The links below take you on a journey exploring the traditions and heritage of the Bay's people and places. The book Window on the Chesapeake highlights 35 great stories of people living and working along the Bay, and the monthly magazine Bay Journal profiles a new Chesapeake Gateway each month.

Window on the Chesapeake: The Bay, Its People and Places delivers 35 compelling portraits of individuals and destinations that are Chesapeake through and through. A joint project of the Gateways Network and the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, Window is available at many Network sites and through the Mariner's Museum Store. It features dozens of individual Gateways as seen through the eyes of people whose lives are inextricably linked with the Bay.

Excerpts from Window on the Chesapeake:

• One Stream At A Time
• Bay Songs and Beer
• Flower Hunter
• The Sneaker Index
• True Calling
• Tiny Towns and Old Rivers

• Won't You Help Me Raise 'Em Boys!
• Carver's Song
• A Friend of Dragon Run
• Monitor Man
• Tuckahoe
• Of Birds and Butterflies

Bay Journal, a monthly newspaper focusing on diverse Chesapeake Bay issues regularly profiles a Chesapeake Bay Gateway. Read the stories of these special places below - and consider ordering a free subscription to Bay Journal!

• Eastern Neck Island's marshes a magnet for winter waterfowl (February 2010) - William Dixon made his first approach to Eastern Neck Island in 1923, on the edge of a nor'easter. But it wasn't the storm that impressed him.
• Lose yourself in Marshy Point's beauty-but first you have to find it (January 2010) - The Marshy Point Nature Center isn't exactly off the beaten track, but it's not that easy to stumble upon, either.
• Migratory geese find sanctuary at Merkle; visitors will, too (December 2009) - There's a daily migration along a small stretch of the Patuxent River each winter-an airborne echo of a much longer, annual journey for thousands of Canada geese.
• 1 million years of geology & 15,000 years of human history (November 2009) - The eagle, in a steep, elegant dive toward the watery field of lotus plants, would have been enough.
• Meander through habitats lost in time along Parkers Creek (October 2009) - The day is fading. Minnows launch themselves across the surface of the water like tiny skipping stones that vanish with a silver flash. Eagles shift position between the trees.



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