The oystermen on the Chesapeake refer to themselves as watermen. St. Michaels has a great marine museum chronicling there boats, tools and life style.
The museum has a wonderful collection of restored wooden boats. They even have a "apprentice for a day" program where individuals can work with ship wrights learning how to bend wood and make hulls fashioned together with wooden pegs.
On the road too Black Water Refuge is the oldest church that has been in continuous use since it was build. Definitions are very important. Everything is the oldest something due to some clever semantics. I've seen the oldest church, the oldest gothic church, and the oldest church still in use. Old Trinity Church was built in 1670 and someone has gone to church every Sunday since then.
It is an Episcopal Church now, but when it was built in 1670, it was part of the Church of England. After the revolutionary war, the Church of England fell into disfavor due to the requirement for clergymen to swear allegiance to the British Monarchy.They reorganized into the Episcopal Church. In it's grave yard are people who served in every war the United States has ever fought. Does your neighborhood cemetery have a revolutionary war veteran?
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