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A four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one man's dream,...
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During the 1880s, Chesapeake Bay boatbuilders began constructing small wooden open boats, referred to as deadrise boats, out of planks with V-shaped bows. As boatbuilders created larger deadrise boats, decks were installed to provide more work and payload space; these deck boats also had a house/pilothouse near the stern and a mast closer to the bow of the boat. Deck boats were powered by gasoline engines but also utilized sails and wind. From the...
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[S.n.]
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2011
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English
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The Chesapeake 20 is one of the five original sailboat classes on the Chesapeake Bay which has been continually raced since the early 1930s. This history of the fleet recounts the classes origins, formal establishment in 1939 and decade by decade history. Today, the class remains active at the West River Sailing Club in Galesville, Maryland.
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"North America's largest estuary, the Chesapeake Bay, is fed by more than 150 major rivers and streams from parts of six states and the District of Columbia. Two hundred miles long, with a shoreline that includes more than 11,500 miles of tributaries, the bay has been a major economic lifeline since pre-Columbian times. As such, it is not surprising that the bay has seen its share of shipwrecks over the centuries-from small and large vessels foundering...
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Maritime Museum & Park
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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This pass is good for up to four (4) addmissions to the Annapolis Maritime museum & Park during regular public hours. The Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park (AMM) has interactive exhibits about the history of the Chesapeake Bay, including industries, local heritage, and environmental changes.
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American Palate
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2015.
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English
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Crassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood of the region. When colonists first sailed these impossibly abundant shores, they described massive shoals of foot-long oysters. But the bottomless appetite of the Gilded Age and great fleets of skipjacks took their toll. Disease, environmental pressures and overconsumption decimated the population by...
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