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Write by the Bay: Capt Avery Museum May 17
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...

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May 132 min read
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Poet Elisavietta Ritchie: 1932-2025
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...

williamlambrecht
Jan 252 min read
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Interview: 'Farmer's Wife' Author Carol Booker
Carol McCabe Booker further solidifies her reputation as a first-rate author with publication of another Chesapeake Country true-crime...

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Dec 10, 20244 min read
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Author Interview: Writing, George Miller is 'Loaded for Bear'
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?...

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Oct 1, 20245 min read
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Loaded for Bear: Stories from a Train
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...

williamlambrecht
Sep 23, 20242 min read
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Gravesite Reckoning: Latest in 'The Untimely Death of James Smith'
Sandra Olivetti Martin had nary a clue beyond the whispered words of an elderly cousin, Cora Smith: The river took my brother. Decades...

williamlambrecht
Jul 27, 20243 min read
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Martin Kuz: A Son, His Mother and Struggles in Ukraine.
Victims of war's 'cruel absurdity' Editor's note: Martin Kuz, a former colleague at Hearst Newspapers, has been traveling in Ukraine...

williamlambrecht
Jul 16, 20244 min read
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Martin Kuz: Ukraine Film Wins Oscar, But Don't Lose Focus on War
The graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, Martin Kuz. Editor's Note: I met war correspondent Martin...

williamlambrecht
Mar 16, 20244 min read
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Book Release: 'North Beach: Yesterday and Today'
North Beach, Maryland is fond of calling itself "Jewel of the Chesapeake," and a newly published book offers a trove of photographs past...

williamlambrecht
Feb 20, 20242 min read
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Author Q&A: Peter Vogt and the Divine Gust of a Book
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...

williamlambrecht
Jan 12, 20244 min read
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In Kirkus Review, 'Stymie Club' Scores
In the 1930s, Virginia Kirkus, a teacher, author and children's books specialist in New York, devised a systematic means to help...

williamlambrecht
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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At National Oyster Cook-Off, a 12-Year-Old Triumphs
LEONARDTOWN, MD—Three authors, who on this day also were judges, presided over a stunning conclusion to the 44th U.S. National Oyster...

williamlambrecht
Oct 24, 20232 min read
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At Bayside History Museum, Chesapeake Characters Recalled
We along the Mid-Atlantic were denied witness to the first full moon of September. But on that cloudy Friday evening, those who ventured...

williamlambrecht
Oct 1, 20232 min read
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For 'Deadly Gamble' Musical, Lyrics Bobbing Up
The burst of new interest in the wreck of Levin J Marvel, spurred by Kathy Bergren Smith's book, Deadly Gamble, has spawned...

williamlambrecht
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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Deadly Gamble at Calvert Symposium. Next, a Musical?
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...

williamlambrecht
Aug 14, 20233 min read
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Author Interview: Carol Booker of 'Waterman's Widow'
Carol McCabe Booker, author of the well-received Cove Point on the Chesapeake and other books, is back with a tantalizing whodunit that...

williamlambrecht
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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Kamholz: Roots of March Madness
Editor's note: I'm reading Doug Kamholz's latest dispatch while watching Maryland reach the Elite Eight in the NCAA women's basketball...

williamlambrecht
Mar 25, 20236 min read
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Abe did that? Fact and fallacy from the vortex of Lincolnalia
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....

williamlambrecht
Feb 11, 20237 min read
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'Life of a Newspaper': Sandra Olivetti Martin at Captain Avery Museum’s Winter Series
Chesapeake regional book publisher Sandra Olivetti Martin recalled the early days of nearly 30-year-old Bay Weekly, sold by her family...

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Feb 9, 20232 min read
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Soups, Stews & Stories: At Book Party, Secrets of Roux Revealed
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...

williamlambrecht
Jan 31, 20232 min read
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