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On these crisp Autumn mornings you will see them out in their boats tonging oysters - in St. Georges Creek; in the Patuxent River; down in the York and Kappahannock; and in the Potomac You won’t see them in the James River; kepone has closed that river to oystering. The Kepone incident is just one of the many dramatic events which have gradually made the life of the Chesapeake Bay watermen a most difficult endeavor.
An entire culture is threatened by the pollution in the rivers, streams, and the Bay itself. A culture that is being sacrificed on the altar of economic development. A culture apparently viewed as expendable by the advocates of poorly managed growth on the surrounding shores. *
The names of these men - Evans, Sayre, Swann, Robrecht, Brown, Huseman, Copsey and many more - can be found in the passenger lists of the boats carrying the early settlers to Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore, and Virginia. Indeed, many of the ancestors of the families who
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