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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Oyster Wars (1959) w/ Christine Keiner
Description: It’s March 20th. This day in 1959, a skirmish between the fisheries police and an oyster boat results in the death of a Virginia oysterman — and sheds light on a decades-long battle known as the “Oyster Wars.”
Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by Dr Christine Keiner of RIT to discuss why there was so much tension and violence along the Chesapeake Bay, going all the way back in the mid-1800s.
Be sure to check out Christine’s book The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880
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