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With new snow on the ground this morning, the Spy thought it was a good time to share a short documentary by Echo Hill Outdoor School’s Andy McCown on his adventure in ice fishing on the Mid-Shore. Did this actually happen, or is it a dream sequence? We’ll leave it up to our readers to determine and share comments.
This video is approximately one minute in length.
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Editor’s note: It is with unusually great pleasure for the Spy to publish the latest installment of Cool Outdoor Stuff with Andrew McCown. After a rather lengthy sabbatical, the naturalist, musician, Chesapeake storyteller, and director of the Echo Hill Outdoor School, has once again returned to celebrate the natural world of our region and we, like his countless fans, could not be happier.
It seems particularly fitting that Andrew picks up the ongoing series by celebrating the remarkable natural wonders found locally even in the dead of winter.
This video is approximately three minutes in length. For more information about the Echo Hill Outdoor School, please go here.
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Even the greatest lovers of the Chesapeake Bay need a break now and then, and for Captain Andrew McCown of the Echo Hill Outdoor School, that meant taking his family to Hawaii for the first time this past November.
Once settled in, it didn’t take long for Andy to see the wonders of Hawaii. In his latest episode of Cool Outdoor Stuff, he takes us to the land of flora and fauna for a special look for what makes these Pacific Islands so special.
This video is approximately four minutes in length
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Early last Friday evening, some special friends of the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy gathered at the Garfield Center in Chestertown for the first of ESLC’s “Shore Talks” program.
Hosted by Joe and Marianne Hickman, they invited Echo Hill Outdoor School‘s Andrew McCown to take the stage to share some Gilbert Byron stories and Chesapeake Bay songs.
The last poem read by Andy, entitled “The Eastern Shoreman” first appeared in a collection entitled, “The Wind’s Will” by Byron published in 1961. His interpretation is that the voice of the shoreman speaking is from the late 1930s.
Gilbert Byron has been known as the “Voice of the Chesapeake” for many years after he began writing about the Eastern Shore. He best known novel, the Lord’s Oyster” was published in 1957. Byron grew up in Chestertown and eventually moved to a small cabin a few miles outside of St. Michaels for the last thirty years of his life.
This video is approximately three minutes in length
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There is no greater incentive to take a look at the kind of wood you can burn to heat your house when record breaking temperatures have frozen out most of the Eastern Shore this month. This seems to be on the mind of Echo Hill Outdoor School‘s Andrew McCown in the latest installment of Cool Outdoor Stuff.
As one can predict, each wood comes with different advantages, but they also come with own history and esthetics that only Captain Andy can make captivating.
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This video is approximately six minutes in length. Gibson Anthony is the videographer
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With all the concerns recently related to the health of the Chesapeake Bay’s crab and oyster populations, the Upper Bay’s clams sometimes gets lost in the conversation. While it is important to note that these brackish water clams has no economic impact to speak off, due to the fact that it can only tolerate low levels of salt and therefore is not present bay wide, they are cool nonetheless.
In this latest installment of the Spy’s Cool Outdoor Stuff, Captain Andy McCown from Echo Hill Outdoor School puts the spotlight on the clam world found in the Upper Chesapeake the the wonders found in its survival skills.
This video is approximately five minutes in length. Gibson Anthony is our videographer
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They might be small, but with extraordinary populations along the Chesapeake Shoreline, and with names like Atlantic Silversides, Mummichogs, Killifish, and Sheepshead minnow, these shoreline fish are one of the great wonders of the region. In the latest installment of Cool Outdoor Stuff, Andy McCown of Echo Hill Outdoor School, hits the edges of the Bay to tell the remarkable story of the shoreline fish world, but also highlights some good ecological news about the Bay and its estuaries.
This video is approximately five minutes in length
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In this installment of Cool Outdoor Stuff, Andrew McCown of Echo Hill Outdoor School, is back in the field, but this time with his new bird dog Boone. In a case of “this dog can definitely hunt,” Andrew sets Boone off to show off his extraordinary hunting skills.
This video is approximately three minutes. Gibson Anthony is the videographer.
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Winter wheat is a powerhouse producer for local Eastern Shore farmers, but the story doesn’t stop there. As Echo Hill Outdoor School’s Andrew McCown points out in the latest edition of Cool Outdoor Stuff, this remarkably resilient crop plays many roles in the life of the Shore and the businesses that depend on it.
This video is approximately three minutes long.
Videography by Gibson Anthony
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Every fall, the University of Maryland Terrapins defend the state’s honor in football to the thrill of millions of fans, but Cool Outdoor Stuff’s Andrew McCown is the real diamondback terrapin fanboy. In this episode, the Echo Hill Outdoor School‘s associate director reminds us of the unique turtle, so endemic to the Chesapeake Bay region.
This video is approximately three minutes in length. Videography by John McCown
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