"The Voices of the
Chesapeake Bay Interview Project is created to help
us further develop our 'sense of place.' The Voices Project is ongoing, inherently
'inclusive' and well-rounded, giving us the ability to see our bio-region, the
Chesapeake
Bay watershed, from a variety of perspectives
and points of view. With this
ability we can fully and truly appreciate this incredible place called the
Chesapeake Bay."
Michael Buckley, Project Director
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Sunday, April 25
Skipjack: America's Last Sailing Oystermen
Christopher White and the Watermen of Tilghman Island
Decker Theatre, Daniel Z. Gibson Center for the Arts, 5:00 p.m. Washington
College, Chestertown, MD
Book signing to follow
Author Christopher
White spent two years living
on Tilghman Island and working with three legendary captains of the traditional
wooden Chesapeake Bay oyster boats known as skipjacks. Through a discussion with
a group of these lively characters, we will begin to understand the challenges
of living on the Bay and sailing a traditional skipjack. The event will bring
the audience face-to-face with a critically endangered tradition that reaches
back over 100 years. Produced by Michael Buckley
Baltimore Sun. 1998. The Wild Side of Maryland: An Outdoor Guide. Baltimore, MD.
Collins, George J. and Alexander,
Kathy. 2001. Chessie
Racing. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
The story of Maryland's entry into the 1997-1998 Whitbread Round the World Race.
Watch for the George Collins interview on the Voices Radio Series, December 9th!
Dorbin, Ann and Richard. 2001. Saving the Bay: People Working for the Future of the Chesapeake. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. www.paragonlight.com
Hancock J. and J. Kushlan. 1984. The Herons Handbook. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
Hayman, P. 1986. Shorebirds: An Identification Guide to the Waders of the World. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Horton,
Tom. 1997. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of
Smith Island. Norton. 1994. Bay
Country. 1992.
Water's Way (w/David W. Harp). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1991.
Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay,
Washington, DC: Island Press.
"This is not merely a book for those who
already know the Chesapeake, although they will be enchanted by Tom Horton's
vast knowledge, narrative skills and eye for detail. Like the true bay native he
is, Mr. Horton uses the Chesapeake as a limitless resource from which to harvest
a great bounty of observations about politics, nature, and human beings."
-- New York Times on
Bay Country. Winner of
the John Burroughs Medal for the Outstanding Book of Nature Writing
Hurley, L.M. 1990. Field Guide To Submerged Aquatic Vegetation of Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Lippson,
Alice Jane & Robert L. 1984/97. Life
in the Chesapeake Bay.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
"Covers more than 400 species found both in
and around the bay, from seaweed to sharks and geese. Life in the Chesapeake
Bay's utility extends beyond the Bay itself, as many of the plants and
animals discussed range up and down the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to
Cape Cod... Identification is a simple task with Alice Jane Lippson's 285
attractive drawings of the creatures described in the book." -- Waterman's
Gazette
Meanley, Brooke. 1975. Birds
and Marshes of the Chesapeake Bay.
Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers.
Michener, James. 1990. Chesapeake. New York, NY: Fawcett Books.
Schwartz, F.J. 1967. Maryland
Turtles.
Solomons, MD: University of Maryland,
Natural Resources Instutite.
Shellenberger, William H.
1994/2001. Cruising the Chesapeake.
Camden, ME:
International Marine Publishing Company.
Turbyville, Linda. 1996. Bay
Beacons: Lighthouses of the Chesapeake Bay.
Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publisher.
Vojtech, Pat. 2001. Chesapeake Wildlife: Stories of Survival and Loss. 1973. Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses.Centreville, MD:Cornell Press Tidewater Publishers.
Warner, William W. 1994. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay New York, NY: Little Brown & Company. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize!
Wennersten, John R.
2001. The Chesapeake:
An Environmental Biography
Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society Press
White,
Christopher P. 1989. Chesapeake Bay: The Nature
of the Estuary.
Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers.
Winegar,
Deane. 2000. Longstreet Highroad Guide To The
Chesapeake Bay.
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Highroad Coastal Guides.
Williams,
A.B. 1984. Shrimp, Lobsters and Crabs of the
Atlantic Coast.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Williams, John Page. 1993. Chesapeake
Almanac. 1992. Exploring the
Chesapeake
in Small Boats. Centreville, MD: Tidewater
Publishers.
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Chief Sailing Commentator Gary Jobson, farmer & mayor Russell
Brinsfield of Vienna, MD, Queenstown historian Harry Rhodes, author/ fisherman Bill Burton,
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