Boats of all kinds will be accepted for resale by the Museum, including power and sailboats in working condition, canoes, kayaks, and paddle boats. Donors are eligible for a tax credit as a charitable donation in the amount of the sale of their boat.

Please contact Boat Donation Chairman Andrew Garte, (410) 533-0042,

2012 Winter Luncheon Series

The opening will be celebrated with refreshments and music by a small group from Southern High School's band, directed by Bill Thayer.

• June 3
• 2-3PM
• Open to the Public

The Captain Avery Museum wants to support art education and recognize the students and teachers of our local schools. Local, homegrown talent will be on display at this exhibit through mid-September.

Seventeen of the Museum Fishing Club Collection of oral histories recorded in 2007 are now part of the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage Program (MDCH), housed at the Central Library of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in downtown Baltimore, and can be freely accessed online. The Maryland Digital Heritage Program is a collaborative, statewide digitization program to preserve the history and culture of Maryland. The Museum became a partner of the program as a means of sharing our treasure of Oral Histories and increasing the visibility of the Museum library's collection through a wider electronic resource.

The Fishing Club oral history collection was part of a project to explore and capture the history of the Captain Avery Museum property. The property was purchased by the Museum in 1989 from the Fishing Club, a group of Jewish Washingtonians who had owned it as a weekend getaway since 1924. You will see and hear the individuals being interviewed. Click to connect to oral histories

A great deal of work at both ends goes into making these oral histories available. According to Museum Librarian, Janet George, all of the Museum library staff have been working on this project-- preparing the oral histories in DVD format and writing summaries of each history as well as an introduction to the Fishing Club era of the Museum property. The summaries have also been entered in our library database, Past Perfect, where it will be used in preparing a key word search capacity which Ann Sparrough, our Oral History volunteer, is constructing.

Michael Scott, MDCH Coordinator and Digitization Supervisor from the Pratt Library, configured the Fishing Club Oral History Collection for publication on the MDCH website. She did necessary editing of text and pictures to accomplish being able to easily access the personal stories. Click to connect to oral histories

The goal of the Museum Library volunteers is to someday have all of our Oral Histories accessible and available for use by researchers, personal study and not-for-profit educational uses to preserve and share local Chesapeake Bay history. When oral histories are available on line, family members can hear and see an ancestor no matter where they live. Thanks to our library volunteers, we have begun to meet this goal. Become a Library volunteer if you want to help.