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With his songs, stories, art and educational projects, Tom Wisner ‘gathered up’ thousands of people to focus on their relation to the Chesapeake.  Countless children grew up knowing that they were, as his song said, ‘Chesapeake born.’ Adults treasured tales of earlier times in Bay life as well as celebrating their personal connections to Chesapeake rivers and Bay waters.  His Southern Maryland home’s staircase walls were filled with framed awards for his work.

When he died on April 2, 2010, hundreds of people, including Maryland Governnor Martin O’Malley gathered to honor his life.

Gather ‘Round Chesapeake tells the story behind the public performances:  Tom’s own reflections on the importance of joining music and the arts to history and the sciences — all of which have a part in coming to know Chesapeake rivers and the Bay.   Its pages include short celebratory poems and journal entries about his own creative process and approach to Chesapeake education.  One section gathers key ideas from a University of Maryland coursebook he wrote in the late 1980s.  Another contains autobiographical musings.  Still another holds the spiritual insights that deepened the meaning of his work.

The collection is illustrated by Tom Wisner’s drawings and photos, somenever before published.

Editor Sara Ebenreck Leeland coordinated the first years of the highly successful cross-disciplinary environmental studies program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.  She co-founded the CHESTORY project with Tom Wisner and worked with him for a decade.

If you haven’t seen the definitive story of the decades-old struggle to restore the Patuxent then here is your chance. Immortalized on video, this documentary was produced by award winning local television producer Frank Cevarich. Years in the making this unique record captures through both historical and contemporary footage the evolution of a movement that went on to capture the hearts and minds of an entire generation of water quality advocates beyond the Chesapeake Bay! Starring Senator Bernie Fowler and a cast of others who have been on the front lines of the quest to restore clean water to Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway. You can order your DVD copy exclusively from Patuxent Riverkeeper. Price includes shipping.

Handmade Recycled Rain Barrels. We make these at our office using recycled 55 gallon plastic drums.  They are all ready to be hooked into your gutter or rainwater drainage system. All you need except the rain. Each one has a spigot, a low drain and an overflow.  We seal all apertures with marine caulk so they will be long lasting.  Order these from us and you can pick them up at our office or we will deliver to anyplace within the Patuxent watershed at no extra charge.

(Waterproof edition) The Patuxent Riverkeeper is pleased to offer the first edition of the new Patuxent River Water Trail Guide and GPS-ready Map.  It is an in-depth navigational guide to paddling over 100 miles of waterways in central and southern MD.  The most detail, ideal for hikers, bikers, birders, horseback riders, orienteers, geocachers, fisherman, or nature lovers, is for the Mid-river section where nearly all 9000 contiguous public riverfront acres are mapped with every trail and stream bend shown.  

For boaters and paddlers, this comprehensive Patuxent Water Trail guide covers the river from the mouth near Solomons up through the Howard-Montgomery County reservoirs, with detailed descriptions of all 60 points of interest, water trail campsites, and access points.   Two by 2.5 feet, two-sided.

This is the first such detailed guide/map for paddlers for the whole river.  Its arrival is timely with the 2008-9 official opening of the Patuxent Water Trail and campsites.  Included is a GPS grid and/or coordinates, web instructions for tides, river levels, reservations info., costs, hours, parking availability, driving directions, distances of carries at put-ins, etc.  “Local knowledge” is included in the text boxes on all 60 sites on the water trail map, as the cartographer has personally visited every site recently.  The map even depicts public vs. private and marsh vs. “solid” shorelines!   A special inset map highlights navigational challenges amidst the many channels of the Bowie to Central Ave. non-tidal section.

(Non waterproof edition) The Patuxent Riverkeeper is pleased to offer the first edition of the new Patuxent River Water Trail Guide and GPS-ready Map.  It is an in-depth navigational guide to paddling over 100 miles of waterways in central and southern MD.  The most detail, ideal for hikers, bikers, birders, horseback riders, orienteers, geocachers, fisherman, or nature lovers, is for the Mid-river section where nearly all 9000 contiguous public riverfront acres are mapped with every trail and stream bend shown.  

For boaters and paddlers, this comprehensive Patuxent Water Trail guide covers the river from the mouth near Solomons up through the Howard-Montgomery County reservoirs, with detailed descriptions of all 60 points of interest, water trail campsites, and access points.   Two by 2.5 feet, two-sided.

This is the first such detailed guide/map for paddlers for the whole river.  Its arrival is timely with the 2008-9 official opening of the Patuxent Water Trail and campsites.  Included is a GPS grid and/or coordinates, web instructions for tides, river levels, reservations info., costs, hours, parking availability, driving directions, distances of carries at put-ins, etc.  “Local knowledge” is included in the text boxes on all 60 sites on the water trail map, as the cartographer has personally visited every site recently.  The map even depicts public vs. private and marsh vs. “solid” shorelines!   A special inset map highlights navigational challenges amidst the many channels of the Bowie to Central Ave. non-tidal section.