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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Guy, Mrs. Bernard. "Bloomington's Civic Club." Glades Star 5 (September 1979): 170-73, 190.

Harp, David W., and Tom Horton. Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
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.

Hickling, Lee. An Illustrated History of Cobb Island. Cobb Island, MD: Published by the author, 1989.

Himmelheber, Peter. "St. George's Island Revisited." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 332-37.

Holden, Peter. "Three Days (and then some) in Chesapeake Country." Mid-Atlantic Country 16 (June 1995): 46-50, 68-69, 74-75, 79.

Hopkins, Fred. "Opportunity, Accomplishment, and Betrayal: The Saga of William Claiborne's 17th-Century Settlement in the Upper Chesapeake." In Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Edited by John D. Broadwater, 2-5. Richmond, VA: Society for Historical Archaeology, 1991, 2-5.

Horton, Tom. "Poplar Island Rising." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 29 (May 1999): 58-63, 103.

Immler, Alice Cockey. "Memories of Kent Island." Isle of Kent (Summer 1992): 7-8.

Isaac, Erich. "Kent Island." Maryland Historical Magazine 52 (1957): 93-119, 210-232.
Notes: Kent Island was founded in 1631 by William Claiborne. This article provides a description of the community during its early history. Discussed are the manors, the religious congregations, the towns, and the trades. Included is a list of the indentured servants residing there.

Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of <em>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</em>, <em>Lippincott's Magazine</em>, and <em>Scribner's Monthly</em>. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.

Karras, Alan L. Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, 1740-1800. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Kelbaugh, Jack. Wish You Were Here: Postcard Reminiscences of a Bygone Day, the Chesapeake Bay Country. Chestertown, MD: Kent Printing Company, 1984.

Kenah, Elizabeth F. "Good Times at Hard Bargain Farm." Maryland 13 (Summer 1980): 40-43.

LeGrand, Marty. "A Tale of Two Islands." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 28 (January 1999): 42-47, 72-73.

Leone, Mark, and Silas D. Hurry. "Seeing: The Power of Town Planning in the Chesapeake." Historical Archaeology 32 (no. 4, 1998): 34-62.

Lewis, Taylor Biggs. Chesapeake, the Eastern Shore: Gardens and Houses. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

Lumpkins, Maggie Henderson. "Memories of St. George Island." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Spring 1992): 104-6.

Manchester, Andi. "A Cruising Family Visits Rock Hall." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 20 (October 1990): 34-38.

Manchester, Andi. "Solomon's Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 21 (July 1991): 32-37.

Moose, Katie. Eastern Shore of Maryland: The Guidebook. Annapolis, MD: Conduit Press, 1999.

Murphy, Jeanne Payne. "The Letters of Lafayette Buckler from 1859 to 1884." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (March 1982): 421-32; (April 1982): 433-44; (May 1982): 445-54.
Notes: Transcriptions of a series of 41 letters written by Lafayette to Victoria McGinley Buckler, his wife, as they traveled between their home in St. Mary's and Baltimore. Two letters are also included written by Victoria. The letters deal with the details of daily life and the relationship of this couple. A sizeable introduction proceeds the letters and places the letters in the context of place, time, and family.

"The Mystery of Historic St. Mary's City." Southern Living 25 (August 1990): 18-19.

Nast, Leonara Heilig, Laurence N. Krause, and R. C. Monk, eds. Baltimore. A Living Renaissance. Baltimore: Historic Baltimore Society, Inc., 1982.
Notes: An eclectic mix of over eighty essays, authored by a broad spectrum of individuals, on topics that illustrate the renaissance that Baltimore experienced during the 1960s and 1970s. Organized under such broad topics as "Baltimore Builds","Social Perspective","The Arts", and "What Makes Baltimore Baltimore" the broad range of subjects covered include Baltimore night life, public housing, television and radio, football, aging services, and influential political and community figures. Includes a brief chronology of the City's redevelopment, 1937-1981.

Okonowicz, Ed. Disappearing Delmarva: Portraits of the Peninsula People. Elkton, MD: Myst and Lace Publishers, 1997.

Perdue, Lewis. Country Inns Of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Washington, DC: Washingtonian Books, 1977.

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