Maritime Museum Gears up for Seafood Festival

As the date for the Deltaville Maritime Museum's Annual Art & Seafood Festival approaches, museum and park volunteers will be hard at work to make the October 11th 10 am-4 pm event the best yet. A cooking and serving pavilion has been built and a food preparation and cold storage area has been added to the inside of the facility to further speed up our food service and assure hungry Festival goers the best service possible. Bill Powell, Events Chairman and well-known area events chef says, "All our crew are working to get the best food available out there to all those hungry folks. We doubled our food and serving capacity last year and we saw the result in folks moving very quickly through the line. We will fine tune this year by stretching the end of the serving line and not separating food and drink cashiers. We will also offer a $10 Museum Meal Ticket, available at the Museum tent on entry. The Meal Ticket will offer your choice of entrée, two sides and a 24-oz soft drink, or the Bar-B-Q plate and soft drink, a savings of $1.00. This ticket will be redeemable only at the Museum Kitchen Pavilion." The menu and selections have been simplified by making all items "a la carte" with a serving station for each. Hungry patrons will simply pick up their selections and move on.

All the sea foods you enjoyed last year at the Museum Concession will be on this year's menu. Steamed shrimp, shrimp salad, crab cake sandwich and fish filet sandwich will all be served. An Eastern Carolina bar-b-que plate or bar-b-que sandwich plate with cole slaw and hush puppies will also be offered. All proceeds from the Museum food and drink concessions go directly to benefit the Museum.

All food and drinks this year will be located in the new Museum "Galley" area with something for everyone. In addition to the Museum concessions, the local Moore and Duke families will have grilled hot dogs for the kids (and anybody else) and funnel cakes for all you folks with a sweet tooth. Coffee Creations, the popular Deltaville hot spot will have their signature coffees as well as selected items from their menu. The Museum is also hoping to have an Italian Ice vendor to round out the offerings.

In addition to the arts and food, all Museum facilities will be open. The Nature Trail, sculpture garden, wildflower meadow, boat pier with Explorer, F. D.Crockett and other craft of historical interest will all be on display, with their best foot forward. There will be a golf cart available for those with mobility restrictions to tour the Nature areas. The nefarious naughties of Blackbeard's Crew, pirates all, have promised fun for all ages with "Scalawag School", cannon firings, sea shanties and lots of impromptu pirating about.