Tilghman Tales: Building Boats, Lives and Memories on the Chesapeake Bay

“Tilghman Tales: Building Boats, Lives and Memories on the Chesapeake Bay” is the most recent educational video produced by the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum, Maryland Heritage Trust, Jennifer Shea and Peter Carroll Productions.

“Tilghman Tales” shares the stories of a few of the island’s notables recounted by colorful storytellers, local experts, self-taught historians, innovative boat builders, “jacks-of-all trades” and self-reliant women. Through them we meet several generations of legendary Tilghman boat builders and some intrepid women who love the water and the waterman’s life as fiercely as the men.

“The Tilghman Log Canoe” features Frazier Stanley Covington and Pete Lesher, Curator of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michael’s. “Tilghman Work Boats” features David “Bunky” Miller, William “Willie” Roe, John C. Kinnamon, Jr. and John C. Kinnamon, Sr.

“Tilghman Women on the Water” features Elaine Crow, Colleen Sadler, Carolyn Cummings Swann, Debbie Sherwood and Lois Ann Lednum. The “Maynard Lowery” Story features Tommy Caplan, Captain Bobby Marshall and George Moose, Jr., and “The World of William E. Cummings” features the late, William E. Cummings.

“Tilghman Tales” will be shown by Tilghman Watermen’s Museum October 28th, at 7:00 pm at the Tilghman Elementary School. For questions or additional information call Ann Polo at 609-805-3341.