Tune in to Maryland Public Television on April 28th, at 9:00 pm, to see Tilghman Watermen’s Museum’s most recent video production. Tilghman Tales: Building Boats, Lives and Memories on the Chesapeake Bay will be broadcast as part of MPT’s 2016 Chesapeake Bay Week.
Tilghman Tales is a collection of four short videos that share the stories of island notables, recounted by colorful storytellers, local experts, self-taught historians, “jacks-of-all trades,” and self-reliant women. Through them we meet several generations of legendary Tilghman boat builders as well as intrepid women who love the water and the waterman’s life as fiercely as the men.
The first video, The Tilghman Log Canoe, looks at the singular racing boats, still competing today, designed by Tilghman boatbuilders Sidney Covington and John B. Harrison. The second, Maynard Lowery: Tilghman Island Boatbuilder, remembers the island’s charismatic wooden boat builder. The third, Tilghman Work Boats showcases the distinctive work boats developed by David “Bunky” Miller and John C. Kinnamon, Sr. and his son John C. Kinnamon, Jr. And in the fourth, Tilghman Women on the Water Elaine Crow, Colleen Sadler, Caroline Cummings Swann, Debbie Sherwood and Lois Anne Lednum share their memories of working on the water
Tilghman Tales is the latest video produced by the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum, supported by Maryland Heritage Trust and created by Jennifer Shea and Peter Carroll Productions. Their previous videos, Growing up on Tilghman and Another Dawn- Tilghman in Transition were shown during previous Bay Weeks and are part of the Museum’s extensive oral history collection.
Tilghman Watermen’s Museum, located at 6031 Tilghman Island Road, is open weekends April 23rd through November. For more information, contact Ann Polo, 609-805-3341, [email protected]
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