Experience Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay like never before on this guided two hour heritage cruise aboard the historic Skipjack Wilma Lee. Complimentary water is available onboard.

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including a summer of battlefield disasters – Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Tullahoma in 1863 – what was needed was a glimmer of light, a show of daring, and […]

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including learning about the grave threats against biodiversity that is threatening wildlife, insects including pollinators, and many other species. This is the only great extinction linked to […]

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including oysters struggling to grow in much of the upper Chesapeake Bay today, but thousands of archaeological sites full of oyster shells tell us that they were […]

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including listening to accounts and memories about famous beach venues owned and operated by Elizabeth Carr Smith and her sister Florence Carr Sparrow during the 1930s-1970s with […]

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including a discussion about Commodore Matthew Perry’s early accomplishments in 1820-30s at sea fighting piracy, claiming Key West for the U.S.A., repatriating free slaves to Africa, and […]

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including a presentation that focuses on the first watershed-wide EPA studies that were conducted 50 years ago to document the Chesapeake Bay’s problems. This triggered a massive […]

Join us virtually for our annual winter lecture series hosted over Zoom. You will be challenged to question and to learn by engaging speakers on eight diverse topics including exploring osprey biology on the Patuxent River, diet behavior and threats to population and provision of nesting platforms and re-introduction efforts of the osprey. In efforts […]