Let’s Party! Socializing on the Severn River
September 8 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
$75.25
Bay Ridge Resort was developed in 1879 as a grand Victorian summer resort with a large frame hotel on the bluff near Tolly Point. Weekends were filled with USNA bands, lawn games, live animals, and frivolilties for those wealthy enough to come by ferry or rail. In the mid-1900s, Carr and Sparrow beaches were the birthplace of jazz and blues performers such as James Brown, B.B. King, Tina Turner and others. Neither exists today but their history gives a stark contrast to the hardship of life on the water during those years.
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).
