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Books

Title Author Price
"Swish" Nicholson
Robert A. Greenberg
$32.00
The first biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger, a Cubs favorite and baseball's top slugger during the World War II era.


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.


Chestertown 1940- DVD
$12.00
120 minute DVD of 1940's Chestertown.


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 - Video
$8.00
120 minute black and white video of 1940's Chestertown


Early Buildings and Historic Artifacts in Tidewater Maryland
H. Chandlee Forman
$20
Contains more than 600 drawings and photographs. Subjects range from old buildings with floor plans and construction details, old gardens, furniture, panelling, plats and folk arts to historic foundations with their household plans.


Historic Houses of Kent County
Michael Owen Bourne
$75
A MUST HAVE! This acclaimed history covers more than 200 years (1642 - 1860) of architecture and cultural traditon in Kent County, Maryland. Over 300 houses and sites, 1,000 photographs, maps, floor plans and other illustrations.


Images of America "Rock Hall"
Robin Kurowski, Joan Horsey, and Jerry Keiser
$21.00
By using archival photographs and vintage postcards the authors have done a wonderful job of bringing the past back to life. This edition includes Rock hall, tolchester Beach, Eastern Neck Island and the Chesapeake Bay


Key to Old Kent
various
$5.00
Journals of the Historical Society of Kent County on various topics and essays in local history. Free to members.


Rolling Year on Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore, The
H. Chandlee Forman
$45.00
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.


Steamboat Days - Betterton and Tolchester Beach
James Tigner Jr.
$30.00
A wonderful book showing glorious scenes of Betterton and Tolchester Beach when steamboats brought thousands of visitors to play on the shores of the bay.


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.


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


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


War of 1812 in the Chesapeake
Ralph Eshelman, Scott Sheads, Donald Hickey
$65.00
A reference guide to historic sites of the War of 1812 in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. A definitive work on the subject, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. 410 pp.


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.