Antique boats and marine engines, woodcarving, traditional music and crafters and a nautical flea market were among the many activities on display Saturday at the annual Solomons Maritime Festival at Calvert Marine Museum.
The events included a number of food demonstrations such as how to pick and steam crabs and prepare crab cakes, cleaning and cooking soft crabs, shucking oysters and stuffing hams.
The music stage was busy with performances from the Smoke Creek Rounders, Riverside South Bluegrass Band, Fractical Folk, Majestic Choir and Fathers and Sons.
Kids and their adult helpers were able to build their own model boats in an area set aside next to the boar basin.
Traditional crafters were on display inside the museum demonstrating knitting, crocheting, rug hooking, spinning and weaving, quilting, bobbin tatting and other needlework.
A highlight for many festival goers was a free ride on the museum’s historic 1899 bugeye the Wm. B. Tennison. And, the museum’s otters, Bubbles and Squeak, were at their playful best to entertain everyone.
