Author
Profile
Marianne
Artino Taylor has lived along the banks of the Magothy River
for 30 years. In the midst of her 22 year career as an English
teacher in various private schools of Ohio and Delaware,
as well as at Archbishop Martin Spalding High School and
Anne Arundel Community College, she served as a docent for
the Baltimore Museum of Art. It was there she discovered
a passion for history.
Compelled
to capture in words the binding ties of nostalgia and pride
the locals have for the river, Ms.Taylor has devoted years
to archival and the anecdotal research on the history, geography
and lore of the Magothy. She explores with fascinating
detail the lure and the draw of water in people's lives.
A once "forgotten river" of the Chesapeake Bay now speaks
with force and clarity.
Ms.
Taylor earned an MLA in Literature and the History of Ideas
from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from Notre Dame
College in Cleveland, Ohio. She has conducted seminars
on the "Great Writers of American and English Literature."
She and her husband, Robert A. Taylor, a chemical engineer,
have four children and three grandchildren who often return
to visit the Magothy.
