In Cove Point on the Chesapeake: The Beacon, the Bay, and the Dream, Carol Booker tells the story of how nature and human desire define a singular place along storied waters.
Booker writes of heroes, scoundrels and the families who populated a tiny waterfront community, once known mainly for shipwrecks and treacherous riptides, that became a World War II training ground, the locale for hunting buried treasure, and later a cog in the global energy trade with a natural gas plant.
In its pages are tales of exploration and heroism, sports and tragedies including a riptide referred to as the devil’s grasp by a man who survived.
Cove Point on the Chesapeake tells of the resolve of a displaced Russian princess to rebuild her culture along the the nation’s largest estuary. With solid reporting and interviews, Booker writes of the cunning of the developer who mapped the marshy shores and lured Washingtonians to a little-known stretch of shoreline for extraordinary fishing and easy living.
A resilient lighthouse illuminates this rare spot on earth and a century of its inhabitants, much as does the fetching prose of veteran journalist Booker.
Table des matières
PROLOGUE
1. THROUGH THE EXPLORER’S EYES
2. THE BEACON
3. THE COVE
4. THE CUNNING OF J. COOK WEBSTER
5. THE LEGEND OF TRYN TRAVA
6. THE INVASION
7. THE FIFTIES
8. THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
9. THE EYE OF THE STORM
10. THE DEVIL’S GRASP
11. BEHEMOTHS ON THE BAY
12. THE EVIL WITHIN
13. THE GIANT AWAKENS
14. THEN AND NOW
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A propos de l’auteur
Carol. Booker is a graduate of the City University of New York and Georgetown University Law Center. As a journalist, Booker’s beat ran from civil rights to the Nigerian civil war. She worked as a writer/editor/reporter for the Voice of America, and freelanced in Africa for Westinghouse (Group W) Broadcasting, covering the Nigerian Civil War and other stories in ten African nations. Her articles and/or photography have also been published in The Washington Post, and Ebony and Jet magazines. After graduation from Georgetown University law school, she became legal counsel to public and international broadcasting entities, the environmental giant Greenpeace, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She is a (retired) Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
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