At 7:30 a.m. last week, Kris McGinn Straub and this editor met up with Susannah Winder and Christopher Stepler of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s boat launch and boarded an old-style oyster tonging boat as the pair took a dry run to the museum’s upcoming Great Rowing Adventure, an overnight trip it has planned with Lowell’s Shop.
In our comparatively brief time, Chris artfully spoke of everything from the history of salt marshes, estuaries and dunes to sea birds and, of course, boat building.
Susannah Winder and Christopher Stepler of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum maneuver an old-style oyster tonging boat through Fox Creek one recent morning as a dry run to the museum’s Great Rowing Adventure, an overnight trip it has planned with Lowell’s Shop.
At 7:30 a.m. last week, Kris McGinn Straub and this editor met up with Susannah Winder and Christopher Stepler of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s boat launch and boarded an old-style oyster tonging boat as the pair took a dry run to the museum’s upcoming Great Rowing Adventure, an overnight trip it has planned with Lowell’s Shop. Ted Watkinson of the museum grabbed us at the “Greenheads Gone” party in Essex several weeks ago and told us of this planned museum overnight, hatched by Winder (seen here, right with McGinn-Straub, right) and some colleagues at Lowell’s Boat Shop. The morning was a stunner.
