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Museum celebrates rebirth

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 12/02/08

This is what supporters of the Annapolis Maritime Museum have been waiting for: their homecoming.

Arianne Teeple — For The Capital Artists, contributors and local politicians party it up last night to celebrate the reopening of the Annapolis Maritime Museum in Eastport.
The old McNasby building came to life again, with hundreds of people poring over exhibits of old photos, maps, oyster knives and logbooks as the Annapolis Maritime Museum re-opened its doors.
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For five years, the fledgling Eastport museum was practically homeless, after Tropical Storm Isabel pummeled its building, the old McNasby Oyster Co. plant. Museum staffers worked out of a trailer and offered programs in a small nearby building called the Barge House.

But last night, the old McNasby building came to life again, with hundreds of people poring over exhibits of old photos and maps, oyster knives and logbooks. They admired paintings and sculptures, bought history books and watched a woodcarver making a new sign for...

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