Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Fall 2008 - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Children visit a tent full of kids’ activities during the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
Folk Festival, some making their own crabbing permits before<br />
trying their hand at chicken-necking and fishing off the dock.<br />
Boat builder Dave McQuay shares his memories of log canoe sailor<br />
Jimmy Wilson as part of the “Shore Stories” narrative stage.<br />
First<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
You never know what to expect from a first-time event<br />
or what will happen when you change a long-standing festival.<br />
In the case of the first <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Folk Festival,<br />
which was held on Saturday, July 26, the result was success<br />
on all fronts.<br />
Attendance for the day topped 2,000 visitors—something<br />
the former summer festival for CBMM never accomplished—and<br />
the diversity of the crowd and their enthusiastic<br />
comments about the day and the event signaled a job<br />
well done.<br />
“The acid test of a good event is the sense of involvement,<br />
ownership, and downright comfort, which was palpable,”<br />
said Elaine Eff of Maryland Traditions, the lead sponsor of<br />
the festival.<br />
The day boasted near-perfect weather and outdoor and<br />
indoor activities for visitors of all ages. Community conversations,<br />
boat rides, films, great music and traditional<br />
demonstrations—dipnet making, boat building, pottery and<br />
the secrets to a delicious Smith Island Cake—all made for<br />
an exceptional day at CBMM.<br />
Festival-goers congregate under the Hooper Strait Lighthouse as<br />
they prepare to board the skipjack H. M. Krentz for a boat ride.