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I'm no hero), shucking block, rag, and oysters. Pretty standard, but nothing fancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1454353150777-LWI0QD3FH6WBOBSEU1SS/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Shucking Boards Wye River Provisioners' shucking kit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1454354625578-E2WFZRO97SYOK6KOMVVM/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Shucking Boards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1454509863936-73Q0SSVQTDJFW7SDLI4L/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Shucking Boards Thanks, Wye River Provisioners! I love my sexy new shucking board! https://katelivie.com/dts/2016/1/25/french-oysters-part-2 monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453738549895-GFUQL8JLSDYG96FXQCLN/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 Oysters, beautifully presented, at a Parisian oyster bar. Image by Ben Ford for Down to Shuck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453738781253-69ITLMDY2A9AY89GXO3X/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453739430831-JXAT8EXV87MU98XW4FTW/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453740192303-AUKV85R9KOH0I77TP5QW/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 Oyster tag on a box of No 2 Gillardeau Speciales. Note the species (Crassostrea gigas) and the harvest date (12/22- this photo was taken on 12/28, so these were very fresh oysters). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453740102000-CUWSUEZJU1Z6LUP8SGBK/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 Although as in the Chesapeake, triploid oysters are popular among oyster growers for their ability to grow quickly and resist disease (in fact they make up 15-20% of the oyster market), the French are wary of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453745430438-BZB2LNYIDVUP4QVSCRUN/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 These pousse en claires were as good as they look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453745732596-9I8C71UZ50NF2W86EMAE/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 Scraping out the adductor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453746313621-9T7NTDI6BENQZRU37S2W/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 A plateau des fruits de mer- just tell yourself, "I'm on vacation!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1453747047351-73PHRGQY1BUTSJ28OSMY/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART 2 The aftermath of two dozen oysters- politely left shell-exterior-side up. https://katelivie.com/dts/2016/1/13/french-oyster-knife-review monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1452715557004-662GV96T6SFTMUXX9QPN/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French oyster knife review The three French oyster knives up for review- one deglon, one from E. Dehillerin, and one a generic knife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1452716486439-RET16VUYK8AIDQSC3H52/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French oyster knife review The pretty, petite Deglon was a winner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1452716752130-J8973T3FF5PPVH7YYYJ8/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French oyster knife review The extra-sharp generic knife was not bad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1452717453578-JGUG2KT8GVXHCJM6JSAK/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French oyster knife review The lovely and useless Dehellerin. https://katelivie.com/dts/2015/12/30/french-oysters monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451494835897-5UT9L90ZIROP2AVX72GZ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I Oysters on offer in Paris' Buci Market https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451495292491-2WOM6PQ4HDCKGZAGDJYX/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I Oysters, prawns, crabs and snails are all beautifully displayed to tempt hungry Parisian passerby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451495876597-4UOB1GMFHZGRN64YOQOZ/IMG_1562.jpg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I The native oyster, Crassostrea edulis, is a rarity in France, where 90% of the oyster harvest is the asian Crassostrea gigas. Marketed as "plates" or "Belons," these round, flat oysters have an intense flavor profile with a strong coppery finish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451669013602-Y5SME44IQJGDB4TWOKC4/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I No 2 and No 3 oysters displayed in a street market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451499313226-AZBAX1IIHTLTW3YBFSBB/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I From top right: 6 fine de claires No.3, 6 speciales de claires No.3, 6 pousses en claires No.3, and 6 perle blanches No.3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451678600891-BKFD5Q86URF08YS69449/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I Edulis Oysters in a claire at Belon. Image from wikimedia commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1451677738542-LNYRG7PSJXWIT0W2QWO7/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - French Oysters- PART I Seafood stall on the Rue de Buci market. https://katelivie.com/dts/2015/12/15/oyster-middens-the-ghost-of-oysters-past monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1450206113669-0HW2SVP6L2RR1IE3DNGJ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Oyster middens- the ghost of oysters past Oyster midden overlooking the Chester River.Image by author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1450206717044-K8UUZU596QB7M2AZ0LVZ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Oyster middens- the ghost of oysters past A midden on Eastern Neck Island. Image by author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1450206822734-5QUTN1CPG087X05V9N3L/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Oyster middens- the ghost of oysters past A Virginia midden- mussels, oyster shells, and reeds. Image by author. https://katelivie.com/dts/2015/12/9/weird-oyster-stuff-oyster-trade-cards monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449689291555-NNTTFL78BY7724LJES9M/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards Louis Grebb trading card, 1888. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449690489887-3CFD5J03SC4W2GL046MU/IMG_0007.JPG Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards Hitchcock oysters trading card, late 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449690710496-DVK6DXHI1RH3NI08ZKVZ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards Grebb Oyster trade card, 1888. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449691114262-NY8HF1YFB4E9FW1LT585/IMG_0013.JPG Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards Baltimore Cove Oysters, late 19th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449691220252-7YIZ2O0EJTSRIOV43GNY/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449691701154-RGV9LSUL6C5YZZXXBGBZ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards J. Ludington and Co Oyster trade card, late 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1449692565544-WM3QCPYM4595S85973A0/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Weird oyster stuff- oyster trade cards J.T. Stone and Company trade card, late 19th century https://katelivie.com/dts/2015/11/30/chesapeake-oyster-packinghouses-the-brisk-brutal-bay-shellfish-business monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1448910973585-3H0RY4K6FGT4FVPO87BM/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Chesapeake Oyster Packinghouses- The Brisk, Brutal Bay Shellfish Business Harper's Weekly illustration of a Baltimore packinghouse, March, 1872. Collection of author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1448911653266-AKSWZCW0N03BOB1MFM74/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Chesapeake Oyster Packinghouses- The Brisk, Brutal Bay Shellfish Business Oyster shuckers, Rock Point, Maryland. Image from the Library of Congress collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1448912172137-1PJD1385SVVVWG9XHYKT/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Chesapeake Oyster Packinghouses- The Brisk, Brutal Bay Shellfish Business Image of a crisfield packinghouse, Frank Leslie's Weekly, 1878. Collection of Author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1448912801263-AWZILNZG9LQEZ8J88S6L/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Chesapeake Oyster Packinghouses- The Brisk, Brutal Bay Shellfish Business "Little Lottie, a regular oyster shucker", by Lewis Hine, 1911. Library of Congress Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1448913801708-PCIT4NKYXPMSGKAMOZ11/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - Chesapeake Oyster Packinghouses- The Brisk, Brutal Bay Shellfish Business A Baltimore worker individually solders the oyster cans before shipping. Harper's Weekly, 1872. https://katelivie.com/dts/2015/11/19/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-chesapeake-oysters monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447962490542-WGWQKOZVF6J6KU1HVRTZ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Crassostrea virginica oyster beds near Tom’s Cove, Virginia. Photo by Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447962587468-XD7MTA6NZB4VA7HAVPY0/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Illustration from The Oyster by biologist W.K. Brooks, 1905. Collection of Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447963663404-6PZWURJMZG67BVDSEYWE/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Spat ‘seed’ at an aquaculture venture in Hooper’s Island, Maryland. Photo by Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447965309550-BJ4SX5YK77IKV36L5ZNU/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Tiny pearls produced by Chesapeake oysters. Photo by Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447965419931-49NPOC4HRBO1O42FOTHG/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Harper’s Weekly illustration from 1886 of a gun battle on the Chester River during the Oyster Wars. Collection of Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447965525032-4EZTWFCQ9ABGWKRJRCWN/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Chesapeake oyster on the half shell. Image by Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447965956999-2BZV73ATM1KJJ9Z7OTYZ/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Natural Chesapeake oyster reef on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Image by Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447966055581-576TEFAI22IVOX9HUJ40/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters A shucked Chesapeake oyster. Image by Kate Livie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447966154624-PUUZJN4J07QVZK295J09/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters Farmed ‘triploid’ oysters at Ballard Oyster Company. Image by Kate Livie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447966419164-EY9G3TRJSA0IGYE8KDQ5/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chesapeake Oysters The wide selection of oysters at a modern raw bar is a feast for the eyes as well as the belly. Image by Kate Livie https://katelivie.com/dts/2015/11/10/5-ways-to-savor-oysters-like-a-pro monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447166395627-N96AG30KF4OTZJZ2XIY6/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 5 Ways to Savor Oysters Like a Pro A variety of US oysters at a modern raw bar offers up plenty of flavor options to explore. Image by Kate Livie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447166426560-5XSETRJGTP7HJ4CFWW1O/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 5 Ways to Savor Oysters Like a Pro An array of 'naked' oysters at Eventide in Portland, Maine. Image by Kate Livie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447166461446-4EW276NBP84729F9G1AM/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 5 Ways to Savor Oysters Like a Pro Freshly-shucked oysters at the 2013 Oyster Riot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447166511458-QC6IV1LHCBBKFOKVYYPA/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 5 Ways to Savor Oysters Like a Pro Salty Chincoteagues pair well with a hoppy beer. Image by Kate Livie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1447166688869-G3Q032D0OKE9FPRW0O5Z/image-asset.jpeg Down to Shuck - 5 Ways to Savor Oysters Like a Pro Oyster spat attached to recycled bits of shell. 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Collections of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Spring has historically meant the beginning of one of the Chesapeake’s most significant harvests- shad. This “founding fishery” marked the beginning of large-scale commercial fishing in the Bay, in the mid-1700′s. Unlike oysters or crabs, which required canning and refrigeration (not invented for another 75 years), shad could be preserved just by being salted and dried. As many tobacco plantations switched to wheat, the time saved by the less-laborious crop meant that many waterfront estates began to use their slave labor to harvest shad as another way to make money.  Shad remained a vital industry in the Chesapeake well into the 20th century. This image, from Harper’s Weekly in 1861, shows the traditional spring shad seine harvest on the shoreline of the Potomac. In the background is the Washington Navy Yard, depicted as tidy and efficient (a quintessentially Victorian love of industry), and beyond that, the skeleton of the Capitol Building, still under construction. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/chestertown-marylands-2016-downrigging-festival monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045640842-0RMKB6JUZDGAZDO7XBD9/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045640890-GBACP6GE4RQ805LSUYJ3/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045640846-ZT20FWOXCG4JTU7VN5RA/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045640899-X4VS8MIGW6XA75RD5WKG/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045640843-NJXJOX8DQLW8WT4YW76Y/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045643946-OWCS2V0H2NLSS1XKXK8F/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o8_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045643846-X74ESB04TGO5V324P9PU/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o9_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045644376-XCC8QZTLI4I6Z7KTDVWN/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o7_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045644096-SSGZVL5048VK1MHWZCXI/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o10_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045644316-NH7E3BY6SHKA9RHLNAWG/tumblr_oh03z6gues1r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/river-schooling monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-neighborhood-crab-house-in-baltimore-in-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045648064-2C5KJRG92WHSZEDVB4DR/tumblr_oadeeiA0k31r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A neighborhood crab house in Baltimore in the 1930′s wasn’t exactly what we expect of our modern crab establishments. The “house” part was often quite literal-  proprietors were frequently women who ran a crabcake and clamcake business out of their kitchen, or in this case, their front window. Customers, lured in by the smell of fried things wafting on the breeze, could plunk down a few nickels, pull up a patch of curb and demolish a perfectly golden, perfectly greasy crabcake, right on the spot. Though the venues may have changed, the ritual of a summer crabcake is deeply ingrained in Chesapeake tradition. Served between two slices of white bread, it is a taste of the Bay that conjures nostalgia, comfort, and the humid pleasures of a July afternoon in Baltimore. From the Library of Congress, by “Look” magazine photographer John Vachon, 1938. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/there-is-but-one-entrance-by-sea-in-this-county monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045648304-SPVRNQ0QS7QZM9Z7QSAS/tumblr_o9qwg1wNqe1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers “There is but one entrance by Sea in this County, and that is at the mouth of a very goodly Bay, 18 or 20 myles broad…. Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant place ever knowne, for large and pleasant navigable Rivers. Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation…Here are mountains, hills, plaines, valleyes, rivers, and brookes, all running into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitfull and delightsome land.” -Captain John Smith, 1609. Image by Kate Livie. 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Herons, osprey, eagles and other fish-loving birds of prey are often thickly settled on the pound nets, poles and trees nearby— anything that will get them closer to the fish that seethe within. Image by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/oh-yeah-its-on-higher-temperatures-at-the-end monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045651148-K1PER7JGAJBX266IMDZV/tumblr_o863fo17Zr1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Oh yeah, it’s on. Higher temperatures at the end of May have brought on the full flush of the Chesapeake’s blue crab bounty. From now until first frost, the crabs will only get fatter- good news for anybody who loves a Sunday spent at a picnic table with an ice-cold beer and a pile of these delicious monsters. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/19th-century-postcard-depicting-baltimore-harbor monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045651323-Q6G9WMYYFT8B3FGNW1YK/tumblr_o81ozt12hC1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers 19th century postcard depicting Baltimore Harbor, with the steamboat Chester in the center of the image. Collections of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. On this day, May 31, in 1872, a Chesapeake steamboat was the object of one of the earliest pre-Jim Crow cases in Maryland. Josephine Carr, an African-American school teacher from Kent County, sued the steamboat Chester for an assault. The incident had taken place on May 14, when Carr sat in the steamboat’s main cabin- a space reserved for white passengers. When Carr refused to move, the captain and crew dragged her to the black-only forward cabin, where Carr declined to wait. Instead, she moved to the bow, where she stood until the Chester reached Chestertown and Carr disembarked. She would later file a libel suit against the Chester for her mistreatment. Carr won her landmark case, and was awarded $25 damages. Carr’s case was one of several in which 19th century courts ruled in favor of blacks on transportation accommodations- a precursor to many such standoffs, which Rosa Parks would someday make famous. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/solomons-island-maryland monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/book-explores-history-and-future-of-chesapeake-bay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/gilbert-byrons-original-tiny-house monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/signs-of-spring-menhaden-are-moving-into-the-bay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045655434-LW3Y47YG09UX52E7FNP7/tumblr_o4ie6uyvpC1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Signs of spring- menhaden are moving into the Bay. This time of year, the water clarity is excellent- providing a clear view to the massive, undulating schools. Menhaden are often found at the top of the water column near the surface, where, as filter feeders, the gape-mouthed fish will devour copious quantities of both plant and animal plankton. Menhaden are essential to the Chesapeake food chain, both digesting plankton and in turn feeding predators, whether birds or large fish species. Although fears of over-fishing have been widespread given their critical role in the estuary, today the fishery is well-managed and stable- good news for a species critical to the Chesapeake’s environment. For more information on menhaden: http://1.usa.gov/25nnC3a Image by author. 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In this 1969 image, Tilghman Island waterman Ben Gowe gingerly follows the state icebreaker back to safe harbor after a day’s tonging during a cold snap. In icy winters, the state works to keep the Chesapeake’s principal channels open to navigation and deploys small icebreakers to help watermen return safely to port. Photojournalist Robert de Gast rode the icebreaker while documenting the Chesapeake’s oyster industry in 1969 and 1970 in preparation for a book, The Oystermen of the Chesapeake. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/throughout-the-chesapeake-day-the-icy-beautiful monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045659122-5WHBCY10KLEBR2802EP9/tumblr_o1ijteTeki1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Throughout the Chesapeake Day, the icy, beautiful calm after the storm has created incredible, chilly vistas. Normally marshes that are a flat canvas of browns and greys in deep winter are golden and white, underscored by frozen high tide waterlines. Everything is silent except for the occasional crack of ice as hunkered-down Canada geese shift slightly in their temporary, transformed wonderland. Image of Morgan Creek by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/louis-feuchters-chesapeake-bay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-unusually-warm-weather-has-created-some monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045662277-XX1647OWX2K974FRBI28/tumblr_nz5csrZbQd1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers The unusually warm weather has created some incredibly beautiful foggy mornings around the Chesapeake this week. This image, taken in Chestertown, Maryland, is just one example of the lovely way that fog, early light, still water, and the tangled architecture of wooden boat masts and rigging seamlessly intersect on these fleeting few dawn moments. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/on-a-day-that-feels-firmly-sliding-into-winter-an monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045662213-EWRWC23Y4HE1OE47WDG6/tumblr_nyqjegqniq1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers On a day that feels firmly sliding into winter, an image that is pure summer- CBMM’s new log canoe, Bufflehead, on the Miles River during her inaugural sail this summer on June 9th, 2015. No shirt required onboard, but a stiff breeze and a certain amount of devil-may-care adventurous spirit is critical. Image by Tracey Munson. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/marylands-iconic-smith-island monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/downrigging-weekend-annually-draws-tall-ship monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045668185-WZDO44CNPY4UIXREZ94G/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o10_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045668608-EOW2DRR6A8UA4DAREMZK/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045668664-F9GVVP34L755BVUK0HTY/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o7_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045669020-C003VPXD1Y79E043V5C9/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045669021-CKLOVB686Z1CW2TWPQA9/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045669504-VWH45OI803VXAYEKILGU/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045669492-YH83HG9IBU62HH70TH2I/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045670642-W0OIUS5DU2OUC2B1ZRUR/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o9_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045671016-5U6L2Z9KAGQ1RXQO3ACB/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045671151-2R75VC8M9HUP6CZ3317H/tumblr_nxctve8YMj1r4h911o8_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/hey-beautifulswimmers-fans-the-author-of-this monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045672296-ORCECQLI9BCTOZW0JVHI/tumblr_nwzi92w8Hi1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Hey beautifulswimmers fans, the author of this blog, Kate Livie, has written a book! It’s the epic story of the long, tangled story of Chesapeake oysters- and their role as a survival staple, mainstay of the economy, and cultural catalyst. If you’ve enjoyed her posts on the Bay’s history, culture and the environment, it’s worth a look. You can purchase it on Amazon, or Maryland residents can grab a copy at local retailers or book events throughout the state. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum will be hosting a free book event for “Chesapeake Oysters” on November 20th at 5:00 PM- more information on that program is available at cbmm.org. Happy reading, and as Kate would say, “Believe in bivalves!” https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/while-log-canoes-are-beautiful-boats-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045671982-9XKK3R1Z49RAUO4E9B69/tumblr_nww4alEFjV1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045672136-7BDG9MB1ZWHM8PJ9GQRA/tumblr_nww4alEFjV1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/in-the-late-19th-century-the-chesapeake-produced monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045672711-N52OYG7XM9R4V63Q5YLA/tumblr_nvv1rhy41V1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers In the late 19th century, the Chesapeake produced more oysters than any other region in the world. The oyster-packing industry was centered in Baltimore, and Roy E. Roberts was just one among scores of oyster packers in the city. To individualize their brands among such stiff competition, packers used distinctive names and imagery for their products to make them memorable to the consumer. Although Robert would later market most of his oysters under the “Maryland Beauty” brand, he briefly used the “Wild Duck” brand- making it among the rarest, most valuable, and most collectible oyster cans in the world. R.E. Roberts, Inc., “Wild Duck Brand Raw Oysters,” R.E. Roberts, Inc., c. 1920. Lithograph on tinplate, 18.4 x 17.1 cm. Museum purchase, 2002.40.69. Digital image by David W. Harp © Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/on-october-1st-marylands-oystering-season-opened monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045672646-FDFD329KUJL6EST01YG2/tumblr_nvt7jsR1fb1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers On October 1st, Maryland’s oystering season opened again for another year. Currently, Maryland has 1,100 licensed oyster harvesters that will head out this winter from harbors around the state in search of bars full of mature, 3 inch ‘keeper’ Eastern oysters. Throughout the rest of the month, only a few forms of oystering are allowed: hand tonging, patent tonging, and diving. Power dredging begins on November 1st. Traditionally, the “R” months (from September to April) have been the boundaries of oyster season in the Chesapeake Bay. Oysters spawn in the summer, making them milky and unpalatable, but in the colder months their efforts to turn growth and energy conservation, and they become the fat, toothsome morsels we love to enjoy half-shell or in stews, fritters, dressings, and all sorts of delicious ways. Image by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/this-ethereal-submission-to-our-upcoming monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045672862-3AQ30V4USQEQU3R95UCS/tumblr_nv2yah59Cr1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers This ethereal submission to our upcoming #cbmmsnapshots exhibition comes courtesy of Peter Lalor, who captured log canoe Island Blossom during a race on the Miles River in September. “Following log canoe fleet in Sunday morning race, in Steve Huntoon’s yacht out of MRYC. The morning started sunny but by 11 there was a lowering sky and very interesting light.” To submit your own photos or to learn more about our upcoming Snapshots to Selfies: 50 Years of Chesapeake Summers exhibit, click here:http://bit.ly/1c2t2bT https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/poplar-island-just-northeast-of-tilghman-island monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045673211-TZSOV7Z3XR2PX1NRS0WG/tumblr_nusa21h8d31r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045673964-O6QM9HHTGQ2DY1YBZF8Q/tumblr_nusa21h8d31r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045674587-4DXNRC7RBLE9JK2T1KPA/tumblr_nusa21h8d31r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045674614-1NPM4G8W5UK94I8IFXAI/tumblr_nusa21h8d31r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045675303-6D6TF7XULXSH50SH8KZZ/tumblr_nusa21h8d31r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045675827-PB3LRX2CFDVTMTVDOJ5E/tumblr_nusa21h8d31r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/every-year-in-late-august-and-early-september monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045675575-HU44YIJ7A99UI15J7M4C/tumblr_nu47kqRD2K1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Every year, in late August and early September, the osprey begin their migration to their wintering grounds in the Caribbean and South America. Their piercing calls- the wild, carrying soundtrack of Chesapeake summers- falls silent as they wing away for another year. This fall, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has created an osprey tracking map, so lovers of the “fish hawk” can watch the progress of two birds, Quinn and Nick, as they make their way to a warmer climate: http://www.cbf.org/ospreymap Though the birds are still in the Chesapeake at the time of this posting, no doubt the colder weather soon to come will encourage them to leave their summer nest and head south. An osprey family at the approach to Poplar Island. Photo by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/headwaters monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/not-all-chesapeake-watermen-are-actually-men-this monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045678767-W4OPMSR422NQDBXI1QF5/tumblr_ntakjkcYGy1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Not all Chesapeake watermen are actually men. This image taken by Lila Line in 1981, is a perfect example of the tenacity, tirelessness, and work ethic of plenty of the Bay’s water-working-women. While many women work off the water in watermen families, picking crabs or placing orders, some women choose to follow the example of their fathers or brothers, buy their own boat, and make a living from what the Bay provides. In this photo, Kathleen, a Tilghman Island waterman, is heading out for a long day of crabbing, despite being heavily pregnant. She continued to work until three weeks before her son, Noah, was born. 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045687395-78ZHEQAWK52QKL5RM1AU/tumblr_ns05nhgiyw1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045687763-ZX3WIQGPDV60PT519AEI/tumblr_ns05nhgiyw1r4h911o7_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045688108-N3CPZHOE5UFTG4E32UTE/tumblr_ns05nhgiyw1r4h911o3_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045688300-CX9TB16JML3ROARVMPO9/tumblr_ns05nhgiyw1r4h911o6_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/purple-spikes-of-pickerelweed-arc-in-the-verdant monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045691483-MGG9GYP8TH4NX18AMHWN/tumblr_nrw6qeiV3w1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Purple spikes of pickerelweed arc in the verdant marshes along a mid-summer Chesapeake creek. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/on-the-hottest-summer-days-chesapeake-marshes monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/this-1972-photo-of-sherri-marsh-johns-and-her-dad monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045688244-D0JG05X82MCKAJFBSZZ6/tumblr_nrhdziw11u1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers This 1972 photo of Sherri Marsh Johns and her dad, Calvin “Junie” Marsh, was submitted for CBMM’s upcoming exhibit, “Snapshots to Selfies: 50 years of Chesapeake Summers.” This exhibit, a collection of community-submitted summer stories and photos, will feature the memories of Bay folks from the last 50 years, doing what we have always done during the Chesapeake’s laziest days- enjoying the water. Sherri writes, “This was my first fishing trip after Dad bough my first fishing rod.  We are aboard his 42 ft. Bay-built  box stern, the Sherri Michelle.   Although he was a waterman he didn’t own a fishing rod –if you look closely you will see he is using a hand line.  I can still see those tough hands able to pull up a fishing line without using a reel.   Buying a fishing rod for me when he didn’t have one himself was such a gesture of love from a man who was not good at communicating emotions.   Here I too young to appreciate any of that and am staring with at the rod with complete impatience waiting for a bite. When I look at this photo and imagine what it would look like if it were taken now.  The boat would be fiber glass, the glass coke bottle would be a cardboard juice box, I would under the protection of sunscreen, glasses and a hat and required to wear a PFD.  Many things change, fortunately not the tradition of fathers teaching their daughters to fish.” To submit your own photos and stories, go to http://bit.ly/1c2t2bT and share your summer snaps from the last 50 years! https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/oyster-planting-day monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/summertime-and-the-living-is-easy-especially-if monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045691822-19TY0M5NXQ50XFRB7M77/tumblr_nr4hn3avcy1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Summertime, and the living is easy— especially if its the Land of Pleasant Living. Crabs are Chesapeake tradition, and this 1905 photo of crab pickers shows that’s nothing new. Crab sizes, however, definitely have— just one of the monster jimmies in this picture would fill out a pretty hefty crabcake! “Picking Crabs for Market on the Banks of the Chesapeake Bay, 1905.” Stereograph image from the Library of Congress Collections. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/an-evening-thunderstorm-passes-at-dorchester monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045693059-LZC4E7URN47S7WCS02SO/tumblr_nqvl21q9zl1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers An evening thunderstorm passes at Dorchester County’s stunning Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, where marsh, water and sky bleed together beautifully. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-chesapeake-was-a-vital-link-between-distant monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045695076-30MDUUWZ2Q5287X0MEN3/tumblr_nqvkeuDGmj1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045693283-VFZMUUTKE4TI4ZCH1THM/tumblr_nqvkeuDGmj1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045694038-UPK5DX00A9OKRVOBU1VN/tumblr_nqvkeuDGmj1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/some-recent-high-school-students-working-with-cbmm monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045694460-3CTZ2NN0EWADKHF8WHCN/tumblr_npbuk9vaXP1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Some recent high school students working with CBMM on a year-long oyster program started a twitter account, “Crassostrea Virginica” at https://twitter.com/OysterLover123 as their final project. It’s hilarious and full of great information on oysters, too. Great work, guys!  https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/sunset-on-the-chesapeakes-miles-river-as-seen monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045694596-ZYVTKJ7B04FPNUNQ3HEC/tumblr_nnw2fkH4tQ1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Sunset on the Chesapeake’s Miles River, as seen over the bowsprit of the skipjack HM Krentz. “The Krentz,” as she is commonly referred to, is a working skipjack based out of St Michaels, Maryland. Constructed in 1955 in Harryhogan, Virginia, the HM Krentz was built during one of the Chesapeake’s ‘mini oyster boom’ years, which happened twice in the 20th century after World War I and World War II. Watermen, returning home, found the oyster populations had rebounded after several fallow years while the oystermen were overseas.  https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/photos-by-author-city-of-crisfield-at-the-dock-in monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045694742-52KIT08ZAY1MVRO26CGI/tumblr_nn8569Mfpr1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045696332-JV0B9PP4JAEB5CFGHDX7/tumblr_nn8569Mfpr1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045695513-4A0KAJFVVEOW16QJMCGZ/tumblr_nn8569Mfpr1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045696578-5TE1IDK041HI0SDL05N5/tumblr_nn8569Mfpr1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/an-incredible-panorama-of-baltimore-harbor-circa monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045696263-Z0X1S9JCFIZV8BPTTDVS/tumblr_nmv4l8UUYz1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers An incredible panorama of Baltimore harbor, circa 1914, with steamboats docking by oyster packing houses and the inner harbor still in use as a working waterfront. 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Image, Library of Congress collections. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/miss-freedom-cuts-a-figure monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/spring-spawn monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/dont-miss-this-beautiful-haunting-elegy-for-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/george-hastings-describes-his-favorite-way-to-eat monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/some-see-the-return-of-the-osprey-as-the-herald-of monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045699954-I6GG5L834SRYGVWRVDVU/tumblr_nlh3ez7mmC1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045699921-TI8IBCXDGXGSP8MRYP1K/tumblr_nlh3ez7mmC1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/scenes-from-our-boatshop-here-at-chesapeake-bay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045700662-9Y6HPB4IKAA46CA9N1Y3/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045701208-6YD9V3NP5CMFFTZLAARP/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045701026-N18A7LETSZZKOMT5F9Y6/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045701371-AVIN8FID88NAQIYJW66S/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045701686-EOGHHPR5JU85K17K8GS9/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045702112-EALMOHESXTRF5VBML9A2/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045702834-MABM3UEJSSZ26CZYE9HV/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o8_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045702453-J9KYOPGR5YTZRFOC0K3D/tumblr_nl3tdixaU11r4h911o7_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/this-morning-many-chesapeake-residents-woke-up-to monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045703748-HZY64K77VDWPP3RAYN37/tumblr_nkuzopbkek1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045703612-Y9LC5U5OS18DSP5VKL2L/tumblr_nkuzopbkek1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045704226-PH10CJYIGVLE40N14CQO/tumblr_nkuzopbkek1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045703866-F3O16HAKXUZTKMMJAK9P/tumblr_nkuzopbkek1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045705171-D4T03I8MIZ0SB9LZALOB/tumblr_nkuzopbkek1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/workboats-all-lined-up-and-ready-for-dredging-at-a monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045704347-A2CU70R9U4VNWCRZL4X6/tumblr_nkqwfuYqU51r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Workboats all lined up and ready for dredging at a marina in Chance, Maryland, way down at the marshy islands on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It was a windy, rough day and the watermen didn’t go out, providing a dockside view of their winter gear and oyster mud. Dredges are still a common tool for oystering in the Maryland part of the Chesapeake, even though they’re a gear type introduced in the 1840’s. Blacksmiths and gear netters make the frames and the rope “baskets,” just as their fathers and grandfathers did. Oystering, the oldest Chesapeake fishery, still represents a seasonal portion of the waterman’s livelihood, with some of the strongest intact traditions, methods, and technology. Although simple and sturdy, these dredges represent an integral and dwindling part of the Bay’s iconic heritage. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/scenes-from-a-chesapeake-island-refuge-in-winter monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045705845-USLLFC182WR7Y242N32Q/tumblr_nkg68dyIqO1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045705161-W4Q0QS7THT4ISZFAH14F/tumblr_nkg68dyIqO1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045705717-0XTIPSNJ2A7DQO8872N6/tumblr_nkg68dyIqO1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045706246-MROFM3H897HJNTF8GLG4/tumblr_nkg68dyIqO1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045706816-ZXDL443XI492MPRVXEPE/tumblr_nkg68dyIqO1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045706571-6D0H86O17RDL9RS174XL/tumblr_nkg68dyIqO1r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/bumper-politics monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/two-boys-from-the-easton-maryland-area-display monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045708281-2JB8G6KOMJLY69L3TKJV/tumblr_njz5uqkyjl1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Two boys from the Easton, Maryland area display their trophy, a tundra swan hunted in the years before they were federally protected. Image courtesy of C. John Sullivan, ca. 1910. For thousands of years, two native swan species— tundra and trumpeter— have migrated from the Arctic to the protected coves of the Chesapeake Bay.  Flying south in white wedges, their arrival signified sustenance for the Bay’s native tribes and later, for the colonists who scratched out a living along the Bay’s tributaries.  In the 19th century, equipped with accurate, inexpensive firearms, hunters harvested more swans than ever before, shipping birds to Baltimore for fancy suppers. The snowy white feathers were in high demand in New York and London, where they were used to decorate women’s hats and made into powder puffs and foamy slippers. To entice the birds within range, carvers throughout the Chesapeake crafted huge swan decoys, from crude to elaborate, that mimicked swans feeding, swimming and preening. The high demand for swans and ever-more-efficient hunting techniques took a dramatic toll. The population of the trumpeter and then the tundra swan began to plummet, and their distinctive calls, once booming in concert, began to be a rare sound on the Chesapeake’s frozen waterways. It would take the collaborative effort of Canada and the US to protect them, as the two countries created legislation that would protect the region’s native swans in 1918 as part of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. That conservation law, which also protected bald eagles and barn owls, transformed the trumpeter and swan population overnight from comestibles to conserved species. Swan was dropped from restaurant menus, and swan trophy photos, like the one above,  became rarities as swans were “shot” with cameras, rather than guns. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/southern-miss-is-one-of-the-last-working-boats monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045709216-0JNHULZN09TZ336SOX9K/tumblr_njohcjEhX21r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045709543-2YNYNF28H2WWBCE8FZ5J/tumblr_njohcjEhX21r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045710118-NC21YU3T16LVV8QFYSO6/tumblr_njohcjEhX21r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-flat-calm-chesapeake-rimed-with-ice-reflects-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045710051-TDRFS85K3R02H94OGQSI/tumblr_njhamqpnAf1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A flat calm Chesapeake rimed with ice reflects the changing light above, in a view looking east across the mouth of the Sassafras River to Aberdeen. In this time of year, sound adds another layer to the beauty of the landscape. When this photo was taken, eagles fought on mid-river ice floes for fish and swans in a nearby cove whistled in almost-unison. Otherwise, the river was still as a looking glass. Photo by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/barren-islands-beautiful-ugly-oysters monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/baltimore-harbor-as-seen-from-the-baltimore-museum monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045713223-9DHGDB3G41RX02PSNTDC/tumblr_nistqcXofv1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Baltimore harbor as seen from the Baltimore Museum of Industry, with the iconic Domino Sugar building in the distance. Dockside is the S.S. Baltimore, the oldest operating steam-powered, coal-fired tugboat in the country. Built in 1906 by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company in Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore was primarily a municipal tug, but in winter weather (like the kind we’re experiencing now), she worked as an ice breaker, creating navigable channels in the otherwise locked in harbor. Photo by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/betterton-beach-january-2015-photos-by-author monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045714089-RGDY7CJPDWT1E74O3SAR/tumblr_nie6dqacVY1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045714189-LB4M00C0TSOMY8FYPJ68/tumblr_nie6dqacVY1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/j-roberts-bateman-at-sunset-accompanied-by-a monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045713839-4FOBZ52DYCC7I29X7UKN/tumblr_ni1dc554It1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers J. Roberts Bateman at sunset accompanied by a waterfowl flotilla, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, photograph by author. Not all wooden boats in the Chesapeake were born here. Especially oyster boats, which have past lives in other shellfish-rich ports. Dockside at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum over the winter is the J. Roberts Bateman, an converted-schooner oystering boat built in 1928 in Greenwich, New Jersey. Once owned by the Bivalve Packing Company in Bivalve, New Jersey, the J. Roberts Bateman was one of the few survivors of the MSX blight, followed by Dermo, that devastated the once-booming New Jersey oyster industry. Today, she occasionally participates in the fluctuating Chesapeake oyster harvest, and the rest of the time provides a visual reminder that the Chesapeake’s woes have also been suffered by other once-robust East Coast fisheries. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/chesapeake-trailboards monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/storm-clouds-hang-over-workboats-rigged-for monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045714591-XQAQIB75RGSA6K4FJN98/tumblr_nhobnny7TW1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Storm clouds hang over workboats rigged for oystering at a marina in Chance, Maryland. One of the traditional fishing communities of Somerset County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, watermen here have been working through economic depressions, environmental challenges, and radical changes in regulation. Though considerably smaller than in year’s past, the fleet still leaves in the morning to harvest whatever is seasonally available, up to the chance of tide, wind, and timing. Image by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/wishing-you-a-happy-new-year-from-beautiful monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045715149-NMK57LCTRT7F19YY6J62/tumblr_nhgrcn9nLK1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Wishing you a happy New Year, from Beautiful Swimmers. May all your paths lead to the Chesapeake Bay! https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/last-light-illuminates-the-roots-of-a-flooded-tree monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045715767-UCXXR8WUUZXQN1DN16NT/tumblr_nhb43gZDdO1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Last light illuminates the roots of a flooded tree along the southern mouth of the Chester River, north on the Chesapeake Bay. This view once held one of the most fertile and hotly disputed oyster beds in Maryland. Audaciously productive, its huge oyster shoals were the site of several  19th century gunfights between oystermen and the beleaguered state “Oyster Navy.” One particularly violent example even made national news,  covered in 1888 by the New York Times with the headline “Maryland’s Oyster War: A Desperate Fight With Illegal Oyster Dredgers” http://nyti.ms/1zq2oP4. One Oyster Navy man caught a bullet in the fray and cried out, “I’m done for!” Fortunately, he was not seriously hurt, but it did make for juicy copy. Today, it is the location of new oyster wars, this time between would-be oyster leasers and local watermen. Although this stretch of the river hasn’t been a powerhouse of oyster production in 50 years or more, some new oyster farmers would like to change that. Their leases, and the oyster cages they use, have sparked protests from watermen who are concerned about the impact such tools might have on other fisheries, like trotlining. For such a peaceful view, it is a place that has produced conflicts as prodigiously as it once grew oysters. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/wishing-you-a-merry-chesapeake-christmas monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045716912-TNR8KM2UEYZG9IFW5ZBM/tumblr_nh3oa5F4w91r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Wishing you a Merry Chesapeake Christmas! https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-winter-solstice-sunrise-over-morgan-creek-a monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045717265-WH8EM4W3VLGZW0NFGRXA/tumblr_ngy2nq7pVO1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A winter solstice sunrise over Morgan Creek, a branch off the Chester River.  With first light appearing so late in the morning this time of year, it’s a perfect chance for lay-abeds to enjoy a few gorgeous, saturated sunrises. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-golden-winter-sunset-over-a-meadow-of-salt-hay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045717040-E2QWUKY86OF2RQ6Q2J8W/tumblr_ngqo2lY5XD1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A golden winter sunset over a meadow of salt hay at Eastern Neck Island National Wildlife Reserve. Image by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/this-image-of-the-chesapeake-bay-maritime-museums monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045717107-Q9542UAKZKF75WPCBQCD/tumblr_ngojqxXZ1w1r4h911o1_540.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045717787-FHZWC3UU1ZLHUT1AU361/tumblr_ngojqxXZ1w1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045717799-8THRGY94F2VPASQ0D7CO/tumblr_ngojqxXZ1w1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-mystery-of-the-swan monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-drowned-meadow-during-an-unusually-high-tide-at monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045720056-R6K78IPLKSRTGAVENFRX/tumblr_ng4o2fYkNd1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A drowned meadow during an unusually high tide at Assateague Island is a poignant reminder of a constantly changing, shifting Chesapeake. As the land subsides and the tides encroach, great changes may await the Bay and the people that call the watershed home in the next generations. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/shipwrights-from-coastal-heritage-alliance-hard-at monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045720438-L6O64L1U34GRT9HB6L7T/tumblr_nfv7dzRQDh1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045721247-3TS083SWSAB1TP1RFMN2/tumblr_nfv7dzRQDh1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/arrowhead-hunting-along-the-sassafras-river-on monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045721248-8OX4VAWG6BW47UX88VLT/tumblr_nfrcd8ZqcY1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045721181-4QYJHEQ6T1LJGI73NWA9/tumblr_nfrcd8ZqcY1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-workboat-all-ready-for-power-dredging-at-a monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045721999-LBY22EUVXXVB0A2OVWSX/tumblr_nfjsymu4Ad1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A workboat all ready for power dredging at a working waterfront on Deal Island, Maryland. Image by author. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/iconic-skipjack-dredging-licenses monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-why-worry-out-of-wenona-maryland-is-having monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045723643-YKZ87LE575DEP6JEM0P4/tumblr_nf7cvtQpni1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers The “Why Worry” out of Wenona, Maryland is having a good oystering season this year. Other watermen out of Deal Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore have been meeting their limit, bringing in 100 bushels of oysters a day. It’s good news for watermen and the working fleet of deadrises on Deal, where oysters still represent a substantial part of the Bay’s winter economy. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/seen-on-the-bridge-to-assateague-island-where-so monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045724316-D5XN0BJM8DGTHP7T9YR4/tumblr_nf3qorJkYJ1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Seen on the bridge to Assateague Island, where so many locals try their luck chicken-necking off the bridge for crabs that there are permanent crab-measuring stations at intervals. Only in the Chesapeake! https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-fall-fog-stretches-the-horizon-to-infinity monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045724560-4ALBJ84JWQWD0AWHA8UI/tumblr_nevvssmGvw1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A fall fog stretches the horizon to infinity beyond our St. Michaels, Maryland docks at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/an-island-recreated monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/in-honor-of-halloween-a-black-and-orange-sunset monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045726457-8A0YLZ08ZROOZO5NX5VI/tumblr_neb86hXK241r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers In honor of Halloween, a black and orange sunset paddle along Morgan Creek, off the Chesapeake’s Chester River. Fall is one of the best times to take to the Bay’s little coves and inlets by kayak- the geese and ducks cluster in floating rafts of endless chattering, and great clouds of migratory birds feast on the stands of wild rice that have ripened on the stalk. The early sunsets splash color lavishly, and challenge the vibrant leaves, which shade russet, gold, ruby, and bronze. It’s a magical season. Perhaps the only ghostly specter is that of summer, which still whispers in the last few puffs of cattail, suspended like tiny ghosts over the collapsed salt hay. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-sign-of-the-season-oysters-ready-to-be monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045726757-OSX9OS2FON9A4QNW9XHF/tumblr_ndt2zg4ppM1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A sign of the season- oysters, ready to be shucked, are left on a Ballard Oyster Company packing house table at breaktime. Some with sea lettuce still clinging to their shells, they were pulled from the water the same day they’ll be shucked into containers and readied for shipping. Oysters, packed tightly and kept cool, will be sent all over the United States to hungry consumers who are eager for the salty, creamy taste of the Chesapeake’s best shellfish bounty. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/three-different-kinds-of-crabmeat-good-better monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045727462-0FH53TLJC67TGQSA2P94/tumblr_nde2a5Vs1G1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Three different kinds of crabmeat- good, better, and best. “Graded” crab meat (a brilliant marketing scheme) was developed by the Coulbourne and Jewett packing house around 1910, and their backfin, special, regular, claw and lump classifications became a signature feature of the enterprise.  Located on the industrial waterfront area of Navy Point in St Michaels, Maryland, (today the grounds of the current-day Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum) Coulbourne and Jewett was one of the only African-American owned packing houses in the state- a remarkable accomplishment in the era of Jim Crow. Their savvy crab meat differentiation system would become almost universal in the industry- proof that all a salesman needs is a good product and the gift of spin. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/crab-fisherman-rock-point-maryland-crab-sign monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045727556-C7XHJIS04SCUKFCACH6I/tumblr_nd8qu1RhMg1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045727683-OCEWTJ9QQ1ZVB9X3I2ZU/tumblr_nd8qu1RhMg1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045727845-2T1ABKP86X2NREHF0V9D/tumblr_nd8qu1RhMg1r4h911o3_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-heavily-clouded-sky-hangs-above-loblollies-and monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045729149-3PJ0H5HQ0RE6U0GN4F81/tumblr_nd389nAQ461r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A heavily clouded sky hangs above loblollies and the silver water of the Assateague Channel. This shallow, tidal salt marsh tucked between Chincoteague Island and the long tail of Assateague Island is the location of the annual Pony Swim made famous in Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague. Barrier islands like Chincoteague, along the ocean side of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, are rich environmental landscapes, constantly changing because of shifting sediments, wave action, and erosion.  https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/scenes-from-small-craft-festival-the-chesapeake monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045728786-LEDZTCNB6ND7488RLE1Z/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o6_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045728865-NVH7JQDVWCT2PYB4WTFG/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045730104-SQBHBDC5KBY1QTRAJHKM/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o7_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045730992-XJ4FKJ1SV7IG8VNZEY3J/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o9_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045731559-780B4VLB8ECMRRVNYPFL/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045731862-OSC8PBAGNS6JQ7MFN3XL/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045732204-ITGXXLRGY62EZGLXTJ8F/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o3_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045732326-DVAWSSWQH8HDHYLCRKF0/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o8_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045732519-Q7L08A3X3HAUHOIJ91TA/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o10_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045733178-T5BNC6ELG71CFO76A39I/tumblr_nctv2v721j1r4h911o2_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-r-months-officially-oyster-season monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/three-working-ladies-idle-on-their-moorings-during monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045735841-GJ6IU70XS0M9N34H4KZC/tumblr_ncbhz33Qjs1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Three working ladies idle on their moorings during a Sunday afternoon on the Chester River. Normally all industry, these Chesapeake workboats stand at the ready for an early start on Monday morning. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-few-early-canada-arrivals-enjoy-the-havre-de monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045736820-PHUL6NL4P8OP92YWZ9Q0/tumblr_nc1tn0Ksd91r4h911o1_1280.png beautiful swimmers A few early Canada arrivals enjoy the Havre de Grace sunshine at the Chesapeake’s Susquehanna Flats- famed wintering spot (and hunting Mecca) for migratory waterfowl. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-beautiful-chesapeake-morning-from-the-maritime monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045737339-6HBFEESCQT7P5L7W79NW/tumblr_nbw6w7Lp711r4h911o1_1280.png beautiful swimmers A beautiful Chesapeake morning from the Maritime Republic of Eastport! https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-gloomy-sky-hangs-over-the-graves-of-the-20-men monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045736966-O39DT2B2GUPQ3SYVN0R3/tumblr_nbqr7d5NWX1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A gloomy sky hangs over the graves of the 20 men and boys who died during the Starving Time at Jamestown colony during the winter of 1609-1610. A bleak chapter in Chesapeake history, the Jamestown colony ultimately succeeded unlike other settlements like the Roanoke colony- but scores of European settlers and native people would perish along the way. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/worth-getting-wet-for-a-kayaker-swimming-in monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045736711-0KFYJVMZAZGYFJDMICNW/tumblr_nbg52o6nFG1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Worth getting wet for- a kayaker swimming in American lotuses on a paddle along the Sassafras River. These native aquatic plants boast the largest blooms of any flower in North America, but lotuses are more than just a pretty face-most parts of the plant are edible. Their enormous leaves have also been known to provide shelter as a makeshift umbrella in Chesapeake summer thunderstorms. Photo courtesy Bill Thompson. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/aint-it-the-truth monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045736724-D0LRRMQE283MYO25PO60/tumblr_nbi9i8UYHT1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Ain’t it the truth. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/an-interview-with-chesapeake-photographer-jay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/annapolis-home-to-sailors-powerboaters-and-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045740892-TGNVM1QQ8HAWVE2JGABL/tumblr_naj0k4khGy1ryjvyro1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Annapolis- home to sailors, powerboaters, and the slower, more low-tech kind of weekend captains and furry crew. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-sheriff-of-assateague-island-by-big-mike-42-on monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045740948-3T2KWN57E67CX0MH01NE/tumblr_m8ccbht6wJ1rbxj64o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers The Sheriff of Assateague Island by Big Mike 42 on Flickr. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/two-world-collide-fortunately-not-literally-as monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045741429-WEIOWJUQ4XXN0U4OJS5X/tumblr_n9dym4J4331taoi29o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Two world collide (fortunately, not literally) as the Pride of Baltimore navigates the freighters at the start of Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/oak-tree-kent-county-maryland-photograph-by monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045741695-3XI695OO1VK03G90J6T2/tumblr_nanwq8K91k1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Oak tree, Kent County, Maryland. Photograph by author. A field grown oak that was just a sapling during the Civil War years. There  are many places in the Chesapeake landscape that are remarkably unchanged, even after centuries of intensive agriculture and in spite of the constant creep of development. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/scene-of-crabpickers-in-st-michaels-by-ruth-starr monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045742084-6LOH33GE67R6VSJXAZG0/tumblr_namhogg6oY1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Scene of crabpickers in St. Michaels by Ruth Starr Rose. Lithograph on paper. Collections of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. This 1932 lithograph by R.S. Rose is one of the earliest images accessioned to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s collections when it was founded in 1965. It is also one of our most iconic. Depicting a scene of crab pickers hard at work in a St Michaels packing house, it reflects ordinary Eastern Shore summer piecework of the early 20th century- a part of Chesapeake life that has almost completely disappeared from the Bay’s small waterfront towns .   These are women who would have known each other- they lived in the same neighborhood, attended the same church, and sang together in the same choir. Their children went to school together, and often, would accompany their mothers to the packing house where they’d earn pocket money cracking claws. That sense of familiarity, of friendly comfort, is communicated in relaxed postures and slight smiles of the pickers. A woman down the picking line sings as she works- a way to make the day go faster, perhaps.  Crab picking is messy, smelly work, but from the serenity of the light drifting through the square windows and the immaculate white of the women’s light summer clothing, this picture conveys not the drudgery that picking can be but the almost spiritual atmosphere of community. Rose probably based this scene on the local Coulbourne and Jewett packing house (today part of the Maritime Museum’s 18-acre campus) where a record 1 million pounds of crab meat were packed for 5 consecutive years. Over 200 pickers would line both sides of long tables piled with towers of steamed blue crabs, their hands flying as they dislodged the plump white meat. Experienced pickers could average 30 pounds a day, for seven days a week, throughout the summer and early fall. Scene like this were not uncommon in St Michaels in the 1930’s, but a white woman artist documenting them during the height of the Jim Crow era certainly was.  Ruth Starr Rose had moved to a nearby community, Tunis Mills, as a young woman and had been deeply impacted by the African-Americans she came to know through church services and daily community activities. She became lifelong friends with members of the black community and as she became an established artist she frequently depicted ordinary events from their daily lives imbued with a deep strength, familiarity and humanity. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/remains-of-mastodon-hunt-at-the-mouth-of-a monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/by-the-end-of-the-century-ocean-levels-could-rise monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045742243-TN5PAXFQ8EFWSG2M4WEO/tumblr_mmt19dYLap1qdkv8qo1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers By the end of the century, ocean levels could rise by 2 or 3 feet. That’s enough to flood the colonists’ first settlement at Jamestown, Va. And it’s putting pressure on archaeologists to get as many artifacts out of the ground as quickly as possible — before it’s too late. — With Rising Seas, America’s Birthplace Could Disappear Photo: John Poole/NPR   Although erosion is a constant face of life in the Chesapeake Bay (and has been since the last ice age), the effects are compounded by sea level rise. It begs the question- what will be left of the landscape, marshes, and historic structures of the Bay’s watershed once the water begins to slowly reach into the land? Certainly, it isn’t a future John Smith ever could have foretold. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/thomas-point-lighthouse monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045744535-7U2XLFBAHRBW8ZBXM0LU/tumblr_n9wtejCkeE1r1thfzo3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045743188-T7TKJ2JJEVDJ4ZAN5HL8/tumblr_n9wtejCkeE1r1thfzo2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045743338-F800Q33YQ3ISN4B0SM40/tumblr_n9wtejCkeE1r1thfzo1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-classic-maryland-view-enjoyed-by-watermen monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045743726-Y9VYHBK22B7VRO0ZXK2H/tumblr_na06o6jRr21r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A classic Maryland view enjoyed by watermen, sailors, and other salty types- early morning fog between the double spans of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.  photo by Kendrick Brennan https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/trotlining monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/jeff-friesen-isnt-looking-to-take-over-the-world monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045748657-5K96DZ18YQISBPJIU1AK/tumblr_n9a6eiQCQ81r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Jeff Friesen isn’t looking to take over the world, but he is looking to re-create it – and he’s doing it brick-by-brick. As the creator of the wildly popular LEGO scenes “The 50 States of LEGO,” Friesen’s work has been ruling the LEGO-loving internet since he laid the first brick last fall. With a mix of sight gags  and pop culture, Friesen uses “The 50 States of LEGO” to riff on the impressions, history and stereotypes from each state in the union.  Despite being a native Manitoban, Friesen is confident in his insights into the 50 states. “I lived in the states for a couple of years, and I’m pretty well-traveled,“ Friesen said. "I’ve been to about 37 states – though many of them were visited at high speed while driving.” For Maryland, a state Friesen hasn’t visited, he seized on the state’s iconic seafood. The photo he created is titled: Maryland: "Today the crabs decided to have a picnic of their own.” Although native Marylanders might quibble over the cooking technique (fried hard crabs?), it does give the menacing crabs a zombie’s appetite for revenge- and provides a great perspective on what non-Marylanders think of the Old Line State’s claim to fame. For more on Friesen’s series, or to see some of his Lego stereotypes of the other 50 states: http://huff.to/UyvEpp https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-first-crab-caught-at-the-chesapeake-bay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045746854-PDMLP1P8WYRJ0KKZ152P/tumblr_n8rrh53IYd1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers The first crab caught at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum so far this summer- a papershell sook. This has been a terrible year for crabs, but there’s a lot to admire in this little beauty, with her fire-red “fingernails” and brilliant blue claws. Here’s hoping we see a lot more of these truly “beautiful swimmers” as we enter the dog days of summer. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/historians-matthew-and-juliann-krogh-interpret-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045748249-X3C4Q3VQZXG3CDWLT3Q3/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o1_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045747689-M8J238MN4V39X2WFZU39/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045747803-LNGH6NTNYNKEX3A82YOB/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045747754-AVPKWVWRNJWXMT3PCJOW/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045747905-E7I8W9D821BL0BSNHEGO/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o7_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045749426-6CKIA6O7PFUC3XLQE74J/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o8_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045748914-7UWZ14AZPFUJC4X6JGFS/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o4_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045749341-1NQD7RMLTXW66YVTHRWL/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o5_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045750588-3FYBOLCX9H6K25ML97RO/tumblr_n8pp40Dav51r4h911o9_r1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-chesapeakes-most-recognizable-icon-the-blue monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045753612-KJBRK1J6Z10FVWBBENPO/tumblr_n8eq9iNH9W1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers The Chesapeake’s most recognizable icon, the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), is one of the significant commercially-harvested species on the East Coast, but this summer, the catches have been incredibly, scarily low. There is a parasite lurking in the depth of the Bay that could be the source of this summer’s empty crab pots and record-breaking low harvests: hematodinium.  At best, hematodinium can make the meat of the infected crab taste like aspirin, but at worst, the parasite spells large scale crab mortality- something that could have enormous consequences for the ecology of the Chesapeake environment and the watermen that rely on a bountiful harvest. Learn more about the parasite that might stop a crab from reaching your picnic table this summer. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-few-details-from-an-archaelogical-dig-in-easton monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045750966-YAIRVAP3SBO7LFTBMFGH/tumblr_n7vny4ETfa1r4h911o1_1280.png beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045755226-A16SXICQXB66QYBUNC2V/tumblr_n7vny4ETfa1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/one-of-the-great-things-about-a-maritime-museum-is monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045751616-ZK9DN14XFGSDP4BO3E3B/tumblr_n7qdyybuCV1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045752035-JNWFYVLEBFABCPN95O66/tumblr_n7qdyybuCV1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045754810-HQIU9ELCPSPRUPA3V30A/tumblr_n7qdyybuCV1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045754628-ITZNSI96VKCNYKBYXPX3/tumblr_n7qdyybuCV1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045754079-WBSTMHAY2842YS1282ST/tumblr_n7qdyybuCV1r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045754262-HBAXOZA2ZT60W9HYF37N/tumblr_n7qdyybuCV1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/sunset-over-a-crab-scrape-smith-island monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045754500-8UOLX563KLQ3MHNXQ6VD/tumblr_n7hgnrNS711r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Sunset over a crab scrape, Smith Island, Maryland. Photo courtesy of StateMaryland on flickr: http://bit.ly/1psV8QT https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-chesapeake-we-know-the-chesapeake-we-love monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045755003-4M0ZZVMKER801XFKURMV/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045755101-2Q4RRGHM1PCO1URZ0EA1/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045756358-LU1TR9FR2USS22OMFTG0/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045756440-LR8WON0O75U88FML18HL/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045757220-VICGQVBP3YM2YCZPFAZX/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045756961-0Q96V5RL9AQ4BEFQUU4G/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o7_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045757290-2K7O3Q2W5T1WLT45FHFO/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o10_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045757953-HB1S03LV9ZVCFUNYRX0K/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o6_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045759073-CL8K08HRR34GYHBQ0LRR/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o8_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045760751-G0WH3N3MR6U59HKLBQL7/tumblr_n7biwf5CGF1r4h911o9_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/on-june-30-1952-the-first-chesapeake-bay-bridge monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045759097-9YORSZF0QQVNS55E7SZ4/tumblr_n6lk6xZDw81r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045760247-AAISYDQXWCFDQY8HUPZC/tumblr_n6lk6xZDw81r4h911o2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/crabbing-season-opened-last-month-but-the-low monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045759795-8752269M7HHNWQLI6016/tumblr_n6aqjb84I41r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Crabbing season opened last month, but the low crab population and cool spring has many watermen stuck on the dock, waiting for the first beautiful swimmers to arrive. It means a lot of empty picnic tables and crab feasts turned into last-minute barbecues here in the Chesapeake, where crabs mean summer, prosperity, and the essence of the best of the Bay. Photo courtesy of Edwaste on Flickr: http://bit.ly/1ko0X0B https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/kayak-scenes monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/house-in-negro-section-of-baltimore monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045762073-ZL82W6IDIM601DJ1CO7G/tumblr_n59lap5uUH1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers “House in Negro section of Baltimore, Maryland." July 1938. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Vachon. For a larger version: http://bit.ly/1sqTn73 After a sweaty-palmed trip over the long Chesapeake Bay Bridge, many beachgoers make habitual yearly stops on their annual exodus to Ocean City at many of the crab houses on Kent Island. But they weren’t always massive waterfront establishments with gorgeous views of loblolly islands and watermen coming and going. As this photo reminds us, the original "crab houses” would have been the kitchen in a private home, where a local lady made some extra cash by cooking up and serving crabs to her hungry neighbors. In the sweltering belly of a Baltimore summer, the smell of a proprietary blend of spices would have clouded in the humidity, a savory London fog and invisible shop sign. Crabs, clams, fried or cakes wrapped in newspaper, all to be carried off and eaten on a quiet stoop with salty fingers and a glowing, greasy chin. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/mdhsphotographs-ymca-camp-pawatinika-anne monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045762548-YVC2ZYS4ATOIM30CEGQG/tumblr_n545rmCrKG1qgikbdo1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045762513-BXBZQJC68RCV8VZT2XSL/tumblr_n545rmCrKG1qgikbdo2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045762920-LKQ0Y0F72Y95H27V8OT2/tumblr_n545rmCrKG1qgikbdo3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/any-waterman-will-tell-you-sometimes-the-best monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045763194-89VS4PXOK2PKPVS1V0CB/tumblr_n4wlr16zoc1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Any waterman will tell you- sometimes the best action happens away from the dock! This yellow lab takes an unsupervised opportunity to get up close and personal with a striped bass (or rockfish, to us Chesapeake people). Photo courtesy Walt Hubis, flickr: http://bit.ly/1hhozi7 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/not-too-much-has-changed-about-a-summers-day monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045763405-PYIMNZEVHR9PHSKK93W6/tumblr_n4joo3rGjt1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers Not too much has changed about a summer’s day spent on the Chesapeake- except, perhaps, for the bathing suits! Wool one-pieces like these worn by Virginia bathing beauties in 1910 were considered modest as well as “healthy” (the wool was thought to keep the swimmers warm). It’s no surprise, however, that drownings occurred frequently as a result of the voluminous costumes.  While we may not always relish the imminent arrival of bathing suit season and the subsequent exposure of our winter-plumped figures, its clear that things have certainly changed for the better, where swim suits are concerned! From the collections of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.  For more on the history and changing hemlines of the modern bathing suits, check out this great post by Consuming Cultures: http://bit.ly/1jH5Jl6 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/mdhsphotographs-fishing-for-gudgeons-patapsco monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045763720-NGPV1KQ4LQKMJZ8PGO6M/tumblr_n4fy28BPy31qgikbdo1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045763728-FQ17AFL7EUHSP56XR6JL/tumblr_n4fy28BPy31qgikbdo2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045763995-TLCEIAYMB0GLBA2YJJ3O/tumblr_n4fy28BPy31qgikbdo3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045765378-XNWDATW7UBAUW26D1BW4/tumblr_n4fy28BPy31qgikbdo4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-james-adams-floating-theatre monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/its-getting-to-be-that-time-of-year-crabbing monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045768393-9PHNASPSOPNIB5RIMPXU/tumblr_n3vn2bS7Fv1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers It’s getting to be that time of year- crabbing season opened a few weeks ago, and the first scuttlers should begin swimming up the rivers and emerging from their winter beds in the next month or two. Photo courtesy Tracey Munson. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-late-19th-century-shad-planking-celebrates-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045768425-UUG3V0ZE7IIYKZZPIVI7/tumblr_n3g7ehfH5J1r4h911o1_500.jpg beautiful swimmers A late 19th century shad planking celebrates the first major catch of the spring. Now part of the Chesapeake past, the commercial harvest is closed due to low shad populations, but during its heyday, shad was ubiquitous- cheap, plentiful and delicious. The only downside was the thicket of tiny bones inside. Planking the fish over a slow, hot fire allowed the tiny bones to dissolve in the even heat, and produced a crispy, oily fish perfumed by the hickory it had sizzled on. Shad plankings were large community gatherings to celebrate the return of spring, and as such, attracted politicians looking to curry favor while bellies were full and spirits high. Today, the term “shad planking” is synonymous with political stumping. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/in-this-1905-photograph-a-burst-of-dockside monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045769235-A66JENGDF95ELZPXK82J/tumblr_n35ybzIwT21r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers In this 1905 photograph, a burst of dockside activity at Baltimore’s working waterfront harbor has been captured for posterity. Oysters by the bushel-full are unloaded from bugeye to wagon. Unlikely characters for such muddy labor are dressed in bowler hats, ties, and jackets, while dockhands, better attired for the job, hoist their cargo in creased, stained work clothes. The harbor’s surface is fouled with a scum of refuse and slime, a reminder of the fact that Baltimore’s sewer system was built 7 years after this photo was taken. In the foreground, a bowsprit thrusts almost into the camera, while another, with sail furled, crosses below. A photo is worth a thousand words, but a picture like this, rich with detail down to the oyster shells crushed into the cobblestones, can be better than time travel. Photo courtesy of shorpy.com For a high resolution image: http://bit.ly/1hFpJ6G https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/blackwater-refuge monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/a-library-of-congress-photo-with-what-appears-to monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045772140-E2TUC9UIVWZFLNFOXNWK/tumblr_n1bafpSQt11r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers A Library of Congress photo with what appears to be a Pungy and a Bugeye (square sterned) or pilot schooner, being repaired on the Potomac River, 1862. This may be the earliest documented photo of a Chesapeake Bay Pungy. The fact they are being rebuilt on a railway makes them even older. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/esteldin-sturgeon-creek-by-jonbeard-on monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045772123-K2O513PAVXKM1ZTJMC6K/tumblr_mk1z9wm7621r3npeuo1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers esteldin: Sturgeon Creek by jon_beard on Flickr. Thinking about Chesapeake summers, at the end of a long, cold winter. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/this-month-in-maritime-history-purnell-t-white monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045772638-BW09THCAM3L2IQEG40D0/tumblr_n0s853vtWr1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers This month in maritime history: Purnell T. White laden with lumber, 18 November 1933, photo by J. S. McCullough. The Sharptown-built 4-masted schooner Purnell T. White signaled in distress to a passing steamer 200 miles off Cape Fear on February 7, 1934.  She took a tow the next day from a Coast Guard cutter that was dispatched to the scene, but was abandoned at sea when the tow proved exceedingly slow.  The dismasted schooner was ultimately salvaged and brought into Norfolk, but she never sailed again. https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/for-proof-that-chesapeake-history-does-not-always monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045774681-5UI3AHLD6BC3TCAX53IQ/tumblr_n0n2rq2JTy1qgikbdo1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045773513-JLMICFM7YZ7CN1PMQV3I/tumblr_n0n2rq2JTy1qgikbdo2_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045773177-YGANA4P11J4PYJPQAT3L/tumblr_n0n2rq2JTy1qgikbdo3_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045773344-P4UN06HCZ4D3IPBO7C0E/tumblr_n0n2rq2JTy1qgikbdo4_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045773433-9LXX42DAOXR6S6NEGJVB/tumblr_n0n2rq2JTy1qgikbdo5_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/19th-century-advertisement-for-chesapeake-bay monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045773542-ORTOPTV34VW022VIBKG7/tumblr_n0dwkhfkIi1r4h911o1_1280.jpg beautiful swimmers 19th century advertisement for Chesapeake Bay oyster distribution company. 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Here at the Museum we tell the story of oysters and oystering, from the life cycle of our favorite mollusk to its demise on the shucking table. This photo goes one step further, and shows how the Chesapeake’s erstwhile inhabitants, once they left the buyboats and packing houses, were sold to an urban market- with quite popular and prolific results, it seems. Oyster houses, a staple of East Coast city life since the 18th century, were frequented by all manner of classes and races, drawn by the cheap cost and delicate brine of the Chesapeake oyster, and could be found in almost every neighborhood. 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This Thursday, at 1:00 PM in the Museum’s auditorium, my good friend and colleague Andrew McCown, director of Echo Hill Outdoor School, will be joining us to talk about his approach towards teaching the Chesapeake’s history and biology, using real live critters to demonstrate! If you work on Waterman’s Wharf, crew Mister Jim, lead school tours, or just in general want to add to your interpretive ‘toolkit’, please feel free to attend and learn some new ways to bring the Bay to life for our visitors! https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/aquaculture-in-talbot-county monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://katelivie.com/beautifulswimmers/the-john-white-images-im-always-discussing-as-the monthly 0.5 2025-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5633a733e4b08bd6386d81be/1507045908207-2T46W6K5W94LSWVAZK63/tumblr_lt2on510pg1r4h911o1_1280.gif beautiful swimmers The John White images I’m always discussing as the best way of understanding what the Indian world of the Chesapeake looked like at first contact can be found at the link below. 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