Volume 11 Issue 15
April 10-16, 2003

On Our Cover
Spring Hoists the Start of Sailing Season: Rounding the mark on 12-meter racing yachts, sailors jockey for position in one of the many regattas that return to our Bay each spring, summer and fall. Photo courtesy of Ocean Race Chesapeake.


Singing the Chesapeake
John Denver Award-Winning Folk Musician Tom Wisner
by Kent Mountford
“For a guy parading as a singer-songwriter in the Chesapeake boonies for the past 35 years,” says Wisner, “getting the John Denver award is like getting an Oscar from God.”

Chesapeake Discoveries
Anne Arundel County Gets a New Old Town
by Pat Piper
Buried for three centuries, Herrington sees daylight again.