100,000 matching grant for construction of 12,670
square feet of living shoreline on the Museum’s waterfront.
CBMM’s project was one of 34 environmental projects in
the Chesapeake Bay watershed awarded funding through the
Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants program, which
provides grants to organizations and municipal governments
working to improve the condition of their local watershed.
NFWF awarded a total of $2.1 million in grants for projects
that will protect 3,400 acres of land, restore approximately
15 miles of streams and plant more than 160 acres of marsh
and wetland grasses.
Staff from the Chesapeake Bay Trust use a seine net to sample
the diversity of species before a living shoreline is constructed at
the Museum.
“Each project receiving a Small Watershed Grant this
year is a vital component of the broad partnership of organizations
working to restore the Bay and its local waterways,”
said Jeffrey Lape, director of the Chesapeake Bay Program.
CBMM will use the NFWF funds to construct a new
marsh to treat storm water runoff from impervious surfaces
before it reaches tidal waters. The new marsh will enhance
the shoreline and provide for vegetative shoreline erosion
control and marsh edge protection along the Museum’s Miles
River shoreline.
The project will be designed to eliminate point source
storm water discharge and construct a low profile stone containment
structure (sill) along 622 linear feet of shoreline in
the Miles River Watershed. In addition, approximately 0.3
acres of new marsh will be constructed and protected.
Sea grass grating bridging a vegetated swale to allow
sunlight to reach the plantings below will replace a portion
of the Museum’s existing boardwalk. This living shoreline
will become a new outdoor living classroom that will be
viewed and interpreted to the Museum’s 80,000 annual visitors
including more than 11,000 Maryland and Mid-Atlantic
students from public, private and home schools.
“Locally driven conservation projects (like the one proposed
by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum) not only engage
communities in restoring their local streams and watersheds,
collectively, they are key to restoring one of the country’s most
vital natural resources – the Chesapeake Bay,” noted Mike Slattery,
director of NFWF’s Eastern Partnership Office.
CBMM Participating
in National Economic
Impact Study
CBMM is one of 16 museums from the across the country
chosen to participate in a three-year study of the economic
impact of museums on their communities. The North
Adams, Mass.-based Center for Creative Community Development
(C3D) launched the study, “Museums in the Neighborhood,”
in 2006.
“Cultural organizations, even relatively small ones, impact
their neighborhoods and their communities. They have
an economic impact on their community through their annual
budget as it circulates through the local economy. But
they also impact their community by making it a more attractive
place to live, by offering educational programming, and
by being a local gathering place,” notes Stephen Sheppard,
Ph.D., professor of economics at Williams College and director
of the C3D project.
The project will provide CBMM and the other museums
participating in the study with a suite of tools to evaluate their
general impact or the success of programs that target community
members. Funding for the research project has come from
the Ford Foundation through its “Shifting Sands: Art, Culture,
and Neighborhood Change” initiative, with assistance from
Partners for Livable Communities, the Institute for Museum
and Library Services, and Williams College.
ALL Offers New Courses &
New Interview Series
The Academy for Lifelong
Learning (ALL), which is sponsored
by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime
Museum, will offer the first
of a new interview series, “Distinguished
Residents of the Eastern
Shore,” and 14 courses for the fall
2008 semester.
The first program of the new series
will feature an interview with
Senator Birch Bayh is the
first in a new interview
series for ALL.
Senator Birch Bayh (former U.S.
Senator-Indiana) by Wilson Wyatt,
Jr. It will be held on Monday, No-

vember 10, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the MEBA Engineering
School Auditorium. The discussion will trace Senator Bayh’s
involvement in the U.S. Senate during the period 1963-1981,
when he was instrumental in the passage of Title IX, initiated
two Constitutional amendments and participated in landmark
civil rights legislation.
Other ALL courses cover a wide range of subjects including
digital photography, French literature, Renaissance
art, gardening, history and literature. Classes will begin September
11 and run through November 25.
For a copy of the fall 2008 ALL catalog or further information,
call Helen Van Fleet, 410-745-2916, or visit the ALL
website at www.cbmm.org/all.html.
New Board Officers & Members
Members of the CBMM Board of Governors tour the Hooper Strait
Lighthouse. Pictured (L-R) are Chairman of the Board Robert Perkins,
new board member Robin Gordon, volunteer tour guide Andy
Flanagan, new board member Langley Shook, returning board
member Candy Backus, and board members Douglas Jurrius and
Bruce Bedford.
The Museum is pleased to announce new officers and members
of its Board of Governors. New officers of the Board are:
Chair Robert A. Perkins of St. Michaels; Vice-Chair
Alan R. Griffith of Centreville; Secretary D. Ted Lewers of
Easton; and Treasurer Joseph E. Peters of Easton. Newly
elected to the Board of Governors are: Candace Carlucci
Backus of Easton; Stuart A. Clarke of Easton; Robin Gordon
of St. Michaels; Tom D. Seip of Easton; Langley R. Shook
of Easton; Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr. of Centreville; and
Bruce Wiltse of Claiborne.
“We are excited to have a great class of new Board members,”
says CBMM president Stuart Parnes. “Each of them
brings much life experience and expertise to the Museum, and
they have already gotten involved in projects and planning,
and sitting on committees.”
Dr. John Miller: A Class Act
John H. Miller, Ph.D., ended his 10-year tenure with
CBMM in September. John came to the Museum from Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., where he was a
major gifts officer. John and his
family spent time on a family farm
in McDaniel, and at the urging of
then CBMM Executive Director
John Valliant, he signed on to help
build fundraising efforts during the
capital “Campaign for Preserving
the Heritage of the Bay,” which ran
from 1997 through 2001.
John Miller
Thanks in large part to Miller’s
tireless fundraising, the campaign
went on to raise more than $18 million, exceeding its goal.
In post-campaign fundraising, John helped CBMM set and
re-set record goals in its Annual Fund.
Beyond the class he has brought to development at the
Museum, John has also held classes—many of them for
CBMM’s Academy for Lifelong Learning. Drawing on his
experience as a former adjunct professor of English while
at Carnegie Mellon, John has co-taught literature courses
for more than five years for ALL. His classes have been
widely subscribed and have become perennial favorites
with students.
John will continue his affiliation and his collaboration
with John Ford in team teaching for ALL, as well as
teach literature at American University and other regional
academic institutions. He and his wife, Emily, will remain
residents of Easton.
CBMM Staff News
Kathleen (Kate) Rattie has been
named vice president of advancement,
overseeing CBMM’s fundraising, membership,
government relations, marketing
and communications efforts. Kate joined
the Museum in 2006 as director of development.
She brings more than 30 years
Kate Rattie
experience in fundraising, marketing, and
public relations to her new role. Kate is a
graduate of American University and completed masters degree
work at New York University and Fordham University.
Lynne Phillips has joined CBMM as
collections manager. She holds masters
degrees in history from the University
of Houston-Clear Lake and in museum
studies from John F. Kennedy University
in San Francisco. Lynne worked for the
Aircraft Carrier Hornet Museum and the
Walt Disney Family Foundation’s new
museum in the Presidio of San Francisco
prior to her move to CBMM.
Lynne Phillips
Kate Livie, an Eastern Shore native, is the Museum’s new
youth and adult programs coordinator. Kate holds a bachelors
degree from Towson University and a master of fine arts degree
in American decorative arts from the Parsons School of
Design. She has worked for the National Park Service in The
White House Historic Preservation Division, as a historic in-
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Kate Livie
terpreter at George Washington’s Mount
Vernon and as historic outreach coordinator
for Sultana Projects in her hometown
of Chestertown, Md.
Ida Heelan has
joined CBMM as
events coordinator.
She and her husband
recently moved to St.
Michaels from New York, where Ida had
extensive experience in event planning
and hospitality management, working
most recently for the North Ritz Club and
Ida Heelan
Fox Hollow. At CBMM, she coordinates festivals, special
events, weddings, and corporate and private grounds rentals.
A Day for CBMM Members!
Make plans now to come to the Museum on Saturday, October
18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The first annual Members’
Day celebration is our way to thank you for your support, and
to showcase some of the new programs, exhibitions and artifacts
in our collection. It promises to be a day of fun and
enjoyment, rain or shine!
Members’ Day will be the first chance to explore a new exhibition
in the Steamboat Building, “The Bay From Above,”
which features aerial photography of the Chesapeake, then and
now. The exhibit will pair photos from H. Robins Hollyday,
shot between the 1930s and 1950s, with contemporary photographs
by Hunter Harris. The similarities and differences
in the landscapes and the water provide an insightful glimpse
The Members’ Day celebration on Saturday, October 18, will provide
a number of opportunities to get out on the water.
into the state of the Bay. Photographer Hunter Harris will be
on hand to answer questions throughout the day.
The day will also include boat rides on vessels in CBMM’s
floating fleet and boat building demonstrations in our working
Boat Yard. There will be food and drinks available and
activities for kids throughout the campus.
Members’ Day will also include live music, special discounts
in the Museum Store, as well as prizes and drawings
for CBMM members. Stay tuned and check our website,
www.cbmm.org, for more information, but make plans now
to come to St. Michaels and the Museum on October 18!
CBMM Museum Store
A fantastic selection
of jewelry, books,
clothing, fine art,
pottery, and model kits.
CBMM Members Museum Store coupon good for
25% OFF
Photo by Bill Kepner
all regularly
priced merchandise,
one-time use.
You must spend at least $25 and be a Museum member to redeem this coupon. Offer good through
October 20, 2008. Offer applies only to regularly priced merchandise. One-time usage. Cannot be combined
with any other offer or discount. You must present this coupon to receive the discount.

September
Building a Ship in a Bottle
Saturday, September 20, 9:30am-4:30pm
Sunday, September 21, 10:00am-4:00pm
Location: Van Lennep Auditorium
Fee: $175 CBMM members, $200 non-members
Join model shipwright Jim Wortman of Talbot Street Ship
Shop to explore the secrets of building a ship in a bottle.
Build your own skipjack model, then place it in a bottle
using traditional methods. This two-day class will take inspiration
from some of the best contemporary marine art
presented by members of the American Society of Marine
Artists. To “insure” success, the class will be limited
to six. A supply list will be sent with your confirmation.
Maryland Lighthouse Challenge
September 20 & 21, 8am-6pm
Participate in Maryland’s 6th anniversary Lighthouse
Challenge by visiting lighthouses around the state. Stop
by CBMM’s own Hooper Strait Lighthouse! For more information,
visit www.cheslights.org/challenge.htm.
Apprentice for a Day –
Steam Bending and Laminating
(1 day) September 27 or 28, 10am-5pm
Fee: $60 CBMM members, $75 non-members
Learn how to form wood into curved shapes either by
steaming and bending or by laminating several layers.
Calendar
Fall 2008
Model Making Workshop:
Lapstrake Skiff
September 26, 6 – 9pm;
September 27 & 28, 9am – 5pm
Location: Mitchell House on CBMM campus
Fee: $80 CBMM members, $90 non-members
Build a 10-inch lapstrake crabbing skiff model with
CBMM’s Model Boat Guild instructors. Participants
gain model boat building skills while exploring a traditional
maritime craft. Participants should be at least
12 years old.
Star Gazing Cruise
September 27, 8-11pm
Join us aboard our buy boat Mister Jim while raising
your eyes to the mariner’s night sky. Delmarva Star
Stargazers representatives will join us on the water
as we discuss constellations, astronomy and celestial
events. The entire family will enjoy stargazing on the
Miles River. Meet at Admissions Building. CBMM Members
$25, Non-Members $30.
October
26th Mid-Atlantic
Small Craft Festival
October 4, 10am – 5pm
One of the nation’s premier small craft events! Hundreds
of amateur and professional boat builders and
enthusiasts come from all over the region to display
their skiffs, kayaks, and canoes. Take part in demonstrations
and workshops, or simply chat with the owners
and watch these one-of-a-kind vessels race. Included
with Museum admission.
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Viking to Victorian
Tuesday October 14th at 4:00 PM
CBMM Members $5, Non-members $8
Olaf Engvig, a well-known maritime scholar, author
and captain of historic vessels, will talk about his latest
book, Viking to Victorian: Exploring the Use of Iron
in Ship Building. The book covers a 1,000-year span of
iron as marine technology and includes thrilling firsthand
accounts of open sea exploration in a small open
1863 longboat—completely original including the sail.
Engvig’s credentials include a remarkable connection to
authentic 19th century vessels and techniques. Astonishingly,
Engvig learned square-rig sailing directly from
a teacher born in the 19th century whose knowledge
was acquired the traditional way—passed along century
after century directly from the early Vikings.
CBMM Members’ Day
October 18, 10am – 4pm
Special day for our members, in conjunction with
the opening of the new exhibition, “The Bay From
Above.” Boat rides, kids’ activities, special programs,
refreshments.
Apprentice for a Day –
Using & Sharpening Hand Tools
(1 day) October 25 or 26, 10am – 4pm
Fee: $60 CBMM members, $75 non-members
Learn how to keep a sharp edge on your hand tools,
how to properly use these tools and how to decide
which tool is right for the job.
Model Making Workshop:
Half-hull Model
October 25 & 26, 9am – 5pm
Location: Mitchell House on CBMM campus
Fee: $80 CBMM members, $90 non-members
Work with the Museum’s Model Guild instructors to create
a Pride of Baltimore half-hull model. The end product
will become a beautiful wall-hanging in your home.
Participants should be at least 12 years old.
Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL)
Fall Courses
Distinguished Residents of the Eastern
Shore Featuring Senator Birch Bayh
Monday, Nov. 10 • 1:30-3:30pm
Jack Shall Have His Jill
Wednesdays, Sept. 17-Oct. 22 • 1:30-3pm
Great Decisions
Discussion
Program
Fridays,
Sept. 19-Nov. 7
2:30-4:30pm
The Quantum
World
Thursdays,
Sept. 11-Oct. 16
3-4:30pm
The Question
of God
Wednesdays,
Sept. 17-Nov. 12
1-2:30pm
The Universe as a Metaphor
Tuesdays, Sept. 16-Nov. 11 • 10:30am-noon
Building and Enjoying Marine Models
Thursdays, Oct. 2-Oct. 23 • 10:30am-noon
Tuesdays at the Movies
Tuesday, Oct. 7 & Tuesday, Nov.4 • 1-4pm
French Texts in Translation
Thursdays, Oct. 16, 23 & Nov. 6, 13 • 1:30-3:30pm
Visit Poplar Island
Thursday, Oct. 16 • 9am-noon
Digital Photography (Part I: The Basics)
Tuesdays, Oct. 7-28 • 10:30am-noon
Digital Photography (Part II: Photo-Editing)
Tuesdays, Nov. 4-25 • 10:30am-noon
French Impressionism
Saturdays, Oct. 11-Nov. 15 • 10:30am-noon
Fall Gardening
Monday, Sept. 22 • 10:30-11:30am
Holiday Decorating
Monday, Nov. 17 • 10:30-11:30am
A Tour of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Wednesday, Oct. 22 • 10am-noon
To register for classes or for more information visit
www.cbmm.org/all.html or call 410-745-2916.

Shipwright Dan Sutherland works on the new Lawley
tender for the restored yacht Elf.
New life for the Elf
While work on much of CBMM’s floating fleet of historic
vessels has settled into the “routine” maintenance associated
with old wooden boats, inside the Boat Shop, things are anything
but routine. Boat Yard Program Manager Dan Sutherland
and the weekend Apprentice for a Day participants have
been constructing a replica of a Lawley-built (Boston) tender
for the newly restored yacht, Elf.
Elf is a boat with a rich history and direct ties to the Museum.
Launched in 1888 by George Lawley & Sons in Boston,
Elf was built for $3,500 as a state-of-the-art racing yacht
for Mr. William H. Wilkinson. Elf’s unique and impressive
sailing rig has long since disappeared from North American
waters. She had an active career as a gaff topsail rigged racing
yacht, before pioneering off-shore yacht cruising in 1893,
by becoming the first small craft to cruise successfully roundtrip
from Marblehead, Mass., to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
After her racing career ended, Elf regularly cruised up
and down the northeast coast and later between New England
the Bahamas. During the first World War, her externally fitted
lead ballast was given up to support the war effort, and
eventually a steel keel was added. In addition, her sail area
was reduced and her rigging was modified to make her easier
(and safer) to handle.
In 1932, Elf was purchased by CBMM founders Gus and
Vida Van Lennep. Vida fondly recalls Elf and her tender, and
the Van Lenneps have been staunch supporters of the boat’s
restoration. In 1971, the boat was acquired by Rick Carrion,
founder of the Classic Yacht Restoration Guild, who has
championed her restoration under the expertise of master
boat builder Graham Ero, in Still Pond, Maryland. Thanks to
the work of these individuals, Elf is on the National Register
of Historic Places, fully restored and sailing today. She was
docked at CBMM for much of August and has taken sails on
the Miles River.
Carrion, equipped with photos and recollections of Mrs.
Van Lennep, commissioned CBMM to build a replica of Elf’s
Lawley-built tender. The rowing lapstrake skiff is 9’ 3” and is
planked and ribbed out of sassafras. Mrs. Van Lennep, now
98, recently visited CBMM to see Elf again, the newly built
tender and her beloved CBMM. Once completed and dedicated,
the tender will be named, Vida.
CBMM founder Vida Van Lennep (seated) was on hand
to see her former boat Elf and its new tender.
Around the Boat Yard
Elf, shown at left, will
return to CBMM’s docks
for the Mid-Atlantic Small
Craft Festival on Saturday,
October 4. To follow her
progress and see more photos
of Elf, visit the Classic
Yacht Restoration Guild’s
website at www.cyrg.org.
Vessel Maintenance Manager Marc Barto reports that late
summer and fall work will include building a new rudder for
CBMM’s dory boat as well as cycling through various seasonal
vessel haul-outs. Barto and Floating Fleet Assistant Don
MacLeod will be gearing up for a significant fall and winter
restoration project: finishing work they began last winter on
the Museum’s log bugeye Edna Lockwood, a National Historic
Landmark.
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The Bay From
Above
How much has the Chesapeake Bay changed over
the past 75 years? There are a number of ways to
explore this question. One of the most effective
and engaging is to take a bird’s eye view of the Bay—say,
from an airplane—and look at stunning photographs taken
over time.
That’s the idea behind a new exhibition developed by
CBMM Curator of Exhibitions Lindsley Rice. “The Bay
From Above: Aerial Views of the Bay Then and Now” juxtaposes
the 1930s-1950s photography of H. Robins Hollyday
with new photography by Hunter H. Harris, pairing
views of the same stretch of the Bay region. The result is a
visually arresting exhibition, one that should appeal to both
watershed residents and visitors.
“The Bay From Above” is a collaboration between
CBMM and Harris’s Aloft Aerial Photography, in cooperation
with the Historical Society of Talbot County, whose
collection includes Hollyday’s photographs. Hollyday
worked as a commercial photographer from the 1930s to the
1950s, documenting life in Talbot County and on the Eastern
Shore. Harris owns and operates his studio in Easton,
where his own work focuses on land use and development.
Contrasting Hollyday’s black-and-white
photographs with Harris’s color images
of spectacular vistas and the unique viewpoint
hundreds of feet above the Bay, this
exhibition provides astoundingly beautiful
and startling evidence of the changes in the
Chesapeake’s shoreline, farmland, and Bay
spaces over the last 75 years.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, October
18, as a part of our Members’ Day
celebration and will be on display through
the spring of 2009. The exhibit is supported
by the Maryland Historical Trust, the National
Park Service, and Verizon.
(Left and above) Ferry Point, across
the Choptank River from Cambridge,
Md., shows some of the most familiar
changes to the Chesapeake over the past
75 years—development and the rip-rapping
of the shore. The Route 50 bridge
to Cambridge opened in 1935, extending
the Eastern Shore’s accessibility by highway
to Dorchester County and beyond.

(Above and right) Some Bay places haven’t changed
as much as others around the watershed. The Oxford
Boatyard on Town Creek in Oxford, Md. is still
the site of much boat work, although it no longer
launches new wooden sailboats. Recreational boating
on the Bay has largely replaced boat building
and other Bay industries. The A.B. Harris and Nollmeyer
seafood companies no longer draw workers
to this cove.
(Below and right) Occasionally, the human impact
on the Bay goes against the tide—sometimes literally—as
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rebuilds
Poplar Island with dredge material from Baltimore
Harbor and approach channels. Settled in the 1630s
and at one time totaling over 1,000 acres, the island
had eroded to a few green specks and some sand
bars—just 10 acres—by the 1960s. The reconstructed
Poplar Island will provide a diverse wetland habitat
for Chesapeake flora and fauna.
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Photo by Jessica Earle
Earl White
First Mate, Skipjack Stanley Norman
My father was a waterman. In water season, he
worked on the water. And when that was over
with, we’d go working in fields, canning factories,
all that. So when I got big enough to hit the water,
that’s where I been. And the first me hitting the water
with my father was a’tonging, and he was taking
me out when I was about 13 or 14 years old.
“All my brothers were watermen. The way I
got on the water was a friend of mine, during the
time I was young, I was going with his daughter.
The boat he was working on got so he didn’t have
enough crew and he asked me did I want to go.
So, I went with him and I’ve been going on the
water ever since. A guy from Smith Island, a boat
named Ralph T. Webster. That’s the name of the
skipjack I was on. Skipjacks, schooners, and bugeyes.
I worked on them all. Well, it was a lot of
fun. ‘Cause when I first started there were a lot of
oysters. We had plenty of oysters. We’d put 3,000,
4,000 a day on a boat. That’s a lot of oysters.
“Always take the word of the captain, if the
captain’s wrong, that’s his fault. If he tells you to
do something, you do it. Even if it’s the dumbest
thing in the world. Do it. That’s his fault. If it’s
wrong, if it goes wrong, it’s his fault. Ain’t but
one thing the captain can tell me to do that I ain’t
gonna do. If he tells me to jump overboard, I ain’t
gonna do it. He’ll have to throw me overboard!
“Look, let me tell you something. When
you’re on the water, you’re not the boss of nothing.
You just go along with it, ‘cause you can’t
change it. You better believe it. You can’t change
that. The wind start blowing, you can’t change it.
Tide starts running wild, you can’t change that.
You just have to wait it. You gotta have patience.
That’s all you have to do. And realize that you
can’t conquer it. Man conquer a lot of things,
but he can’t conquer the water, the sun, and the
wind. You can’t do it. You get that in your mind
you’ll be all right.
By
Michael
Valliant
Chesapeake Bay oral historian Michael Buckley. Photo by David Harp.
If you tune in to WRNR 103.1 FM on any given Sunday
morning, you’re likely to hear an “old salt,” a scientist, or an
activist sharing their story of a life lived on the Chesapeake
Bay. Making sure you hear these voices and get to know their
stories has become the life work of radio DJ and oral historian
Michael Buckley. With his radio show, website, and a
new book, Voices of the Chesapeake Bay, Buckley is covering
all bases to make sure the Bay’s comprehensive story is
being told.
The concept for Buckley’s radio show gelled in 1999
when he met Jennifer Hicks, an environmental educator at
the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Buckley was the host of
a Sunday morning radio show, and the two talked about incorporating
ideas and conversations about the Bay into the
program. The pieces fell together later in the year when he
met Claudia Donegan and Robin Jung Brown.
Donegan’s late father was a bay pilot from Baltimore,
and she knew the locals and the scene in Annapolis. She
was trained as a geologist and was an environmental activist
for the Bay. Brown moved to Annapolis to work for

the U.S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research
Center in Laurel, Md. She worked with the local Sierra
Club to create an environmental radio project called “Watershed
Radio.”
Buckley met Brown when she delivered the first demo
of Watershed Radio to WRNR. Buckley brought up the idea
for a recurring Chesapeake-based radio show, which led to a
number of brainstorming meetings about possible guests and
a format for the show. Brown suggested the name, “Voices of
the Chesapeake Bay” for the series, and the group began with
10 hour-long interviews.
They decided on in-the-field style interviews, going to visit
watermen, conservationists, and musicians in their element.
“I do not remember us ever mapping out a strategy for
how to tell the story of the Chesapeake Bay from beginning
to end,” says Buckley in the epilogue to his book. “We just
tried to think of people who had good stories to tell.”
To date, the Voices Project has recorded more than 250
oral history interviews with folks of all walks on the Bay.
The diversity of perspectives and viewpoints represented is a
point of pride for Buckley.
“The thing I like to communicate about the Voices Project
is the scope of the interviews, this method of telling stories
about the Bay by seeking out a variety of perspectives,” he
says. “We all tend to see life through our own particular interests.
This project encourages people to look beyond themselves,
to see the Bay through other eyes.”
The Voices book showcases more than 50 of the interviews
(three of which are excerpted here for WaterWays
Magazine), illustrated with black-and-white photographs by
renowned photographer David Harp. Buckley and publisher
Lenny Rudow can often be found taking the book on the road
to festivals, fish fries, crab feasts, and other gatherings where
people come together to celebrate the Chesapeake.
It was through his radio show that CBMM first encountered
Buckley. His interviews with Curator Pete Lesher and
former Boat Yard Manager Mike Vlahovich, which aired on
WRNR, both appear in the book. And as CBMM was de-
Photo by David Harp
Russell Train
Former Administrator,
US Environmental Protection Agency
Nixon was an enigma and he was strange in many
ways, brilliant in many ways, effective in many
ways and a disaster. He was his own worst enemy,
certainly the whole Watergate fiasco was an example
of that. When you’re at the pinnacle, you’re
vulnerable. Maybe it’s a good lesson for the rest of
us. Nixon was certainly not an environmentalist.
I’ve got to say, I don’t think he understood many
of the issues very well. However he knew one
thing about it and that was that the people of this
country were worried about the environment. I’m
talking about the late 60s and the early 70s. The
people of this country were worried. There were
huge oil spills, there were rivers catching on fire,
toxic chemical poisonings, a lot of things. It was
very scary. There was rudimentary regulation;
much of it was left to the states to handle. And it
was plain that the federal government had to get
more actively into the whole thing. Nixon seized
on it. He made it a central effort of his administration,
certainly in his first term. It was not only a
political choice on his part, in that sense. It was a
Democratic Congress whose environmental leader
was Edmund Muskie. Nixon recognized Muskie as
a potential Democratic candidate against him in
1972. Muskie’s track record for the public was basically
dealing with air and water pollution. Nixon
made up his mind he was going to trump Muskie
with his own issue, and I think he did. Hah—he
‘stole his clothes!’ I think somebody said that, and
I think it’s quite true.
“Whatever the motivations were, Nixon
grabbed the issue. He signed the National Environmental
Policy Act into law on January 1, 1970
as his first official act of the decade. A few days
later he sent his State of the Union message to
the Congress, and at least a third of that message
dealt with the environment.
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Photo by David Harp
Mary Parks Harding
Dorchester County
My father was Bronza Parks. He is most famous
for his skipjacks, commercial fishing boats, and
fast motorboats. Counting the little ones and
all, he built over 400 boats in his lifetime. The
ones that are most famous, I suppose, are the
skipjacks. The first one he built was the Wilma
Lee, and then the Rosie Parks, Martha Lewis,
and Lady Katie. The Martha Lewis was named
after my mother’s mother. The Rosie Parks was
named after my father’s mother. And the Lady
Katie was my mother. And those boats happened
to be named after my grandmothers because the
boats were built for my father’s brother and also
his brother-in-law.
“My father first started building boats probably
around 1932 or ‘33. They were built in the
side yard of our home right along the county
road, right at Wingate. My father had a fairly
large piece of property attached to our yard
and he built a long shed-like boathouse. It was
50 feet long. Then he wanted to be able to build
two boats at one time, so he added another 50
feet, and then another 50 behind that. By then he
had some mechanical tools. He had a big band
saw, but when he started everything was done by
hand. He added the last two 50 foot sections so
he could now build five boats inside. Others were
built outside, but he still had a lot of space. If the
weather was bad he could go inside and work on
other boats. And do you know my father never
ever had a blueprint. He never ever sketched out
blueprints. I think he probably just figured it
out. He never ever worked with anybody else. He
was kind of an artist in his own right. He’d work
all day long, and they had to work very hard on
the heavy lumber. At night he’d go down to the
boathouse and feel the sides of the boats to make
sure they were nice and smooth.
veloping its first Chesapeake Folk Festival, Buckley seemed
like a natural connection.
Buckley was on hand on July 26 to talk to visitors about
the work he is doing and his new book, but his involvement,
and that of WRNR, went further. Buckley and the station set
up audio equipment and recorded the presentations on the
“Shore Stories” stage, where local tradition bearers of the
Bay met and discussed family fishing, crabs, eating local,
life and song on Smith Island, the African American town
of Bellevue, pound netting, and remembered log canoe sailor
Jimmy Wilson. Buckley and WRNR then donated the
audio recordings of these unique discussions to CBMM.
“Michael Buckley’s and WRNR’s generosity in recording
the ‘Shore Stories’ at the Chesapeake Folk Festival was
invaluable,” says Melissa McLoud, director of CBMM’s
Breene M. Kerr Center for Chesapeake Studies. “Recording
these one-time conversations provides much greater access
to the living traditions of the Chesapeake Bay.”
The Museum is not the only educational institution to
align itself with the Voices Project. Buckley has become the
program manager of Washington College’s C.V. Starr Center
for the Study of the American Experience. He is working
with students to document the vanishing voices of the Bay,
teaching the techniques of conducting oral histories, and nurturing
the curiosity that will lead them to look for stories in
unusual places.
“Through my work at Washington College, I’m striving
to develop this same gift of inquiry and enchantment in my
students,” says Buckley. “The Voices Project equips students
with the skills and confidence they will need to greet
and engage fascinating people who are so often sequestered
behind their work.”
With an award-winning radio show, a new book, and a
job working with students and scholars at one of the nation’s
top liberal arts colleges,
Michael Buckley is
building a reputation as
the oral historian of the
Chesapeake Bay.
Michael Buckley’s new
book, Voices of the Chesapeake
Bay, is available
for sale at CBMM’s
Museum Store. Oral
histories are excerpted
with permission.

Attic Treasures
Tell History of Maple Hall, Claiborne
By Dick Cooper
The box on Penny Rhine’s table holds answers and secrets,
memories and mysteries. Like the ones stored in the
attic and garage of Maple Hall Inn, the historic bed and
breakfast she owns with her husband Rick, the box contains
ledgers, letters, photos and documents that track 150 years of
the Tunis, Cockey and Cook families of Claiborne, Md.
As she pulls out a pack of old picture postcards, Penny
almost sheepishly admits that she hasn’t had time to sort all
of the treasures.
“Every time you get started, you wind up spending too
much time just examining each piece,” she says.
She points to the elaborately decorated diploma that would
rival a sheepskin from an Ivy League institution. It notes that
in May 1913, John Cockey completed “Prof. Beery’s Mail
Course in Horsemanship.” It is signed by Jesse Beery, presi-
Penny Rhine and CBMM curator Pete Lesher explore some
of the historic treasures in Maple Hall.
dent of Miami County, Ohio, and reads that Cockey “is hereby
entitled to the respect and confidence of the public … with
complete knowledge of training colts and breaking horses of
bad or vicious habits.”
“How do you study horsemanship in a mail-order course?”
she wonders aloud.
Everything in Maple Hall has a back-story.
Take Theophilus Tunis’ sword, for instance.
Penny opens the glass door of the large display case in the
breakfast room of the B & B and takes out the weapon that
Theophilus wore on his side as a Confederate officer in the
Civil War. He was only 18 when the War Between the States
broke out and he joined the Southern Cause.
“He was one of the youngest Confederate officers,” Penny
says. “See these dents in the scabbard? The story goes that
during his first combat, he was so scared that he forgot to
draw the sword, and these dents are from bashing a Yankee
on the head.”
For generations, it seems, when a family member passed
away, his or her personal records and private possessions
were put in boxes and chests
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Maple Hall in Claiborne, Md., is one of the most dominant
architectural presences in a town that today has fewer than
150 full-time residents.
In the attic of Maple Hall, the rambling old manor house that
has served as a guest house since the late 1800s, there is a chest
that contains a tangle of shirts, papers and ledgers. They are all
the remaining earthly goods of Charles “Carroll” Cockey.
Uncle Carroll’s headstone in the family plot down by the
banks of Tilghman Creek marks his life simply as “1876-
1943,” but stories about him continue to be told.
He was an epileptic at a time when the neurological disorder
was viewed with more fear than understanding. Every
summer, for much of his life, he was sent off to a home in
Easton so his seizures would not terrify guests at the inn. But
most of the time, he was a “gentle giant” who was well over
six feet tall and known for his strength.
Penny says that one family story has Cockey at the scene
of an accident where a man had been changing the wheel on
a wagon when the wagon fell on him.
“He picked up the wagon and saved the man.”
In another story, Cockey was walking across a field on
nearby Rich Neck when a bull chased him. Cockey sidestepped
the bull and pulled its tail out.
“I am sure that the farmer was not pleased to lose a prized
bull that way but that again is a folk tale among the many
stories that have been handed down forever.”
Maple Hall has long been one of the dominate buildings
in Claiborne. The village today is a quiet hamlet of less than
150 residents and a post office. But 100 years ago, it was the
hub of ferryboat and rail commerce. Named for William Claiborne,
who settled Kent Island across Eastern Bay in 1631,
the village is actually the second development on the peninsula
bounded by Eastern Bay and the Miles River, just five
miles northwest of St. Michaels.
The Tunis family operated a steam-driven lumber mill in
what is now Old Claiborne at the head of Tilghman Creek, as
well as a mill across the Miles River and up Leeds Creek in the
community of Tunis Mills. They also had mills on the Elizabeth
River in Norfolk, Va., and in Tunis, N.C.
The Tunis business journals and correspondence covering
decades of transactions are stored in various locations at
Maple Hall.
In the 1880s, Joseph Tunis had big plans for the land
around the Tilghman Creek mill. He named it Bay City, laid
out a crosshatch of streets, and subdivided it into 188 lots for
sale. It was hoped that it would rival Bay Ridge, the popular
resort across the Chesapeake, east of Annapolis that was
started in 1879 and was all the rage in the late 1800s.
The plan shows the community centered around Henry Clay
Square, with a commercial core surrounded by snug residential
lots. It may have made sense at the time, but it never developed
past a small collection of houses, mainly for the workers at
the sawmill, oyster house and shipyard that lined the edge of
Tilghman Creek. A few of those houses still stand along Old
Claiborne Road, a half-mile south of the current village.
Rick and Penny Rhine own and operate Maple Hall Inn as a
bed and breakfast, which they call “a Shore tradition.”

The future of Claiborne shifted to its current location when
it became the junction for the ferries and railway of the Baltimore,
Chesapeake & Atlantic Railroad Co. Tourists packed
the ferries that landed on the Eastern Bay side of the village
where they boarded the train bound for the beaches of Ocean
City. Maple Hall and several other major boarding houses,
including Wades Point Inn across the harbor, flourished.
The railroad company printed booklets every year touting
the wonders of the area.
In 1915, the booklet described the area in glowing terms.
“Certainly there is not a
more favorable location
for summer boarding houses
on the entire Eastern Shore.”
It went on to say, “It is popular
with Baltimore people because it
is so handy to their city; moreover,
the service is excellent and
the fare low.’
Penny pulls out an almost pristine pamphlet
for the ferry to Claiborne advertising the fare
from Baltimore to Claiborne as $1, each way.
The railroad booklet, which is part of the CBMM collection,
lists Maple Hall as one of the Claiborne boarding houses
with a capacity of 50. The going rate was $7 a week per person.
Wades Point Inn, which could accommodate 80 guests,
charged a dollar more a week.
So popular was the area that 28 boarding houses were
listed between Claiborne and Royal Oak. Three inns in Royal
Oak advertised that they had lodging for 100 guests.
To take advantage of this popularity, John Cockey, who
married Penny’s great grandmother, saw another vision of a
grand little city.
A blueprint that Penny found at Maple Hall entitled “Plan
of CLAIBORNE Talbot County, MD” and dated March 1912,
The lawn of Maple Hall extends down to the waterfront,
and includes a family cemetery for the Tunis, Cockey, and
Cook families.
shows most of what is the current village but with a greatly
expanded footprint. It had a wide Bayside Boulevard sweeping
along the edge of the harbor and an equally impressive
Washington Boulevard that wound along the banks of Tilghman
Creek, passing as if in review, in front of Maple Hall.
Much of the land was owned by John Cockey, and the
subdivision was prepared for the Maple Hall Real Estate Co.
It was another plan that never quite made it far from the
drawing board.
By the 1920s, much of the Baltimore traffic had been
shifted to Love Point on Kent Island, where trains could take
passengers to Rehoboth, Del., as well as Ocean City. The last
ferries to Claiborne stopped running after the first
Bay Bridge opened in 1952, making
Claiborne, once a
transportation hub, into a
cul de sac off the road between
St. Michaels and Tilghman
Island.
Penny Rhine walks the lawn
of Maple Hall, taking in the view
from the family cemetery on the water
to the imposing inn. The seven acres are what is left of the
Tunis-Cockey-Cook holdings.
“The family sold off 150 acres in the 1950s for $50 an
acre,” she said.
Penny and Rick advertise Maple Hall with the slogan, “A
Shore Tradition.” But now, Penny says sadly, it is time for
the long family tradition to come to an end. Maple Hall Inn
is for sale.
“I have lived all but 17 years of my life here,” say Penny,
60. “This was always home, even when my family traveled
with my father while he was in the service.”
The family cemetery will not be part of the sale, she says.
Penny and Rick have already made plans to be buried there
in the shade overlooking the creek, along with generations of
Tunises, Cockeys and Cooks, including three Confederate veterans.
It is a fitting resting place for the families that helped
shape the Bay Hundred for the better part of two centuries.
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Mystery solved. It’s Kent Narrows.
See the new Mystery Photo on the back of WaterWays and submit your answer by e-mail to editor@cbmm.org.
The photograph of Kent Narrows was taken by Arthur A. Moorshead aboard the pungy yacht Kessie C. Price,
and it is part of the museum’s Frank A. Moorshead, Jr. collection of photographs.
The spring 2008 mystery photo was trickier than
some in the past. Only two members, Fred Hecklinger
and John Ferman, correctly identified the location
as Kent Narrows. Mr. Hecklinger’s response
deserves to be quoted in full:
1. “I believe that we are looking south through Kent
Island Narrows very likely during the 1930s. It is
before noon.
“The M. D. & V. Railway [swing] Bridge can
be seen in an open position. This railway used
to run from the steamboat wharf at Love Point
across the Shore to Lewes and Rehoboth, De. The
open bascule bridge is for the highway that ran
east from the ferry boat wharf at Matapeake. The
photo was taken from a schooner that is bound
north through the Narrows.
Of the three vessels seen, two are large bugeyes
and the third is a motorized sailing vessel, either a
bugeye or a schooner. All have recently been active
at carrying a heavy cargo to Baltimore, very likely
grain. You can see the scum line at the load waterline
left by the dirty Baltimore Harbor waters.”
2. George Steele additionally pointed out the skiff tied
outboard of the bugeyes, a double-ended skiff of
the type used to trotline for crabs in the summer.
3. John Ferman and Bob Lewis agreed on a date in
the 1930s, pointing to the car. In fact, the photographer
dated the negative 1939.
As it turns out, the two sailing vessels are the Little
Jennie and the Vaughn, both large bugeyes. The
name on the motor vessel is just a little too grainy to
make out, even from the original negative.

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that future generations will be able
to experience the Chesapeake and
appreciate its history.
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in your estate plans.
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Mystery Photo
Can you identify what is going on in this scene? Where and approximately when
was the photo taken? Is there anything in the photo that is recognizable today?
Hints: The name on the white vessel in the foreground is partially visible and reads
“MBIA F C.” The name on the larger vessel is barely discernible in the original negative
as “CORNELIA.” Send your answers by email to editor@cbmm.org.
Photo by Arthur A. Moorshead, Frank A. Moorshead, Jr. collection.
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