November 8, 2024 – 2nd Friday – 5-8:30 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 featuring hand crafted items from several local artists and local authors. All proceeds go to support the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, home of AJ Meerwald and the Delaware Bay Museum.

Live music on the docks 5-8:30 pm – Nick Marley

6:30 Speaker in the museum – John Brady

Originally built to work the oyster beds around New York City, the catboat migrated down the New Jersey coast after the Civil War. The type evolved as it moved, becoming the general-purpose workboat along the back bays and, eventually, a sophisticated racing boat that still competes today. In this talk, we will take a look at how working sailing vessels developed and the forces driving that development, touching on everything from technological change to shifting social hierarchies.