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ANNOUNCER: Outdoors Maryland with the Maryland Department DNR: inspired by nature, [waves crashing] Closed Captioning has been made empowering those who are deaf, or speech disabled * [seagulls squawking] NARRATOR: It's a prehistoric of Ocean City.

Millions of years before horseshoe crabs were already the shoreline sand and their very different today.

Steve Doctor, with the Maryland is leading a spring survey.

STEVE DOCTOR: The drag marks NARRATOR: It is spawning season ritual is Skimmer Island, in the Isle of Wight Bay.

The crabs cluster so densely is to take a series of one square meter at a time, While, horseshoe crabs may be to many vacationers, to which they are connected to and to the ecosystem at large.

STEVE: The horseshoe crab for conch and eels.

When they lay their eggs they're food for migrating NARRATOR: And those facts just of their sizable shell.

STEVE: People are really I mean, they're a really and I think that when you are you also have a responsibility to subsequent generations.

NARRATOR: To share this marvel a program was developed to including to the fifth grade at Pointers Run Elementary.

ERIC JAYNE: I always thought it was kind of to the Chesapeake Bay, yet, it didn't seem like with it as we could.

We went in search of more and then I came upon the in the classroom program, and I thought that would So over the summer, to the headquarters of the to pick up horseshoe crab eggs.

NARRATOR: A gob of green eggs.

Not all will hatch, Eric will monitor the water, to the students when they their new aquatic classmates.

STUDENT #1: Did you see STUDENT #2: Yeah, STUDENT #3: I was creeped out at first I just liked them.

They're really cool.

ERIC: Our students, and I refer our horseshoe crab scientists, usually on Fridays to test STUDENT#4: Well...every week, for things like ammonia and pH, STUDENT #5: We test how fit the to live in them properly It tests the level of solid and so if it's high, ERIC: This program has been and I think it's successful being able to actually raise I don't have to just tell them "Here, read this book They get to actually see it Say hello.

You can see why, in previous Then, once a month, a seminar where we'll have or some kind of investigation.

So who...I know you guys research projects.

Which group is working on helping other people?

Where's that group?

STUDENT: Uses by humans?

ERIC: Yeah, uses by humans.

NARRATOR: Today, a horseshoe crab blood "Limulus amebocyte lysate" a substance so sensitive to to test all our intravenous they're not contaminated.

STUDENT #6: Today, which is used to test different It was really cool because different water to see what In one cup, In the other cup, that someone swished around spit back out.

We took it into the pipettes into the horseshoe crab blood.

STUDENT: Is it supposed STUDENT #6: We learned that the bacteria to block that bacteria in the horseshoe crab's body.

So when the saliva was mixed the blood started to clot up to keep the bacteria away.

ERIC: How are your group's This is our fourth year of in the classroom.

In that time, between 60 and 80 students.

We've successfully raised and back into the Chesapeake Bay.

NARRATOR: Every spring, from around the state meet up mature crabs together.

The field day includes five activities.

Stacey Epperson, an education Department of Natural STACEY EPPERSON: with several schools to release that they've been raising We had five stations through those stations, and learn even more about You can see this one so if you found her, They were caught in Ocean City If you found her on a beach, the Fish and Wildlife Service that you found her and that helps track where they NARRATOR: A Jeopardy style game to show off their new expertise.

WOMAN: A medical test that [background chatter] Okay.

Who's going to give STUDENT #7: What is WOMAN: Yay!

NARRATOR: And finally, time ERIC: It's pretty calm so...you know, once you put your the water's going to try to wash So try and reach down in the on the ground and then When I'm teaching it's always frustrating to have "You know, I wish I could so we can see a meteorite," Any opportunity that I can take to get their hands dirty I think is the best way So that's one of the great this program.

STUDENTS: This is our advice Don't get stepped on.

STUDENT #6: STUDENT #1: STUDENT #6: STUDENT #1: And don't have * DAVID HARP: Well, we can go up I want to go up to Gales Creek little creek.

NARRATOR: It's early morning is where he loves to be, in the marshes along the DAVID: Just being out in the whole smell of the marsh, being around the Spartina I could go on and on.

It's just a beautiful place.

It's threatened and that's that keeps me going.

I want to say, "Damn it.

We need to do something We need to protect this."

Good.

This is perfect.

These irises over here.

NARRATOR: David has been taking along the waterways of for most of his life.

DAVID: Well, an environmental photographer.

It's that relationship between between the great blue heron and where it lives, coming in on a snowy day.

I enjoy it, but what's that to where it's nesting, is it threatened?

You know, all these questions I'm a journalist.

I just love the story.

That's the most important part and show to people.

NARRATOR: David learned his from his father.

DAVID: My dad was an amateur but he was a newspaper editor.

He worked at the The day that President Kennedy I was a junior in high school.

I walked down to the newspaper until the wee hours of I've just never looked back.

That was the day and since then, a photographer.

Here you go, Tom.

How you doing?

Tom Horton: Hey.

Good.

Heading up to Gales Creek?

DAVID: Yeah.

NARRATOR: Harp took his skills to the Baltimore Sun, They've published several books and the edge of water and land.

TOM HORTON: I think, an essential theme for both of 30-some years ago, NARRATOR: The edge, transition where water an organic zone filled to the Chesapeake's health.

TOM: This is where the This is where people want to [inaudible].

This is where animals nest.

This is where oysters There's only really three major all the flooding along these.

The shrubs, the... NARRATOR: Recognizing that the is under increasing negative to live by the water... DAVID: Look at that one right NARRATOR: and capture the essence of in the Rising Tide exhibit at The Museum regularly draws to St. Michaels on Maryland's The exhibit includes Horton's writing, and an audio-visual DAVID: The Rising Tide exhibit is about the cultures that and oyster, and finfish, and lowland areas around that are endangered by ROBERT FORLONEY: As the water little by little, house by house NARRATOR: at the Chesapeake Bay ROBERT: There's always been with islands appearing and but because of the increase in it's happening at a much And there's a struggle to that's disappearing.

NARRATOR: Harp and Horton for the exhibit.

Instead, they recorded the on the islands, allowing them in their own voice.

My name's Captain Larry Powley, I live on an island I've been working on the water ROBERT: By having the original these experiences tell their there's a lot more feeling, and authenticity behind what to having an outside expert or believe or feel.

LARRY: And that's when And that's when you're going The water's going to get deeper.

You're going to get more, coming into Hoopers Island then [water rippling] DAVID: In the audio track I have him talking about all he's catching.

NARRATOR: Tom Horton and audio-visual project with It's called Each one is introduced TOM: We all know the tides essential rhythms of life along and Atlantic, but there is the tide of light that and bottoms out in darkest officially begins.

NARRATOR: The slideshow includes play, and make their living on DAVID: It's been really A lot of them are people that and we respect.

NARRATOR: Like, naturalist DAVID: So, we went up to his behind his house and he said, "Here, here's a first order I'm thinking, "Okay.

I've never heard of this, So that became the story.

NICK CARTER: It's the very beginning of any watershed's stream.

DAVID: So this becomes which becomes the Just chronicled this, you know, of wetland that is the essence the essence of the edge.

[camera shutter clicking] NARRATOR: Tom Horton brings some from Nick Carter into his TOM: There you go.

I mean, that's pretty nice.

This is straight out of I try to take every class on.

We plunk our canoes in the drainage ditch on the Delmarva 80 feet wide, and it's pretty boring.

It does its job.

It drains water off and we paddle until they and then it starts to and it starts to get swampy, and birds, We talk about how people make the best way to get from A to B, and how maybe the best way from from A to B.

And then, we talk about how and nature doesn't do any one It maximizes life and that's the 35 years ago and that's I'm trying to pass on DAVID: I've always said the is actually going out and doing the original sound.

TOM: So what'd you get on Did you have good morning light?

DAVID: Yeah, We had a nice blue sky.

It's like the old days of doing that they're only going to use "Well wait a minute.

I've got about 17 or 18 here I try to get some low shots, through the net.

TOM: I just think that guy is just the quintessential NARRATOR: David Harp started in the 1970s with the skipjacks.

He chronicled three generations the Callaways who fish with as their fathers, grandfathers, [boat engine sounds] TOM: I think what the Callaways that once was more common.

They're very modern people.

They don't farm with mules Their fishing really is from very early eras.

DAVID: These are nets that the Indians used thousands It's a very primal form of NARRATOR: The Callaway watermen Voices from the Edge.

WATERMAN: You can't just It's certain spots that will as much as 100 feet, or it will mulch up on you.

We've fished on the Nanticoke and I got a second grandson, the fifth generation, if both TOM: These people really are, they're certainly regional So I think partly, because some of those ways You know, life will go on, [boat engine sounds] DAVID: If I can come back felt like to be there instead of then I've accomplished what NARRATOR: Whether viewers feel or delighted, David Harp's window into the Chesapeake * It's the landscape that draws to the land, the gentle KEVIN FITZGERALD: the impressionist idea goes to for me, it's trying to capture on an object or an environment, that is going to pass.

It's only going to be that way be quite the same.

Look at that cloud.

That is central casting for Look at that.

And you're there and you try try to you know, bring back from that day, so you make and it's the hardest thing to do that I know of, to make facsimile of the natural world There's a lot of ways There's a lot of ways but when it comes back to it, or so to get this thing done or it's not there.

* There's no faking it.

Part of it is the freshness * I'm not quite sure what but I just want it to look I'm not sure when it's done, I know that this is as good or this is saying what it God is in everything all around and I kind of buy into that Everything is alive everywhere can be intuitive and then I'm trying to give the very and without...

The hard part for this for me is where I'm actually trying to but that I rather make * I do the small paintings, the plein air paintings on the the truth of that moment, back to the studio, Sometimes, but more often than not, to make the larger compositions.

On these larger works and the I'm trying to bring about in the viewer by getting rid of and just simplifying it down to on the whole, so that the color may be which would be a tonalist idea.

The shapes will become interlocking pieces that seem to again simple.

You look at it and it resonates.

You're not even sure what it is, You feel like there's something of want to know what it is.

In a painting, in a field and the viewer "Well maybe I'll go around What would be around there?

Why would I follow that line?"

That shadow line seems to be You might go that direction told you to not with any word the visual information I'm interested in that sort the elemental response, People have said that my or too brooding sometimes and that's a good thing I like to hear that.

When someone comes in and says, They're so serious," I think that I'm trying to do art should be, for me, The mystery is at the What is going on and I think that has a resonance that everything's not all worked that it would be.

I try to get the paintings to Closed Captioning has been made empowering those with to stay connected.

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