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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "The Old Man and the Garden: A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth-Century Grounds." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 5-8.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Writings about Pleasure and Kitchen Gardening Available in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 153-59.

Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.

Silberhorn, Gene M. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Sipple, William S. Days Afield: Exploring Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1999.

Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century : Essays on Anglo-American Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Notes: These essays, while largely anthropological, tell a lot about how the Bay region was settled, the problems with this process, and how European practices moved across the landscape.

Tilp, Frederick. Chesapeake Fact, Fiction & Fun: Pungoteaque, St. Clement, Patapsco, Oxford, Coan. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.

Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time: A Brief History of our Geology, Part I: Fathoming the Ocean of Time." Bugeye Times 22 (Fall 1997): 1, 6.

Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.

Warner, James, and Margaret J. White. A Portrait of the Bay Country. Winterville, NC: Creative Resources Systems, 1982.

Wharton, James. The Bounty of the Chesapeake. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1953.
Notes: Wharton's little book is one of the most accessible assemblages of references to Bay resources in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Williams, John Page. "Stewing about Oysters." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 14-15.

Williams, John Page. "Waterfowl Safari." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 20, 22, 24.

Winterbotham, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical view of the America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. 1795; reprint, New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796.
Notes: An unusual contemporary view of the U.S. as an infant nation, especially of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the City of Washington. Discusses natural wonders, weather, plants, and makes recommendations to "European settlers".

Davis, Richard Beale. "The Intellectual Golden Age in the Colonial Chesapeake Bay Country." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 78 (1970): 131-143.

Garrigus, Carl E., Jr. "The Reading Habits of Maryland's Planter Gentry, 1718-1747." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Spring 1997): 36-53.
Notes: Studies of reading habits have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, and this article builds on pioneering research in the 1930s of Joseph Towne Wheeler in analyzing the contents of colonial Maryland bookshelves. The change in reading preferences that occurred in the later eighteenth century brought much greater diversity to personal libraries that formerly were dominated by devotional, legal and classical titles. There also is evidence that reading before 1750 was more intensive, that is, readers tended to return to the same text or passage for repeated readings. This, coupled with the expense of purchasing and importing books, helps explain the relative paucity of published works owned by the literate elite in colonial Maryland.

Harris, Dolly. "And the Band Played On-The History and Preservation of the Tolchester Park Bandstand." Weather Gauge 28 (Spring 1992): 20-24.

Hildebrand, David K. "Music of the Early Chesapeake and its Performance (Re-creating 18th century musical life)." Sonneck Society Bulletin of American Music 15 (Fall 1989): 103-6.

Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part One: Come Aboard the Showboat for Mesmerizing Maudlin Melodrama." Old Kent 3 (September 1987): 1-3.

Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part Two: Showtime on the River Landing, Come and See the Show!" Old Kent 3 (December 1987): 1-2.

"Annual Report for 1990." Bugeye Times 16 (Spring 1991): 5-14.
Notes: Calvert Marine Museum.

The Archivists' Bulldog: The Newsletter of the Maryland State Archives. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1987-.
Notes: This newsletter contains useful articles describing collections, documents, books, and finding aids. It is available on-line at <a href="https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/refserv/html/bulldogs.html">https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/refserv/html/bulldogs.html</a>.

Berry, Paul L. "CMM Broadens its Horizons: Estuarine Biology on Display." Bugeye Times 20 (Fall 1995): 1, 6.

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