Once a month, a joyful energy of combining words buzzes about the great room of The Captain Avery Museum, then escapes up and down the...

At what was to be her last party, in a grove along the Patuxent River, Elisavietta Ritchie read poetry to friends and family who had come...

Carol McCabe Booker further solidifies her reputation as a first-rate author with publication of another Chesapeake Country true-crime...

You're a paper boy on your bike and a car full of unshaven, heavily armed fellows rolls up on the morning route. Robbers? Kidnappers?...

On a commuter train into DC for 30 years, economist George Miller heard stories, told stories and made some up. In a rail car Sunday in...

Sandra Olivetti Martin had nary a clue beyond the whispered words of an elderly cousin, Cora Smith: The river took my brother. Decades...

Victims of war's 'cruel absurdity' Editor's note: Martin Kuz, a former colleague at Hearst Newspapers, has been traveling in Ukraine...

The graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, Martin Kuz. Editor's Note: I met war correspondent Martin...

North Beach, Maryland is fond of calling itself "Jewel of the Chesapeake," and a newly published book offers a trove of photographs past...

What do you do if a massive tree lands in your yard in a storm? If you're a scientist with the gene for adventure, somebody who has...

In the 1930s, Virginia Kirkus, a teacher, author and children's books specialist in New York, devised a systematic means to help...

LEONARDTOWN, MD—Three authors, who on this day also were judges, presided over a stunning conclusion to the 44th U.S. National Oyster...

We along the Mid-Atlantic were denied witness to the first full moon of September. But on that cloudy Friday evening, those who ventured...

The burst of new interest in the wreck of Levin J Marvel, spurred by Kathy Bergren Smith's book, Deadly Gamble, has spawned...

In eight-foot waves and gale force winds from Hurricane Connie, six people from the Levin J Marvel clung to a duck blind as Chesapeake...

Carol McCabe Booker, author of the well-received Cove Point on the Chesapeake and other books, is back with a tantalizing whodunit that...

Editor's note: I'm reading Doug Kamholz's latest dispatch while watching Maryland reach the Elite Eight in the NCAA women's basketball...

Editor's Note: Our Midwest Bureau Chief, Doug Kamholz, returns to our pages with a must-read for folks like us who considered this Feb....

Chesapeake regional book publisher Sandra Olivetti Martin recalled the early days of nearly 30-year-old Bay Weekly, sold by her family...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Schneider knew the path to a rich roux for folks who mix fat and flour in the quest for luscious...