The Guinea Heritage Association will hold its next program beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 17, at Buck’s Store Museum, Bena. The public is invited; refreshments will be served. The program will be an illustrated presentation of the history of one of the largest wooden buyboats to ply the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, the over 100-foot-long Chesapeake. Maritime historian Larry Saint will give the talk, as well as bringing along his hand-built model of the Chesapeake. Saint is a retired registered investment advisor who has a love of maritime history, lighthouses, historic watercraft and lighthouse modeling. He is a member of several civic organizations as well as a member of Suffolk River Heritage, a research organization and publisher of local history books. Saint’s most recent project was the history and model of the oyster dredge/buyboat Chesapeake. Chesapeake was the largest oyster dredge and buyboat constructed on the Chesapeake Bay. She was frame built and longitudinally plank...