view counter
Home » Features

Places

Nurturing a Fading ­Agricultural Legacy

Film captures the last generation of Maryland’s African American Farmers

 

Brad Dress
      In Calvert County, the last of the African American farmers in Maryland toil night and day, tending to their livestock and remaining acres of crops.       At its peak, the population of African American farmers was at 1 million, whom in total owned 16 million acres. Today, there are 18,000 black farmers left in America, who own not even one percent of the farmland in the U.S.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 6/13/19

The Enduring Legend of Bernie Fowler’s Wade-In

For the 32nd straight year, Fowler will lead friends and family into the Patuxent to make a point. For the first time, Betty Fowler won’t be with him.

 

Sandra Olivetti Martin
      When 95-year-old Bernie Fowler leads people into the Patuxent River on Sunday, the river in his heart will be one neither you nor I can imagine.      For the chain of followers linked arm in arm with the river champion in the annual test of water clarity, statistics tell the story of the river’s woes or redemption. Can the put-upon river with its D-grade report card achieve its Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan targets for 2025?
article –   –  by Sandra Olivetti Martin  – 6/7/19

Making an Old Fence a Good ­Neighbor

SOFO mobilizes community to rejuvenate ­Forest Drive eyesore

 

Brad Dress
     The 504-foot fence lining Annapolis Middle School is looking better all the time.      The once-faded, rusty-brown, chain-link fence spiked with barbed wire is now glowing night-black.       Three large painted metal crabs decorate the sections nearest the school. Colored ribbons twirl around the crabs in a rippling rainbow.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 6/7/19

What Floats Down the River

Patuxent River Park 150 trash bags cleaner

Warren Lee Brown
A lot of tires, a large fuel tank, baseballs and footballs plus plenty of bottles and plastic and Styrofoam containers. That kind of junk made up much of the 150 bags of trash found and removed from Patuxent River Park near Upper Marlboro by 50 volunteers and 10 staffers.
article –   –  by Warren Lee Brown  – 6/7/19

Way Downstream …(June 6-12, 2019)

Animal mystery in the English countryside

      A CNN headline last week roped us in: Raccoon Dogs on the Loose in an English Village. People were told to be on the lookout for these dangerous creatures.      A Daily Mail story warned that the raccoon dogs “terrorize locals and attack animals in Nottinghamshire.”      “BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM,” a villager recalled hearing.
article –   –  by  – 6/7/19

Rain Dampens Bay Report Card

Overall health still improving

 

Kathy Knotts
     We’re getting our homework done despite Mother Nature’s agenda. So says the recently released 2018 Chesapeake Bay Report Card issued by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.      The Chesapeake Bay score remains a C, though it decreased from 54 percent to 46 percent.
article –   –  by Kathy Knotts  – 5/30/19

Every Foot of Our Shoreline Counts

It’s all counted in Chesapeake Bay Coastal Inventory

 

Warren Lee Brown
      “To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering,” conservationist Aldo Leopold’s advised.      In applying that precaution to Chesapeake Bay, the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences has inventoried 60 million linear feet of tidal shoreline. Bay waters meet almost 7,500 miles of land in Virginia and 4,000 in Maryland.
article –   –  by Warren Lee Brown  – 5/30/19

Greek for a Day

Experience the culture’s diversity at this annual festival 

 

Brad Dress
      At the Annapolis Greek Festival, something magical happens. You become Greek for a day.      Hosted by the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church on Riva Road from Thursday, May 30 to the following Sunday, the festival thrusts you into a makeshift Greek homeland. In this land, you’ll find more than 30 Greek foods and dishes, as well as four dance groups, two bands and vendors selling unique arts and crafts.
article –   –  by Brad Dress  – 5/30/19

Get Your Ticket

New Crooked Fest is an old school good time

A Bay Weekly conversation with Crooked Crab Brewery founder Daniel Messeca

 

Audrey Broomfield
Bay Weekly Crooked Fest June 1 is a whole new entry in Chesapeake Country’s calendar of festivals. Tell us its story. Daniel Messeca My partners in Crooked Crab Brewery and I wanted to create a really fun event to celebrate our other two great loves besides beer: music and community.
article –   –  by Audrey Broomfield  – 5/30/19

Out with the Old

What to do with your household’s excess baggage
Krista Pfunder Boughey
      The first few weeks of spring have many of us reenacting the role of the mole in The Wind in the Willows — dusting, sweeping, whitewashing and in the mood for a major home turnover.       We’ve sorted our trash situation — pun intended — with Bay Weekly’s What’s Your Recycling IQ (www.bayweekly.com/node/48213). Now let’s consider household items that have become more burden than boon.
article –   –  by Krista Pfunder Boughey  – 5/16/19
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter

view counter
view counter
view counter

Calendar of Events

  • Thu
    12
  • Fri
    13
  • Sat
    14
Format: 2019-12-12
Format: 2019-12-12
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter
view counter