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!

• Get lost on a river left almost as John Smith found it (May 2009) - Like an inverted tree with its roots gaining nourishment from the wetlands of Sussex and Kent counties in Delaware and Maryland's Dorchester County, the Nanticoke River flows through the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland and blends with the waters of Tangier Sound 50 meandering miles to the south.
• From canoes and schooners to skipjacks and kayaks... Choptank River has carried them all (April 2009) - Traffic jams on the Choptank River aren't what they used to be.
• Baltimore Museum of Industry shows city's can-do spirit (March 2009) - For a fleshy, faceless little creature, the Chesapeake's native oyster gets a lot of attention. It's a seafood delicacy, a pollution filter and an embattled Bay icon.
• Solitude awaits those willing to leave Leesylvania's waterfront (January 2009) - The Potomac River at Virginia's Leesylvania State Park has drawn humans for centuries. Most of them, regardless of the time period, have come for similar reasons: to escape the summer heat, fish or ride the river. While the latter two activities once focused on providing food and income, today's visitors come mostly for fun.
• Piscataway Park's role evolved from saving a view to sharing a point of view (December 2008) - To experience Piscataway Park on the eastern shore of the Potomac River, prepare to park twice.



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