Living History

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Seeing and being able to touch often times are greater tools for teaching than most any introduction to study. "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand" was 19th century educator Salem Towne's expression of the power of visual exploration and physical study. Living history opportunities, such as the operational strategy developed for Steam Tug Baltimore, and her projects, are therefore special laboratories for the young and young at heart, platforms upon which knowledge can be shared with others to increase their understanding by participation. We help to preserve and transmit the "whys" and "how to's" which accompany artifacts, and which are often the reasons those artifacts were made at all. The Baltimore and Chesapeake Steamboat Company is a company determined to preserve and interpret the tug Baltimore, the last steamboat out of Baltimore harbor. This tug, built in 1906, is representative of tugboats that worked America’s ports from the mid-19th century until well into the 20th century. Very few remain; of those, the tug Baltimore is the only one known to be still under steam. More living history info can be found at the following websites: http://scard.buffnet.net/tugbaltimore/tug.html http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-us-cs/csa-sh/csash-sz/teaser.htm http://www.cssvirginia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Teaser