Hoyer Praises John Glenn’s Many Achievements
Sen. John Glenn, 95, former naval aviator and astronaut and a source of local pride, died Dec. 8 at a Columbus, Ohio, hospital. He had been a test pilot at NAS Patuxent River in the 1940s.
Why Oysters Matter: An Ecologist’s View
Oysters are not the only filter feeders in the Chesapeake Bay. Fish, other mussels, plankton, and other invertebrates also filter food from the water. However, not all filter feeders are created equal.
SlackWater Explores Bay Oyster’s History
Once strictly utilitarian in value, these oyster cans — part of James Banagan’s collection — are now prized for their aesthetics and historic meaning.
Watershed Exhibition Opens at SMCM
Join the Atlantika Collective at its inaugural exhibition for The Watershed Project at the Boyden Gallery at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. The exhibition will run until Nov. 22, 2016.
’70s in St. Mary’s: Formative, Transformative
The 1970s in St. Mary’s County: These years were fundamentally formative and even transformative, and the landscape we negotiate today is the landscape born of that era.
Slackwater’s Barn Prayer
The Slackwater Center installment offers an Ode to Tobacco Barns of the Past.
Knights of the Round Table
By the 1960s, the military had come to define Lexington Park. The new boom town became the center of new consumerism in St. Mary’s County.
Pax River Turns Its Gaze Skyward
From The Slackwater Center’s 2009 archives: Local residents recall Patuxent River Naval Air Station’s role in the early years of the Space Race.
Photographic Project Comes to St. Mary’s
A photography project, Water Memories, will focus on people near the water and be displayed using water. Call 240-462-6573.
In It To Win It
It was the late 1960s, and a quiet deal to build an oil refinery in Piney Point, MD, on the Potomac River, jolted the Potomac River Association into action.
