Eastport and Its Importance to Maritime History
June 23 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$75.25
Eastport, across the Spa Creek bridge, is a peninsula rich in maritime history. It’s importance during wartime involved boat building for the US and its allies. Dating back to the Civil War, it maintained a hospital for soldiers with small pox. Originally, residents were immigrants, the working class, and farmers. The community today is better known for its top-tier restaurants, a brew pub, and some of the best waterfront views in the area. Its motto: “We Like it This Way” reflects its efforts to remain a community rich with history.
Details
- History Monday Sunset Sails occur every Monday, May-September 21.
- Different topics and speakers vary throughout the season.
- Our bar includes a selection of Craft Beer, Wine & Bubbly available for purchase!
- Tickets go on sale six days prior to the date you want to sail.
Gwen is a semi-retired health policy expert and lawyer who emersed herself into the history of the Chesapeake Bay after a long career in Washington, DC. She is a Maryland Certified Chesapeake storyteller, a columnist for SPINSHEET magazine, and is a docent for the Annapolis Maritime Museum and Park and for Heritage Tours on the 80+ year old skipjack Wilma Lee. She’s a local ‘sponsor’ of numerous USNA midshipmen and makes her home in a restored waterman bungalow in Eastport or waterside on the Choptank River in Cambridge (MD Eastern Shore).
