The Workboats Of Smith Island
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The Workboats Of Smith Island
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Author : Paula J. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1997
The Workboats Of Smith Island written by Paula J. Johnson and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Work boats categories.
Smith Island, the largest Maryland island in Chesapeake Bay, remains one of the most interesting communities on the Atlantic coast. Smith Islanders speak a sort of Tidewater English, are devoted to the Methodist faith, and maintain an intense relationship with the waters of the bay. For generations, they have relied on fishing, oystering, and crabbing for their livelihood and have developed workboats that reflect the conditions - both natural and cultural - of local waters. In The Workboats of Smith Island, Paula J. Johnson looks extensively at the remarkable variety of boats - documenting in fascinating detail their design, construction, and use - and the watermen who depend on them. Johnson identifies the three vessel types most common on Smith Island today: crab-scraping boats, deadrise workboats, and skiffs. Every Smith Islander, she notes, owns at least one workboat, and many have two or even three, requiring each for a different purpose - harvesting "peelers" (blue crabs in various stages of molting), oystering or crab potting, and providing basic transportation. Johnson talks with Smith Island's watermen and boatbuilders, as well as their families and neighbors, about the history and future of the island and about the boats that dominate the island's cultural landscape. She includes dozens of photographs and drawings of Smith Island's distinctive watercraft. The result is a singular portrait of a community inextricably linked to the water.
The Workboats Of Core Sound
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Author : Lawrence S. Earley
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-10-14
The Workboats Of Core Sound written by Lawrence S. Earley and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-14 with Travel categories.
Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world. As Lawrence S. Earley discovered, each workboat has stories to tell, of boatbuilders and fishermen, and of family members and past events associated with these boats. The rich history of these hand-built wooden fishing boats, the people who work them, and the communities they serve lies at the heart of Earley's evocative new book of essays, interviews, and photographs. In conversations with the region's fishermen and boatbuilders, the author finds webs of decades-old social history and realizes that workboats are critical in maintaining a community's memories and its very sense of identity. Including nearly 100 of Earley's own striking duotones, this richly illustrated book brings to life the world of a fishing culture threatened by local and global forces.
Smith Island Maryland Environmental Restoration And Protection
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Smith Island Maryland Environmental Restoration And Protection written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Restoration ecology categories.
Smith Island Chesapeake Bay
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Author : Frances W. Dize
language : en
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Smith Island Chesapeake Bay written by Frances W. Dize and has been published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay is the account of an uncommon place and the uncommon people who choose to live in its isolated environment. It is the history of the islanders' struggle to survive the ravages of nature and the depredations of enemy forces as well as a study of island tradition and the possibilities for the future of the islanders' unique culture.
We Live In The Water
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Author : Jana Kopelent Rehak
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2024-02-06
We Live In The Water written by Jana Kopelent Rehak and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with History categories.
"This work illustrates how people like Smith Islanders claim their lives in an ecologically changing unstable place"--
Smith Island Chesapeake Bay
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Author : Frances W. Dize
language : en
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Smith Island Chesapeake Bay written by Frances W. Dize and has been published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay is the account of an uncommon place and the uncommon people who choose to live in its isolated environment. It is the history of the islanders' struggle to survive the ravages of nature and the depredations of enemy forces as well as a study of island tradition and the possibilities for the future of the islanders' unique culture.
The Oyster Question
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Author : Christine Keiner
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2010
The Oyster Question written by Christine Keiner and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.
An Island Called Smith
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Author : Jon Gower
language : en
Publisher: Gomer Press
Release Date : 2001
An Island Called Smith written by Jon Gower and has been published by Gomer Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The inhabitants of Smith Island in Chesapeake Bay, USA are nearly all descended from Welsh and Cornish immigrants of the 17th century. In this text, Jon Gower gives a personal account of this place, its environment, history and customs.
Smith Island Shore Erosion And Navigation Project Md Va
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Smith Island Shore Erosion And Navigation Project Md Va written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1999
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1999 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Political Science categories.