Living Classrooms showcases country’s first Black-owned shipyard in Fells Point

By Kim Dacey, WBAL-TV. BALTIMORE — Living Classrooms is working to preserve the country’s first Black-owned shipyard in Fells Point. Down by the Inner Harbor in Fells Point, crews are hard at work on the Lady Maryland ship, making sure she’s seaworthy. “At the shipyard, they would caulk ships, fix ships, help to haul ships […]

Feds, State Close in on Building New Island in the Chesapeake Bay

Water laps fragments of James Island in the Chesapeake Bay in September 2020. Dave Harp / The Bay Journal

By Jeremy Cox, The Bay Journal. James Island is gone. Long live James Island. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maryland Port Administration are finalizing their proposal to resurrect an island that has vanished beneath the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. If all goes according to plan, James Island will convert more than 2,000 […]