June 13, 2025 – 2nd Friday, 5 – 8 pm

Join us June 13, 2025 for our 2nd Friday,  5 – 8 pm!

Great food from the Oyster Cracker Café including fried oysters, delicious, fresh, oysters on the half shell, local beers from Glasstown Brewing Co at AJ’s Pub, free, self guided tours of the Delaware Bay Museum, an interesting speaker and live music. Check out the Meerwald Mercantile while you are here. All proceeds go to support the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, home of AJ Meerwald and the Delaware Bay Museum.

Music on the docks!

Train Wreck. 5 – 8 on the Docks!

Come enjoy the music of Train Wreck, a local group playing old standards, country classics, blues and original songs, on the docks 5 – 8 pm.

5:30 in the Delaware Bay Museum

Exhibit opening of Al Huber Collection featuring tools of the trade and artifacts from BCB’s first exhibit Maritime Traditions of the Delaware Bay. Thanks to Al’s generosity in the 1990s, the Delaware Bay Museum was born. He was a surveyor who surveyed the oystermen’s grounds where they “planted” their oysters in the Delaware Bay. He was a Bayshore Center Trustee who helped with the A.J. Meerwald restoration and the early years of the Bayshore Center.

6:30 in the Delaware Bay Museum

Speaker: Michelle Horowitz

The Shorebirds of Delaware Bay

Michelle Horowitz is an environmental educator and avid bird watcher. She has worked as a teacher naturalist for Rancocas Nature Center in Westampton, New Jersey and New Hampshire Audubon. Michelle has a degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in conservation and natural resources from Southern New Hampshire University. She has a passion for conservation and was an active member of the Mason NH Conservation Commission. Michelle is the author of BirdNation blog (birdnationblog.wordpress.com), an educational website about avian behavior, conservation, and bird watching.

Every year shorebirds undertake challenging and incredible long-distance migrations from their wintering sites to their breeding grounds. The Delaware Bay is an important stopover site for more than 30 shorebird species, including the threatened Red Knot. In this presentation we’ll explore some of the species that rely on the Delaware Bay’s rich biological resources, the challenges they face, and how the public can get involved in their conservation.