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An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - Pete Lesher The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show.  I’m Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #525.   As part of our  Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Series, today’s show is about the amazing, beautiful, functional, and largest estuary in America, the Chesapeake Bay.  Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate Pete Lesher, chief curator of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.  Pete Lesher will be presenting at the Smithsonian Associates program on April 7, 2021.  The title of Pete Lesher’s Smithsonian Associates presentation is  An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.   Join us today with Pete Lesher, chief curator of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, for a virtual exploration of collections that tell stories about the relationship between people and place in the Bay region—revealing how culture has been shaped by the delicate intertwining of land and water around America’s largest estuary. Pete Lesher answers our questions about an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Museum facility’s 12 exhibition buildings and historic structures on the 18-acre waterfront campus and offers detailed looks at the museum’s permanent exhibitions. We’ll explore Oystering on the Chesapeake and Maryland Crabmeat, exhibits in which working lives on the Bay are revealed in the words of mixed-race skipjack crews and African American women who traditionally picked crabs.  Pete and I will discuss the role of the Bay as a maritime highway that connects people and moves commodities are explored in part at the Hooper Strait Lighthouse, a cottage-style historic structure moved to St. Michaels for preservation. And the transformation of the Bay into a place of recreation is told in At Play on the Bay through stories like the racing of sailing log canoes, a living tradition with roots among oyster tongers. The Chesapeake Bay continues to provide meaning and inspiration to residents and visitors, as evidenced in rich art collections from 19th-century painters to contemporary photographer David Harp, who we’ll discuss, and whose environmental photojournalism is shaping the conversation around the impacts of climate change on the Chesapeake and its waterfront communities. Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show via internet phone,  Smithsonian Associate Pete Lesher, chief curator of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.   My special thanks to Pete Lesher for his generous time today.  Pete Lesher will be presenting at the Smithsonian Associates program on April 7, 2021.  The title of Pete Lesher’s Smithsonian Associates presentation is  An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.   Details and links can be found in our show notes today. My thanks to Smithsonian Associate for all they do to support the show,  and my thanks to you my dear Not Old Better Show audience for your company today, and I hope you’ll join me next time.  Be safe, be healthy, and please practice smart social distancing, and remember, Let’s talk about better. The Not Old Better Show. Thanks, everybody.  

An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - Pete Lesher The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show.  I’m Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #525.   As part of our <a href="https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/evening-on-bay-with-chesapeake-bay-maritime-museum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Series,</a> today’s show is about the amazing, beautiful, functional, and largest estuary in America, the Chesapeake Bay.  Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate <a href="https://cbmm.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pete Lesher, chief curator of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum</a>.  Pete Lesher will be presenting at the Smithsonian Associates program on April 7, 2021.  The title of Pete Lesher’s Smithsonian Associates presentation is <a href="https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/evening-on-bay-with-chesapeake-bay-maritime-museum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.  </a> Join us today with Pete Lesher, chief curator of <a href="https://cbmm.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum</a> in St. Michaels, Maryland, for a virtual exploration of collections that tell stories about the relationship between people and place in the Bay region—revealing how culture has been shaped by the delicate intertwining of land and water around America’s largest estuary. Pete Lesher answers our questions about an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Museum facility’s 12 exhibition buildings and historic structures on the 18-acre waterfront campus and offers detailed looks at the museum’s permanent exhibitions. We’ll explore Oystering on the Chesapeake and Maryland Crabmeat, exhibits in which working lives on the Bay are revealed in the words of mixed-race skipjack crews and African American women who traditionally picked crabs.  Pete and I will discuss the role of the Bay as a maritime highway that connects people and moves commodities are explored in part at the Hooper Strait Lighthouse, a cottage-style historic structure moved to St. Michaels for preservation. And the transformation of the Bay into a place of recreation is told in At Play on the Bay through stories like the racing of sailing log canoes, a living tradition with roots among oyster tongers. The Chesapeake Bay continues to provide meaning and inspiration to residents and visitors, as evidenced in rich art collections from 19th-century painters to contemporary photographer David Harp, who we’ll discuss, and whose environmental photojournalism is shaping the conversation around the impacts of climate change on the Chesapeake and its waterfront communities. Please join me in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show via internet phone,  Smithsonian Associate <a href="https://cbmm.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pete Lesher, chief curator of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum</a>.   My special thanks to Pete Lesher for his generous time today.  Pete Lesher will be presenting at the Smithsonian Associates program on April 7, 2021.  The title of Pete Lesher’s Smithsonian Associates presentation is <a href="https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/evening-on-bay-with-chesapeake-bay-maritime-museum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.  </a> Details and links can be found in our <a href="https://notold-better.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">show notes</a> today. My thanks to Smithsonian Associate for all they do to support the show,  and my thanks to you my dear Not Old Better Show audience for your company today, and I hope you’ll join me next time.  Be safe, be healthy, and please practice smart social distancing, and remember, Let’s talk about better. The Not Old Better Show. Thanks, everybody.

#525 An Evening on the Bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum - Pete Lesher

Historic places and resources come in all shapes and sizes. On Maryland’s eastern shore, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum preserves and restores a wide variety of historic resources – including historic boats and ships. Today’s guest, Pete Lesher, the chief curator of the museum is assisting in the latest restoration project of the 1882 Chesapeake Bay nine-log bugeye Edna E. Lockwood. You don’t know what a bugeye is? Well batten down the hatches and check your port and starboard as we set sail for this week’s PreserveCast.   Pete Lesher is chief curator at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where he has served on staff since 1991 and now oversees museum collections, exhibitions, and programs. He graduated Lafayette College, holds an MA in history from Columbia University, and studied maritime history at Mystic Seaport’s summer Munson Institute for American Maritime Studies.   Active in his community, Pete is a member of the Talbot County Council, chairs the St. Michaels Historic District Commission, and serves on the boards of the Maryland Humanities Council, Council of American Maritime Museums, and Maryland Heritage Areas Authority. In his spare time he sails, taking particular pleasure in his role as jib tender on the 1882 Chesapeake Bay sailing log canoe Island Bird.

Historic places and resources come in all shapes and sizes. On Maryland’s eastern shore, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum preserves and restores a wide variety of historic resources – including historic boats and ships. Today’s guest, Pete Lesher, the chief curator of the museum is assisting in the latest restoration project of the 1882 Chesapeake Bay nine-log bugeye Edna E. Lockwood. You don’t know what a bugeye is? Well batten down the hatches and check your port and starboard as we set sail for this week’s PreserveCast. Pete Lesher is chief curator at Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where he has served on staff since 1991 and now oversees museum collections, exhibitions, and programs. He graduated Lafayette College, holds an MA in history from Columbia University, and studied maritime history at Mystic Seaport’s summer Munson Institute for American Maritime Studies. Active in his community, Pete is a member of the Talbot County Council, chairs the St. Michaels Historic District Commission, and serves on the boards of the Maryland Humanities Council, Council of American Maritime Museums, and Maryland Heritage Areas Authority. In his spare time he sails, taking particular pleasure in his role as jib tender on the 1882 Chesapeake Bay sailing log canoe Island Bird.

PreserveCast Ep. 99: Maritime Preservation with Pete Lesher of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum