Twitter: ; Blog: slackwatercenter.wordpress.com Mary's College of Maryland was formed in 1998. Created and developed by former Professor of English Andrea Hammer, the project grew out of the Southern Maryland Documentation Project, an oral history project started by Hammer in 1984. Today, the Center is a consortium of students, faculty, and community members focused on documenting a
nd interpreting the region's changing landscapes. While oral histories remain at the core of what the Center does, students also explore the region's landscape through historical documents, images, literature, and scientific and environmental evidence. The term, SlackWater, comes from a term used by watermen in the region to describe the stillness right before the tide changes. "Slackwater is when the tide is changing from one to another," fisherman Neal Robrecht told us--that moment of calm before the tide reverses course.
