Lydia Woolever is senior editor at Baltimore, where she covers people, food, music, and the Chesapeake Bay. She was born and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and previously worked for Esquire magazine. Her work has been published there, as well as in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Out, and Edible. She also has an almost unhealthy love for oysters and her dog, Hooper.
The evolution of this enigmatic native fruit has been that of an underdog success story. Not just for the past few decades, but over centuries—even millennia.
A team of women is readying the city for future natural disasters, which are expected to become more frequent, more severe, and less predictable in the face of climate change.