Photos: Chesapeake Bay freeze, Eastern Shore workboats on ice
My friend Kurt Kolaja, videographer and filmmaker, traveled a bit on Maryland’s Eastern Shore on Jan. 30, capturing these scenes from Kent Narrows, Turner’s Creek and Chestertown. The last time the Chesapeake saw extensive ice — so thick in some places that you could drive a car onto it — was the winter of 1976-1977.
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Dan Rodricks is a former long-time columnist for The Baltimore Sun, winner of numerous national and regional journalism awards, a radio and TV personality, podcaster and fly angler. His narrative memoir, "Father's Day Creek," was published in May 2019 by Apprentice House at Loyola University Maryland.
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I remember taking our 2 children skating on Spa Creek here in Annapolis in that winter of 1976/77. Even one of the priests from St Mary’s Church was whizzing around on skates. He played hokey in Brooklyn growing up, he stated. The headline in The Capital Gazette after days of cold and ice was “We Give Up.”
I remember taking our 2 children skating on Spa Creek here in Annapolis in that winter of 1976/77. Even one of the priests from St Mary’s Church was whizzing around on skates. He played hokey in Brooklyn growing up, he stated. The headline in The Capital Gazette after days of cold and ice was “We Give Up.”
Thanks for sharing Kurt Kolaja’s photos. It brings back so many memories of trips across the Bay – by car or boat – stopping at Kent Narrows to eat at Harris Crab House. Thank him for your readers.
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I remember taking our 2 children skating on Spa Creek here in Annapolis in that winter of 1976/77. Even one of the priests from St Mary’s Church was whizzing around on skates. He played hokey in Brooklyn growing up, he stated. The headline in The Capital Gazette after days of cold and ice was “We Give Up.”
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I remember taking our 2 children skating on Spa Creek here in Annapolis in that winter of 1976/77. Even one of the priests from St Mary’s Church was whizzing around on skates. He played hokey in Brooklyn growing up, he stated. The headline in The Capital Gazette after days of cold and ice was “We Give Up.”
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Thanks for publishing these! Nancy
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Thanks for sharing Kurt Kolaja’s photos. It brings back so many memories of trips across the Bay – by car or boat – stopping at Kent Narrows to eat at Harris Crab House. Thank him for your readers.
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