07/11/2026
"Evening Along the Eastern Shore" One tidal inlet among many on the nearly 12,000 mile shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay. My grandsons had fun catching blue crabs on a line—chicken-necking—from the end of a nearby boat dock. The vacation days were sweltering, and the humid nights were lit in the distance by heat lightning, but the area around St. Michaels was charming.