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Welcome to the Not All Better Show, I'm Paul Holgozeng, and this is episode number 5, 25.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates' art of living series today's show is about the amazing, beautiful, functional, and largest estuary in America, the Chesapeake Bay.

Our guest today is Smithsonian Associate Pete Lesher, who is the chief curator of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

Pete Lesher will be presenting at the Smithsonian Associates program April 7th, 2021.

The title of Pete Lesher's Smithsonian Associate presentation is an evening on the bay with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

Join us today with Pete Lesher, the chief curator of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michael's Maryland.

For a wonderful exploration of the collections that tell the stories about the relationship between the people and the place in the Chesapeake Bay region.

Revealing how culture has shaped all of the delicate intertwining of land and water around America's largest estuary.

Pete Lesher will answer our questions about an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Museum facilities 12 exhibition buildings and historic structures on the 18-acre waterfront campus.

And Pete Lesher offers us detailed looks at the museum's permanent exhibitions.

We'll talk all about the mapping.

We will explore the oystering on Chesapeake Bay and the wonderful Maryland crab meat, all of which are exhibits in which working lives on the bay are revealed in the words of mixed race.

Skip Jack Cruz and African American women who traditionally have picked crabs for centuries.

Pete and I will discuss the role of the bay as a maritime highway that connects people and moves commodities, which is explored in part at the Hooper Strait Lighthouse.

A unique cottage-style historic structure moved to St. Michael's Maryland for preservation.

And the transformation of the bay into a place of recreation is told at play on the bay through stories like the racing of sailing.

And those log canoes that you can see out on the bay, a living tradition with roots among all the oyster tongers.

The Chesapeake Bay continues to provide meaning and inspiration to residents and visitors as evidenced in the rich art collections from the 19th century painters to contemporary photographer David Harp,

who will be discussing to and whose environmental photojournalism is shaping the conversation around the impacts of climate change on the Chesapeake and its waterfront community.

So please join me in welcoming to the Not Old Better Show via internet phone.

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