Volume VI: The Instant City
Our sixth volume shifts the lens, not to a place, but to a time. Here we focus on the impact of the 1960s and '70s on St. Mary's County in particular and Southern Maryland in general. These two decades were particularly formative and even transformative; the landscape that we negotiate today is a landscape born of that era. In three parts, we explore this transformation as loss, as communal change, and its lasting impact on the region.
Between the Tides, by Zachary Pajak
PART I: WATERSHED ELEGIES
Memo To Another Generation, by Elizabeth Kohlway
Knights Of The Round Table, by Alexandra Todak and Julia A. King
Everything Has Been Taken Over And Turned Into Something Else, by Anne Dowling Grulich
Barn Prayer, by Lael Neale
The Potomac River Compact: Was it Given Away?, by Rachelle Wilcox
If You Can't Find The Beloved Community, Do Whatever You Can To Create It, told by Charlie Hewitt
PART II: PASSAGES TO CHANGE
National Tragedies, Local Memories
Colored Use The Back Door, told by Emma Hall
Blacks Only, told by Fred Talbert
You Open When You Said You Were Going To Open, by Benjamin Cumbo
Doorways, by Jay Penn Fleming
We Were Told To Just Forget About It, To Just Get On With Life, told by J. Abell Longmore, Jr.
Silver Boxes, by Frank Maio
A New Kind of Woman, by Winona L. Landis
Off The Grid
Dope, complied by Monica Powell and Laura Valdivia
The Life And Times Of Woodburn Hill Farm, by Frank Fox
Living More Gently On The Land, told by Phebe Barth
From In Loco Parentis To Due Process, by Janet Butler Haugaard
No Degree Necessary, Just Experience With The Movement, by Meredith Powlison
The Impacts, told by Harold Herndon
PART III: VISIONS AND INSTANT CITIES
Old County–New County, by J. Frank Raley
Another Step Forward: Pax Turns Its Gaze Skyward, by Winona L. Landis
Bayonne On The Potomac, Part II: In It To Win It, told by Catherine “Kitty” Barnes
Was It Worth It?, by Henry Arango
A Good Neighbor, told by Charles Cruse
Rising Roads, by Jason Babcock
Below The Surface, by Beth Macinko
Jesse's Tears, by Michael S. Glaser
