Compiled by Bekah Oester
Plan a summer your son or daughter won't forget with our annual day camp guide.
If you are looking for engaging, healthy ways to entertain your children this summer, spend a little time reviewing our 2010 Day Camp Guide. There really is something for everyone.
By Captin Mark Galasso
From man’s earliest existence, the ability to trick fast-moving, wary animals into coming close enough to catch them has been key to our survival. The ability to mimic a prey’s habitat, food, or even the prey itself has enabled us to survive and evolve over time.
By Bonna L. Nelson
Photography by Tony Lewis, Jr.
Lovable llamas, adorable alpacas raised here
By Jane McConnell
Touring lighthouses of the Chesapeake
By Andrew Keatts, Photo by Tony Lewis Jr.
Sizing up the region’s best days at the ballpark.
By Brent Lewis
Generations of Americans have grown up with baseball in their blood. Long before the first recorded game, citizens of our young union embraced this most democratic of sports. The Eastern Shore’s love affair with the “national pastime” has not been as well recorded as in some other regions of the country; but in the early part of the 20th century, organized baseball came to the Shore and created an excitement like nothing ever before or, perhaps, since.
By Anne McNulty
Five routes to discover the Shore by bike
By Anne McNulty
Bay Bridge Beginnings.
These listings include Annapolis & Eastern Shore course descriptions, amenities, costs, dress code information, and much more.
By Dotty Holcomb Doherty
Algae blooms, runoff, and erosion are harming the South River but the South River Federation and devoted volunteers are working hard to reverse these trends of degradation.
Elizabeth Bastos
Thirty years ago the area called Mary's Pasture was farmland. Now it's marshland. It might in a hundred years be called Mary's Submerged Aquatic Vegetation-or it might go unmapped as just another acre of silt on the Bay's bottom.
Captain Mark Galasso
Considering the risks and rewards of introducing the Asian oyster to the Bay.
By Nadja Maril
April is National Poetry Month and there is no better time to take a walk on the poetry trail at Greenbury Point.
By Marie Thomas
Considered the nation's oldest privately operated ferry service, the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry was established in 1683 by Talbot County to transport men and horses across the Tred Avon River.
Those not-so lazy days of summer are right around the corner. If you are looking for engaging, healthy ways to entertain your children this year, spend a little time reviewing our 2009 Day Camp Guide. There really is something for everyone.
Here's a list for the best general interest, math, performing arts, and sports camps for the summer.
By Wendi Winters
Fun (and almost skunky) stories from camp.
By Captin Mark Galasso
A story on custom fishing poles.
By Anne McNulty
A history of skipjacks and their diminishing numbers.