Volume VII Number 47
November 25-December 1, 1999
Holiday special: Local Bounty, the annual guide to 40 days of holiday celebrations.

• On Our Cover: The Rebecca T. Ruark in better days, riding a good wind with her sails unreefed and full. Photo © by heritage and heirloom photographer Jeffrey M. Ferrell.
• Dock of the Bay Early Birds Victorious; Colonial's Christmas Carol Sells Out * In Deale, Anti-Safeway Forces Forecast a Filibuster * The Feast after the Feast: One Family's Way with Leftover Turkey * One Item More for Your Winterizing List: Sweep the Chimney * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, pioneering escape hatches for female crabs In San Francisco, flowers and bushes scotch Millennium Eve plans From Seattle, double Pulitzer-Prize winner Andy Schneider tries for a third with mining exposé And in World War II Britain, pre-James Bond agents had quite a bag of tricks plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: Barn owl attacker gets cash and sympathy from other Monday Night Football fans.
• Rebecca T. Ruark Rises Captain Wade Murphy's First-Person Story of Loss And Resurrection -- by M.L. Faunce & Sandra Martin -- Third-generation waterman Captain Wade Murphy Jr. tells a harrowing story with a happy ending.
• Bay Bites Jalapeños: A Latin Surprise in a Parole Shopping Center
• Theatrics 2nd Star's Finely Balanced Fiddler on the Roof
• Editorial Local Bounty: 170 Ways to Celebrate the Season
• Letters to the Editor Ribbon Candy Returns; Call for Holiday Stories; Department of Corrections
• Bay Reflection Giving Thanks
• Burton on the Bay Bah, Humbug -- They're Ruining the Millennium
• Chesapeake Outdoors On and Off On Fall Waters
• Not Just for Kids Making Holiday Stuff & Meeting Santa

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