Editing Chesapeake Bay (section)

==Cultural depictions==

===In literature===
* ''[[Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay]]'' (1976), a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning non-fiction book by [[William W. Warner]] about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs, and watermen.
* ''[[Chesapeake (novel)|Chesapeake]]'' (1978), a novel by author [[James A. Michener]].
*''Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island'' (2018), by [[Earl Swift]], a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book about the crabbing community of Chesapeake Bay.<ref>{{Cite news|title='Chesapeake Requiem' Chronicles Life on an Endangered Island|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/08/27/640347154/chesapeake-requiem-chronicles-life-on-an-endangered-island|access-date=2021-07-03|publisher=NPR|date=27 August 2018|language=en|last1=Mayer|first1=Petra}}</ref>
* ''[[Dicey's Song]]'' (1983) and the rest of [[Cynthia Voigt]]'s Tillerman series are set in [[Crisfield]] on the Chesapeake Bay.* [[John Barth]] wrote two novels featuring Chesapeake Bay
* ''[[Jacob Have I Loved]]'' (1980) by [[Katherine Paterson]], winner of the 1981 [[Newbery Medal]]. This is a novel about the relationship between two sisters in a waterman family who grow up on an island in the bay.
* ''[[Patriot Games]]'' (1987), in which protagonist Jack Ryan lives on the fictional Peregrine Cliffs overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, and  ''[[Without Remorse]]'' (1993), in which protagonist John Kelly (later known as [[John Clark (Tom Clancy character)|John Clark]] when he goes to work for the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]), lives on a boat and an island in the bay, both by [[Tom Clancy]].
* ''[[Red Kayak]]'' (2004) by [[Priscilla Cummings]] portrays class conflict between waterman people and wealthy newcomers.
*''[[Sabbatical: A Romance]]'' (1982) centered on a yacht race through the bay, and ''[[The Tidewater Tales]]'' (1987) detailed a married couple telling stories to each other as they cruise the bay, both novels by [[John Barth]].
*''The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay'' (1997) by John Wennersten, on the [[Oyster Wars]] in the decades following the Civil War.<ref name="Wennersten">{{cite book | last=Wennersten | first=J. | title=The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay | publisher=Eastern Branch Press | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-615-18250-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YK_4SNyufM0C | access-date=23 February 2022 }}</ref>

===In film===
* ''[[The Bay (film)|The Bay]]'', a 2012 [[found footage (pseudo-documentary)|found footage]]-style eco-horror movie about a [[pandemic]] due to deadly pollution from chicken factory farm run-off and mutant [[isopods]] and aquatic parasites able to infect humans.
* ''Expedition Chesapeake, A Journey of Discovery'', a 2019 film starring [[Jeff Corwin]] created by The [[Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts]].<ref name="Expedition Chesapeake">{{cite web | title=Expedition Chesapeake | website=Expedition Chesapeake | url=https://www.expeditionchesapeake.org/ | access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref><ref name="Center Arts 2021">{{cite web | last1=Center | first1=Whitaker | last2=Arts | title=Expedition Chesapeake | publisher=Whitaker Center | date=21 July 2021 | url=https://www.whitakercenter.org/events/detail/expedition-chesapeake | access-date=23 February 2022 | archive-date=23 February 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223174808/https://www.whitakercenter.org/events/detail/expedition-chesapeake | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="YouTube 2022">{{cite web | title=Expedition Chesapeake Official Trailer | via=YouTube | date=23 February 2022 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3mrXHxXJlg | access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>

===In TV===
* In ''[[Chesapeake Shores]]'', the O'Brien family lives in a small town in the bay, not far from Baltimore.
* In ''[[MeatEater]]'' by [[Steven Rinella]], Season 8, Episode 3–4 "Ghosts of the Chesapeake" features the Chesapeake Bay eastern shore.<ref name="Callaghan 2019">{{cite web | last=Callaghan | first=Ryan | title=Season 8, Episode 3 Gear: Ghosts of the Chesapeake | website=MeatEater Hunting | date=31 October 2019 | url=https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/big-game/season-8-episode-3-gear-ghosts-of-the-chesapeake | access-date=23 February 2022}}</ref>

===Other media===
* Singer and songwriter [[Tom Wisner]] recorded several albums, often about the Chesapeake Bay. ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' wrote that Wisner "always tried to capture the voice of the water and the sky, of the rocks and the trees, of the fish and the birds, of the gods of nature he believed still watched over it all."<ref name=twsT32/> He was known as the "Bard of the Chesapeake Bay."<ref name=twsT32>{{cite news |first=Jenna |last=Johnson |title= Tom Wisner; Chesapeake Bay served as bard's muse; at 79 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |date= April 9, 2010 |url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/04/09/tom_wisner_chesapeake_bay_served_as_bards_muse_at_79/ |access-date= 20 April 2011 |publisher=The Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC}}</ref>
* The Chesapeake Bay is referenced in the hit musical ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'', in the song "[[Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)]]." It describes the famous [[Battle of yorktown|Battle of Yorktown]], the last battle in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. When describing the US army's plan for attack, Hamilton sings: "When we finally drive the British away, Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake Bay!"