Featured Articles

  It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity!  by Helen Chappell 
The other day, the heat index was 115 in the Y parking lot, according to my weather app. Walking out of the nicely air-conditioned gym into the summer heat was like being slapped in the face with the open door of a blast furnace. The A/C in the car didn’t even start to cool until I pulled into my own driveway, which I am sure you, dear reader, have also experienced. I staggered dramatically through the heat into the house. Eastern Shore humidity is possibly the worst humidity in the world. It’s like breathing raspberry Jell-O.    Read More …

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  South Dakota Gems by Bonna Nelson

Nestled in the Black Hills, Rapid City was our first stop and home for a four-day adventure in South Dakota. From there we explored some of the state’s intriguing gems, including Badlands National Park; the town of Wall; Bear Country; Museum @ Black Hills (Geological) Institute; Crazy Horse Memorial; the Indian Museum of North America and Mount Rushmore National Memorial, as well as the town of Rapid City itself. We were continuing our quest to visit more states and more national treasures.Having mostly explored both coasts of the United States, we headed west.     Read More …

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  A Forum for Lifelong Learning  by Michael Valliant

In 2001, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Academy for Lifelong Learning held its first class. Eighteen years later, ALL’s winter/spring semester had 570 participants in 31 offered classes, and the group has become an engine for lifelong learning in Talbot County. This fall brings a slight change, as ALL becomes “Chesapeake Forum,” and aligns itself operationally with the Mid-Shore Community Foundation. John Ford was the first, only and always secretary for ALL; one of the earliest instructors and is now a volunteer coordinator for Chesapeake Forum.  Read More…

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  Those Poplar Girls by Gary D. Crawford
No, not popular girls ~ Poplar! I’m talking about five young ladies who grew up on one of the Chesapeake’s offshore islands, namely Poplar Island. It lies in Talbot County, Maryland, about three miles off the coast of Bay Hundred and just south of Kent Island.You’ve heard of Poplar Island, I’m sure. It’s much in the news as the island that is being “restored.” We’ve visited there several times over the years, most recently this past June. Much has been accomplished there since our last visit a few years back ~ and it is nothing like we remember it in 1991.   Read More… 

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  The Environmental Focus of the 2019 Chesapeake Film Festival  by Sandy Cannon-Brown
The Chesapeake Bay is about 200 miles long and from 4 to 30 miles wide, but its fingers reach deep into the land, creating a waterway of rivers, creeks and streams that expand the size of the Bay by a factor of about 20. Each of those extensions of the Bay has its own personality, a diversity of residents above, below and along, and ~ unfortunately ~ a variety of threats. This summer, Dave Harp and I spent many memorable days out on the water to capture the love affair between riverkeepers and the rivers they work tirelessly to protect.  Read More…

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  Changes: TREE  by Roger Vaughan

(July 4, 2019) Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (SFIT) concluded the planet could support an extra 2.2 billion acres of tree cover, an area almost the size of the U.S. Those new forests would remove about two-thirds of the roughly 330 billion tons of carbon pumped into the atmosphere by humans since the industrial revolution. Reforestation is “the top climate change solution in terms of carbon storage potential,” said SFIT study co-author Thomas Crowther.  Read More…

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