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9780801880605

The Oysterback Tales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801880605

  • ISBN10:

    0801880602

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-10-06
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

Once you find yourself in Oysterback, you may never want to leave. Nothing beats Desiree Grinch's corn soup at the Blue Crab Tavern. There's never a wait at The Curl Up 'N Dye Salon de Beaute. In season, you can buy your produce (as you pay your respects) at Dreedle's Funeral Parlor. There's bingo every Tuesday at the V.F.D. The Mosquito Festival is next week. And when the moon hangs over Widgeon Marsh as full and yellow as one of Miss Nettie's oyster fritters, you'll know you're in a place like no other. Since 1988, readers of the Baltimore Sun have delighted in regular visits to Oysterback -- Helen Chappell's mythical town on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Chappell's stories capture the unique charm of rural life on the Shore, and her memorable characters typify the folksy strength and eccentricity of the natives. "In Oysterback," as the town's Captain Saloman observes, "we have characters we haven't even used yet."

Author Biography

Helen Chappell has published more than twenty-five books, including The Chesapeake Book of the Dead, also available from Johns Hopkins. A journalist, teacher, and freelance, she lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she covers the waterfront for several publications.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Honorary Citizens of Oysterback ix
From Professor Shepherd's History of Oysterback
1(2)
The Silver Cord Is Broken, the Golden Bowl Is Loose: Read All about It in the Oysterback Bugeye
3(4)
Bargain Day over to Omar's Store
7(2)
Ferrus T. Buckett Deals with Hard Times
9(3)
Hudson Swann Eludes the Law
12(4)
How Ferrus T. Buckett Foretold the Oscars
16(3)
Over to Omar Hinton's Store
19(3)
Tales from the Classifieds: More Stuff from the Bugeye
22(3)
Huddie Ponders the Ultimate Question
25(3)
The Wisdom of Miss Nettie's Fritters
28(4)
After the Funeral of Haney Sparks
32(4)
The Prince of Tilghman Island
36(3)
Latest News from the Oysterback Bugeye
39(3)
Half a Boy and Half a Man
42(2)
Floater
44(2)
Summer Calendar, from the Oysterback Bugeye
46(3)
Reflections on an Oysterback Wedding
49(3)
Snake Wingate Proposes, God Disposes
52(3)
We Was All Right, Huddie
55(2)
Desiree and Earl Don Rekindle the Magic
57(3)
Even a Jonah Can Have a Piece of Luck
60(3)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
63(2)
Fried Chicken and the Religious Right
65(4)
What's News from the Oysterback Bugeye: Entertainment News from Our Hometown Paper
69(3)
Desiree Meets the God of Excess
72(3)
The Midnight Waterman Escort Service
75(3)
Junie Redmond's Day in Court
78(3)
It's Safer up Here
81(2)
A Modest Proposal at the Town Meeting
83(2)
Letters to the Oysterback Bugeye
85(3)
Girls' Night Out
88(2)
Quite Quaint They Ain't
90(2)
A Voice from the Past
92(2)
This Just in from the Bugeye
94(3)
The Devil, Steve Meachum, and All Their Works
97(3)
Angels Unawares
100(3)
Last Call
103(2)
Where They Take Christmas Seriously
105(3)
Make a Joyful Noise
108(2)
Philo Redux
110(3)
Talking and Writing Good Oysterback: A Foreigner's Guide by Professor Shepherd
113

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