Volume VII Number 49
December 9-15, 1999

• On Our Cover: Alex Haley -- amounting to 400 pounds of bronze -- is lowered by crane from traveling truck to Annapolis City Dock, where he takes up permanent residence as centerpiece of the new Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial dedicated Dec. 9. Here sculptor Ed Dwight, left, supervises the installation crew Dec. 7. Photo by Christy Grimes.
• Dock of the Bay NBT Scouts Christmas Trees: Lots of Choices for a Green Millennium * Bay Life: Kimbra Cutlip - Local Sailor Writes a Tale for Chesapeake Country * plus, Way Downstream, In Virginia, don't eat the fish in the Staunton River From New York in time for Christmas, an aquarium toilet From Harvard, warnings that the third millennium, Common Era, will cost thousands of species plus, last but not least, this week's Creature Feature: From Britain, the story of Shadow the German shepherd who must think he's a Lab.
• Baby Boom Alex Haley and Company Add Four to Annapolis' Family of Statues by M.L. Faunce, Sam Ginder, Christy Grimes and Sandra Martin Read breaking coverage of the just-installed Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial. Then visit with us the whole family, young and old
• Theatrics Theatrical Traditions of Christmas: Two Christmas Carols and One Wonderful Life
• Bay Bites Cantina D'Italia: Two Surprises from this Italian Menu
• Editorial From Puget Sound to Chesapeake Bay
• Letters to the Editor No Y2K Worries Here; Plymouths Forever; Last Days for Holiday Stories
• In Memoriam Jazz Great Charlie Byrd
• Burton on the Bay Our Bay's Biggest Deal -- Even the brightest idea turns out to have a black side to balance its silver lining
• Earth Journal Bluebirds for Christmas
• Not Just for Kids Sailor's Night Before Christmas

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