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...
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williamlambrecht
- Feb 11
- 7 min
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....
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williamlambrecht
- Feb 9
- 2 min
'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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williamlambrecht
- Jan 31
- 2 min
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...
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williamlambrecht
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Marvel Tragedy Survivor Returns for 'Deadly Gamble'
The sailing schooner had broken apart, lashed by Hurricane Connie's furious winds and laden with water from above and below. Cast into...
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williamlambrecht
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
National Oyster Cook-Off: A Surprised Winner and Final Tally
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Their names inspire poetry. Billionaire Oyster Puffs. Creamy Tuscan Style Oysters. Crispy Fried Oysters and Cornbread...
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williamlambrecht
- Sep 27, 2022
- 4 min
In Calvert County, Hulbert Footner Has His Own Room
Big turnouts for Calvert Historical Society's gatherings to honor one of the Chesapeake region’s great authors. Ask a Marylander in...
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williamlambrecht
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
The Winner: George Miller's Poem About a Special Boat
On a steamy Sunday at Bayside HIstory Museum in North Beach, New Bay Books announced the winner of New Bay Books' Inaugural Writers on...
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williamlambrecht
- Aug 30, 2022
- 8 min
New Bay Books Interview: Cartoonist Jim Toomey, Author of 'Family Afloat'
If you’re a sailor or just a dreamer, you’ve imagined leaving it all behind, anchoring in crystalline waters, perhaps snorkeling off...
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williamlambrecht
- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
New Bay Books Interview: Jellyfish Author Mark McCaig
Editor's note: Flash fiction is a highly stylized writing burst — a few hundred words maybe — typically describing the complex and often...
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williamlambrecht
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Adventure in Tragedy: 'A Darkness Lit By Heroes'
Doug Ammons, ranked in the 1990s by Outside Magazine as one of the world’s Ten Great Adventurers, has lived by this standard: “I tried to...
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williamlambrecht
- Apr 18, 2022
- 4 min
New Bay Books Review: Will Hurd's 'American Reboot'
I’ve seen a fair amount of Will Hurd, a Black former GOP congressman and first time author from Texas, a politician likely positioning...
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williamlambrecht
- Mar 27, 2022
- 3 min
New Bay Books Maryland Writer Series: Lyman Hall
Hall published “The Stewards of West River” at age 91. He’s got two books in the works. CHESTERTOWN, MD — As a boy, Lyman Dean Hall...
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williamlambrecht
- Feb 13, 2022
- 3 min
Interview: Poet Kate Lassman. Hoping 'Dawn Anyway' her new book of poems "will mean hope" to readers
Q Writers sometimes imagine talking to people as they compose. Who were your imagined readers as you wrote Dawn Anyway? A I don’t...
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williamlambrecht
- Jan 16, 2022
- 2 min
Interview: Ruth Ticktin
Ruth Ticktin's new book, Was Am Going — Recollections in Poetry & Flash — is an audacious recounting of her life and ancestry through...
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williamlambrecht
- Dec 16, 2021
- 6 min
The Enduring Legacy of the Bernie Fowler Wade-In
The headline above appeared on a Bay Weekly story from 2019, one of the many years that the newspaper staffed and publicized the annual...
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williamlambrecht
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Chris Christie’s New Book Gets Jamie Raskin Lampoon
The Gridiron Club, which brings together journalists and public figures in Washington for frivolity and fundraising to aid students, has...
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williamlambrecht
- Dec 8, 2021
- 5 min
Review: Hell With the Lid Off —"The Discovery of a Lifetime"
Editor's Note: Read what Daily Montanan Editor-in-Chief Darrell Ehrlick writes about Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana, New Bay...
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williamlambrecht
- Nov 10, 2021
- 13 min
Delights By the Bucketful in Calvert Library Workshops
Author Ross Gay’s daily dollops of prose became a bestseller and triggered notable flashes of fine writing in a series of workshops at...
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williamlambrecht
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
Secrets of a Russian Chapel Revealed
How did an 80-year-old Russian chapel with stunning iconography inside wind up at a southern Anne Arundel County marina? And who was...
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