Original Air Date: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Between Heaven and Earth: The Plight of the Chesapeake Bay Watermen
On this Day of Discovery, the story of how one woman helped motivate a community of crab fishermen to carry their faith beyond the walls of their church to the waters of the Bay. Susan Drake Emmerich encouraged this island community to open their own Bibles to see that some of their attitudes and practices were threatening their jobs and jeopardizing the valuable resource they wanted to preserve for future generations. Between Heaven and Earth: The Plight of the Chesapeake Bay Watermen, on this Day of Discovery.