Volume II: Cedar Point, 1942
Volume II focuses on the significant change that St. Mary's County has gone through since the inception of Patuxent River Naval Air Station in 1942. Through telling stories of change and adaptation, of family legacies and newly formed traditions, of what it means to be old county or a newcomer, SlackWater explores how southern Maryland was transformed from an isolated agricultural community to one that reflected the social and economic changes of a larger nation.
Editors’ Introduction: “This Happened Here”
Julia King: A Legend of Maryland
PART I: ON SUSQUEHANNA
My Father was a Sharecropper, by J. Ogden Thomas
The Lighthouse Tender, by Myrtle Dare
The Way the Cipher Went, by Agnes Bean and Joseph Cullison
Speaking for Us, by J. Maguire and Richard Mattingly
PART II: LAND IS SACRED
Private Conversations, by Paul Bailey
Got a Retirement Out of It, by John Dawson
Land Is Sacred, by Anne Lancaster
Possum Up the Persimmon Tree, by Ruth Portee and Mary Louise Fleming
A Piece on the Hook, by Oliver Tippett
Salt in Your Marsh, by Webster Dyson
They Just Bulldozed It, by Nell Levay
Going Someplace, by Jane Yowaiski
Fortunes in Memories, by Larry Millison
PART III: THE CHANGEOVER
The Changeover, by J. Frank Raley
We Got On the Map, by Jack Daugherty
Move Out and Up, by Richard Portee
Taking a Shot, by Jack Gelrud
Can’t Beat a Thing by Running From It, by Fred Talbert
Shipyards and Skidways, by Pepper Langley
Some Degree of Acceptance, by John Paradis
