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Books

Title Author Price
A Tricentennial History of St. Paul's Church, Kent
Edited by Davy H. McCall
$5.25
History of St. Paul's Church.


Answering Their Country's Call
Edited by Michael H. Rogers
$31.00
A compilation of essays written by Marylanders in WWII


Before the Refuge on Eastern Neck Island
Dave and Eloise Blanpied
$15.00
Collection of interviews, oral histories, maps and photos describing Eastern Neck Island before it became a wildlife refuge.


Bound For The Promised Land
Kate Clifford Larson
$27.00
A biography of Harriet Tubman published in 2004 using new sources.


Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties
Eric Mills
$26.00
Prohibition and how it affected people on the Chesapeake Bay.


Chestertown and Kent County
R. Jerry Keiser, Patricia Joan O. Horsey, and
$20.00
The history of Kent County told through postcards.


Chestertown: The Way We Were - DVD
$20.00
120 minute DVD of 1940's Chestertown.


Chestertown: The Way We Were - Video
$20.00
120 minute black and white video of 1940's Chestertown


Geddes-Poper House Coloring Book
Historical Society of Kent County, Maryland
$4.25
Coloring book using illustrations from the 1880's.


Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay And Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake
Donald G. Shomette
$30.00
Story of the New Jersey, a sunken steamship, and the first state-sponsored underwater archaeology agency in Maryland.


Guide to Kent County Heritage
Various
$5.00
A history of the towns that make up Kent County.


Here on the Chester
Edited by John Lang
$15.00
A collection of essays, poems and drawings put together by Washington College alumni, staff, professors and students.


Historic Bridges of Maryland
Dixie Legler and Carol M. Highsmith
$25.00
Book of history and photos of Maryland bridges.


Historic Graves, Private Burial Grounds and Cemeteries of Kent County,
Historical Society of Kent County
$8.00
Forty-nine page index.


In The Beginning
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Chestertown, Maryl
$25.00
cookbook (2006)


Lambert Wickes Pirate or Patriot?
Norman H. Plummer
$6.00
Forty-eight page pamphlet on the history of Lambert Wickes.


Letters From Vinnie
Maureen Stack Sappey
$17.85
The story of 16 year old Vinnie Ream in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. Vinnie Ream was a real person who sculpted the statue of Abraham Lincoln that stands in the Rotunda of the Capitol.


Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland
Donald G. Shomette
$35.00
The tale of ten Maryland towns that no longer exist.


Maryland Folklore
George G. Carey
$13.00
Maryland legends and folklore


Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution
M. Christopher New
$27.00
History of Maryland loyalists from before the Revolution through excile.


Oyster Moon
Margaret Meacham
$10.00
Children's chapter book that takes place on Maryland's Eastern Shore


Pirates on the Chesapeake
Donald G. Shomette
$25.00
A history of pirates on the Chesapeake Bay from 1610 to 1807


Queen Anne Goes to the Kitchen
The Episcopal Church Women of St. Paul's Pari
$20.00
cookbook


Sam The Tale of a Chesapeake Bay Rockfish
Kristina Henry
$11.00
Children's story.


Santa Claws The Christmas Crab
Priscilla Cummings
$11.00
Children's story of how a blue crab saves Christmas


Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake
Donald G. Shomette
$21.00
Maritime disasters on the Chesapeake Bay and it's Tributaries from 1608-1978.


Shrewsbury Parish Church Kent County, Maryland
Elizabeth H. Westcott
$3.00
Eight page pamphlet describing the church building and ministers from 1692 to 1977.


Soldiers At the Doorstep
Larry S. Chowning
$21.00
Compilation of Civil War lore that was passed down through the generations.


Tales of Kent County, Volume One
Various
$20.00
A journal filled with more than 40 stories of Chestertown and Kent County.


Talking Tidewater
Edited by Richard Harwood
$13.00
A collection of autobiographical essays by Chesapeake authors; essays about the culture of the Chesapeake region; and essays on the forces that shape the bay.


Tea Party at Chestertown
H. A. Maxson and Claudia H. Young
$9.40
Short children's chapter book.


The Doll House Mystery
Flora Gill Jacobs
$10.00
Signed copy - children's chapter book.


The Key to Old Kent
various
$5.00
Volume 1, Number 1 of a journal of the Historical Society of Kent County. Contains submissions on Benjamin Vickers, William "Swish" Nicholson, and others.


The Rolling Year on Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore
H. Chandlee Forman
$21.00
Early life and times on the Upper Eastern Shore using history recorded in a scrap book from 1895, and the authors research from courthouse and library records, old letters, and interviews. Information relating to Betterton, Still Pond and Kennedyville.


The Saga of Blunt's Warehouse
Reginald V. Truitt
$8.00
Twenty-one page pamphlet describing Kent Island, MD.


The Vanishing Landscape
Shirley Hampton Hunt
$45.00
A collection of black and white photographs of Maryland's Eastern Shore.


The Wished-For Country
Wayne Karlin
$17.80
A novel set in 1634 Maryland


The World Turned Upside Down
Ann Jensen
$10.00
Sixty-page children's chapter book about children in 1776 America.


Tombstoning in Kent County Maryland, Vol 2
Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland
$24.00
Tombstones in Election District 5 (Rock Hall) and 7 (Pomona)


Tombstoning in Kent County Maryland, Vol 3
Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland
$24.00
Tombstones in Election District 6 (Fairlee)


Tombstoning in Kent County Maryland, Vol 4
Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland
$24.00
Tombstones in Election District 2 (Kennedyville) and 3 (Worton/Betterton)


Tombstoning in Kent County Maryland, Vol. V
Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland
$30.00
Out of stock.


Tombstoning in Kent County Maryland, Vol.1
Upper Shore Genealogical Society of Maryland
$24.00
Tombstones in Election District 4.


Trumpington - A Legacy of Land on the Chesapeake Bay
Jenifer Grindle Dolde
$25.00
An in-depth look at three centuries of history of the family and farm at Trumpington, a great house near Rock Hall


While A Tree Grew
Elaine Rice Bachmann
$10.50
Children's story of Maryland's Wye Oak.


William Usilton of Kent County Maryland and Some of His Descendants
Ethel V. Tutle
$4.50
Thirty-one page pamphlet; geneology of William Usilton.


Windfall of Inherited Treasures
Betty Caruey Taussig
$25.00
The history of "Sunnyside", also known as the "Michael Stone House" through story and pictures.


Woodland Hall - Remembrances of the Family and Home
Mary Woodland Gould Tan and Virginia Carroll
$19.00
The true story of an Eastern Shore home that has been family-owned since it was built in 1782.