Events and Group Activities!
March
Spring Oyster Film Series: White Gold Wed. 3/12/25 2-3 pm
$7 admission – Free to members
Join us for a viewing of a Film during our Spring Oyster Film Series!
This Month we are viewing White Gold: A documentary about Delaware’s oystering history. Woven with a present day story of a waterman’s struggle to bring an 1893 wooden schooner built in Bridgeton, NJ back to its former glory. Stories abound along the Delaware Bay of local captains lighting cigars with $100 bills and buying new Cadillacs every year. White Gold recounts Delaware’s past and present oyster industry, the attempts to revive it and the efforts of one waterman, Thumper Eicherly, to bring a wooden schooner back to its former glory. The documentary was written, directed and edited by Michael Oates, 302 Stories, Inc. The film was funded by the Delaware Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Michael Oates will present the film.
Michael Oates is considered the preeminent documentarian of Delaware, South Jersey and the Delaware Bayshore region.
View the film Trailer Here
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Adult Enrichment Spring Series: By the Bay March – April Thursdays from 5:30pm – 7pm
A 4 Week Series: By The Bay: Explore the History, Culture, and Environment of the Delaware Bay!
Join us for an enriching series of talks on the rich maritime, cultural, and environmental history of the Bayshore. Each session features engaging discussions led by Dr. Michael Chiarappa, offering insights into the past and present of this unique region.
Enjoy coffee, tea, and hot chocolate, plus light snacks
Cost is $30 per Individual Session, or $100 for full Series Access (4 Weeks- Membership pricing $75. Call to book 856-785-2060)
Book Access to the Full Series Here – $100
$30 per individual Session
Questions & Inquiries: Email: DirectorofEdu@bayshorecenter.org
Join us for thought-provoking discussions and a deeper appreciation of the Delaware Bay!
About Our Speaker:
Dr. Michael J. Chiarappa received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Western Michigan University, Quinnipiac University, and Washington College. An expert in American environmental and maritime history, he has worked extensively with museums and communities on marine environmental history projects. He is co-author of Fish for All and co-editor of Nature’s Entrepot and Buildings and Landscapes: The Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum.
Session 1: March 27th Building the Bayshore: Cumberland County’s Historic Maritime Landscape – Tickets
Session 2: April 3rd Working the Delaware Estuary: African American Cultural Landscapes and the Contours of Environmental Experience – Tickets
Session 3: April 17th Photographic Moorings: Portraying Life and Place on the Delaware Bay – Tickets
Session 4: April 24th Planting Bivalves: Oystering and the Transformation of the Delaware Bay – Tickets
Spring Fling Dinner Fundraiser April 5th, 2025 at The Greenview Inn
Please join us for our Spring Fundraising Gala, the “Spring Fling” on Saturday, April 5th from 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM at the Greenview Inn Eastlyn Golf Course. On behalf of our board and staff, please join us to kick off the 2025 season with a gathering of supporters, dancing, dinner, and oysters. Tickets are available. Tables of 10 are available if you have 9 fun friends you would like to share the evening with in support of BCB.
Tx: $125 -Oysters – Full Dinner Buffet – Dessert – Cash Bar
Please RSVP your tables of 10 to giving@bayshorecenter.org
Tickets Support hands – on education and scholarships for youth
League of Historical Societies Meeting 4/5/25 9:30am – 3:30pm at BCB
Climate Resilience for Historic Sites and tour of BCB – lunch provided $30
Itinerary:
9:00 – 9:30 Registration and continental breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome
9:45 – 10:15 League business
10:15 – Break
10:30 – 11:20 Climate Resilience for Historic Sites presented via ZOOM by Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts Followed by discussion of BCB’s issues and efforts with Q&A
11:30 – 12:15 Showing of Changing Tides followed by a tour of A.J. Meerwald
12:15-1:00 Lunch Provided
1:00 – 1:30 State of the Oyster Industry with Barbey Hollinger
1:30 – 2:30 Tour of Shipping Sheds and Delaware Bay Museum
** Participants pay $30/pp to BCB.** Email giving@bayshorecenter.org for more info