For those of you interested in visiting Chestertown, Memorial Day weekend might be just the time to do it. For the weekend, our sleepy little hamlet is transformed into a hustling bustling mecca of crafty commerce and colonial shenanigans.
There are bluecoats on parade.
There are bowling bluecoats.
There are redcoats, too, but nobody really wants to be a redcoat. All the redcoats get thrown overboard in grand fashion during the reenactment of the tossing of the tea.
(Special thanks to Captain Andy of Echo Hill, doing the tossing with flair, and ye olde Gibson Anthony of Radcliffe Creek School (and partly responsible for our new rail trail) for staying enough out of the way to get this great photo without getting tossed in himself).
There are giant crabs. (Well, really, there’s only one of them).
There are raft races, in which homemade rafts battle it out with varying levels of success for amazingly rudimentary trophies.
(we could have used Gibson and his fine photography skills here. Just imagine this photo with much more drama. There you go.)
So come one, come all! Make some time in your calendars for the Chestertown Tea Party! If you’re lucky, you might even see us wandering around town. Most likely in the line for funnel cakes.
