EASTON — The Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, now located inside Easton Point Park, has received an $88,000 Bay Watershed Education and Training grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, the Talbot County, MD, nonprofit that rose from the ashes of a family tragedy to become a leader in educating a new generation of Chesapeake Bay guardians, has closed its doors.
Whether the 14-year-old organization will soldier on in a new location remains to be seen, but the centerâs leaders say they hope to continue providing environmental programming to schoolchildren and others in some fashion in the future.
Kelley Phillips Cox teaches youth about horseshoe crabs at the Phillips Wharf Center in 2013.Dave Harp
Matthew Albers, president of the centerâs board, announced the closure in a Facebook post in March, saying the board was busy âliquidating our assets on Tilghman Island,â home to the centerâs headquarters and oyster-farming operation. The board is looking into using proceeds from those sales to finance a new location in or near Easton.