As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.
Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water.
Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data.
Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects.
A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline.
JACK GREER'S STORIES are peopled by characters who are ocean sailors linked by their love of the sea. All of them, for different reasons, have left the U.S. mainland for the open waters of the Atlantic and the islands of the Caribbean where they face inner fears and outside threats from storms, strangers, and their own failures of judgment. In the title story, a cardiologist sailing among the islands by himself is stranded one night and confronted by a menacing islander; in "Souvenir's Last Passage," an aging woman faces a hostile boarding in the dead of night. Greer's stories are strikingly realistic, their lean narrative style graceful and exact, anchored in a sailor's competence that is always attentive to the sea and its beauty, but also alert to its dangers.
Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Maryland Sea Grant, Greer has worked on and written about Bay issues for nearly three decades. During all these years, on his own time, he has also written fiction and poetry, twice winning awards from the Maryland State Arts Council for his fiction.
Greer will read from
Abraham's Bay & Other Stories on Sunday, March 29, 2009, at the bookstore Politics & Prose on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Merrill Leffler
This book is available from commercial booksellers (see Dryad Press).
As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.
Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water.
Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data.
Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects.
A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline.
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