ShoreRivers Safe Swim Report: 7/30
Chestertown’s Own Odyssey: The Making of a 20-Pound Epic
It began, appropriately enough, with an almost impossible quest. Chestertown Old Book Company publishers Bill Frank and Gerry Cataldo became determined to produce a monumental limited edition of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, complete with the original Greek, Alexander Pope’s English translation, elaborate illustrations, and enough physical weight to make each two-volume set tip the scales […]
At 79, Punkin Haddaway’s Still Crabbing and Still Being Punkin
Punkin Haddaway shows a live box filled with peeler crabs. He will shed them out to become soft shells. Photos by Dennis Forney Punkin Haddaway started working on the waters of Broad and Harris creeks in Talbot County when he was nine years old. Crabs and oysters. Staples. They are to watermen what corn […]
At 79, Punkin Haddaway’s Still Crabbing and Still Being Punkin
Punkin Haddaway started working on the waters of Broad and Harris creeks in Talbot County when he was nine years old. Crabs and oysters. Staples. They are to watermen what corn and soybeans are to farmers. “I crabbed on one side of Harris Creek, my father crabbed the other side. “We lived in Wittman; no […]
Chesapeake Lens: “End of Day” by Susanne Mclean
Another peaceful Chesapeake evening as the sun sinks into the Bay across from the Eastrn Neck National Wildlife Refuge. “End of Day” by Susanne Mclean
ShoreRivers Safe Swim Report: 7/30
