Two totally different events proved equally successful and just plain fun the past weekend.
The past Saturday, Oct. 11, Horn Point Lab (HPL) outside Cambridge hosted its annual open house. For an entire, mostly rainy day, HPL scientists and graduate students explained their maritime science projects in ways that the public could understand and appreciate. Part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Lab, for example, provides scientific data that allow organizations to explain and analyze the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
What’s particularly noteworthy about the open house is the number of children whose parents believe it is important for them to learn about a body of water so critical to life on the Eastern Shore. Children and their parents seem fascinated by the oyster, which not only has obvious edible qualities but also serves as cleaning agent for the Bay.
Did I tell you that HPL offers face painting in the form of Bay animals for the children?
Horn Point Lab, headed by Dr. Mike Roman, is a place worth visiting—and appreciating—other than during an open house. Its research has a wide audience.
In a vastly different venue, the Daffin Farm in Caroline County, the +Eastern Shore Land Conservancy (ESLC) hosted its newly named Party to Preserve to raise money for an organization that has preserved 57,000 acres in the counties of Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Queen Anne’s and Talbot. The event was terrific, giving special recognition to Gov. Harry Hughes, a Denton native who championed environmental stewardship during his eight years as governor.
Richard and Beverly Tilghman chaired the Party to Preserve. Along with ESLC’s Carin Starr, they organized an event not only enjoyable but beneficial to the operation of this regional organization.
The mission of ESLC, which recently has begun construction and renovation of the Eastern Shore Conservation Center in the former McCord’s Laundry in Easton, is so important to the responsible preservation of rural life on the Shore and sensible development of its towns and cities.
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