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The steamships of the Old Bay Line that once plowed the waters of the Chesapeake Bay found another use during the Second World War. Harold Wilson talks with Jack Shaum, author of "122 Years on the Old Bay Line" about that mission.

Harold’s guest is author Jack Shaum discussing Jack’s new book, 122 Years on The Old Bay Line. The beautiful steamships of the Old Bay Line, including The President Warfield, pictured above, plied the waters of the Chesapeake Bay and beyond for more than 100 years. They served in the Civil War, World War I, and The Second World War. And as late as 1961, according to Jack, you could still book passage for an overnight …

Harold Wilson’s guest is author Joseph Koper. They’re discussing his book The Isaiah Fountain Case; a factual account of the arrest, trial, and execution of Isaiah Fountain, an African American man in 1919 who was accused of raping a White girl in Talbot County. In the introduction to the book, Koper quotes the Eastern Star Democrat saying at the time “The Fountain case is one of the most noted in the …

Harold Wilson talks with former State Senator Gerald Winegrad about the waterborne diseases, particularly Vibrio Vulnificus and Mycobacterium marinum, in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. He represented the greater Annapolis area in the General Assembly for 16 years. He chaired the environment and Chesapeake Bay committee. Winegrad currently writes a commentary piece for the Sunday Capital on environmental …

It’s summer here on the Delmarva Peninsula, the beaches are open, and it’s time for the new edition in the Rehoboth Beach Reads Series—contest winning short stories published by Cat & Mouse Press and edited by Nancy Sakaduski. Harold Wilson’s guest is Nancy Sakaduski. Each year’s edition of winning short stories in the Series focuses on a different theme and this year the topic is beach secrets. Also joining Harold …

Harold Wilson talks with Ashley Sweeney about her new novel Hardland. Set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in small-town Arizona, Hardland tells the story of domestic violence survivor Ruby Fortune. More than a survivor, however, Ruby breaks the domesticated, subservient model of women expected in that period. She is an independent woman who knows herself and her value in a social and cultural…

Harold Wilson’s guests are Eastern Shore writers Barbara Shamp and David Salner. Salner is an accomplished poet with four poetry collections and poetry published in a number of literary journals including three editions of The Delmarva Review. He has received numerous poetry prizes and awards and his work has been read by Garrison Keillor on Writer’s Almanac. A Place to Hide is David Salner’s first novel.

May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old, (we won’t say his name), entered the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas and with an assault rifle fatally shot nineteen students - children really -, and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people. Earlier in the day, he shot his grandmother in the forehead at home, severely wounding her. Harold’s guest is Sarah Hidalgo-Cook and they talk about the recent shooting of the …

One of the great pleasures of living in the Chesapeake Bay area is “chicken necking” for blue crabs on a lazy summer afternoon and later sharing the savory bounty with good friends. Unfortunately, what used to be an abundance of crabs is dwindling to a trickle. To discuss the startling erosion of the blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay, Harold Wilson’s guest is former Senator Gerald Winegrad.

Dr. Murphy discusses the current state of the coronavirus, answers questions about testing, and provides information on long Covid. According to the NY Times the US is currently averaging more than 100,000 known cases of Covid per day for the first time since February. According to the NYT, cases are rising in nearly every state. In Maryland and Delaware, for example, cases have increased by 45 percent and 60 percent …

Harold Wilson’s guest is author and lecturer Joe Belden. Joe is the former Deputy Executive Director of The Housing Assistance Counsel, a national rural housing support organization. He currently lectures on issues affecting rural communities for the American University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and is the author of Dirt Rich, Dirt Poor: America’s Food and Farm Crisis.