Chesapeake

Old-school but updated accommodations on the Chesapeake Bay, Gulf Coast, and other Southern waterways

With a hatchet, a knife, paintbrushes, and a deep reverence for nature and American folk art, Mark McNair turns out some of the finest decoys ever to float the Atlantic coast

Spine-tingling page-turners from a longtimer and a rising writer

Meet the dedicated Maryland watermen keeping the last of these traditional boats afloat

At a historic duck camp on the Chesapeake Bay, a family has made it its mission to introduce new hunters to waterfowling, while instilling a conservation ethic that will carry the next generation

In praise of simple summers by the shore

Once wiped out from the Chesapeake, bay scallops are returning to area waters—and dinner plates

Explore the gardens of this Maryland estate

Local chefs are rediscovering homegrown ingredients