If you’ve been watching the calendar, you know that, while oysters “R” still in season, the season will end in just a few weeks. Before the best oysters are gone, Harrison’s Chesapeake House is teaming up with the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center (PWEC) to offer diners a chance to eat well and feel good at the same time.
From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 22, Harrison’s will host an all-you-can-eat bull and oyster roast and donate half the proceeds to PWEC. For every $30 ticket sold, Captain Levin F. “Buddy” Harrison III will contribute $15 to the Environmental Center.
Captain Buddy and his staff will be serving up pit beef, beef stew, ox-tail soup, fried fish, baked beans, cole slaw, potato salad, rolls, soft drinks and draft beer. Not to mention oysters prepared four different ways: raw, fried, frittered and stewed. There will also be a cash bar for diners who fancy a different beverage.
PWEC’s mission is to “close the circle,” as Cox puts it: to link environmental education with economic development. She said the recent acquisition of the Oyster House property will enable the Environmental Center to do more for Tilghman Island by expanding its scope beyond environmental education and adding an Aquaculture Learning Center, to keep the Bay productive so present and future generations of watermen can make a living on the water; creating a Conservation Landscaping Project; creating a Tilghman Gateway that will enhance the island’s appeal to visitors; and converting the oyster house into a buy house, processing plant and fresh retail seafood market.
Phillips Wharf has been assisted in the project by several major nonprofit organizations, including the Grayce B. Kerr Fund and the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.
“We’re involved because it is a community-based project,” said John Valliant of the Kerr Fund, “and we think our involvement and our support can help Phillips Wharf broaden its base of support within the community.” In addition, “It speaks, not only to the environmental side, but also to the cultural side. It’s about both Tilghman’s treasured heritage and its sustainable future.”
“We are thankful to Phillips Wharf Environmental Center,” said Brad Rogers, the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy’s Community Projects Manager, “for spearheading such an innovative and needed venture.”
“Bring friends. Bring family,” says a flyer for the event. Tickets will be sold at the door. However, if you plan, as the flyer urges, to “Bring the whole neighborhood,” and you’ll need a table for eight or more, it would be a good idea to make a reservation at 410-886-2121.
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