Cultural depictions Chesapeake Bay

1 cultural depictions

1.1 in literature
1.2 in film
1.3 other media

cultural depictions
in literature

beautiful swimmers: watermen, crabs , chesapeake bay (1976) pulitzer prize-winning non-fiction book william w. warner chesapeake bay, blue crabs , watermen.
chesapeake, 1978 novel author james a. michener
john barth wrote 2 novels featuring chesapeake bay; sabbatical: romance (1982) centered on yacht race through bay, , tidewater tales (1987) detailed married couple telling stories each other cruise bay.
jacob have loved (1980) katherine paterson, winner of 1981 newbery medal. novel relationship between 2 sisters in waterman family grow on island in bay.
in tom clancy s 1987 book patriot games, main protagonist jack ryan lives on fictional peregrine cliffs overlook chesapeake bay.
class conflict between waterman people , wealthy newcomers portrayed in priscilla cummings s novel red kayak.

in film

the bay, 2012 found footage-style eco-horror movie pandemic due deadly pollution chicken factory farm run-off , mutant isopods , aquatic parasites able infect humans.

other media

singer , songwriter tom wisner recorded several albums, chesapeake bay. boston globe wrote wisner tried capture voice of water , sky, of rocks , trees, of fish , birds, of gods of nature believed still watched on all. known bard of chesapeake bay.

the 1976 hit moonlight feels right starbuck refers chesapeake bay: ll take on trip beside ocean / , drop top @ chesapeake bay.