With a book contract now in hand, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s education director, Kate Livie, has humbly entered that rarified world of Chesapeake writers, including the great William Warner, James Michener, and Gilbert Byron, who have tried to express in words the remarkable beauty of one of the world’s ugliest species.
The drive to tell that story for the Kent County native is a simple one. The daughter of the Scott Livie, Kent County’s late county commissioner, the beneficiary of Echo Hill Outdoor School, as well as hundreds of trips with her dad and sister along the Chester River, Kate recounts a special childhood on the Bay to the Spy, as well as how her love of oysters, and those who harvest them, led her to coming back to the Shore as both an educator and conservationist.
The video is approximately ten minutes
B. Douglas Megargee says
Editor,
I am so proud of Kate, so eloquent, her father is so proud of her … I wouldn’t expect any less from Sock Monkey girls.
I don’t know if you research is complete but if you are interested I did my WC senior thesis on Chesapeake Bay Sailcraft 1700-1935. My primary research was done through CBMM and former director Jim Holt was Dad’ cousin. I could possibly add some interesting perspective of the influence of the Oyster on the evolution of Bay vessel types.