Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater

By A. Aubrey Bodine

Perfect sequel to "My Maryland," Bodine's best-selling pictorial tribute to the Free State, and his latest, "The Face of Maryland." But this is more than a sequel: it is the first published photographic documentary of the Bay. A beautiful and graphic story of the "Mediterranean of America"…its tributaries and shores which reach into Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

In more than 35 years of capturing the Bay in its many moods, Bodine has made thousands of photographs of this alluring body of water. His finest appear in "Chesapeake Bay and Tidewater."

"...more than a collection of superb photographs…a book with a theme, interpreting with fidelity not only the mood but also the meaning and significance of the Chesapeake Bay country."-RACHEL CARSON

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barakaldo Books
• Release date: Nov 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781839746383

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CHESAPEAKE BAY AND TIDEWATER

BY

A. AUBREY BODINE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS 6

AN INTRODUCTION 7

My Bay 14

Bay of Yesterday 20

Bay Today 55

Capes to Canal 194

Resources of the Bay 227

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 258

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 264

AN INTRODUCTION

THERE IS NOTHING NEW about an alert visitor’s ability to see with appreciative eyes the beauties or oddities or grandeurs which a Lifetime resident in any community has never more than noted. And perhaps, for that reason, there should be no surprise over a born mountaineer’s discovery, in the Chesapeake Bay and its estuaries and the tidewater Lands, such scenes as usually elude the people who all their lives have dwelt nearby, indifferent.

In the splendid pages which follow, it is safe to say, there are scores and scores of things which for decades have gone unnoticed by most of us—until an artist’s eye has detected them at just the right time of day, in the right time of the year and in the right kind of weather, and in the