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Poet Elisavietta Ritchie: 1932-2025
At what was to be her last party, in a grove along the Patuxent River, Elisavietta Ritchie read poetry to friends and family who had come...
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Jan 252 min read
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Interview: 'Farmer's Wife' Author Carol Booker
Carol McCabe Booker further solidifies her reputation as a first-rate author with publication of another Chesapeake Country true-crime...
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Dec 10, 20244 min read
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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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Oct 1, 20245 min read
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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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Sep 23, 20242 min read
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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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Jul 27, 20243 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Jul 16, 20244 min read
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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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Mar 16, 20244 min read
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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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Feb 20, 20242 min read
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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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Jan 12, 20244 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Oct 24, 20232 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Oct 1, 20232 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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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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Aug 14, 20233 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Mar 25, 20236 min read
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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....
williamlambrecht
Feb 11, 20237 min read
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'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...
williamlambrecht
Feb 9, 20232 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Jan 31, 20232 min read
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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...
williamlambrecht
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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