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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Eshelman, Ralph, and Clara M. Dixon. Historical Tours through Southern Maryland: Solomons by Foot, Bicycle or Boat. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum, 1983.

Forsthoffer, Joseph P. "Crisfield Crab Daze." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 22 (August 1992): 26-29.

Foster, Sally. The Private World of Smith Island. New York: Cobblehill Books/Dutton, 1993.
Notes: A juvenile audience photo book which addresses the question of "What is it like to live on an island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay."

Glascock, Judith C. "Solomons, the Early Years." Calvert Historian 8 (Spring 1993): 14-26.

Hamilton, Bruce. "Explosion on Solomons." Maryland 28 (April 1996): 24-29.

Harp, David W., and Tom Horton. Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Notes: A photo essay on the environmental plight of the Eastern Shore, special attention is paid to the area's natural history and the life of the watermen.

Hayman, Louise. "Somerset County." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1987): 36-40.

Heavey, Bill. "Calvert County Ramble." Mid-Atlantic Country 16 (March 1995): 44-45, 95, 100.

Hutchins, Ailene. "Shades of Old Prince Frederick." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1986): 33-35.

Jewell, Donald G. "All Aboard for Chesapeake Beach." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 18 (June 1988): 67-70.

Johnson, Paula. Historical Tours through Southern Maryland: Broome's Island. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum, 1983.

Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of <em>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</em>, <em>Lippincott's Magazine</em>, and <em>Scribner's Monthly</em>. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.

Lamkau, Paul V. "Notes on a Record of Deaths in a Parish in Calvert County, Maryland, 1900-1946." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1985): 29-31.

Lister, Dawn Sheets. "Calvert County Maryland: The Physical and Human Geography of the 'Charm of the Chesapeake'." Calvert Historian 11 (Spring 1996): 43-55.

McCabe, Carol. "Olde Princess Anne Days." Early American Life 20 (October 1989): 16-27.

Manchester, Andi. "Solomon's Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 21 (July 1991): 32-37.

Noll, Eva Owings Davies. "The First Calvert County Fair." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 7-8.
Notes: Bug art.

Northam, Jack C. "Solomon's Remembered." Calvert Historian 8 (Fall 1993): 12-19.

Pearl, Susan. "Short History of Huntington (Old Bowie)." Friends of Preservation Newsletter (Spring 1987): 6-7.

Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland, 1668-1725." Calvert Historian 9 (Spring 1994): 68-79.

Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland: 1668-1725." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 371-376.
Notes: Calverton, the originally county seat of Calvert County, was one of the few towns in Colonial Southern Maryland. The discovery of an 1862 plat of this town, the earliest know plat of a Maryland town, greatly added to the information available on the town. Calverton is now believed to be of much greater importance than previously thought. It was an prominent governmental, economic, and population center.

Pogue, Dennis J. King's Reach and 17th-Century Plantation Life. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1990.
Notes: A discussion of the archeological digs at King's Reach and what the findings tell of life at the time, focussing on what can be learned of the plantation's physical layout.

Ramsay, Meredith. The Mediating Effects of Social Structures and Culture on Local and Economic Development Policy: The Cases of Princess Anne and Crisfield, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1992.

Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.

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