Five students from Washington College recently slept overnight in the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s (CBMM) Hooper Straight Lighthouse as part of the College’s Center for Environment & Society’s Chesapeake Semester. Using Washington College and CBMM as base camps, students journey in, on, and around the 64,000 square mile Chesapeake watershed for an entire semester. Students explore the ecosystem in depth, develop solutions to environmental problems, and influence decision-making at local and national levels.

While in St. Michaels, students cruised on the skipjack, Rebecca T Ruark and participated in several docent-led tours of CBMM’s ten exhibit buildings, working boat yard, and 18-acre waterfront campus.

CBMM offers lighthouse overnight tours every fall and spring for groups of up to 15 participants as well as a wide variety of educational programs for K-12 through college level students and adults. For more information about CBMM’s education programs, visit www.cbmm.org or contact Kate Livie at klivie@cbmm.org.