ST. MICHAELS, MARYLAND — The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's waterfront in St. Michaels is easy to file under tourism. That misses the work. The shipyard is a year-round shop: timber, tools, and hulls that have to float, not just hang on a wall.
In April the museum opened festival season with the Eastern Shore Sea Glass & Coastal Arts Festival — Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — with makers on campus and overflow parking at St. Michaels Middle/High School when the lot filled. That weekend is the postcard. The rest of the year is the point.
CBMM's festivals — oysters, log canoes, watermen — keep traditional Shore craft in public view. Watermen's Appreciation Day and the summer concert calendar put working skills next to visitors who came for the harbor. For Talbot's maker economy, the museum is not a side room. It is one of the few places where a boatwright and a jeweler share a Saturday crowd.
Source: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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