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Larry Chowning

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Name	Larry Chowning
Dates & places of birth and death	Urbanna, Virginia
Nationality	U.S.A.
Occupation	He has been a general assignment reporter at the Southside Sentinel newspaper in Urbanna since 1981 and a Field Editor for National Fisherman (NF) out of Rockland Maine since 1980. NF is the largest seafood trade publication in the United States.
Notes	He and his wife Dee live in Urbanna in the home that his great-grandfather, a Civil War veteran, built on returning home from war. Chownings have lived in the county since the first year of "permanent settlement" in Middlesex in 1649. Dee and Larry have three children and six-grandchildren.
Publications	Larry is the author of 11 books, one of which is Deadrise and Cross-planked, a history of deadrise boats on Chesapeake Bay published in 2007.
Role	Writer
Education	University of Richmond, B.A., Journalism, 1972

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