On August 18, 1865, Galena celebrated the return of its Civil War hero General Ulysses S. Grant. Following a jubilant procession with much flag waving and speeches, a group of Galena citizens presented the General with a handsome furnished house on Bouthillier Street.
The price of a bushel of male crabs in New York should drop below $40 when landings peak. The company MarylandBlueCrabExpress.com offers a variety of blue crab choices. Here, a bushel of steam blue crabs can cost anywhere from $90 to $155 depending on the size of the crabs.
An average blue crab weighs about 1/3 pound with the edible portion quite low. An experienced crab picker can produce about 2 1/4 ounces of meat from each pound of live blue crabs. This is about a 14% yield. The actual yield depends on the size of the individual crab and experience of the crab picker.