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There was a guy named John Sherwood who would ply the Chesapeake Bay in his sloop and find these islands where the oystermen still spoke almost in Elizabethan dialect, and write these rhapsodic pictures.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022

UConn’s Sea Grant also helped keep oystermen afloat by hiring them to rehabilitate the state’s natural beds.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2021

Many oystermen are not so upset about the closure now as they are that it did not happen sooner.

From Washington Times • Aug. 8, 2020

They capture the culture of an essentially Southern agrarian community passing into history, a place where tobacco farmers and oystermen have given way to commuters and suburban tract housing.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018

"Didn't the commodore allow that we should keep right on bein' oystermen?"

From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by Otis, James