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From Pot Pie to Hell & Damnation: An Illustrated Gazetteer of
Talbot County
Laurence G. Claggett
2004. 144 pp. 8.5 x 11. Photographs. Color maps
ISBN 0-922249-10-5. Paper. $24.95
ISBN 0-922249-12-1. Limited Edition Cloth. $36.95
Talbot County's rich past is reflected in its colorful place names.
The history of the "Pincushion" and Talbot's many indigenous
place names is collected in this definitive reference.
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NEW
My Life As An Oyster
CBMM Staff
2004. 28 pp. 10 x 10. Color Illustrations
ISBN 0-922249-11-3. Paper. $9.95
Playfully outlining the life cycle of the Bay's storied bivalve
for readers young and old, this children's book was developed as
part of the Oystering on the Chesapeake exhibit. Publication made
possible by the Jack English Memorial Fund.
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Beacons
of Hooper Strait
Norman H. Plummer
2000. 112 pp. 7 × 10. Photographs. Drawings. Plans.
ISBN 0-922249-08-3. Paper. $11.95
The history of the beacons that guided ships and sailors through
Hooper Strait from 1827 through 1966 when the last lighthouse was
removed and reassembled at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
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Chesapeake
Bay Maritime Museum
2003. 64 pp. 10 x 7. Photographs
ISBN 1-57864-217-5. Paper. $9.95
New from CBMM: a souvenir book that brings home the Museum's Navy
Point campus, floating fleet, and a brief history of Chesapeake
Bay culture. Over 50 color photographs. Published with Donning Company
Publishers.
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From
a Lighthouse Window: Recipes and Recollections from the Chesapeake
Bay Maritime Museum
1989. 208 pp. 7½ × 10½. Photographs. Illustrations.
ISBN 0-922249-01-6. $19.95
Peppered with history and recipes from the Chesapeake region, this
outstanding cookbook offers selections from old English settlers'
recipes to southern dishes as well as modern, internationally-inspired
seafood recipes, retriever treats, eel and muskrat, terrapin soup,
and Rum Rosies, the beverage
that inspired the book.
"A feast for the mind, the eyes, and the palate." -Chesapeake
Bay Magazine
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A
Heritage in Wood: The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's Small Craft
Collection
Edited by Richard J. S. Dodds & Pete Lesher.
1992. 132 pp. 7 × 10. Photographs. Illustrations.
ISBN 0-922249-02-4. Paper. $19.95
More than a catalog of the museum's 776 small Chesapeake craft, this
book is a living statement that these rare and beautiful craft endure,
ashore and afloat. Each boat is described individually, with photographs,
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"It's
how you pick the crab": An Oral Portrait of Eastern Shore Crab
Picking
Kelly Feltault and the Crab Pickers of the Eastern Shore
2001. 40 pp. 7x10. Photographs.
ISBN 0-922249-09-1. Paper. $9.95.
Crab houses rang with the sounds of breaking shells, knives banging
against metal, and the sound of women talking. For those who remember
the days when crab houses were up and down the Chesapeake, that
sound is music. But was it always merry? Those who picked the crabs
tell it the way it really was.
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John
M. Barber's Chesapeake
Narrative by John R. Valiant
1996. 96 pp. 12 × 9. Full-color artwork.
ISBN 0-922249-06-7. $59.95
A pictorial history of Chesapeake Bay by nationally acclaimed marine
artist John M. Barber, the book features a major collection of his
full-color paintings, limited edition print paintings, pencil sketches,
maps, and unpublished works created especially for this project.
Barber's own journals accompany the artwork, detailing his inspiration
and personal experiences relating to his artwork.
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Lambert
Wickes: Patriot or Pirate?
Norman H. Plummer.
1991. 64 pp. 6 × 9. Illustrations.
ISBN 0-922249-03-2. Paper. $6.00
When Capt. Wickes died at sea in 1777, Benjamin Franklin lamented
the loss of "a gallant officer and a very worthy man."
This is the story of a little known American naval hero of the Revolutionary
War.
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Maryland's
Oyster Navy: The First Fifty Years
1993. 105 pp. 7 x 10. Photographs. Drawings.
ISBN 0-922249-05-9. Paper. $19.95
This book focuses on the state of Maryland's nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century efforts to prevent oyster pirates from depleting
the Chesapeake Bay's beds. The state's oyster navy, begun in 1868,
often met stiff resistance, sometimes to the point of civil rebellion.
Relying on original state and federal government records and reports,
ship logs, and contemporary press accounts, Norman Plummer presents
a scholarly survey of this early conservation effort.
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Notes
on Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks
Howard I. Chapelle
1998. 64 pp. 7 × 10. Photographs. Drawings. Plans.
ISBN 0-922249-07-5. Paper. $9.95
Chapelle's work remains the authoritative work on skipjack design
and construction more than fifty years after its first publication.
This new edition frames the original article with some of Chesapeake
Bay Maritime Museum's recent documentation of skipjacks, including
photographs and measured drawings.
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