Kids learn about LI's maritime culture

  In a room of the Long Island Children's Museum that smelled intensely of fish, 11 baymen explained their trade Sunday to young museum patrons who wanted to know: How do you tell a boy crab from a girl crab? What do fish eat? Can I hear the ocean in this shell?

The baymen were there at the behest of Nancy Solomon, a folklorist with Long Island Traditions, a Port Washington nonprofit group working to preserve the region's maritime culture, for the first leg of a three-weekend program at the museum, in East Garden City, called Saltwater Stories.

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