OysterFest

From OysterFest Website:

Saturday, October 25, 2014 -- NEW DATE
10 am- 4 pm

Admission to OysterFest is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors,and $6 for children between the ages of six and 17.
Children five years and under and CBMM members are admitted free. Food and boat rides are an additional cost.
For more information, call (***) ***-****.
On Saturday, November 2, the Chesapeakes oyster will be celebrated at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museums (CBMM) OysterFest in St. Michaels, MD. The event features live music oysters and other local fare, childrens activities, boat rides, oyster demonstrations, harvesting displays, retriever demonstrations, cooking demonstrations, documentary films, and an oyster stew competition among regional chefs.

The festival also offers a chance to celebrate the relaunch of the skipjack Rosie Parks, a sailing workboat that once dredged the Chesapeake Bay for oysters, after a three-year restoration at the museum. The launch will take place at 4pm, when high tide arrives at the museums marine railway. Descendants of the skipjacks builder and captain will be on hand to christen the 1955 skipjack, with festival-goers invited to witness history in the making as the iconic vessel launches down the railway and splashes into the Miles River. In addition to the museums floating fleet of historic vessels, the Talbot County Watermens Association (TCWA) will have several boats dockside to help share the stories of how oyster dredging, hand tonging, patent tonging, and oyster diving have been longtime traditions of the Chesapeake Bay.

TCWA volunteers will also be serving freshly caught and shucked Chesapeake Bay oysters. Aquaculture raw oysters, steamed oysters, oyster fritters, and fried oyster sandwiches will also be available. For those who prefer to celebrate oysters rather than eat them, pit beef, hot dogs and hamburgers, Southern Maryland stuffed ham, along with
cold beer, caramel apples, warm apple cider, and more will be offered. Festival-goers can take part in or just watch an oyster slurping contest, while others enjoy sampling oyster stew by local restaurants and chefs beginning at 11am and while the limited tastings last.

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