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Article: The return of the Maryland Seafood Festival
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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It's back. After a year's hiatus, the Maryland Seafood Festival
is returning this weekend to the shores of Sandy Point Park, its
home for the past three decades.
The festival, now in its 42nd year, was canceled in 2008 due to
the downturn of the economy and the heavy road construction near
Sandy Point and the Bay Bridge. Thousands of people who had waited
all year to sample the state's finest crab soup offerings were
understandably quite crabby.
Where else could you stroll along golden sands and watch the
seagulls swoop over the Bay Bridge while munching a crab cake or
dipping a spoon into some divine crab soup as you listened to your
favorite band performing just a few feet away?
It was ...