November 19, 2019. This article was distributed by Bay Journal News Service. By Tom Horton This is a film about a remarkable couple, Mary Ada and Dwight Marshall, whose lives personify Chesapeake Bay’s waterman, seafood harvesting culture and history; also about the four children who chose to break with that tradition. The film, like my 1996 book, An Island Out of Time, is both celebration and elegy… The Chesapeake Bay has been the center of Tom Horton's long and remarkable career as a journalist and author. Several writers over the years have called the Bay watershed home .

Tom Horton has written about Chesapeake Bay for more than 40 years, including eight books. Tom Horton has written about the Chesapeake Bay in eight books and for the The Baltimore Sun and other publications for 45 years.

Eight literary figures with ties to the Chesapeake region. Tom Horton has written about the Chesapeake Bay in eight books and for the The Baltimore Sun and other publications for 45 years.

A native of Salisbury on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he still lives there while teaching writing and environmental topics at Salisbury University.

The film, like my 1996 book, An Island Out of Time, is both celebration and elegy… He currently teaches in the Environmental Studies Department at Salisbury University and writes the Chesapeake Born column for the monthly Bay Journal. Tom Horton covered environmental issues for the Baltimore Sun from 1974 until 2006. Photo by Dave Harp (ST MICHAELS, MD – August 14, 2018) Hear behind-the-scene stories and insights from the filmmakers as Tom Horton, Sandy Cannon-Brown, and David Harp share their newest collaboration, High Tide in Dorchester, with a special screening at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum on Thurs., Sept. 6, beginning at 5:00 p.m.. With a focus on Maryland’s Dorchester County, … (Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons) by Dylan Reynolds. By Tom Horton This is a film about a remarkable couple, Mary Ada and Dwight Marshall, whose lives personify Chesapeake Bay’s waterman, seafood harvesting culture and history; also about the four children who chose to break with that tradition. Posted on November 22, 2011 by Tom Horton • 1 Comment (Posted by Tom Horton.) More about Tom Horton → For a full list of our films, news videos, and photo collections, please visit the Multimedia page. Turning the Tide: Saving The Chesapeake Bay by Horton, Tom; Foundation, Chesapeake Bay; Eichbaum, William and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.

“You cannot manage what you do not understand,” the author says; and this book moves us toward understanding better the great gift that was Chesapeake Bay. Tom Horton, a former long-time writer for The Baltimore Sun, is author of six books about the Chesapeake. Documentaries produced by the Bay Journal are featured below. Tom Horton, Sandy Cannon-Brown, and Dave Harp merged their talents in 2015 to produce Beautiful Swimmers Revisited, an hour-long documentary film inspired by William W. Warner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay.