I’m excited to let you know that my essay paying homage to Granddaddy, the reason so many in my family grew up loving the Chesapeake Bay, appears in the current issue of The Local Scoop Magazine!
It’s always a thrill to work with the kind folks at The Local Scoop. Having enjoyed time at the bay my entire life, it was especially fun to contribute to a magazine representing an area I’ve always loved.
Below is the link. Feel free to leave a comment on their site at the end of the essay. We love the feedback!https://www.localscoopmagazine.com/life/because-granddaddy-liked-to-fish/
Thanks again to all who’ve asked what I’ve been up to lately. Blogging continues to be great fun and has proven to be an exciting pathway to opportunities such as this. Exciting!
Stuart M. Perkins
Storyshucker 
Congratulations! So happy for you.
Thanks!
So excited for you well done thank you for sharing such happy news
Thank you!
Great story. Congratulations on your new Bay home. May you make many happy memories there.
Thanks as always, Katelon!
Congrats on being published in a local publication! Well done both on the exposure and for a sweet story.
Thanks as always!
Delightful in every way…I hope my full comment posted on the page with your essay. Thank you, Stuart! 🥰
Yes it did! Thanks for the support, as always! You know it means a lot to me. Hope to talk to you guys again sometime!
Sending hugs…and Wynne and I will cook something up! Xo! 🥰
I know you can, too!
Oh yes! 😎
Congratulations! This is great!
Loved your piece, Stuart. Especially “Layers of memories would be built from that place.” and then you deliver all those memories. Love your writing, your family and the traditions that you all love so much that they not only transcend generations but transmute from your family to my heart! ❤
Thanks for the comment, here and the website! You’re always so encouraging. Can’t wait to talk to you ladies again sometime!
I’m laughing about my duplicate comment. I couldn’t tell if that other one went through… 🙂
Every time I read your story, Stuart, the deepest corner of my heart is touched.
Your grandfather’s love of fishing has left behind a family legacy. The family tradition has not been lost over the years. Instead, it has grown stronger, thanks to the bond of the Stuart clan. It, in turn, adds to the unity.
I have my roots in the Chinese countryside. I was born there and raised there until I started high school in the county town in my teenage years in the 1980s. The rush to cities in China in the past few decades has left the Chinese countryside neglected. One could say that today a lot of villages are almost empty except for the elderly.
The genre of your writing is called 乡土文学 in Chinese. It literally means “homeland literature”. Reading your heart-warming stories and the Chinese counterparts evoke similar feelings and nostalgia. I call myself an urbanite now. There would be no way I could go back to the old lifestyle. But there are so many precious memories of my childhood experiences deep in my heart that I have decided to preserve them in words. In the coming years, I will write about them in my blog too.
Thanks for the inspiration, Stuart.
Thanks for sharing. I have followed your blog and look forward to reading your homeland literature one day.
I do too!
Thanks, Isabel.
Hi! Your comments are always so beautiful and nice to read. I love seeing the genre in Chinese! I will save that. Thank you for your thoughtful comment, as always. I will want to read your childhood memories! Keep writing! Thank you again.
Also, if you’d like to include your blog link after your comments, that would be great for people who will want to check out your writing after reading your thoughtful comments. On the magazine website as well, if you’d like.
Thanks for your reminder, Stuart.
You have so many good things to say. People need to read you!
This is a lovely piece. It reminds me of a family I know who has a similar situation. The previous generations bought a cottage in the Lake District, a most beautiful part of the UK. We befriended one of the sons when we were all young adults, and have been blessed by being included in trips to the cottage each summer now with our own children.
I love that! These scenarios are so universal.
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Really enjoyed your article and fascinating insight into a place I have never heard of before. Sounds wonderful
Visit sometime! You’ll love it. Thanks for that kind comment!
Congratulations!
You’ve done it again! Congratulations! Looking forward to buying your book of collected stories when published.
Thank you! Always love hearing from you!
Thank you so much for another story a bit of which may wend its way into a sermon as much as my heart.
I love that! Thank you!
Congratulations! And I really liked your essay.
Stuart, you’ve done it again! Capturing emotions and sentiments that everyone so easily understands. The building of new traditions from the bases we each bring to a marriage / relationship is what we all do, innately. Perhpas, we don’t think about it or express it the way you do. That is your magic: being able to express it!
Fantastic piece! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for that!
I didn’t grow up there, but I still have some wonderful childhood memories if the Bay.
It’s such a great and impressive area to enjoy. Thanks Spyder!
I always hunted for shark’s teeth on the beach.
Me too. And arrowheads. All my life. Never found any even though people around me seem to spot them a mile away!
I don’t think I ever found an arrowhead either, but teeth aplenty!
I love the way the first cottage and then the newer one of yours become characters in the story.
Thanks for that!
Beautiful story!
Thanks Valerie!
What a fantastic article. I’m sure you’ve made many memories at your new place on the bay. Granddaddy would be proud.
Thanks for that!
Nice 😊
Thanks!
I love family storys – little forays into history – and thank you for liking my blog!
Thank you!
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This story reminds me of our own family beach house and the memories we made there! 🙂
Good! I love that!
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This was a lovely story! Your positivity is infectious! I’m not in the habit of plugging my own work in comments on other people’s blogs, but after reading this, I think you might enjoy my (very) short story “Pond Lilies,” about a day on the water with my great-grandfather in rural New Hampshire. I live on the other coast now, but even though I was a wee lass then, those days and their pleasures are vivid in my mind! Thank you for sharing your happy memories!
Thanks! I appreciate that. And yes I will check out your story! Love that. Thanks again Camilla!