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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
Browne, Gary L. "Urban Centers of the Past." Maryland Heritage News 2 (Fall 1984): 6-7.
Annotation / Notes: A variety of factors effect the rise and fall of urban centers -- transportation, market, environmental, and political changes, as well as the rise of other centers. Browne presents a brief discussion of the fate of approximately ten urban centers.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Environment,
Seventeenth Century,
Eighteenth Century,
Nineteenth Century,
Allegany County,
Baltimore County,
Baltimore City,
Cecil County,
Charles County,
Calvert County,
Queen Anne's County,
Talbot County,
Washington County,
Worcester County,
Eastern Shore
Corddry, Mary U. City on the Sand: Ocean City, Maryland and the People Who Built It. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
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.
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
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
Wroten, William H., Jr. Assateague. Salisbury, MD: Peninsula Press, 1970.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Environment,
Maritime,
Native American,
Worcester County,
Eastern Shore
Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.
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.
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore. Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1944.
Annotation / Notes: Footner writes mostly stories about history, but he does view Chesapeake river environments from a mid-1940s perspective.
Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.
Keiper, Ronald R. Assateague Ponies. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1985.
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Walters, Keith. "The Pocomoke: A River Through Time." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 78-79.
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Wroten, William H. Jr. Assateague. 1970; 2d edition, Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1972.
Counts, Clement L., III, and Terry L. Bashore. "Mollusca of Assateague Island, Maryland and Virginia: a re-examination after seventy-five years." Veliger, 34 (April 1, 1991): 214-21.
Griffin, Matt. "The 1962 Nor'easter: The Storm that Helped Build Ocean City." Shoreline, 15 (June 2008): 18-19.
Remsberg, Edwin. "Old Man River: A Visual Journey Along the Pocomoke." MarylandLife, 4 (September/October 2008): 48-53.
Hendricks, Mark. Natural Wonders of Assateague Island. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2017.
Categories:
Environment,
Worcester County