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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

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

"Burgess Eastern Shore Early Americana Museum." Peninsula Pacemaker 20 (August 1992): 22-23.

Everett, Michele. "Sudlersville Town Library." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Fireside 89-90): 92-93.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Queen Anne's County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Somerset County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secret: Burgess Early Americana Museum." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 27.

Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
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.

Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.

Russo, Jean B. "The Constables' Lists: An Invaluable Resource." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 164-70.

"St. Martin's Camp." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 1-2.

"Summertime at the Old Love Point Hotel." Isle of Kent (Summer 1991): 223-24.

Yealdhall, J. Edward. "Crossing the Bay on the 'Smokey Joe'." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 7-8.

Morris, Anne F., and Jean B. Russo, eds. "Polly Tilghman's Plight: A True Tale of Romance and Reputation in the 18th Century." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 464-79.

Sherwood, Jack. "'Bad Girl' of the Wye River." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 25 (December 1995): 40-43, 64-65.

Chisman, Forrest P., and Renee S. Woodworth. "The Mattapex Post Office." Isle of Kent Quarterly (Winter/Spring 2000): 3-5.

Guest, Geoffrey. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63 (1989): 92-112.

Harrington, Norman. Shaping of Religion in America: How early churches in Delaware and on Maryland and Virginia's Eastern Shore provided the most important stimulus for the evolution of Christianity in the New World. Easton, MD: The Queen Anne Press, 1980.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. "Accommodation Versus Concentration: Dialect Death in Two Post-insular Island Communities." American Speech 72 (1997): 12-32.

"Wye Mill, Talbot and Queen Anne's Counties." In Context 7 (May 1999): [4].

Freedman, Janet. Kent Island: The Land that Once Was Eden. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2002.

Jacob, John E. Somerset County in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001.

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