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Read About St. Michaels
A quasi-bibliography and some helpful hints in no particular order.
  • Talbot County Office of Tourism; 11 South Harrison Street, Easton, MD 21601; 410-770-8000


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  • Get a copy of the St. Michaels Visitor's Guide by writing to The St. Michaels Business Association, P.O. Box 1221, St. Michaels, MD 21663 or by calling 1-800-808-SMBA (7622).


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  • Contact The Talbot County Chamber of Commerce; Suite 53, Easton Plaza, 101 Marlboro Street, P. 0. Box 1366; Easton, MD 21601, (410) 822-4653; Fax (410)-822-7922.


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    • Request a copy of the 'Talbot County Tradewinds Welcome to Talbot County Community Profile". This is especially helpful if you wish to purchase a home, business or plan to retire here.

    • Also request from the Talbot County Chamber of Commerce a copy of the "Visitors Guide" and the "County Brochure."
  • Secure some travel guides from your local library such as Fodor's "Virginia and Maryland - The Complete Guide, with Baltimore, Williamsburg and the Chesapeake".


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  • Join the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and receive their fascinating semi-annual journal, The Weather Gauge. They also publish a quarterly newsletter: On The Beam, which lists a fascinating score of events each year. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum; Mill Street; P.0. Box 636; St. Michaels, MD 21663-0636; (410)-745-2916.


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  • Purchase a cruising guide for the mid-Chesapeake, available at many marine dealers.


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  • Purchase ADC's Street Map of Talbot County Maryland which includes St. Michaels, Easton. Oxford, Tilghman Island, Wye Mills and Trappe. ADC Maps, 6440 General Green Way; Alexandria, VA; 22312; (703)-750-0510.


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  • Read Michener's Chesapeake. This area and just south of here is the setting for this dynamic novel. Michener lived in St. Michaels when he wrote the tome. 1978 Random House, Inc.; later published in soft cover by Ballantine Books.


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  • Read William W. Warner's Beautiful Swimmers, Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise on the savory callinectus sapidus (Chesapeake blue crab). It provides an invaluable background on the people and places of this colorful region. Little, Brown and Co.; 1976, 1994.

  • Peruse the following two books for background on pirates, privateers, and raiders on the Chesapeake and a view of St. Michaels as a major shipbuilding center supporting the War of 1812.


    1. The Republic's Private Navy - The American Privateering Business as Practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812,by Jerome R. Garitee; Wesleyan University Press (for Mystic Seaport, Inc.): 1977.


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    2. Pirates on the Chesapeake - Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610 - 1807 by Donald G. Shomette; Tidewater Publishers; 1985.


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  • Subscribe to the local newspapers/magazines:


  • Read the St. Michaels Walking Tour page or request a copy of the brochure be sent to you. The brochure, put out by the St. Michaels Museum at St. Mary's Square, includes detailed information on over thirty important and significant historical buildings in town. The St. Mary's Square Museum is open Sat/Sun from May through October in historic St. Michaels.
  • A must read. St. Michaels: The Town That Fooled The British Gilbert Byron; St. Mary's Square Museum, Inc.; 1963, 1971, 1986. This booklet provides some rich historical background on St. Michaels' involvement in the British raid on St. Michaels during the War of 1812. About $2 at the St. Mary's Square Museum, St. Michaels.


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  • Check out Historic St. Michaels: An Architectural History, by Hughes, Elizabeth, St. Michaels, Md.: Historic St. Michaels - Bay Hundred, 1996. This is an historic interpretation of St. Michaels through its architecture. P.O. Box 964; St. Michaels, MD 21663.


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  • Serious History/Architecture buffs might want to study the application filed with the U.S. National Park Service for the St. Michaels Historic District. It is on file at the Talbot County Free Library (Maryland Room, 410-822-1626) and at the Maryland Historical Trust Library (410-514-7616). The application was prepared by Paul Baker Touart. "St. Michaels Historic District", National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, T-577; March 28, 1986. The document also contains a number of footnotes for further Investigation.


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  • Don't miss any of the many national or local TV treasures on the Chesapeake which are shown regularly.
 

Further Reading (and Viewing) About St. Michaels

  • The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth; Doubleday; 1987
  • Chesapeake Bay Schooners; Quentin Snediker and Ann Jensen; Tidewater Publishers, 1992
  • Maryland's Eastern Shore - A Journey in and Place; John R. Wennersten; 'tidewater Publishers; 1992
  • The Oyster Wars of the Chesapeake Bay; John R. Wennersten; Tidewater Publishers; 1981
  • Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks: Pat Vojtech: Tidewater Publishers: 1993
  • Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes; Marion Vernon Brewington; Tidewater Publishers; 1963.
  • Bringing Back the Bay: The Chesapeake in the Photography of Marion E. 
  • Warren and the Voices of Its People; Marion E. Warren with Mame Warren; The Johns Hopkins University Press,, 1994.
  • Day Trips in Delmarva - A guide to southern Delaware and the Eastern 
  • Shore of Maryland and Virginia; Alan Fisher; Rambler Books, 1992.
  • Bay Country; Tom Horton; The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1987.
  • Life in the Chesapeake Bay; Alice Jane Lippson and Robert L. Lippson. The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1984,
  • Black Pioneers of Seafood Packing, Richard J. Dodds; The Weather Gauge, Volume XXII, Number 1. 1985; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
  • Another Look at the Battle of St. Michaels; Norman H. Plummer; The Weather 
  • Gauge, Volume XXXI, Number 1, Spring 1995; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
  • Midas Goes to War, The Journal of Her Captain; Ellen K. Plummer; The 
  • Weather Gauge, Volume XXIX Number 2. Fall 1993; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
  • The Pungy Boat in Talbot County; Geoffrey M. Footner; The Weather Gauge; Volume XXV, Number 1, Spring, 1989; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
  • Enterprise... A Hallowed Name; Geoffrey M. Footner, The Weather Guage; Volume XXX, Number 2, Fall 1994; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
  • Magic, Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe; Pete Lesher-, The Weather Gauge; Volume XXX Number 2, Fall 1994; Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

The History of St. Michaels • Things to Do in St. Michaels • Read About St. Michaels
Phone Numbers and Information • Tour St. Michaels

St. Michaels Maryland Business Association
PO Box 1221 | St. Michaels, Maryland (MD) 21663
Toll Free: 1-800-808-SMBA (7622) | Local 1-410-745-0411 |
Email:  info@stmichaelsmd.org Website:  www.stmichaelsmd.org