NOW IN AUDIBLE VERSION!
This telling of the story of the Spanish Flu of 1918 is best told and understood from the newspaper reports of publications large and small from every corner of the United States. The news reports have been picked at random …
The Privateer Clause
SPAN WOULD BRIDGE THE CHESAPEAKE
Old Choptank River bridge retained as the Bill Burton Fishing Pier
SPAN WOULD BRIDGE THE CHESAPEAKE Maryland Governor Emerson Harrington appointed a study committee in 1918, as shown in the article below from a Snow Hill, Maryland newspaper – the DEMOCRAT MESSENGER. The ferry above transited the Chesapeake Bay until 1952 …
THE VIRAL FEAR
A perfect day for whale watching on the Pacific from the Zaandam aft deck. THE PRIVATEER CLAUSE photo
FROM CREWCENTER.COM Dear Friends, with deep sorrow we would like to inform you that a fellow crew member who tested positive for the novel coronavirus has passed away. Our hearts are saddened of the passing of the Costa Favolosa security …
Interrupting LBJ
By Ken Rossignol’ An oft-quoted phrase to describe changing views on political concerns is this: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.” While the quote …
PIRATE TRIALS: Dastardly Deeds & Last Word
Features and facts about Piracy with details of actual Pirate Trials in the 1800s.
TITANIC 1912
TITANIC 1912 – The story of the RMS Titanic disaster told through the news stories of the day. The first narration is a rare 1936 radio interview of the only surviving bridge officer, Second Officer Charles Lightoller. Ken Rossignol explains …
PANAMA 1914 – The Early Years of the Big Dig
President Theodore Roosevelt boarding the Manhattan from a Holland America ship
The decision to buy the unfinished Panama Canal from the French put into motion international intrigue, political shenanigans and accusations, bribery and corruption – much of it portrayed here in the editorial cartoons of the era. Enjoy this short book …
MURDER USA: True Crime, Real Killers
MURDER USA; True Crime, Real Killers
CHAPTER EIGHTThe Claudia Pickeral Murder I wrote in THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY the following update on the murder of Claudia Pickeral in December of 2018:Thirteen-year-old Claudia Pickeral alighted from her school bus one warm afternoon in February of 1997 a short …
The Chesapeake: Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs
This photo of a bumboat's last days was taken in Nomini Creek in Virginia. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo. Copyright 2019.
Welcome aboard the third volume of THE CHESAPEAKE – This book, THE CHESAPEAKE: Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs, spans the decades of the lives of our writers and the times of the Chesapeake Tidewater region from 1900 to the present time.
