The Mildred Belle, a buyboat-turned-education experience based in Baltimore, will now carry a piece of the city’s industrial past with her. In need of a specific piece of very old wood, shipwrights turned to a 1920-era insulator factory currently under demolition. Cheryl Costello shows the new life given to an old piece of wood. Watch below:
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Deckhand Charles Johnson works on the historic wood replacement on the Mildred Belle. Image: Cheryl Costello