Martin Kuz: Ukraine Film Wins Oscar, But Don't Lose Focus on War
The graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, Martin Kuz. Editor's Note: I met war correspondent Martin...
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williamlambrecht
- Feb 20
- 2 min
Book Release: 'North Beach: Yesterday and Today'
North Beach, Maryland is fond of calling itself "Jewel of the Chesapeake," and a newly published book offers a trove of photographs past...
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williamlambrecht
- Jan 12
- 4 min
Author Q&A: Peter Vogt and the Divine Gust of a Book
What do you do if a massive tree lands in your yard in a storm? If you're a scientist with the gene for adventure, somebody who has...
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williamlambrecht
- Nov 10, 2023
- 2 min
In Kirkus Review, 'Stymie Club' Scores
In the 1930s, Virginia Kirkus, a teacher, author and children's books specialist in New York, devised a systematic means to help...
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williamlambrecht
- Oct 24, 2023
- 2 min
At National Oyster Cook-Off, a 12-Year-Old Triumphs
LEONARDTOWN, MD—Three authors, who on this day also were judges, presided over a stunning conclusion to the 44th U.S. National Oyster...
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williamlambrecht
- Oct 1, 2023
- 2 min
At Bayside History Museum, Chesapeake Characters Recalled
We along the Mid-Atlantic were denied witness to the first full moon of September. But on that cloudy Friday evening, those who ventured...
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williamlambrecht
- Aug 21, 2023
- 2 min
For 'Deadly Gamble' Musical, Lyrics Bobbing Up
The burst of new interest in the wreck of Levin J Marvel, spurred by Kathy Bergren Smith's book, Deadly Gamble, has spawned...
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williamlambrecht
- Aug 14, 2023
- 3 min
Deadly Gamble at Calvert Symposium. Next, a Musical?
In eight-foot waves and gale force winds from Hurricane Connie, six people from the Levin J Marvel clung to a duck blind as Chesapeake...
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williamlambrecht
- Jun 12, 2023
- 4 min
Author Interview: Carol Booker of 'Waterman's Widow'
Carol McCabe Booker, author of the well-received Cove Point on the Chesapeake and other books, is back with a tantalizing whodunit that...
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williamlambrecht
- Mar 25, 2023
- 6 min
Kamholz: Roots of March Madness
Editor's note: I'm reading Doug Kamholz's latest dispatch while watching Maryland reach the Elite Eight in the NCAA women's basketball...
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williamlambrecht
- Feb 11, 2023
- 7 min
Abe did that? Fact and fallacy from the vortex of Lincolnalia
Editor's Note: Our Midwest Bureau Chief, Doug Kamholz, returns to our pages with a must-read for folks like us who considered this Feb....
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williamlambrecht
- Feb 9, 2023
- 2 min
'Life of a Newspaper': Sandra Olivetti Martin at Captain Avery Museum’s Winter Series
Chesapeake regional book publisher Sandra Olivetti Martin recalled the early days of nearly 30-year-old Bay Weekly, sold by her family...
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williamlambrecht
- Jan 31, 2023
- 2 min
Soups, Stews & Stories: At Book Party, Secrets of Roux Revealed
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Schneider knew the path to a rich roux for folks who mix fat and flour in the quest for luscious...
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williamlambrecht
- Jan 16, 2023
- 3 min
Marvel Tragedy Survivor Returns for 'Deadly Gamble'
The sailing schooner had broken apart, lashed by Hurricane Connie's furious winds and laden with water from above and below. Cast into...
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williamlambrecht
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
National Oyster Cook-Off: A Surprised Winner and Final Tally
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — Their names inspire poetry. Billionaire Oyster Puffs. Creamy Tuscan Style Oysters. Crispy Fried Oysters and Cornbread...
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williamlambrecht
- Sep 27, 2022
- 4 min
In Calvert County, Hulbert Footner Has His Own Room
Big turnouts for Calvert Historical Society's gatherings to honor one of the Chesapeake region’s great authors. Ask a Marylander in...
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williamlambrecht
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
The Winner: George Miller's Poem About a Special Boat
On a steamy Sunday at Bayside HIstory Museum in North Beach, New Bay Books announced the winner of New Bay Books' Inaugural Writers on...
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williamlambrecht
- Aug 30, 2022
- 8 min
New Bay Books Interview: Cartoonist Jim Toomey, Author of 'Family Afloat'
If you’re a sailor or just a dreamer, you’ve imagined leaving it all behind, anchoring in crystalline waters, perhaps snorkeling off...
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williamlambrecht
- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
New Bay Books Interview: Jellyfish Author Mark McCaig
Editor's note: Flash fiction is a highly stylized writing burst — a few hundred words maybe — typically describing the complex and often...
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williamlambrecht
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Adventure in Tragedy: 'A Darkness Lit By Heroes'
Doug Ammons, ranked in the 1990s by Outside Magazine as one of the world’s Ten Great Adventurers, has lived by this standard: “I tried to...
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