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Chesapeake Mermaid The Chesapeake Mermaid, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing premier environmental education. We are independent, unaffiliated and do not crowd source talent.
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is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing premier environmental education through learning programs, storybooks, and activities. Our team develops unique outreach programs focusing on wildlife and habitats in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and encourage daily environmental stewardship. Each hour long multimedia program features bay creature sign language, movement, story, song, part of our story coming to life, ways you can help the environment, meeting our wildlife friends, and more. Our clients range from schools, parks, and museums to festival style events and commercial entertainment. When our traveling shows were put on hold due to the pandemic, we began construction on the Studio at Mermaid Grove. Our virtual programs are now a multi-camera experience with live captioning accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. We have engaged up to 30k individuals a year and require booking months in advance. Don't wait to summon the Chesapeake Mermaid to your next event. For more information or to purchase our storybooks, check out ChesapeakeMermaid.com

Join us this weekend at the St Mary Fairgrounds for the U.S. Oyster Festival! We’ll have two shows each day, our books a...
10/13/2026

Join us this weekend at the St Mary Fairgrounds for the U.S. Oyster Festival! We’ll have two shows each day, our books and art for sale, and lots of surprises! Will we “sea” you then?

LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Sixty years of the U.S. Oyster Festival have produced more than championship titles. They have brought neighbors together, carried local friendships across an ocean and given families stories they are still telling decades later. This weekend brings a chance to make memories of ...

🎃 Looking for more Halloween crafts with a local teaching element? Discover the haunting tale of Effie Lee, a 13-year-ol...
10/09/2026

🎃 Looking for more Halloween crafts with a local teaching element? Discover the haunting tale of Effie Lee, a 13-year-old girl from Holland Island, which now resides beneath the waves of the Chesapeake Bay. 🌊👻. Her tombstone bears a solemn wish not to be forgotten.

📚 Download our “Effie Lee Prop Pack” at Chesapeake Mermaid dot com and explore the Chesapeake Bay’s vanishing islands. It includes a tombstone and two spooky photos!

🔥 Perfect for Halloween fireside stories, these props teach about erosion, flooding, and subsidence. These islands are also important homes for endangered wildlife and habitats. Share Effie Lee’s story this Halloween and keep her memory alive! 💫

✨ During the Civil War, wounded soldiers noticed a mysterious blue-green glow shining from their injuries in the dark 🌌....
10/07/2026

✨ During the Civil War, wounded soldiers noticed a mysterious blue-green glow shining from their injuries in the dark 🌌. Astonishingly, those with glowing wounds healed better and survived more often, earning the nickname “Angel’s Glow” 👼. Over a century later, scientists uncovered the truth. The glow came from bioluminescent bacteria called Photorhabdus luminescens, carried by tiny soil nematodes 🪱. Thanks to the extremely cold battlefield conditions, the bacteria were able to survive in the soldiers’ wounds, releasing natural antibiotics that protected them from deadly infections 🔬❄️. If you saw a glowing wound back then, what would you think? 🤔

10/06/2026

Last week’s tides were quite amazing! See how they come and go in this short video of tide data.

🍂👻 Welcome to October, friends! Spooky season is here and we’ve got some fun on the horizon 🎃✨ Catch us Oct 17-18 at the...
10/01/2026

🍂👻 Welcome to October, friends! Spooky season is here and we’ve got some fun on the horizon 🎃✨ Catch us Oct 17-18 at the US Oyster Festival 🦪 at St. Mary’s Fairground! Plus, you can shop our unique art—wall art, pins, nature wands, and more—at Art of the Wood at the Maryland Renaissance Festival for the rest of the season 🏰🎨✨ Can’t wait to “sea” you there! 💙

🌻 Goldenrod is blooming now and, like asters, are a sure sign that fall is here. Bees love it. Show us your goldenrod!
09/28/2026

🌻 Goldenrod is blooming now and, like asters, are a sure sign that fall is here. Bees love it. Show us your goldenrod!

If you find a bat on the ground, it needs help. Please contact your nearest wildlife rescue for assistance.
09/27/2026

If you find a bat on the ground, it needs help. Please contact your nearest wildlife rescue for assistance.

🦇PSA Baltimore: It is not baby bat season it is bat migration season and any bat found on the ground NEEDS help. Bats during fall migration can become grounded by hitting glass, confused by light pollution or flushed onto the ground due to rain, high winds or sudden cold weather. Anytime you find a bat on the ground (even if they look dead), call us at 256-493-7393 or Phoenix Wildlife Center, Inc. to learn how to help.

🌊 Want to know a fun fact? Manatees do that hilarious little side-eye thing that dogs do 👀🐶🫧 How cute is that?! Have you...
09/25/2026

🌊 Want to know a fun fact? Manatees do that hilarious little side-eye thing that dogs do 👀🐶🫧 How cute is that?! Have you ever seen one in action? 🐋✨

These natives have bottle-like deep blue flowers that never actually open. The unusual blooms are pollinated exclusively...
09/23/2026

These natives have bottle-like deep blue flowers that never actually open. The unusual blooms are pollinated exclusively by bumblebees, which have the size and strength needed to pry open the flowers and gain entry. They max out at just over a foot tall and work well in border gardens. Bottle Gentians are slow-growing but long-lived and require little care once established. Will you add them to your native gardens? 💕🤟🧜🏼‍♀️

I’m hoping you choose to be at our fundraiser for dinner today! Order anything from Chesapeake Grille & Deli - Dunkirk t...
09/22/2026

I’m hoping you choose to be at our fundraiser for dinner today! Order anything from Chesapeake Grille & Deli - Dunkirk today from 11-9 and 5% goes to our educational programs. Thank you ☺️

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