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!

• Wye Grist Mill still keeping its nose to the grindstone (September 2010) - When the water wheel moves at the Wye Grist Mill, the entire building feels the rhythm. The millstones whirl and rumble. The floorboards hum underfoot.
• The Maryland Wilderness shows visitors it's a zoo out there in their own backyards (June 2010) - Ever since he was born two years ago, a visit to the Maryland Zoo has become all about the baby elephant.
• Diversity of resources at Riverbend has attracted visitors for millenia (May 2010) - An uplifted face, hewn from the wooden top of a modern-day totem pole, basks in the sun. It faces east, where the morning light floods through a wall of windows at the Riverbend Park Visitors Center. It also faces the river.
• From ancient sharks to modern menaces, museum educates, entertains all ages (April 2010) - When you're running a museum that welcomes more than 70,000 visitors a year, hosts rock stars such as Bob Dylan, and relies on staff members to catch the sea nettles and puffers on display, it's important to have a sense of humor.
• 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.



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