Oyster Hat

It’s often hard to know what is possible because we’ve wholly forgotten what was. We lack stories and memory, and examples of thriving landscapes are rare. Pre-colonial glimpse of the Chesapeake Bay in reading the journals of Captain John Smith, who writes in 1608, ‘Of fish we were best acquainted with sturgeon, grampus, porpoise, seals, stingrays whose tails are very dangerous, brits, mullets, white salmon, trouts, soles, plaice, herring, conyfish, rockfish, eels, lampreys, catfish, shad, perch of three sorts, crabs, shrimps, crevises, oysters, cockles, and mussels,’, and oysters “lay as thick as stones”.