Review: Great story about the oyster business before the Civil War
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
I enjoyed Chesapeake 1850. It gave me a view of the Chesapeake Bay that I, as a Midwesterner, did not have. Life on a "buyboat" (a term I'd never come across) was new to me, and the entrepreneurial life of getting oysters from the river to the market was something I'd never contemplated. Even though my family roots are in southern Maryland in the late 1680s, I had always thought of Maryland as having been "in the North". Thanks to Ken Rossignol, I have a new awareness of life on the Chesapeake. Thanks!