A fun 15 minute video...

IMHO... best oysters in the world come out of the middle Bay.

Interesting.

If you've never read Michener's Chesapeake you're missing out. If an old desert rat like me enjoyed it, you'd enjoy it too.

Great read, especially the chapters about the Watermen.

My son is a Southern Md Waterman, but usually in the Patuxent River. Good people.

That's one of my favorite books. I've read it many times.

Heck yeah, I don’t read an awful lot of fiction, but Michener’s “Chesapeake” is one of my favorites. It beats “Centennial” and most of the others easily, although I love “Space”.
As a kid, we visited Chinquoteaqe , and I’ve loved “Chesapeake” since.
I remember seeing the “punt guns” in the museum. I seem to recall seeing some sort of multi barreled monster with a trough across the breach where the priming powder set them off in a ragged volley.
Wonder which would have killed more ducks?
7mm

Cashisking,

I remember SkipJack's over 50 years ago cruising the Choptank for Oysters and buying a bushel of a waterman boat was only $5.00. Only a few operational SkipJack's left most now just for show in harbors for tourists.

Cousin of mine married a oyster man highly regulated occupation