All publications are available at the Museum Store.

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.

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.

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

"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.

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features a major collection of his full-color paintings, limited edition print paintings, pencil sketches, maps, and unpublished works created especially for this project.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.

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.

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.