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Helen Chappell
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

Hal Roth
November 2005  - The Murder of Bronza Parks
December 2005 - A Brief History of Newspapers
January 2006 - The Blizzard of 1899
February 2006  - Page 1 News - A Century Ago
March 2006  - 100 Years Ago - The Local News
April 2006 - Clippings From February 1899
May 2006 - Rabies
June 2006  - The Whipping Post in MD and DE - Part I
July 2006 - The Whipping Post in MD and DE - Part II
August 2006 - A Cross-Country Murder
September 2006 - A Reward for Harriet Tubman
October 2006 - The Murder of Ilda Collins - Part I
November 2006 - The Murder of Ilda Collins - Part II
December 2006 - Mr. Fred and A Coonhound Tale
January 2007  - The Bosom Serpent
February 2007 - The Trial of John R. Plater - Part I
March 2007 - The Trial of John R. Plater - Part II
April 2007 - A Potpourri of Clippings
May 2007 - A Fatal Attraction - Part I
June 2007 - A Fatal Attraction - Conclusion
July 2007 - The March of Technology
August 2007 - The Assault on James Jones
September 2007 - School Days
October 2007 - Crime Wave
November 2007 - Things Girls Should Know
December 2007 - Paid Off by the Boom
January 2008 - Was Martin Beachamp Murdered? - Part 1
February 2008 - Was Martin Beauchamp Murdered? Part II
March 2008 - The Arrest and Death of Patty Cannon
April 2008 - Where is Charles Dickinson? Part I
May 2008 - Where is Charles Dickinson? Conclusion
June 2008 - The Capture of Hiawatha and Whippoorwill
July 2008 - The Mysterious Death of Ulman Owens
August 2008 - Maxims, Proverbs and Pithy Sayings
September 2008 - The Disappearance of Florence Wingate
October 2008 - A Sure Cure
November 2008 - The Gordy Murder
December 2008 - The Great Sea Serpent
January 2009 - Just Clippings
February 2009 - Where Have All the Ghosts Gone?
May 2009 - Justice in the Fast Lane
June 2009 - The 1909 Auto Show
July 2009 - To Limit the Right of Suffrage
August 2009 - A Murder, A Lynching, A Legend
September 2009 - The Rest of the Story
October 2009 - October 1909
November 2009 - November 1909
December 2009 - December 1909
January 2010 - January 1910
February 2010 - February 1910
March 2010 - March 1910

Tidewater Kitchen: Pamela Meredith-Doyle

Basic Inventory For Your Pantry
November 2005 - A Classic Thanksgiving
December 2005 - Open House Before the Holiday Crunch
January 2006 - A New Year - A New Brunch
February 2006 - Be Kind to Your Heart
March 2006  - One-Dish Meals
April 2006 - Springtime Brunch for Easter
May 2006 - The Family Picnic
June 2006  - The Chef's Table
July 2006 - Fresh Summer Salads
August 2006 - Pies and Tarts
September 2006 - Sandwiches and Wraps
October 2006 - Fabulous Fondues
November 2006 - Entertaining with Style - A Mark Salter Thanksgiving
December 2006 - Holiday Menus Made Easy
January 2007  - Winter Soups and Bread
February 2007 - Quick and Easy Winter Recipes
March 2007 - Dinner with Chef Blinn
April 2007 - Sorbets and Granitas
May 2007 - Cooking Solo
June 2007 - New Fast Food
July 2007 - Indoor and Outdoor Grilling
August 2007 - Backyard Parties
September 2007 - Labor Day Party with Chef Andrea Schnell of Square Café
October 2007 - Vegetarian Cuisine
November 2007 - Finger Foods for the Holidays
December 2007 - Christmas Breakfast
January 2008 - An Elegant Dinner for Friends
February 2008- Comfort Foods for Winter
March 2008 - Stews and Chowders
April 2008 - Spa Cooking
May 2008 - Hot Weather Foods That Travel Well
June 2008 - Summer Solstice Party
July 2008 - Incredible Eggs
August 2008 - Summer Lunches
September 2008 - Tailgating Specials
October 2008 - Oyster Pearls of Flavor
November 2008 - It's Pumpkin Time!
December 2008 - Christmas Gifts from the Kitchen
January 2009 - Make Cooking Easy
February 2009 - Perfect Recipes for Guests
March 2009 - The Healthy Table
April 2009 - Easy and Carefree Dinners
May 2009 - Summer Picnics
June 2009 - Simply In Season
July 2009 - Vegetables - Meal or Side Dish?
August 2009 - Perfect for Weekend Company!
September 2009 - Mastering Mushrooms
October 2009 - Grazing
November 2009 - Stress-Free Thanksgiving Dinner
December 2009 - Cookie Exchange
January 2010 - Made-Ahead Meals
February 2010 - Melt-In-Your-Mouth Mac and Cheese
March 2010 - Comfort Soups

Tidewater Gardening: K. Marc Teffeau
November 2005
  - November Cleanup
December 2005 - Confusion About Christmas Cactus
January 2006 - New Annuals for 2006
February 2006  - Winter Berry Color
March 2006 - Getting Ready for Hot & Spicy Summer Color
April 2006 - Radiant Redbuds
May 2006 - Lawn Alternatives
June 2006  - Making It in the Shade
July 2006 - Butterfly Bush
August 2006 - Consider Species Tulips
September 2006 - September Lawn and Landscape Tips
October 2006  - Ground Covers and Kale
November 2006 - Winter Hardiness
December 2006 - Painted Poinsettias?
January 2007  - Bring in the New Year - Think Spring!
February 2007 - Catmints and Dogwoods
March 2007 - Spring is Around the Corner
April 2007 - April Activities
May 2007 - Moving Into May
June 2007 - June Gardening Jobs
July 2007 - An Organic Control for Mildew Diseases
August 2007 - August Antics
September 2007 - Preparing for Fall - Drought Stress
October 2007 - Fall Symbols and Punkin' Chunkin'
November 2007 - Preparing for Winter
December 2007 - December Gardening Duties
January 2008 - “Bewitching” Flowering Trees in Winter
February 2008 - Waiting for Spring
March 2008 - March Madness
April 2008 - What's New for April?
May 2008 - Happy Mother's Day
June 2008 - Early Summer Gardening Chores
July 2008 - Colors in July
August 2008 - Summer At Its Peak
September 2008 - September Setups for Fall
October 2008 - October - Dry Season and New Perennials
November 2008 - Sexing Up Your Holly
December 2008 - Moving Indoors
January 2009 - 2009 AAS Winners
February 2009 - Getting the Jump on Spring
March 2009 - Orangy-red Coneflowers?
April 2009 - April Appearances
May 2009 - Vegging Out
June 2009 - Small Shrubs for Small Lots
July 2009 - Easy Foliage Color in the Flower Bed
August 2009 - Summer Doldrums
September 2009 - Moving Plants Back Indoors
October 2009 - The Chill is in the Air
November 2009 - November Chores
December 2009 - Miniature Christmas Trees
January 2010 - Interior Houseplant Care
February 2010 - Monetizing the Value of Your Landscape
March 2010 - Hurry Up Spring!!

Tidewater Review: John Goodspeed

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Tidewater Traveler: George Sellers
December 2005 - Strains, Trains and Rain
January 2006  - New Life for An Old Name
February 2006 - Forbidden
March 2006 - Beijing Awakens
April 2006 - South Dakota - A Family Destination
May 2006 - No Car, No TV, No Radio, No Computer - For a Week!
June 2006  - Protecting Your Travel Investment
July 2006 - For the Love of Trees
August 2006 - Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam?
September 2006 - Blue
October 2006 - Do Trains Really Say Choo Choo?
November 2006 - A U-Turn to Culinary Delight
December 2006 - My Father is a Donkey
January 2007 - The Other Side of Travel Insurance
February 2007 - Inside, Outside, Up or Down?
March 2007 - Cruise Five-O
April 2007 - Soarin'
May 2007 - Meet Christopher
June 2007 - Pulse of the Empress
July 2007 - Bahts and Boats
August 2007 - Dinosphere
September 2007 - N'Awlins
October 2007 - The Grand Canadian Rockies
November 2007 - Staying in Touch
December 2007 - Jackson Hole
January 2008 - Charley and the Cable Guy
February 2008 - Dreams Really Do Come True
March 2008 - "I Do" Travel
April 2008 - Atlantis
May 2008 - Beyond the Bottom of the Well
June 2008 - China Through Eastern Shore Eyes
July 2008 - Falling Water
August 2008 - Grand Canyon Skywalk
September 2008 - Bag Limits Not Just For Hunters
October 2008 - Niagara Falls
November 2008 - China Misconceptions
December 2008 - Grand Canyon Railway
January 2009 - The Honey Pot
February 2009 - The Gift of Travel
March 2009 - Top Ten for 2009
April 2009 - A Carefree Vacation
May 2009 - What Makes a River New?
June 2009 - Driving by a Herd
July 2009 - Women On the Go!
August 2009 - Just-As-Though Travel
September 2009 - Terms of the Kingdome
October 2009 - Jet Lag
November 2009 - A Fowl Culture
December 2009 - Magical Miscues at Walt Disney World
January 2010 - The “Art” for Traveling with Numbers
February 2010 - The Yangtze Revisited
March 2010 - Please Don’t Come To My Birthday Party!

Glenn Uminowicz
November 2005  - Temples of Finance
December 2005 - O Christmas Tree
January 2006 - January First, 3000 A. D.
February 2006 - The Year of Death and Taxes
April 2006 - Porches and Porchness
July 2006 - At Play of the Bay at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
September 2006 - Work, Fellowship and Just Plain Fun
October 2006 - New Money and the Maryland Way
November 2006 - The Times They Were A Changin'
December 2006  - The Christmas Carol Ethic
February 2007 - The Play Was the Thing
March 2007 - The Davy Crockett Line
April 2007 - The Evolution of the Textbook
May 2007 - The Women's Suffrage Movement
June 2007 - The Vanishing Landscape
July 2007 - Sacrificed at the Altar of the Goddess of Gunpowder
August 2007 - Students Trained for Life’s Work and Life’s Joys
September 2007 - Baseball is Baseball Anywhere and I Love It
October 2007 - The Polish Connection
November 2007 - Many Happy Thanksgivings
December 2007 - History Written in Lightning and Bronze
January 2008 - Pets and the Humane Society
March 2008 - All In Step
April 2008 - James Michener's Chesapeake
May 2008 - An Age of Perpetual Contact is Dawning
June 2008 - Chautauqua Week on the Eastern Shore
July 2008 - The Housekeeper’s “Electric Servants”
August 2008 - History's Leadership Secrets
October 2008 - When the Cowardly Lion Arrived on the Eastern Shore
November 2008 - The Wild West and the Eastern Shore
December 2008 - Better Days Are Coming
February 2009 - The Bay From Above
March 2009 - Another Kind of March Madness: Base Ball on Ice
April 2009 - Raise the Symbolic Titanic
June 2009 - Gas and Water Socialism on the Eastern Shore
July 2009 - Bicycle Mania on the Shore
August 2009 - The Power of the Picture
September 2009 - Harvest Time in Ruburbia
October 2009 - Influencing and Influenced  by the World
November 2009 - We Are All Riding Democracy's Railroad
December 2009 - Inconspicuous Consumption
January 2010
- The Children and Step-Children of Abraham Lincoln
February 2010 - Comedy, Action, Fantasy and a Photoplay Tonight
March 2010 - Locomotives, Old Glory and Crabcakes

Harold W. Hurst
November 2005 - Free Blacks of Antebellum Delmarva
December 2005 - Kent County Statesman: Ezekiel Forman Chambers
March 2006  - Methodism in Delmarva
April 2006 - Militia Companies of Old Delmarva
August 2006 - The Canning Industry of Delmarva
October 2006 - Southern Sympathizers in Civil War Delmarva
January 2007 - The Delmarva Landed Gentry: The Story of a Social Class
March 2007 - Delmarva Hotels in Bygone Days
May 2007 - Newsmen of the Eastern Shore
September 2007 - Famous Women of the Eastern Shore
January 2008 - Immigration and Diversity on Delmarva
August 2008 - John Barth's Eastern Shore
February 2009 - Landlocked - The Story of Caroline County
August 2009 - Walking Through the Past: Touring Historic Chestertown
September 2009 - The Hub of the Eastern Shore
January 2010 - Sophie Kerr Portrays the Shore

James Dawson
February 2006 - Raymond's Place
July 2006 - My First Years on Old House Cove: Gilbert Byron
December 2006  - Dr. Barnett's Journal
July 2007 - Tales of Old White Marsh
June 2008 - Our Capricious Weather
October 2008 - Saints and Devils
July 2009 - High Seas in the Simulator! A Trip to Clayton M.E.B.A. Engineering School

Eric Mills
March 2006 - The Kissing Ghost of the Wilderness

Ann E. Dorbin
March 2006 - Calving Season
October 2009 - Uncle Nace's Day

Peter K. Bailey
September 2006 - Poplar Island Reborn

Anne Stinson - Tidewater Review
October 2006 - A Few of My Favorite Things
November 2006 - Drear November?  No Way During Waterfowl Festival
December 2006 - Books for the Holidays
January 2007  - Women Writers Shouldn't Gush 'til They Blush
February 2007 - Drowsing and Browsing

April 2007 - Restore a Wooden Boat and Hang On to Your Sanity

May 2007 - The Great Depression, Despair & Hope in Troubled Times
June 2007 - Mystery, Intrigue and "Just People"
July 2007 - Herons Poynte

August 2007 - Glamor and Gossip in Gotham
September 2007 - On Land and On Sea

October 2007 - Turning a Deaf Ear on an Iraqi Woman's Despair

November 2007 - A Mixed Bag of Grins and Groaners on the Bookshelf

December 2007 - Fireside Reading

January 2008 - Snuggle Under the Covers

February 2008 - Dormancy Disturbed by Diamonds and Dreck

March 2008 - New Age Nonsense Plus Neuroses Equals Tiresome Essays

April 2008 - The First Patient
May 2008 - Grief Under a Scholar's Microscope

June 2008 - It Jes’ Keeps Rollin’ Along

July 2008 - Coming Soon to a Theater Near You...

August 2008 - A Trio of Guts, Zealotry and Obsession

September 2008 - Maverick Books that Puzzle, Engage and Enrage

October 2008 - My Father’s Paradise

November 2008 - Fixing Hell

December 2008 - Love of Wine - Love of Children

January 2009 - Sacajawea

February 2009 - Chesapeake Winds and Tides

March 2009 - One for the Heart, One for the Funny Bone

April 2009 - Foggy Murder in Maine

May 2009 - Off to Bahama

July 2009 - A Reliable Wife

August 2009 - Puzzle King and First Dogs

September 2009 - Good Guys vs. The Baddest Since Hannibal Lector

October 2009 - Ravens as Thugs and Vintage Crime

November 2009 - November Review

December 2009 - December Delights

January 2010 - January Page-Turners
February 2010 - February Reviews
March 2010 - Molly Ivins - Oh, My!

George Merrill

November 2006  - Anthropomorphism is For the Birds

September 2008 - A Show of Hands

October 2008 - Changing Conventions

March 2009 - Reflections on the Half Shell

April 2009 - A Solitary Moment

Betty Doolittle

November 2006  - Lake Michigan Memoir

Mary Saner

March 2007 - The Invisible Mason-Dixon Line

Bonna Nelson
April 2007 - Tidewater Day Tripping: Blackwater Biking and Birding

August 2007 - Tidewater Day Tripping: A Pickering Creek Pilgrimage

December 2007 - Tidewater Day Tripping: A Tilghman Island Trek

April 2008 - Tidewater Day Tripping: Adkins Arboretum

August 2008 - Tidewater Day Tripping: The Salisbury Zoo

March 2009 - Tidewater Day Tripping: Exploring the World of Wetlands with

          Environmental Concern

June 2009 - Tidewater Day Tripping: Walkin’ the Trails at Wye Island

September 2009 - Tidewater Day Tripping: My Really Big Fish Story

December 2009 - Tidewater Day Tripper: Duck Blinds

Keith Walters

May 2007 - Snow Hill Memories

Ellicott McConnell
June 2007 - Talbot History Revisited

Kathryn Pippin

October 2007 - Queen Anne's County Courthouses

Mary Syrett

December 2007 - The Function of Feathers

February 2008 - Arc of the Line

June 2008 - Parasailing Over Maryland's Eastern Shore

September 2008 - Sand Castles

December 2008 - Tidewater Christmas Trees

Peter Howell
July 2008 - Plein Air-Easton!

Linda Fritz

September 2008 - Joan Baez Sings in Memory of Martin

Dick Cooper
January 2009 - Blackwater - Fragile Beauty

February 2009 - If I'm Cold and Wet, I Must Be On A Boat

March 2009 - Wounded Warriors Sail the Miles

May 2009 - Reborn Classic Sails the Bay
February 2010 - A Time-Honored Book
March 2010 - Falling In Love With A Classy Old Lady

Marguerite Whilden
May 2009 - Turtle time on the Shore

Dr. John Scanlon
March 2008 - Turkey Hunting - What's the Allure?

November 2008 - Woodie Fever     

August 2009 - Dogs and Storms

November 2009 - Lords of the Shore

January 2010 - The Saga of Kindle
February 2010 - Exotic Alien
March 2010 - Best Fish in the Bay

Candace Shattuck

October 2009 - Third Haven - A Hidden Gem

Dr. Laurence G. Claggett

November 2009 - Before Talbot Courthouse

Thomas French Norton
February 2010 - To Smell A Boatyard

 


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