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===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!"
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