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Article: Chesapeake Legacy.
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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Larry S. Chowning, 307 pp., illus., softcover, Tidewater Publishers, tel. (410) 7581500, $29.95.
In Chesapeake Legacy, his second book on the tools, traditions and lifestyles of Chesapeake Bay watermen, Larry S. Chowning resumes his exploration of the great estuary's fishing communities and the techniques of its fishermen.
In Harvesting the Chesapeake, his first book on the subject, Chowning thought he'd covered most of the tools and traditions of watermen, but, as he wrote in his first chapter, "behind every good story there is usually another good story." Chesapeake Legacy proves that.
Much of Chowning's book is an exploration of the ...