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Chronicler …Editor …Teacher …
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• Former Bay Weekly editor and publisher
For 28 years, I brought the stories of Chesapeake Country to the pages of our independent, family-owned news and feature weekly. Since January, 2020, Bay Weekly has been in the capable hands of Chesapeake Bay Media.
• Journalist
I've discovered, reported and written thouands of stories chronicling four decades of American history in the making
• Mentor: teacher and editor
I've guided thousands to fluency, hundreds to publication
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• Memoirist
Recently I've turned my mastery of the craft to recounting family history as narrative for a magazine article and a book in progress.
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Read my recent piece in Kentucky Monthly -- Am Liking This Life Just Fine -- based on a young soldier's letters 100 years ago to ,y cousin Cora, a country school teacher in Calhoun County, Illinois.
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What's New —New Bay Books. Our brand new publishing house, bringing together Chesapeake Bay readers and writers. Coming soon: Arpeggio of Redwings by Audrey Scharmen, A collection of sixty encounters with Chesapeake Bay nature to take as seasonal tonics to refresh your notion of what kind of place this world is.
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