The Ecological and Cultural Preservation of the Chesapeake Bay

The traditions and landscape that make up the Chesapeake Bay are not like any other. The people and places unique only to the bay region are disappearing rapidly due to environmental changes and modernization. Resources like Chesapeake crabs and oysters have shaped the economic makeup of the bay and surrounding areas. Losing these resources will have devastating effects on the market, the people, and on the environment. Modernization is inevitable, as a culture can we go into the future and not look back?

Author

• Ball, Christina Lynn

Language

• en

Keyword

• Chesapeake Watermen
• Oyster
• Bay Culture
• Maryland's Eastern Shore
• Crabs
• Chesapeake Bay

Date created

• 2014

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Art and the Book

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Smith, Casey
• McAleer-Keeler, Kerry

Committee Member(s)

• Deal, Georgia
• Hurtt, Sarah N.
• Kharchi, Antje

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/0g354f345