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Gettysburg 150th Anniversary Special

Cub Reporter Elsa Knoll interviews President Abraham Lincoln following the dedication of Gettysburg National Cemetary.

Auld Lang Syne

My year of reconnections

12 Months of Chesapeake Bay

Organize the coming year with one of these Bay calendars

I Wish You a Merry Christmas

And plenty of good reading now and in the new year

Built for the Job

Reindeer are perfectly suited to pull Santa’s sleigh

Out with the Old and In with the New

Calvert Marine Museum closing for three months of renovation

Jolly Greens and Grinchy Greens

Evergreens to welcome home — and those to avoid

Close Call for Newly Restored Cove Point Marsh

Recent storm spares freshwater marsh

Just over a month ago, a new sand barrier was topped off with 60,000 plants of native grass to protect the fragile Cove Point freshwater marsh in Calvert County from the open Bay. Mother Nature had breached the barrier in 2004 and 2006, and once again this month, she has proved that she is in charge. With driving rain, powerful wind gusts and waves over seven feet, the Bay saw Victory-at-Sea conditions on Saturday April 16. At the Gooses Reef Buoy just north of Cove Point,...

Article - News; by Matt Driscoll; 4/21/11

This Week’s Creature Feature: Stink Bugs

Leaving our homes, they're heading for our gardens

The much-discussed invasion of the stink bugs — known to entomologists as the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) — is expected to cause quite a stink in our gardens. With spring’s warmer weather, the heat-seeking insect is leaving its comfy winter lodgings — our homes and other heated structures — for the great outdoors. Gathering on sunny windows and doors, they’re begging, let me out. Once outside, the...

Article - Creature Feature; by Margaret Tearman; 4/21/11

Fear the Turtle

Riparian rights have wronged a number of Bay critters

Turning a big ship around takes time, a lot of time. Right after World War II, many people living along the waters of the Chesapeake Bay began building bulkheads to prevent their shorelines from washing away. The state even encouraged this by offering homeowners free loans to harden their shorelines. A smiling fellow named Leonard Casanova showed up on our doorstep one summer day way back in the early 70s and announced that he was from the Department of...

Article - Where We Live by Steve Carr; by Steve Carr; 4/21/11

Though April Showers Come Our Way

Surely the fishing will get better in May

Cold, rain, wind and otherwise miserable weather. That’s the standard spring day in 2011. I can’t remember another year when I have gotten so few days on the water by this time. April 16, the opening day of rockfish season, was particularly difficult, with a morning that saw at least half-gale winds and an afternoon that added torrential rains. April 17 proceeded with a blow so bad that a 23-foot boat capsized with five anglers on board off of Thomas Point,...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle; 4/21/11

Bamboo Good and Bad

Clump is good; common is bad

Bamboo comes in two basic forms, clump and common. Unless you are prepared to build barriers to restrict the spread of common bamboo, use only clump bamboo for landscaping. Unlike the common bamboo that propagates itself by producing rhizomes underground, clump bamboo produces very tight-growing clumps and can only be propagated by divisions. Some of the clumping bamboos enlarge by only a few inches a year, while some of the more vigorous forms of clumping bamboos will...

Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin; 4/21/11

Chesapeake

Bay Theatre Company’s one-man show will put you in Hound Heaven

Had it with political wrangling? Fed up with wasteful government spending? Yearning for a simpler, more primal existence? Then you’re set to enjoy The Bay Theatre Company production of Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake. Matthew Vaky — the versatile, voluble star of this one-man tour de force —he portrays 10 characters in the mammalian circus. Chief among them are Kerr (a bisexual performance artist), Sen. Therm Pooley (R-VA) and Pooley’s dog Lucky...

Article - Theatre Reviews; by Jane C. Elkin; 4/21/11

Against the Moon’s Light

Only the strongest of this year’s Lyrid meteors will pierce the glare

The waning gibbous moon rises around midnight at week’s end and shines bright through dawn, which puts a damper on the annual Lyrid meteor shower, peaking in the dark hours of Thursday/Friday and Friday/Saturday. Even under ideal conditions with no competing moonlight, the Lyrids tend to max out at 15 to 20 meteors an hour. But any meteor bright enough to pierce the moonlight is likely to catch your attention as it streaks through the sky. Additionally, many of the...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll; 4/21/11

Scream 4

Good slasher fun is marred by lectures about the good old days.

Wes Craven (My Soul to Take) wants you damn kids to get off of his lawn. Also, the director wants the You Tube generation to show some respect for old-school slasher films. In the reboot of the Scream franchise, the curmudgeon director sets out to prove that fusing old-school scares and new-school pop culture smarts are his forte. Craven’s got a point. When he focuses on the gore and the fun, he makes a smart, scary flick. Ten years after the last...

Article - Movie Reviews; by Diana Beechener; 4/21/11

Pastor Cow a Church Hit

Dear Bay Weekly: Our March 15 article on Friendship United Methodist Church Sunday schoolers raising enough money to buy two pregnant cows, through Heifer International, for impoverished Third World families, has gotten a lot of attention on the church bulletin board and in our Sunday bulletin. Pastor Byron Brought — who dressed up as a cow to celebrate the achievement — has mentioned it and the donation at least twice from the pulpit. –Jay Lounsbury,...

Article - Correspondence; by Jay Lounsbury; 4/21/11

Celebrate the Earth Day Journey

Dear Bay Weekly: Join us in celebrating Earth Day on Friday, April 22, from 4 to 8pm. You’ll meet an oyster rancher, paddle a kayak, spin wool, listen to music and a nature reading and drink some slack wine. At the 7:30pm closing ceremony at sunset, we’ll gather on a spot overlooking the St. Mary’s River, and I’ll read The Journey, a reflection that begins … When the sun sets on my river, and the wings of...

Article - Correspondence; by Elizabeth Ayres; 4/21/11

Christmas Stories Wanted

Fill our stocking early by describing your dearest ways to celebrate. Send stories and photos to editor@bayweekly.com.

Bay Weekly Online Exclusive

Gettysburg 150th Anniversary Special

Auld Lang Syne

12 Months of Chesapeake Bay

I Wish You a Merry Christmas

Built for the Job

Out with the Old and In with the New

Jolly Greens and Grinchy Greens

Close Call for Newly Restored Cove Point Marsh

This Week’s Creature Feature: Stink Bugs

Fear the Turtle

Though April Showers Come Our Way

Bamboo Good and Bad

Chesapeake

Against the Moon’s Light

Scream 4

Pastor Cow a Church Hit

Celebrate the Earth Day Journey

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