by admin | May 17, 2022 | Lightning Update
Riverbend (Photo Credit: National Park Service via Christopher Spielmann) Our January 25th Lighting Update provided a preview of important legislative and budgetary initiatives as the General Assembly sessions were underway in Maryland (MD) and Virginia (VA) and...
by admin | Apr 19, 2022 | Lightning Update
Elktonia (Photo Credit: Jody Couser, Chesapeake Conservancy) By Warren Brown Jazz legends Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington and Lionel Hampton. Soul artists Ray Charles, James Brown and Jackie Wilson. Rock ‘n’ Roll pioneers...
by admin | Apr 5, 2022 | Lightning Update
Pissacoack (Photo Credit: Jeffrey Allenby, Chesapeake Conservancy) On April 1, 2022, joined by Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the Rappahannock Tribe of Virginia celebrated a milestone in their centuries-long quest to return to their homeland along...
by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | Lightning Update
Susquehanna River, Asylum Township, Bradford County, as seen from Marie Antoinette Overlook along US Route 6 (Photo by Nicholas A. Tonelli). For thousands of years human survival depended on the ability to look over the landscape and identify where to hunt, gather,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2022 | Lightning Update
Image: Marking Milestones, CCP, (Nicholas A. Tonelli) Voluntary carbon offset programs are growing dramatically, driven by corporate net-zero pledges and increasing interest in carbon offsets to achieve Paris climate goals.1 Conservation, restoration and management of...
by admin | Feb 22, 2022 | Lightning Update
A group of African Americans pose aboard the bugeye Thomas Blades in the harbor of St. Michaels, Maryland, c. 1910. Image courtesy gift of Mary V. Thomas to the collection of Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Our sense of belonging is often tied as much to a physical...
