April 26, 2024
Tag: Oyster Culture on the Bay
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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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December 30, 2021 8 Comments
Those who lived during the Depression and the war years that followed are elderly today and most memories of the era have vanished. The consequence is that we must turn to the history books and the artists to understand the 1930s and ‘40s. Ray Hoyt’s history and Marshall Davis’s art combined in the book We Can Take It! is a perfect first step.