If you’re casting about for something to get the family out of the house on these chilly days, here’s a great winter weekend activity for sailors as well as landlubbers with a knack for woodworking, (or not !): the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) Apprentice for a Day Boatbuilding Program. Participants learn traditional boat building techniques under the direction of a CBMM shipwright. This season the class is constructing a North Shore, (as in Massachusetts), eleven foot, gaff – rigged sailing skiff. The 17-week process began on January 7 and continues each Saturday and Sunday through May 27, with the final launch on Memorial Day Weekend. You can sign up for as many dates as you wish.
Jazz aficionados should not miss pianist, vocalist, musicologist and humorist John Eaton, performing classics from the Great American Songbook on Saturday night at the Avalon.
We hear he puts on a fabulous show
Saturdays and Sundays, Jan 28 -May 27: Apprentice for a Day Boatbuilding Program at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum There is a detailed schedule on the website. Must be 16 or older unless accompanied by an adult. (What a cool thing for a father and son to do together, forget about the video games! ) Read about it in the CBMM publication. CBMM members $35, non members $45. More info call 410-745-2916 and ask to speak to someone in the Boat Yard.
Saturday January 28 – 8 pm: John Eaton at the Avalon Theatre “Pianist John Eaton practices a special kind of alchemy. He takes the familiar and makes it fresh, renders the old new and exciting. It’s no easy trick, but Eaton is a master at it…” — Mike Joyce, The Washington Post. Tickets $25. 40 East Dover St., Easton, MD 21601. 410 822 7299
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