BY MANNING LEE | PHOTOS BY CAROLINE J. PHILLIPS Buster Brown greets a customer at the St. Michaels Pet Supplies shop. Something Mary Jane Nagel, owner of St...

By Manning Lee | Photos by Caroline J. Phillips We enter into the Infusion Center at the Cancer Center at University of Maryland Shore Regional Health togeth...

By Mary Helen Gillen // Photo by Ron Ketter Ospreys are one of the quintessential animals of the Chesapeake Bay, as intrinsically tied to the region’s ecosys...

BY AMELIA BLADES STEWARD | PHOTOS BY CAROLINE J. PHILLIPS Jenna Green, operations coordinator, makes her rounds through the dog kennels. In her menagerie at ...

By Manning Lee // Photos by Stephen Walker Edwardo Hernandez and Chango “I had a lizard growing up, but my parents made me get rid of it. I just wanted anoth...

This close-up photo of Charlie — a Golden Doodle — captures the purity of his spirit. By Amelia Blades Steward // Photos by Melissa Grimes-Guy Photographer ...

Winning photo taken and submitted by Bill Whaley "Mack is a 3 year old male German Shorthaired Pointer who grew up on the Choptank River. He has all the ener...

Carefully laid out on a table, but still somewhat jumbled, are curiosities of history: seashells, coins, stones, small ceramic vessels, and maybe even seeds....

In the mid-2000s Phil Liske of Preston sought to diversify his personal business portfolio. He had a successful hay-hauling company, and his wife, Vickie, wa...

Driving through the local marshes of Dorchester County at dusk, you may have spotted one of the Eastern Shore’s unique game animals. In your attempt to ident...

The raptors on these pages live at an aviary at Tuckahoe State Park, under the care of park rangers from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. They a...