Tidewater Times columnist, recovering reporter, and writer of books, Helen Chappell has covered Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore for a variety of periodicals, including the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun.
Her writing has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Sumner T. McKnight Foundation. Her journalism was recognized with the A.E. Emmart Award for Excellence in Writing on the Humanities in Maryland and the Jane Austen Society of Maryland’s Jane Award for 1994.
Chappell is the creator of the Sam And Hollis mystery series, and the Oysterback stories, as well as The Chesapeake Book of the Dead. Under her pen name, Rebecca Baldwin, she has published a number of historical novels.
- November 2005 – The Custom of the Country
- December 2005 – Building a Dream from Wood
- January 2006 – Poor Resolution
- February 2006 – Ordinary Miracles
- March 2006 – The Attack of the Casserole Ladies
- April 2006 – Princess Power
- May 2006 – Cheer of Flying
- June 2006 – Mama-Girl: Seeing What Spirit Sees
- July 2006 – Come Heres and From Heres
- August 2006 – This Year’s Estate and Gardens Tour
- September 2006 – Natural History
- October 2006 – Crown Me
- November 2006 – Appreciation: John Goodspeed
- December 2006 – A Child’s Christmas on Beddoe’s Island
- January 2007 – The Scrapple Question
- February 2007 – A Parable for Collectors
- March 2007 – It’s the Pictures That Got Small
- April 2007 – Where Did I Put That?
- May 2007 – What I Did on My Winter Vacation
- June 2007 – Living in Geezerdom
- July 2007 – The Innate Cussedness of Inanimate Objects. And Ants.
- August 2007 – Clean – Old School
- September 2007 – Ten Things I Like About Living on the Eastern Shore
- October 2007 – Newspaper Days
- November 2007 – Light of Her Life
- December 2007 – An Honest Mechanic
- January 2008 – Everyone Looks Better Under Arrest
- February 2008 – I Don’t Have to Make This Stuff Up
- March 2008 – At the Bottom of the Channel
- April 2008 – Social Notes from The Oysterback Bugeye by Louisa “Sister” Gibbs as told to Helen Chappell
- May 2008 – Hello?
- June 2008 – The Hook and Other Urban Legends of Teen Life
- July 2008 – The Black Thumb
- August 2008 – Floating World
- September 2008 – The Memory of Ice Cream
- October 2008 – Way Back When
- November 2008 – The Sound in the Night
- December 2008 – Too Much Like Work
- January 2009 – Snow Day!
- February 2009 – Uncivil Disobedience in Oysterback
- March 2009 – The Simple Pleasure of Sleeping In Your Own Bed
- April 2009 – Church & Fire Hall Dinners
- May 2009 – Is There Life After High School?
- June 2009 – The Book Discussion Group
- July 2009 – Out of Print
- August 2009 – The Thing With Feathers
- September 2009 – Eat a Peach
- October 2009 – Haunted House
- November 2009 – Mom Hated to Cook
- December 2009 – There Goes Santa Claus!
- January 2010 – Family – Sort Of
- February 2010 – Nice Ice
- March 2010 – Steam Heat
- April 2010 – No Vampires Here
- May 2010 – The House at Royal Oak
- June 2010 – Wild Asparagus
- July 2010 – Livestock
- August 2010 – Guilty Pleasures of Trash TV
- September 2010 – Elvisania
- October 2010 – Organ Recital
- November 2010 – P. O. Box 666 – What’s In There?
- December 2010 – Santa Baby!
- January 2011 – Except for Thee and Me!
- February 2011 – Memorial for a Mouser
- March 2011 – Ice
- April 2011 – Daffodils in Ditchbanks
- May 2011 – The Best Laid Plans
- June 2011 – Learning to Drive
- July 2011 – Getting Carded
- August 2011 – Watching the Detectives
- September 2011 – Elvis at the Slots
- October 2011 – Home Cooking
- November 2011 – General Manager of the Universe
- December 2011 – Waiting
- January 2012 – Deer Dents
- February 2012 – The Glass Was Always Half Full
- March 2012 – Trophy Wife
- April 2012 – Courtship Flights
- May 2012 – Life Lessons
- June 2012 – Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay
- July 2012 – What’s On Your Bucket List?
- August 2012 – Pool
- September 2012 – I Know What I’m Doing!
- October 2012 – Summer Storm
- November 2012 – The New Guy
- December 2012 – Twilight of the Post Office
- January 2013 – Robert Mitchum Slept Here
- February 2013 – Driveway Radio
- March 2013 – Girl Sleuths of the Golden Age
- April 2013 – Social Media for the Dinosaur
- May 2013 – Achoo!
- June 2013 – Masterplots
- July 2013 – Namesake
- August 2013 – The Heat of Summer
- September 2013 – Confessions of a Chocoholic
- October 2013 – Jersey Shore
- November 2013 – In the London Rain
- December 2013 – Dreck the Halls
- January 2014 – Soap and Water
- February 2014 – Sick Days
- March 2014 – At the Movies
- April 2014 – Progging
- May 2014 – The Culture Gulch
- June 2014 – Spring Song
- July 2014 – Technology is Killing Me!
- August 2014 – There’s a Car Under That Dust!
- September 2014 – A Quiet Week
- October 2014 – Keeper of the Flame
- November 2014 – Ghost Walk
- December 2014 – A Life in Words
- January 2015 – The Hatchet Woman
- February 2015 – Maryland Eye – Kenneth Basile
- March 2015 – Peace and Quiet
- April 2015 – Central Florida
- May 2015 – Calling Customs
- June 2015 – Preserved for All Time
- July 2015 – Full Moon Follies
- August 2015 – The Golden Hour
- September 2015 – Chicken Barbecue and the Eastern Shore
- October 2015 – Re-Learning the Fun of Food
- November 2015 – In Praise of Chocolate
- December 2015 – Adventures in Being Bad
- January 2016 – The Christmas Creep
- February 2016 – The Sisters
- March 2016 – Art School and the Future
- April 2016 – Binge-Watching
- May 2016 – Not-So-Wild Turkey
- June 2016 – Oh, Those British Actors!
- July 2016 – The Funeral
- August 2016 – The Dinner Party
- September 2016 – Holy Horror, Batman!
- October 2016 – The Funeral – Chapter 2
- November 2016 – The Couch
- December 2016 – The Bible
- January 2017 – The Perils of Driving
- February 2017 – Pearl Clutching
- March 2017 – The Unwelcome Guest
- April 2017 – Shoes
- May 2017 – Chick Lit
- June 2017 – Strange Magic: More Shoes and the Witch Bottle
- July 2017 – Mosquito
- August 2017 – Obits
- September 2017 – Luxury
- October 2017 – The Further Adventures of Dolly and Lally – Halloween Edition
- November 2017 – No Good Deed
- December 2017 – Marie U’ren ~ An Appreciation
- January 2018 – Snapper
- February 2018 – Welcome to Mallard Bay ~ The Mysterious World of Cheril Thomas
- March 2018 – Winter
- April 2018 – The Long-Lost Friend
- May 2018 – Those Fabulous Midnight Movies
- June 2018 – Vanishing Islands
- July 2018 – Summer Sloth
- August 2018 – Fishing
- September 2018 – Eric Mills Swashes and Buckles!
- October 2018 – Old Wives and their Tales
- November 2018 – Everyone Hates the Science Fair
- December 2018 – A Christmas Memory
- January 2019 – Bradford Ross – Seeing the Moment in Time
- February 2019 – The Printmaker Erick Sahler
- March 2019 – Elvising
- April 2019 – Death and Taxes
- May 2019 – Love, Lunch Notes and Frames: How Motherhood Inspired Stacey Dulin Tibbitt
- June 2019 – Auntie Bad Example
- July 2019 – Road Trips
- August 2019 – Jill Tascher Basham – Plein Air Artist Extraordinaire
- September 2019 – It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
- October 2019 – Isn’t it Romantic?
- November 2019 – Diane DuBois Mullaly ~ A Life in Art
- December 2019 – The Tilghman Street Country Club
- January 2020 – Hoarders
- February 2020 – Crime Reporter
- March 2020 – Memento Mori
- April 2020 – Pete: A Memoir of Friendship
- May 2020 – Beach Blowout
- June 2020 – Aunt Viv
- July 2020 – Bigfoot in the Neck District
- August 2020 – If I Had Just Learned to Type
- September 2020 – Alone in a Crowd
- October 2020 – Lightning Bugs, Honeysuckle and Other Twilight Wonders
- November 2020 – Family Vacations
- December 2020 – Hairdressers
- January 2021 – Angels Unaware
- February 2021 – The Hook and Other Tales
- March 2021 – Mental Health Days
- April 2021 – Small Children, Dogs and Masked Strangers
- May 2021 – Rags to Riches
- June 2021 – Making a Spectacle of Yourself
- July 2021 – Night Terrors – Sort Of
- August 2021 – A Sharp Observant Eye – Jane Oliver Menard
- September 2021 – Sink Snacking
- October 2021 – Witch Bottle
- November 2021 – Holly & Mistletoe
- December 2021 – Memories are Not Made of This
- January 2022 – Mysteries from Across the Pond
- February 2022 – Weather of Not
- March 2022 – A Lifetime with Tidewater Times
- April 2022 – I Know What I’m Doing
- May 2022 – Home Cooking
- June 2022 – Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay
- July 2022 – Avalon Memories
- August 2022 – The Glory of the Snow Cone
- September 2022 – We Don’t Need Another Hero
- October 2022 – Memories and Nostalgia and Stuff
- November 2022 – Mary Ford: Small Worlds
- December 2022 – Duck Blind
- January 2023 – Revenge!