"Chesapeake (novel) Chesapeake is a novel by James A. Michener, published by Random House in 1978. The story deals with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area around Virginia and Maryland, from 1583 to 1978. The storyline, like much of Michener's work, depicts a number of characters over a long time period. Each chapter begins with a voyage which provides the foundation for the chapter plot. It starts in 1583 with American Indian tribes warring, moves through English settlers throughout the 17th century, slavery and tobacco growing, pirate attacks, the American Revolution and the Civil War, Emancipation and attempted"
"environment in general, through the works and legacy of Gilbert Bryon. Byron's biography, ""Gilbert Byron - A Life Worth Examining,"" was published in 2015 by the Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland Gilbert Byron Gilbert Valliant Byron was an American author, best known for his poems, short stories, novels, historical research, magazine and newspaper columns and articles detailing life on the Chesapeake Bay throughout the 20th century. Byron, who was born in Chestertown, Maryland on July 12, 1903, is sometimes referred to as ""The Voice of the Chesapeake"" and as ""the Chesapeake Thoreau,"" because he shares the same birth date"
"Gilbert Byron Gilbert Valliant Byron was an American author, best known for his poems, short stories, novels, historical research, magazine and newspaper columns and articles detailing life on the Chesapeake Bay throughout the 20th century. Byron, who was born in Chestertown, Maryland on July 12, 1903, is sometimes referred to as ""The Voice of the Chesapeake"" and as ""the Chesapeake Thoreau,"" because he shares the same birth date with Walden Pond's Henry David Thoreau. Gilbert Byron died shortly before his 88th birthday on June 25, 1991. During his lifetime, Byron had published 14 books and over 70 short stories, poems,"
"John Rollin Ridge John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827 – October 5, 1867), a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. Born in New Echota, Georgia, he was the son of John Ridge, and the grandson of Major Ridge, both of whom were signatories to the Treaty of New Echota, which Congress affirmed in early 1836, ceding Cherokee lands east of the Mississippi River and ultimately leading to the Trail of Tears. At the age of twelve, Ridge witnessed his father's death at the hands of supporters of Cherokee"
"Chesapeake Affair The ""Chesapeake"" Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On December 7, 1863, Confederate sympathizers from the Maritime Provinces captured the American steamer ""Chesapeake"" off the coast of Cape Cod. The expedition was planned and led by Vernon Guyon Locke (1827–1890) of Nova Scotia and John Clibbon Brain (1840–1906). George Wade of New Brunswick killed one of the American crew. The Confederacy had claimed its first fatal casualty in New England waters. The Confederate sympathizers had planned to re-coal at Saint John, New Brunswick, and then head south to Wilmington, North Carolina."
"the earlier affair, he is met with mistrust and hostility from American naval personnel due to the negative association of the ship. The subsequent capture of ""Chesapeake"" during the War of 1812 features prominently in the sixth Aubrey–Maturin novel, ""The Fortune of War,"" as Aubrey is aboard during the famous engagement. The ""Chesapeake""–""Leopard"" affair is mentioned in the ""Boston Jacky"" novel of the Bloody Jack Adventures series by L.A. Meyer. Chesapeake–Leopard affair The ""Chesapeake""–""Leopard"" affair was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British warship and the American frigate ."
"the Chesapeake Bay (Betterton, MD), hoping to sail and explore his interest in astronomy. He had a brief retirement, losing his own life to cancer in 1998. His ashes are interred in New Haven, Connecticut, next to his wife, Cynthia, and near the graves of his mother, stepfather, and his wife's parents. His epitaph, written by his older son, contains the words, ""Outstanding Intellect and Gentle Spirit."" Aaron E. Klein Aaron E. Klein (July 8, 1930 – March 14, 1998, Betterton, Maryland) was the author of many science and history of science books for young readers. He was a 1953"
"Sea Swept Sea Swept is the first book of four in the Chesapeake Bay novel series. Originally published in 1998. Cameron Quinn is a champion boat racer who travels the world and enjoys a lifestyle soaked in champagne and women. As a child, Cameron survived abuse before he was adopted by the Quinns after they caught him almost stealing their car. Now Cameron is called back to his childhood hometown of St. Christopher's on the Chesapeake Bay, his father dying from a car accident. He has to leave his reckless life of a daredevil behind and fulfill his father's wishes"
"USS Chesapeake (1799) Chesapeake was a 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She was one of the original six frigates whose construction was authorized by the Naval Act of 1794. Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young navy's capital ships. ""Chesapeake"" was originally designed as a 44-gun frigate but construction delays, material shortages, and budget problems caused builder Josiah Fox to alter her design to 38 guns. Launched at the Gosport Navy Yard on 2 December 1799, ""Chesapeake"" began her career during the Quasi-War with France and saw service in the First Barbary War."
"Messenger"" from 1835 to 1837. Yet in his poetry and fiction Poe rarely took up distinctively Southern themes or subjects; his status as a ""Southern"" writer remains ambiguous. In the Chesapeake region, meanwhile, antebellum authors of enduring interest include John Pendleton Kennedy, whose novel ""Swallow Barn"" offered a colorful sketch of Virginia plantation life; and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, whose 1836 work ""The Partisan Leader"" foretold the secession of the Southern states, and imagined a guerrilla war in Virginia between federal and secessionist armies. Not all noteworthy Southern authors during this period were white. Frederick Douglass's ""Narrative"" is perhaps the most"
"Chesapeake Bay. Argall arrived back at the Colony in the summer of 1610, when Royal Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr reinforced the defences of the English against the sometimes hostile Native Americans in Virginia. De La Warr, became so ill that in the spring of 1611 he sailed home to England, and Sir Thomas Dale took his place as Deputy Governor in charge of the Virginia Colony. When he returned to England, Lord de la Warr wrote a book, ""The Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De-La-Warre, of the Colonie, Planted in Virginia"", and remained nominally"
"Wertenbaker's ""Torchbearer of the Revolution: The Story of Bacon's Rebellion and Its Leaders"" (1940), Wesley Frank Craven's ""The Southern Colonies in the Seventheenth Century, 1607–1689"" (1949), and Carl Bridenbaugh's ""Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South"" (1952). Despite revision of the traditional historiography, African American slaves and women remained in the periphery of studies of the Chesapeake until the 1960s. Winthrop D. Jordan's ""White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812"" (1968) offered the first interpretation of the roles of women and slaves in the Chesapeake colonies. Since the 1960s, scholars have produced broad examinations of colonial Chesapeake"
"SS ""Chesapeake"" to its Union owners but the Confederate sympathizers escaped with the help of some Haligonians, creating tensions that received international attention. On August 18, 1864, the Confederate ship under the command of John Taylor Wood sailed into Halifax harbor for supplies, coal and to make repairs to its mainmast. Wood could only stay 48 hours under neutrality laws and began loading coal at Woodside, on the Dartmouth shore. Two Union ships were closing in on the ""Tallahassee"", the ""Nansemont"" and the ""Huron"" but had not yet arrived at the harbor approaches. Wood slipped out of the harbor under"
"Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leaned into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents. A native of Lynchburg, Virginia where he was born in 1943, Shepard's first short stories appeared in 1983, and his first novel, ""Green Eyes"", appeared in 1984. At the time, he was considered part of the cyberpunk movement. Shepard came to writing late, having first enjoyed a varied career, including a"
"""Watership Down"" by Richard Adams, a juvenile novel about a family of rabbits which found a home in mainstream literary circles. Joseph Heller's dramatic novel of middle age, ""Something Happened"", was the author's first book since ""Catch-22"" in 1961. James A. Michener also returned to prominence in the seventies, first with ""Chesapeake"", a story of four families interwoven throughout their interactions in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland, and later with ""Centennial"", a historical novel about a family living in Colorado in the time of the 1870s. In 1976, ""Centennial"" was adapted to a popular television miniseries. John Jakes would"
"Sam Shepard Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most won by any writer or director. He wrote 44 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play ""Buried Child"" and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983"
"Lorian Hemingway Lorian Hemingway (born December 15, 1951) is an American author and free-lance journalist. Her books include the memoir ""Walk on Water"", the novel ""Walking Into the River"", and the non-fiction book ""A World Turned Over"", about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966. Her articles have appeared in ""GQ"", ""The New York Times Magazine"", ""Esquire"", ""The Seattle Times"", ""Seattle Post-Intelligencer"", and ""Rolling Stone"". In 1992, Hemingway was nominated for The Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Fiction for her debut novel ""Walking Into the River"". In 1999 she received"
"census, the MSA had a population of 288,649. Chesapeake is derived from the Algonquin name for ""place where water is spread out"". Chesapeake is located at (38.428066, -82.454832). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 745 people, 345 households, and 195 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 399 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 96.8% White, 0.5% African American, 0.7% Native American,"
"Odell Shepard Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 in Sterling, Illinois – July 19, 1967 in New London, Connecticut) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Shepard was born in Illinois. He graduated from Harvard University, and taught at the English department of Yale University. A professor of English at Trinity College in 1917–1946, he was a mentor to Abbie Huston Evans. He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Shepard wrote a biography of"
"Sacajawea (novel) Sacajawea is a massive (over 1300 pages) historical fiction novel about the life of Sacajawea, noted Shoshone Indian travel guide of Lewis and Clark. It was written by Anna Lee Waldo and published in 1978. It took Waldo ten years to research and write the novel. ""Sacajawea"" is Waldo's first book. In the early 1980s, author Benjamin Capps sued Anna Lee Waldo and her publisher, Avon Books, for copyright infringement of parts of several of his works that were used in Sacajawea. A settlement was finalized in June 1983, whereby Capps agreed not to publicize the case. His"
"Mourning Dove (author) Mourning Dove or Christine Quintasket (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes) was a Native American author in the United States best known for her 1927 novel ""Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range"" and her 1933 work ""Coyote Stories"". ""Cogewea"" was one of the first novels to be written by a Native American woman and to feature a female protagonist. ""Cogewea"" explores the lives of Cogewea, a mixed-blood hero whose ranching skills, riding prowess, and bravery are noted and greatly respected by (the primarily mixed-race) cowboys on the ranch on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The"
"The Centaur The Centaur is a novel by John Updike, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1963. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Portions of the novel first appeared in ""Esquire"" and ""The New Yorker"". The French translation of the novel won the ""Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger"" (Best Foreign Book Prize). The story concerns George Caldwell, a school teacher, and his son Peter, outside of Alton (i.e., Reading), Pennsylvania. The novel explores the relationship between the depressive Caldwell and his anxious son. George has largely given up on life; what glory he knew, as a football"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"Chesapeake–Leopard affair The ""Chesapeake""–""Leopard"" affair was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British warship and the American frigate . The crew of ""Leopard"" pursued, attacked, and boarded the American frigate, looking for deserters from the Royal Navy. ""Chesapeake"" was caught unprepared and after a short battle involving broadsides received from ""Leopard"", the commander of ""Chesapeake"", James Barron, surrendered his vessel to the British. ""Chesapeake"" had fired only one shot. Four crew members were removed from the American vessel and were tried for desertion, one of whom was subsequently hanged."
"often during its career; records of the changes were not generally kept. ""Chesapeake"" was launched on 2 December 1799 during the undeclared Quasi-War (1798–1800), which arose after the French navy seized American merchant ships. Her fitting-out continued through May 1800. In March Josiah Fox was reprimanded by Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert for continuing to work on ""Chesapeake"" while ""Congress"", still awaiting completion, was fully manned with a crew drawing pay. Stoddert appointed Thomas Truxton to ensure that his directives concerning ""Congress"" were carried out. ""Chesapeake"" first put to sea on 22 May commanded by Captain Samuel Barron and"
"with considerable accuracy by O'Brian, with his fictional characters playing only minor roles in the action. The battle was discussed in the science fiction novel ""Starship Troopers"" by Robert A. Heinlein and was referred to in the novel ""Anne of the Island"" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Capture of USS Chesapeake The Capture of USS ""Chesapeake"", or the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy's frigate and American frigate , as part of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. The ""Chesapeake"" was captured in a brief but intense action"
"Chesapeake City, Maryland Chesapeake City is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, USA. The population was 673 at the 2010 census. The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman the Village of Bohemia — or Bohemia Manor — but the name was changed in 1839 when the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (C&D Canal) was built. Today, the town contains numerous old homes from that era that have been converted into bed and breakfasts, restaurants and the local historical museum. The town was separated into north and south sections when the C&D Canal was built through the middle of"
"Mattie Stepanek Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004), known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American poet (or as he wanted to be remembered as ""a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played"") who published seven best-selling books of poetry and peace essays. Before his death (at the age of 13) he had become known as a peace advocate and motivational speaker. Matthew Stepanek was born on July 17, 1990. Stepanek's parents divorced when he was a child. He was raised in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and later lived in Rockville, Maryland. His hero was"
"their letter. As a result, rather than the ""Chesapeake"" Affair being an official act of war, it was, in fact, an act of piracy and condemned as such by most of the newspapers in the Maritimes. Many Southerners settled in Canada after the war. In Halifax approximately 30 senior Naval and Army officers from the South settled in the city. Some of the most prominent were John Wilkinson (commander of the CSS Chickamauga), Thomas Edgeworth Courtenay, and John Taylor Wood. Chesapeake Affair The ""Chesapeake"" Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On December 7,"
"William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was not widely known"
"Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of"
"of complications from a stroke. Lucius Shepard Lucius Shepard (August 21, 1943 – March 18, 2014) was an American writer. Classified as a science fiction and fantasy writer, he often leaned into other genres, such as magical realism. His work is infused with a political and historical sensibility and an awareness of literary antecedents. A native of Lynchburg, Virginia where he was born in 1943, Shepard's first short stories appeared in 1983, and his first novel, ""Green Eyes"", appeared in 1984. At the time, he was considered part of the cyberpunk movement. Shepard came to writing late, having first enjoyed"
"to declare war on Britain on 18 June 1812. ""Chesapeake"", under the command of Captain Samuel Evans, was prepared for duty in the Atlantic. Beginning on 13 December, she ranged from Madeira and traveled clockwise to the Cape Verde Islands and South America, and then back to Boston. She captured six ships as prizes: the British ships ""Volunteer"", ""Liverpool Hero"", ""Earl Percy"", and ""Ellen""; the brig ""Julia"", an American ship trading under a British license; and ""Valeria"", an American ship recaptured from British privateers. During the cruise she was chased by an unknown British ship-of-the-line and frigate but, after a"