{"id":8156,"date":"2022-02-03T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:16:52","slug":"annapolis-oyster-roast-and-sock-burning-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/03\/annapolis-oyster-roast-and-sock-burning-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Annapolis Oyster Roast and Sock Burning Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Say goodbye to winter, only deck shoes we wear! Though the socks we burn leave a stink in the air!&#8221; So reads the poem recited each year as hundreds of Annapolitans and visitors gather around a waterfront bonfire at the Annapolis Maritime Museum to burn their smelliest, winter-worn socks and enjoy all things oyster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Seafood-News-11.jpg\" alt=\"seafood news\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Seafood-News-11.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Seafood-News-11-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a hiatus during the pandemic, the Annapolis Oyster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/?s=oyster\">Roast <\/a>&amp; Sock Burning is back to celebrate the maritime culture of the <span class=\"xn-location\">Annapolis<\/span> community and all things Chesapeake Bay. Join them on <span class=\"xn-chron\">Saturday, March 19th<\/span> from <span class=\"xn-chron\">12:00-4:00 PM<\/span> as they burn their socks during the spring equinox. Tickets are on sale now for both General Admission and People&#8217;s Choice at <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3423903-1&amp;h=1828698236&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amaritime.org%2F&amp;a=www.amaritime.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.amaritime.org<\/a>. Enjoy all-you-can-eat oysters, oyster shucking contests, family activities, and live music by the Eastport Oyster Boys and Naptown Brass Band. Beverages and other food will be available onsite for purchase.\u00a0All of this takes place on the Museum&#8217;s waterfront campus overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, including complimentary boat rides and skipjack tours.<\/p>\n<p>The sock burning tradition was started in the late 1970&#8217;s by local <span class=\"xn-location\">Eastport<\/span> shipwrights who were fed-up with the winter weather. After an exceptionally cold, snowy season, a small group gathered to celebrate the coming of spring by burning their old socks and promising to forgo sock wearing until the cold weather returned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8157\" style=\"width: 835px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Annapolis_Maritime_Museum.jpg\" alt=\"oyster roasting\" width=\"835\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Annapolis_Maritime_Museum.jpg 835w, https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Annapolis_Maritime_Museum-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Annapolis_Maritime_Museum-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Annapolis_Maritime_Museum-750x509.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests throwing old socks into the bonfire at the 2018 Annual Oyster Roast &amp; Sock Burning in Annapolis, MD. Photo credit: Ken Tom Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today, this quirky <span class=\"xn-location\">Annapolis<\/span> tradition lives on at the Annapolis Maritime Museum at the Annual Oyster Roast &amp; Sock Burning, where guests can take part in this decades-long tradition that welcomes both the spring and the <span class=\"xn-location\">Annapolis<\/span> boating season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing more authentic and unique to <span class=\"xn-location\">Annapolis<\/span> than the ritual of burning socks, started right here in <span class=\"xn-location\">Annapolis<\/span>,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Alice Estrada<\/span>, President\/CEO of the Museum. &#8220;This beloved event brings the community together and raises funds for our important environmental education programs, which serve over 12,000 students annually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"prntac\"><i>Burn your socks my friend, the winter is done,<br class=\"dnr\" \/><\/i><i>Tis time for boating, crabbing, and fun.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It might be better if the socks were washed first, but that&#8217;s just me. Purchase tickets and learn more about this event here: <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3423903-1&amp;h=1828698236&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amaritime.org%2F&amp;a=www.amaritime.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.amaritime.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"level__left\">\n<div class=\"level__item\">\n<div class=\"js-copy-attribute-content photo-page__adp-cta__container__attribution\">Top Photo by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@lee-starry-1667861?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">lee starry<\/a><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/fresh-oysters-on-a-griller-6280788\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hiatus during the pandemic, the Annapolis Oyster Roast &#038; Sock Burning is back to celebrate the maritime culture of the Annapolis community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[902,903,901,900,904],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8162,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions\/8162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}