One day last July, Vernon Spear scratched his forearm on a crab pot as he pulled it out of the Choptank River from his pier
Author’s Note: The beautiful cast iron fountain that sits in the center of Fountain Park in Chestertown, MD was sent away for restoration several years
Author’s Note: My poetic philosophy is to try to express an emotion or describe an image or idea in a ‘few well chosen words’ that capture
Author’s Note: I was inspired to write this piece after reading Robert Cording’s poem, “Screensaver,” in which the poet mourns his dead son by describing
It’s the best of times in recent memory for Chesapeake Bay oysters. It’s just the opposite, though, for the Maryland and Virginia watermen who make
Author Note: When I was growing up, I spent summers at my grandparent’s camp in a remote part of Western Michigan. On one of our
Author’s Note: So much in today’s world has become quantitative, definable and directed that “On a Path Austere and Certain” called me back to a
As Crisfield Mayor Darlene Taylor sees it, the low-lying Maryland town has no future unless it can hold back rising water. Computer models suggest that
All but one of Maryland’s 23 counties contains at least one state park. But that could change soon. Wicomico County is home to more than
Nearly three decades ago on a chill, still December afternoon, I watched three majestic trumpeter swans touch down in a Chesapeake salt marsh. It was