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03/26/10
Lifelong Eastport resident Art Tuers remembers a day when the waters of Back Creek were crystal clear and the oyster harvest was so plentiful that oysters would reach to the ceiling of the old McNasby Oyster Company building on 2nd Street in Eastport, now home to the Annapolis Maritime Museum. 
Diane M. Rey - For The Capital
From left, volunteer Roberta Dorn, volunteer coordinator Viola McAvy and Art Tuers, who worked at the McNasby Oyster Company as a teenager, take a look at a giant replica of an actual oyster pulled from the South River at a docent training session for the new "Oysters on the Half Shell" exhibit at the Annapolis Maritime Museum. The museum’s first permanent exhibit, dedicated to the once-thriving local oyster industry, will open on weekends beginning April 17.Find Us On Facebook
"I've seen as many as a couple thousand bushels in there at one time," said Art, who was born in 1930 and worked at McNasby's as a teenager wheeling oysters from the watermen's boats into the oyster house for packing. "We had plenty of oysters out there then." The oyster harvest crested in the 1880s, with...
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Such Great Memories - 2010-03-26 13:53:31
I love when the older generations tell stories about filling up buildings with the bounty of the sea. It was so plentiful back then. Then they look around all confusedly at us and wonder what WE did with all of the crabs and oysters. Thanks, pops, but it was your lack of preservation that got us here.
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