October 5, 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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July 30, 2024 1 Comment
Henry Shaw was an industrious young man in business and in life. He retired young, traveled throughout Europe, and returned to his home in St. Louis to build a garden like the ones he saw in England. Then he gave it away. People still make their way to Missouri to see Henry’s flowers.