Harvesting the Chesapeake: Tools and Traditions

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This second, revised and expanded, edition of this popular collection, including 233 photos and sketches, represents the most comprehensive study of the Chesapeake Bay’s fisheries, but it’s far more. It records the pictures and recollections of the homespun tales of the hardy women and men who have lived and worked along the shores of the nation’s largest estuary. Because the first edition used to be published in 1990, A few of these tools and traditions have disappeared and at the moment are a part of Chesapeake Bay lore. Most of the implements and skills used by Chesapeake Bay watermen had their origins in the 1600s, and, until now, much of what’s known about the more than a few forms of gear had been passed down orally from generation to generation. A few of these tools and traditions are likely to disappear in the twenty-first century. The text to this fascinating book documents the harvesting of the Bay, including much information gathered by personal interviews with elderly practitioners of the trade, making sure that the crafts and lore of the Bay’s harvesters are preserved.

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