Boating in Maryland

A blog post by Graham Humphrey, Visitor Services Coordinator. To read more posts by Graham clickHERE.

Although the first day of fall was last week, it still has been feeling a lot like summer. I thought I would take this opportunity to share some images from our collection of a quintessential Maryland activity: boating. In addition to working at the JMM, I also teach sailing part-time at the Downtown Sailing Center. I have sailed both competitively and recreationally for most of my life on dinghies, cruisers and on tall ships.

I found one black and white photograph (above) of Jonas Friedenwald reclining on a ship’s deck as he was sailing for Palestine in 1914. He was just completing his freshman year at Johns Hopkins University.

I was excited to see the tall ship Danmark sail under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge with its sails unfurled and another one showing the Lady Maryland under full sail (a vessel I actually worked on for a season a few years ago).

I also discovered a print showing several people boating at Camp Milldale.

In addition to sailing, there one was one photograph of four boys walking on a beach with a small boat in tow.

Being a big postcard collector, I could not resist including this last image at sunset of a sailboat off of Tolchester Beach in 1942.