Chesapeake Reflections: Stories from Virginia’s Northern Neck

(The History Press) In this collection, the author combines personal reminiscences with local and natural history to celebrate the land his family first settled shortly after the Civil War. Bluff Point, a bay-front village near the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, has sustained watermen and sportsmen alike for generations. Hall also reflects the uncertainty surrounding the lives of watermen today, as resources on Bluff Point and other bay-front villages continue to be depleted through over-harvesting, pollution, and development. Hall is also the author of Selling Fish: Stories from a Fishing Life, Paradise: Stories of a Changing Chesapeake, and True Stories of Maine Fly Fishermen.