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Byron, Gilbert. Gilbert Byron's Chesapeake Seasons: A Cove Journal. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1987.
Annotation / Notes: Poet and chronicler Gilbert Byron's columns were a popular feature in several Eastern Shore newspapers. This collection of observations and reminiscences culled from his newspaper writings are both biographical and lyrical in quality. Byron captures both an appreciation for a nostalgic past and an awareness of the social and economic changes occurring on his beloved shore.
Charbeneau, Jim. Shouts and Whispers: Stories from the Southern Chesapeake Bay. White Stone, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1997.
Parker, Willie J. Game Warden: Chesapeake Assignment. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1983.
Turner, William H. Chesapeake Boyhood: Memoirs of a Farm Boy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Chesser, Helen Brown. "St. George Island Memories." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Spring 1992): 98-104.
Annotation / Notes: The memories of a woman who grew up on the Island during the early decades of the twentieth century.
Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Annotation / Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, and Scribner's Monthly. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.
Lumpkins, Maggie Henderson. "Memories of St. George Island." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Spring 1992): 104-6.
Veitch, Fletcher. "Hurricane of 1933." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (August 1985): 285-288.
Hollowak, Thomas L. "Maryland Genealogy and Family History: A Bibliography, 1987-1989." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 33 (Summer 1992): 484-530.
Bellinger, Annie. "Marylanders Through and Through." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 88.
Bradshaw, Alice. "Waterman's Wife." Annapolitan 7 (March 1993): 28-32, 34-35, 49.
Chappell, Helen. "Shorewomen." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 30-34.
Line, Lila. Waterwomen. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1982.
Robson, Nancy Taylor. Woman in the Wheelhouse. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1985.
Kneebone, John T. et al., ed. Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Vol. 1: Aaroe-Blanchfield. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1998.
Turner, William H. East of the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Turner, William H. "Frank Moorshead's Chesapeake." Weather Gauge, 36 (Fall 2000): 12-18.
Wallace, Adam. My Business was to Fight the Devil: Recollections of Rev. Adam Wallace, Peninsula Circuit Rider, 1847-1865. Acton, MA: Tapestry, 1998.
Frye, Harriet. "Joshua Barney Encounters the Port of Chincoteague." Chesapeake Bay Magazine, 5 (February 1976): 15-16.
Annotation / Notes: During the Revolution.
Valliant, John R. John M. Barber's Chesapeake. St. Michael's MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1996.
Foley, A. M. Having My Say: Conversations with Chesapeake Bay Waterman Wylie "Gator" Abbott. Elliott Island, MD: Dogwood Ridge Books, 2006.
Achenbach, Sarah, and Kessler Burnett. "The Bay's Dirtiest Jobs." Chesapeake Life, (June 2007): 76-83.
Bozza, Donna. "Bird Man of Cape Charles." Chesapeake Life, (April 2007): 50-51.
Scott-Childress, Reynolds J. "The House at Mistake: Thomas Marshall and the Rise of Genteel Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake." Maryland Historical Magazine, 103 (Winter 2008): 352-81.
LeGrand, Marty. "Reporting for Duty." Chesapeake Bay Magazine, 37 (January 2008): 52-55, 70-72.
Annotation / Notes: Tom Horton.