Hoopers Island (MD) (Images of America)
Jacqueline Simmons Hedberg was born on Hoopers Island, where her family has lived for more than 300 years. In 2000, she organized the Friends of the Old Hoopers Island Graveyard to save an Ã‚"Endangered Maryland TreasureÃ‚" on Upper Hoopers Island. She is also the author of a genealogy, A Family of the Chesapeake: Edward Simmons of Dorchester County, Maryland, and His Descendants. The authorÃ‚'s family and friends have provided her with a rich collection of both photographs and stories that help to capture the life of Hoopers Island that once was.