Maryland port officials and some state lawmakers see opportunity at Parsons Island and others like it. Such islands could be restored, they say, with sand and mud dredged from shipping channels.

PARSONS ISLAND, Md. — With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach. To the ...

such as how the early people arrived in Maryland, were they ancestors to Native Americans and now many migrations waves were there in America's history? Parsons Island is among the growing list of ...

Now, a recent series of discoveries on Parsons Island, Maryland, could wind back the clock yet again. And it raises some difficult questions about early human migration across North America.

""This is Parsons Island, and this is called the seed area ... QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY, Md. — In about a month, Maryland watermen will wrap up what has been a successful oyster season so far.