The public is invited to help the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum celebrate its construction of the new Maryland Dove with a dock party!

CBMM’s St. Michaels, Md., campus opens at 10am on Saturday, May 28, and the festivities start at 11am. Food, drinks, and live music will be on site for guests to enjoy and CBMM’s shipwrights will give talks on rigging and the construction process throughout the day. At 2pm, officials from CBMM and Historic St. Mary’s City will lead us in a toast to the ship.

This event will also mark the return of drop-in cruises aboard 1920 buyboatWinnieEstelle, which depart from CBMM’s campus at 12:30pm, 1:30pm, and 2:30pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays throughout the summer. Boarding passes, which are limited, cost $10 for adults, $5 for CBMM members, $3 for children 6–17, and free for all member children and non-member children 5 and under.

Entrance to the Maryland Dove Dock Party itself is included with general admission and is free for CBMM members.

In 2018, it was announced that CBMM had been selected to build a brand-new Maryland Dove for Historic St. Mary’s City. The ship, a representation of the late 17th-century trading ship that accompanied the first European settlers to what is now Maryland, is owned by the state of Maryland, and operated and maintained by the Historic St. Mary’s City Commission. An earlier version of the ship, built in the 1970s by Cambridge’s Jim Richardson, was nearing the end of its useful life and decades of new research meant that a new ship could be designed to be a more historically accurate representation of the original Maryland Dove.

 Since that first announcement, construction of the iconic state ship has been the central focus of CBMM’s working Shipyard. Work over the past few years, all done in public view, has seen the new ship move from concept to reality, and Maryland Dove will now remain dockside for the final steps in its construction, and throughout the summer. Visit cbmm.org to learn more.

Kristen Greenaway, President & CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (right), was honored by the National Maritime Historical Society and its 11^th annual National Maritime Awards dinner in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Greenaway, along with Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. David F. Winkler, Historian at the Naval Historical Foundation, was presented with the NMHS Distinguished Service Award during the event for her remarkable contributions to the maritime museum community, not only at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum but also for her global initiatives that have enriched maritime museums internationally. Greenaway’s award was presented to her by Laura Lott, President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums (left). She is the first maritime museum CEO to have been given this prestigious award, an honor bestowed on some of the world’s most famous mariners.

Families are invited to join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Workshop Education team for a hands-on workshop from 10am–noon Saturday, April 23.

Held in CBMM’s Workshop Annex, families will be able to build a small tabletop garden for their backyard or patio. Affectionally known as a salad box, this project is large enough to grow multiple harvests of salad greens and herbs but is small enough to fit on a table. All tools, materials, and instruction will be provided.

Children who attend must be at least 10 years old and accompanied by at least one participating adult. The cost to participate is $25, which includes materials for one salad box. Multiple adults and children can work on one project simultaneously. Additional details and registration can be found at bit.ly/SaladBoxWorkshop.

A 20% discount on the workshop is offered to CBMM members, who play a critical role in supporting CBMM’s rich legacy of educational programs, fascinating and ever-changing exhibitions, and maintenance of the largest collection of Chesapeake watercraft in the world, and have access to exclusive discounts, perks, and programming. To learn more about becoming a CBMM member, visit cbmm.org/membership.

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., is pleased to announce the election of new and returning members to its Board of Governors and Executive officers for its new fiscal year.

Elections to the Board include Andrea Dynes and Dr. Clara Small and returning member Deborah Lawrence. Dr. Frederick Hocker has been named an Honorary Governor, and officers for FY22–23 are Craig Fuller, Chair; Anne E. Mickey, Vice Chair; Richard Johnson, Treasurer; and David W. Reager, Secretary.

Andrea Fekkes Dynes is the Staff Vice President, International Trade & Compliance for General Dynamics (GD) Corporation and has worked at GD since 2004. In this role, she navigates complex and fluid regulatory and geopolitical environments and oversees GD’s enterprise risk management relating to international trade. She leads the corporate International Trade & Compliance Department, which oversees GD’s international trade compliance program and supports business worldwide, and is responsible for governance, budget, human capital management and continuous improvement. Prior to this role, for 15 years she served as the Staff Vice President and Associate General Counsel at GD, supporting the company’s international corporate and compliance matters.

She is recognized as a diplomatic change agent and serves as the Chair of the Defense Trade Advisory Group, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of State. She also serves on several non-profit organizations relating to global and community betterment, with a focus on philanthropy, diplomatic relations, education, and material assistance to individuals experiencing poverty or homelessness. Prior to joining GD, she served as a lawyer with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (Of Counsel), Graham & James LLP (Associate), and the U.S. Department of Commerce (Attorney-Advisor).

Dynes has a BA in Criminal Justice from Indiana University, and a JD from The American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She has lived in historic Alexandria, Va., since the mid-1980s, is the parent of two adult children, and has been a resident of Talbot County since 2016.

Dr. Clara Small, who has served on CBMM’s Curatorial Committee since 2021, is Professor Emerita at Salisbury University, where she spent 36 years teaching history in courses including World Civilizations, Civil Rights in American Society, African American History, and related topics. Prior teaching positions included two years at Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Va., and four years at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo. She received her BA and first MA in History from North Carolina Central University in Durham, and her second MA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. After starting her Doctorate at the University of Missouri, she began working at Salisbury University in 1977 (then Salisbury State University) and completed her Doctorate in History at the University of Delaware.

Dr. Small’s article, “Abolitionists, Free Blacks, and Runaway Slaves” was included in the book, A History of African-Americans on Maryland’s and Delaware’s Eastern Shore. She also authored a book titled, Reality Check: Brief Biographies of African-Americans on Delmarva, which was published by Salisbury [State] University Press and placed in all schools and libraries in the surrounding counties, and co-authored, with Rev. David Briddell, Men of Color, To Arms!: Manumitted Slaves and Free Blacks from the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Who Served in the Civil War. Her other publications include Compass Points: Profiles and Biographies of African Americans from the Delmarva Peninsula, Vol. 1; They Wore Blue and Their Hearts Were Loyal: The United States Colored Troops of Dorchester County, Maryland, Slaves and Free Blacks Who Served in the Civil War, co-authored with Teresa M. Neild; Compass Points: Profiles and Biographies of African Americans from the Delmarva Peninsula, Vol. 2; and The Last Black Skipjack Captain: Captain Kermit Travers. Dr. Small’s latest book is Compass Points: Profiles and Biographies of African Americans from the Delmarva Peninsula, Vol. 3.

Dr. Small is presently researching the history of African Americans on the Eastern Shore and was appointed to serve on the Governor’s Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration, and Impact of the History and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland. In 2011, she was appointed to the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture by then Gov. Martin O’Malley. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the University System of Maryland Regents’ Award for Public Service; the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore’s Frank H. Morris Humanitarian Award; the Faithful Service Award from Pi Gamma Mu, the International Honor Society for the Social Sciences; and the Harriet Tubman Lifetime Achievement Award. Since 2011, she has served as Second Vice-President of Pi Gamma Mu.

Deborah (Debbie) Lawrence retired as Vice President of Government Affairs from The Williams Companies, a Tulsa-based energy company in 2015, where she was the first female officer. Her responsibilities included representing Williams before Congress, federal regulatory agencies, and national trade associations. During her 35 years with Williams, she was recognized as a leader for her work on federal energy resource and transportation matters in Washington, D.C. She also had responsibilities for the company’s state government affairs staff. Prior to Williams, she worked for the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.

Lawrence represented Williams at numerous trade associations, including the American Petroleum Institute and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America. She was recognized by the National Energy Resources Organization with a Lifetime Energy Industry Achievement Award.

Lawrence serves as a Regent for The Fund for American Studies, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., and previously served as a Governor of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum from 2015–2020, where she was Chair of the Governance Committee. She has also been a Board member for the national non-profit Rebuilding Together.

Lawrence received a BS in Textile Marketing from the University of Maryland, and a Law Degree from George Mason University Law School. She is married to Tom Lawrence and has two daughters and six grandchildren. She resides in Easton and Hyattsville, Md.

Honorary Governor Dr. Fred Hocker is the Director of Research at Sweden’s Vasamuseet/The Vasa Museum, where he has worked for 19 years. A leading maritime archaeologist, Dr. Hocker is the global authority on Vasa, a Swedish warship that sank on its maiden voyage in August 1628. Hocker spent time as a shipwright at Mystic Seaport before shifting into the academic world. He earned his PhD from Texas A&M University, where he also taught nautical archeology, and has written and edited countless works about archaeology and shipbuilding.

Dr. Hocker is CBMM’s Design Quality Advisor for its current Maryland Dove project, where he has been an invaluable resource. He has been a board member of the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, and when possible, serves as crew on the vessel.

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and exploring the history, environment, and culture of the entire Chesapeake Bay region, and making this resource available to all.

Every aspect of fulfilling this mission is driven by CBMM’s values of relevance, authenticity, and stewardship, along with a commitment to providing engaging guest experiences and transformative educational programming, all while serving as a vital community partner. For more information, visit cbmm.org or call 410-745-2916.

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is pleased to announce that it will soon open another new exhibition, Dove Tales, scheduled to be on display from April 21–Dec. 31, 2022, in its Steamboat Building. Dove Tales will explore the sources that reveal the history, construction and cultural significance of Maryland Dove. From the tercentenary representation to the 1970s and current iteration, the vessels have served as important interpretive tools, connecting Marylanders to the far-reaching impacts of 17^th century colonization, and with boatbuilding as a living historical tradition in the Chesapeake region.

In 1978, Dorchester County’s Jim Richardson and a team of young workers completed the first Maryland Dove, a representation of the vessel that escorted colonists to the province in 1634. As the CBMM’s working Shipyard completes the new Maryland Dove in 2022, curatorial staff will draw from CBMM’s oral history archive and recent interviews with the 1970s boatbuilders for the new exhibition.

“In many ways, the current Maryland Dove project builds upon Richardson’s project, paying homage to the traditional work of Chesapeake boatbuilders,” said Associate Curator of Collection Jenifer Dolde. “Richardson-trained boatwrights came to work at CBMM and, more than 40 years later, CBMM’s shipwrights actively preserve and interpret these skills on a daily basis.”

While museum curators typically draw on material culture for exhibitions, conducting library research using primary sources and scholarly literature, the personal narrative approach to Dove Tales will incorporate media and personal quotations, along with photographs, mementos, tools, models, and more, collected during the folklife documentation. The interviews reveal the work life and practices of the men and women who built Maryland Dove in the 1970s, at a time when the wooden boatbuilding trade was thought to be as dying out. Nevertheless, master boatbuilders such as Jim Richardson persisted in teaching these traditional skills and techniques, and that legacy continues.

Admission to view Dove Tales is included with general CBMM admission and is free for members. To learn more about becoming a membership, which plays a critical role in supporting CBMM’s rich legacy of educational programs, fascinating and ever-changing exhibitions, and maintenance of the largest collection of Chesapeake Bay watercraft in the world, visit cbmm.org/support/membership.

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving and exploring the history, environment, and culture of the entire Chesapeake Bay region, and making this resource available to all. Every aspect of fulfilling this mission is driven by CBMM’s values of relevancy, authenticity, and stewardship, along with a commitment to providing engaging guest experiences and transformative educational programming, all while serving as a vital community partner. For more information, visit cbmm.org or call 410-745-2916.

Kristen Greenaway, President of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, will be honored at the 11^th annual National Maritime Awards Dinner at the National Press Club on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Wednesday evening, April 27, 2022. Ms. Greenaway is the first Maritime Museum CEO to be so honored.

The Dinner is the singular national event in the United States to honor the leaders of the global maritime heritage community. It draws leaders from across the country – Senators and Congressmen; boat builders and designers; maritime artists and authors; maritime industry executives; sea explorers and yachtmen; military sea services leaders; and maritime educators. Kristen will join a Pantheon of maritime leaders honored in the past.  They are as diverse as broadcasting icon Walter Cronkite; America’s Cup winner Ted Turner; National Book Award recipient Nathaniel Philbrick; First Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge; HRH Princess Anne, The Princess Royal; Senator John Warner; environmentalist David Rockefeller, Jr.; maritime artist John Stobart; Titanic discoverer and oceanographer Dr. Robert Ballard; and institutions such as the United States Naval Academy and National Geographic Society.

Dinner Founding Chairman Philip J. Webster of St. Michaels said “Kristen will be honored for the remarkable contributions she has made to the maritime museum community, not only as a transformative CEO and President of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, but also for her global initiatives that have enriched maritime museums internationally.  She has stressed the importance of museums taking a leadership role to better serve their communities, and conservation efforts necessary to save the world’s oceans and waterways.”

Ms. Greenaway will be honored with fellow honoreesLonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. David F. Winkler, Naval Historian, author and teacher. The program will feature the U.S. Combined Sea ServicesColor Guard and the United States Coast Guard Academy Cadet Chorale; America’s Ambassador of Sailing and America’s Cup winner Gary Jobson will be the Master of Ceremonies;  a video highlighting Kristen’s life and contributions to maritime education will premiere;  and there will be appearances by many notables including Kristen Greenaway’saward presenterRosemary Banks, Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States; and VADM Sean Buck, Superintendent of the US Naval Academy.

The National Maritime Awards Dinner raises funds for the sponsoring National Maritime Historical Society’s (NMHS) and the National Maritime Alliance’s advocacy efforts to raise funds from the United States Congress under the National Maritime Heritage Act’s grants program for maritime heritage organizations, ranging from maritime museums and nautical education programs to maritime historical sites and exhibition ships. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a prior recipient of a resulting Congressional appropriation.

To learn more about the National Maritime Awards Dinner and to register to attend, visit www,seahistory.org/2022or contact NMHS Vice President Wendy Paggiotta at vicepresident@seahistory.org or 914-737-7878, ext. 557

On Saturday & Sunday, March 19–20, from 10am–4pm, experienced woodworkers and beginners alike are invited to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum to learn the basics of nameboard carving.

CBMM’s Shipyard Programs Manager Jennifer Kuhn will host the workshop, giving participants an introduction to the skills necessary to hand-carve their very own nameboard. Registration is required, and participants must be 16 or older, unless accompanied by an adult. Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch and water, and to wear closed toe shoes. For more details and to register, go to bit.ly/NameboardBasics.

The registration fee—which includes tools and materials—for the program is $135, with a 20% discount offered to CBMM members.CBMM members play a critical role in supporting CBMM’s rich legacy of educational programs, fascinating and ever-changing exhibitions, and maintenance of the largest collection of Chesapeake watercraft in the world, including access to exclusive discounts, perks, and programming. To learn more about becoming a CBMM member, visit cbmm.org/membership.