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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williamlambrecht
Sep 232 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Jul 273 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Jul 164 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Mar 164 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Feb 202 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Jan 124 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Oct 24, 20232 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Oct 1, 20232 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Aug 14, 20233 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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...
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williamlambrecht
Mar 25, 20236 min read
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, 20237 min read
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, 20232 min read
'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, 20232 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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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