George R. Merrill shares the sacred and profane as they revealed themselves in his forty years of sailing on and living around the Chesapeake Bay. You will meet some of the unique people of tidewater Maryland, be introduced to extraordinary places, explore the gentle terrain of the Eastern Shore and discover how flowers can sing of both joy and sadness. You will join him on his last sail on Periplus, his thirty-eight foot cutter, and a voyage that marks for many sailors, the end of one era and the beginning of another.