Mick Blackistone has written award winning adult and children’s books for over twenty years. During this time he has spoken to over 50,000 elementary school students, university students, civic organizations, educator seminars, and more on the subjects of writing, Chesapeake Bay watermen, and environmental issues.
Mick Blackistone
Mick has worked as a congressional press secretary; President of his own public relations firm, M.S. Blackistone & Associates, Inc.; Vice President of the National Marine Manufacturers Association; Executive Director of the Maryland Watermen’s Association’s Crab Restoration
Around the Bay, Inc., and a commercial waterman.
Featured Books
Just Passing Through is an insightful book by poet Mick Blackistone with photographs by Marion E. Warren. Capturing everday thoughts and presenting hidden treasures located in changing communities of the Chesapeake region, Just Passing Through creates images for readers regardless of where they live. After all, in one way or another, we are all just passing through...
The late Marion E. Warren, renowned for his photographs and publications, took assignments for the Smithsonian Institution, the State of Maryland and numerous other nationally recognized institutions, agencies, companies and print media. In 1987 he donated over 100,000 negatives and prints to the Maryland State Archives. He published six books of his photographs including: The Annapolis Book. He lived in Annapolis Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay since 1948.
Remembering You is a book of the human spirit and the capacity of love to connect us to our past. It embodies death as a powerful, and yet subtle, force that touches us in an ironically positive way that truly helps mold us into who we are and who we become. Having served in parish ministry for over 35 years, I am able to identify with much of Remembering You. This book has enabled me to better articulate, express, and cope with many of my own losses and those of others. It is clearly one of the most insightful readings I have enjoyed in many years. Remembering You touched my heart in a most profound way!
-The Rev. William H.C. Ticknor,
Rector, St. James Parish
Lothian, Maryland
Sally and her dog Tucker often sat overlooking the water and watched her friends sailing their boats. The sight filled her with pain and anger, because Sally was sitting in a wheelchair. She would never be able to walk again, or ride a bike, or race her sailboat.
Sally had been sad and unhappy ever since the car accident that left her with a disability. She might have stayed that way, except for two things. At the doctor's office she met a man whose wheelchair was not a prison. And then Tucker found a little duck with a broken wing. This unlikely pair taught Sally that with help from others, a determination to succeed, and lots of hard work, miricles can happen.
Jennifer Heyd Wharton of Annapolis, Maryland, is an award-winning watercolorist who has exhibited in major mid-Atlantic galleries.
Old Seagull noticed a sadness falling upon his part of the great Chesapeake Bay. He gathered Osprey, Bluefish, and Eagle at the Lighthouse to learn what was wrong. The humans were taking away the food and spoiling the water for the animals, birds, and waterlife of the Bay. Only if all the Bay creatures left their homes would humans learn their unhappy lesson. And only the old waterman with a twinkle in his eye could tell people how to bring them back.
The Day They Left the Bay is a charming and enlightening modern fable for children and their parents and teachers as well, of how humankind must get along with its fellow creatures to preserve our natural heritage no matter where it's located.
Lee Boynton is an acclaimed artist well-known in the Chesapeake Bay area for his paintings.
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