July 27, 2024
Tag: Chesapeake Bay
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Two DelMarVa Sketch Artists and Their Postcards
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Each generation has its own sketch artists who use pencils, charcoals, pastels, chalks, and crayons to render hometown scenes, rural vistas, and family events in sketchbooks that are cherished by a cadre of descendants. This article by Bill Burton, Postcard History’s publisher, highlights two such practitioners of pencil art who lived and worked in a…
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Oyster Culture on Chesapeake Bay
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The Chesapeake Bay is known for it natural beauty and its healthy bounty, but since the middle of the 20th century the beauty and the bounty have diminished. The shell fishery businesses, that for generations relied on oystering, are changing. This is their story.
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April 6, 2023 3 Comments
Rococo art is dynamic, clear, vibrant, and often animated. It is also difficult to understand without the words provided by an art critic like our new contributor Grandy Landsdell. Mr. Landsdell says that he has lived in Massachusetts all his life – so far!