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The Seance

Tapping into the Ouija board like a phone line to ghosts

Jane C. Elkin

One month before college graduation with a blank future looming, I accepted a coworker’s invitation to a séance. She made it sound like such a good idea. “A ghost saved my cousin’s life,” Barb insisted. “She warned him against a cross-country bike trip where his friend was hit by a semi-truck two days into the journey.” She said that ghosts were omnipresent and omniscient. They were trapped souls looking for resolution to their own problems, tapping into the Ouija board like a phone line.

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– by Jane C. Elkin – 10/22/15

The Intruders

The loudness of their voices filled the darkness of the sleeping house — A memoir circa 1951

Sandra Olivetti Martin

The house breathed noisily around the sleeping girl and dog. This house was too new for ghosts to have gathered, but floors creaked and walls settled in stealthy metabolism. Blown by the whirring fan, summer-light white eyelet curtains sucked the screens. Outside in the big dark beyond the open windows, cicadas shrilled. When a breeze stirred, enclosing junipers ran their green fingers down the screens’ outer skin.

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– by Sandra Olivetti Martin – 10/22/15

Travels with a Good Book

Bay Weekly’s Summer Reading Guide

A good book can take us farther than an airplane, keep us otherwise occupied longer than a week away from home and cost far less than any vacation. True, I’d rather be reading my book on a sandy beach with an ocean breeze. But even on my own back deck, lolling my cushy birthday chaise, a good book, a summer’s day and a cool drink make a vacation. In that spirit, the Bay Weekly family of readers offers its annual summer reading special.

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Summer Reading Guide

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– by – 6/25/15

Last-Minute Camp Guide

Camps are filling up fast. But there’s still room ...

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– by – 5/14/15

Spring Home & Garden Guide

Renewal is the irresistible urge of spring, reaching from the ground up into our homes and hearts.
   It’s time to make some changes. But unless you bring home some new ideas, you’ll be recycling the same old stuff.
   In the nick of time, here’s Bay Weekly’s 2015 Home and Garden Guide, bringing you 28 partners to inspire and assist your renewal.

All the Tools Your Inner Artist Needs Are you a DIY sort of person? Do you need supplies and inspiration for your creative projects? Art Things, Inc. in West Annapolis is a place you should explore.

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– by – 4/2/15

Bay Weekly's 2015 Summer Camp Guide

Greater Annapolis

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– by – 3/5/15

Bay Weekly's 2015 Dining Guide

Bay Weekly’s annual Dining Guide will make you hungry. Its very words melt in your mouth: Angus burgers, Bananas Foster, Barramundi Caprese, BossMan’s BBQ, bulgogi, Caramel and Coconut cake, Gambas al Ajillo, Hungarian mushroom soup, Littleneck clams and tasso ham, Munster Cheese and Crab Soup, New York-style pizza, Pad Pik Khing, Rockfish Amalfitana, Shipwreck Shrimp, Tikka Masala, Vallarta. From sharp to sweet to savory, it’s all here.

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– by – 1/29/15

Best of the Bay 2014

And the Winners Are ...

We’ve saved the best for last. That’s Best of the Bay, Bay Weekly’s 17th annual report on what, and who, gives you the most satisfaction in Chesapeake Country. I love this issue because of its scope. First, Bay Weekly’s Best of the Bay encompasses more than 200 categories ranging from Best Crab Soup, Best Overall Restaurant, Best Gift Shop, Best View and many more.

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– by – 12/25/14

Bay Weekly's 2014 Summer Camp Guide

Greater Annapolis

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– by – 3/6/14

Bay Weekly's 2014 Dining Guide

Your Source for Good Eating on Chesapeake Bay

Welcome to Bay Weekly’s annual Dining Guide, a tour of good eats and good eating. In this special, you’ll visit the many restaurants, delis, groceries and seafood markets whose advertising in our pages brings you Bay Weekly 52 weeks of each year. Most are locally owned, and all are in our neighborhoods. Each is unique in its offerings — from fin- and shellfish fresh from the Bay to fine beef to satisfying preparations and presentation whether home style or exotic to regionally famous wines and beers to inventive cocktails.

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– by – 1/30/14