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Baden, Jacqueline Heppes. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Place Apart. 2 vols. Rockville, MD: Travel on Tape, Book Division, 1990.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Environment,
Geography and Cartography,
Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture,
Caroline County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Baden, Jacqueline Heppes. "A Bay for All Seasons." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): F28-F29, F31, F33.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Maritime,
Twentieth Century,
Anne Arundel County,
Caroline County,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Calvert County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Southern Maryland,
Eastern Shore
Blake, Allison. The Chesapeake Bay Book: A Complete Guide. 3rd edition. Lee, MA: Berkshire House Publishers, 1997.
Annotation / Notes: A well researched tour guide for the general population.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Twentieth Century,
Anne Arundel County,
Baltimore City,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Dorchester County,
Harford County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
St. Mary's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Chappell, Helen. "Island Outpost." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (April 1994): 42-47, 56.
Annotation / Notes: Deal Island.
Colbert, Judy. Country Towns of Maryland and Delaware. Oaks, PA: Country Roads Press, 1996.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works,
Twentieth Century,
Baltimore County,
Cecil County,
Carroll County,
Calvert County,
Frederick County,
Harford County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Washington County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Dize, Frances. Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1989.
Dove, Tom. "Destination: Crisfield." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 26 (April 1997): 50-57.
Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Annotation / Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.
Categories:
African American,
Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning,
County and Local History,
Education,
Family History and Genealogy,
Anne Arundel County,
Baltimore City,
Caroline County,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Calvert County,
Dorchester County,
Harford County,
Kent County,
Prince George's County,
Queen Anne's County,
St. Mary's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Southern Maryland,
Eastern Shore
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.
Annotation / 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."
Harp, David W., and Tom Horton. Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Annotation / 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.
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.
Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Annotation / 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.
Categories:
Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning,
County and Local History,
Geography and Cartography,
Politics and Law,
Seventeenth Century,
Nineteenth Century,
Anne Arundel County,
Baltimore City,
Caroline County,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Calvert County,
Dorchester County,
Harford County,
Kent County,
Prince George's County,
Queen Anne's County,
St. Mary's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Southern Maryland,
Eastern Shore
Sayles, Tim. "The Immutable Smith Island." Mid-Atlantic Country 10 (February 1989): 28-33, 90.
Sheehan, K. "Order and Disorder on Smith Island." Raritan 14 (Fall 1994): 109-34.
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Annotation / Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories:
Agriculture,
Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning,
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Environment,
Fine and Decorative Arts,
Science and Technology,
Twentieth Century,
Cecil County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Annotation / Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories:
African American,
Agriculture,
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Maritime,
Caroline County,
Cecil County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
White, Dan. Crosscurrents in Quiet Water: Portraits of the Chesapeake. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Annotation / Notes: A photo essay of the changing lives of the Eastern Shore's peoples focusing on watermen, boat builders, environmentalists, and chicken farmers. Special emphasis is placed on Smith Island and Crisfield. Photographs by Jon Naso and Marion Warren.
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Annotation / Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories:
Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning,
County and Local History,
Environment,
Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture,
Anne Arundel County,
Baltimore City,
Caroline County,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Calvert County,
Dorchester County,
Harford County,
Kent County,
Prince George's County,
Queen Anne's County,
St. Mary's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Southern Maryland,
Eastern Shore
Wolf, Bernard. Amazing Grace: Smith Island and the Chesapeake Watermen. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Annotation / Notes: De Gast sails a small boat around the entire DelMarVa Peninsula, an interesting voyage with useful observations.
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works,
Maritime,
Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture,
Twentieth Century,
Caroline County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Wicomico County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Annotation / Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.