Maryland Lost and Found...Again

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Summary: Enthralling
Review: Eugene Meyer's book on Maryland is a fascinating look at various parts of the state, with an emphasis on the human interest stories that bring it to life. I moved to Maryland a year ago and reading this book brings me much closer to feeling like I've been here for awhile. One criticism: where's the map? Maryland is a geographically complicated state and a map would have provided a great service to understanding where Mr. Meyer's was writing from and off to next.

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Summary: Lovely book
Review: For anyone living in Maryland, this book is a must. It brings to life those places that are dearest in the hearts of Marylandeers. This book contains plethara of joyful places for the human soul.

Rating:
Summary: Lovely book
Review: For anyone living in Maryland, this book is a must. It brings to life those places that are dearest in the hearts of Marylandeers. This book contains plethara of joyful places for the human soul.

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Summary: This is a fabulous book.
Review: I have lived in Maryland my entire life (with the exception of a few years between 1985 and 1994), and through the years I've done a lot of travel writing. This is an absolutely fabulous book: a must-read for anyone interested in the fascinating quirks and hidden stories in Maryland's geography and history. I think I'm familiar with just about every history/travel book that's been written on "The Free State," and this is certainly one of the best, and perhaps the best ever. Utterly fascinating and delightful reading.

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Summary: Enthralling
Review: Maryland is a geographical diverse state that offers mountains, magnificent waters, and communities that range from small, intimate villages to large, thriving cities. In Maryland Lost And Found...Again, Eugene Meyer provides the armchair traveler with a guided tour of the state and explores the people and places that made Maryland special both in the past and the present. His essays touch upon Maryland's relationships and features including megalopolis, Appalachia, the Chesapeake Bay, the Deep South, the industrial North, rich farmland, a major port, the nation's capital, as well as the primary car and rail routes carrying East Coast interstate traffic. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in Maryland's "The Free State" history, geography and demographics, Meyer's engaging, informative, and "reader friendly" text is enhanced with black-and-white photographs.

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Summary: Provides the armchair traveler with a guided tour
Review: Maryland is a geographical diverse state that offers mountains, magnificent waters, and communities that range from small, intimate villages to large, thriving cities. In Maryland Lost And Found...Again, Eugene Meyer provides the armchair traveler with a guided tour of the state and explores the people and places that made Maryland special both in the past and the present. His essays touch upon Maryland's relationships and features including megalopolis, Appalachia, the Chesapeake Bay, the Deep South, the industrial North, rich farmland, a major port, the nation's capital, as well as the primary car and rail routes carrying East Coast interstate traffic. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in Maryland's "The Free State" history, geography and demographics, Meyer's engaging, informative, and "reader friendly" text is enhanced with black-and-white photographs.

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Summary: Washington Post Reporter Explores the Many Facets of MD
Review: SUBHEAD: Updated, Illustrated Edition Furthers Wanderlust for 'America in Miniature'

PRESS RELEASE:

"Not for nothing has Maryland been called 'America in Miniature,'" writes Eugene L. Meyer in the introduction to Maryland Lost and Found...Again. "For to write about Maryland is to write about America."

Washington Post reporter Meyer directs a tour across "The Free State" that's part love letter, part oral history, part obituary as he explores what makes Maryland special, the people who make it unique, and the places and livelihoods that have vanished over the years.

The whole of the American experience is found within the state's borders and between the covers of this updated book: megalopolis, Appalachia, the Chesapeake Bay, the Deep South, the industrial North, rich farmland, a major port, the nation's capital, and the primary car and rail routes carrying East Coast interstate traffic.

"If you want to discover a little bit of America," wrote a Richmond Times-Dispatch reviewer upon the original publication of Maryland Lost and Found (Johns Hopkins, 1986), "...Meyer can help...he writes with an experienced insight into both the history and the layered surroundings of Maryland."

"Maryland captures my heart the way America does: Its rich diversity of people, lifestyles, and landscapes are such that it is impossible ever to be blasé or bored by it," the author said. "It is an endlessly fascinating, and endearing, place."

Meyer noted that while there existed books about certain sections of the state, the lack of a state-wide perspective created a void in the literature that his experience and writing could help fill.

"I wanted to give readers a strong sense of place about Maryland, whether they live here or are merely visiting," he said.

Meyer's work has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild awarded him its top prize for local reporting in 1995 and for commentary and criticism in 1996. He was a Washington Post Duke Fellow in 1985 and the 1991 James Thurber Journalist-in-Residence at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Meyer lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and sons.

Maryland Lost and Found...Again by Eugene L. Meyer

ISBN 1-891521-08-X 288 pp. / Illustrated / Paper

Publication: May 15, 2000

BLURBS

"The state emerges entire: colorful and passionate and full of character, a collection of gritty, indomitable individuals." Anne Tyler

"The book's strength lies in its interesting characters" Southern Living