Posted by Jack Russell on March 21, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The ospreys return, ahead of St. Patrick’s Day as usual, warming water and air are drawing others birds back to their Chesapeake summering grounds and preparing the tributaries for the return of the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab.
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Posted by Jack Russell on February 28, 2018 · 3 Comments
“In the [pungy] Joe Smith, we freighted herring after they were salted and packed in barrels. The barrels weighed more than two hundred pounds, and five hundred barrels was a full load for the Joe Smith.’ And so continues Wendell Chesser’s tales of his father’s work boat of St. George Island, MD, during the 1920s.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 22, 2018 · 4 Comments
Wendell J. Chesser was 12 in 1920 when he began his “eternity” of “eight long years” working aboard his father’s pungy, the Joe Smith, out of St. George Island, MD.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 10, 2018 · 1 Comment
Cap’n Jack admits to “not knowing jack” about the weather, but that doesn’t stop him from passing along watermen lore and observations of weather indicators and winter weather impacts on the Chesapeake fisheries.
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Posted by Jack Russell on December 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Where are the ducks and birds wintering in the Chesapeake? Cap’n Jack looks in abandoned osprey nests for the bald eagles that mostly stay out of sight when the ospreys are in town. And there are plenty of ducks around as well.
Posted by Jack Russell on December 15, 2017 · Leave a Comment
There are no waterfowl so storied as the Canada goose.
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Posted by Jack Russell on November 16, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Right on time, two weeks prior to the first freeze, the monarchs pass through St. George Island, MD.
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Posted by Jack Russell on November 1, 2017 · Leave a Comment
One grandmother was a renown seamstress and the other the midwife on St. George Island before there was a bridge and “that was an important responsibility.”
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Posted by Jack Russell on October 24, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Cap’n Jack argues for fewer months with “R” — or perhaps just a delay for cold water and higher prices for oyster harvesting.
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Posted by Jack Russell on September 25, 2017 · 1 Comment
Introducing the first installment to appear online of Mary Gale Adams’ “A Who’s Who of St. George Island,” a work called “a true oral history.” The 250-page compilation of stories, recipes, and home remedies was collected, written, typed, bound, and covered by Ms. Adams, herself a native of the St. George Island community.
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