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Title: Pass on this one
Review: Having grown up on the Patapsco River, fishing and crabbing it's lower waters in the summertime and ice skating it's upper reaches in the winter, I bought this book and looked forward to a wonderful history.What I found was a series of (at best) essay's containing basically the same information over and over again disquised as chapters.Each essay (read "Chapter") was a jumble of timelines that took you through the late 1600's through the early 1900's containing stories of the same events, places and characters or their siblings in different order.I perseverved through 3/4's of this tomb on my beloved River and finally left it lying in rapt disappointment. I perfer to remember it's History as told by my father and his and remember my experiences during it's worst era (mid 20th century) through it's struggle to become reborn today.If you are considering this book, I recommend you take the drive through Patapsco State Park along the "Old River" on Sunday instead.
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