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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Brait, Susan. Chesapeake Gold: Man & Oyster on the Bay. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.

Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.

De Gast, Robert. The Oyster Men of the Chesapeake. Camden, ME: International Marine Publishing Company, 1970.
Notes: One cannot separate the Chesapeake oyster as a natural resource from the men and vessels which harvested them. Bob De Gast's book is a compelling visual story with accurate, if spare, text.

DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
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.
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.

Lang, Varley. Follow the Water. Winston Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1961.

Powledge, Fred. Working River. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Categories: Environment, Maritime

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

Selckmann, August. "The Susquehanna: Mother of the Chesapeake." Maryland 23 (Autumn 1990): 6-17.

Sharrer, G. Terry. "The Patuxent: Maryland's Heartland River." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 6-23.

Stone, William T., Fessenden Blanchard, and Anne M. Hayes. A Cruising Guide to the Chesapeake including the passages from the Long Island Sound along the New Jersey coast and Island Waterway. 1968; reprint, New York: Putnam, 1989.
Notes: This guide gives detailed descriptions of the navigable portions for each of Maryland's rivers and creeks.

Thorogood, Cyprian. "A Relation of a Voyage Made by Mr. Cyprian Thorogood to the Head of the Baye." The Historian 20 (May 1958).

Torrusio, Michael, Jr. "Destination: Magothy River." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 27 (June 1997): 48-53, 90.

Vojtech, Pat. "The Last Undiscovered River." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 22 (November 1992): 33-37, 42.

Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
Notes: Must reading for anyone wishing to know the Chesapeake, its environment and water ways.

Wroten, William H. Jr. Assateague. 1970; 2d edition, Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1972.

Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.

Gillespie, C. Richard. "Chesapeake's Floating Theatre." Weather Gauge 27 (Spring 1991): 3-6, 12.

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

Abribat, Beverly. "The Holt Legacy." Weather Gauge 24 (Spring 1988): 12-17.

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

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